Berlin Art Week 2024 presents the program of this year’s festival at the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank. With over 300 events, including more than 70 exhibition openings, more than 100 participants will celebrate contemporary art in Berlin. From September 11 to 15, 2024, Berlin Art Week will present the capital’s diverse contemporary art scene together with more than 100 partners, including Berlin’s most renowned museums and art institutions, private collections, project spaces and numerous galleries.
Image above: Photos: Samuel Fosso, Selbstporträt aus der Serie ›70’s Lifestyle‹, 1975-1978, Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, Geschenk des Künstlers © Samuel Fosso, courtesy Samuel Fosso & JM Patras, Paris; Mariechen Danz, Digestive System 3d (cement), 2019. © Photo: Roman März; Performance ›SOIL‹ von Sarah Aviaja Hammeken. Im Rahmen der Ausstellung Pia Arke, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2024. Photo Ena Kurtagic Granulo; Marlene Bart, Ordnungswut © Marlene Bart; Richard Hawkins, ›The Last House‹, 2010 altered dollhouse, lighting and table. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.
More than 70 exhibitions are opening throughout Berlin, featuring impressive artists such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pamela Rosenkranz, Santiago Sierra, Yoko Ono (n.b.k.), Sigmar Polke (Schinkel Pavillon), Alfredo Jaar, Samuel Fosso, Nina E. Schönefeld (Kindl Center for Contemporary Art), Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kerstin Brätsch (Gropius Bau), Patricia Belli (daadgalerie), Tracey Snelling (Haus am Lützowplatz), Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld (Schering Stiftung), Sara Ouhaddou (ifa-Galerie Berlin) and Gisèle Vienne (Haus am Waldsee, Georg Kolbe Museum, Sophiensæle). Art prizes will also be awarded at Berlin Art Week to outstanding positions such as Candida Höfer (Akademie der Künste, Käthe Kollwitz Prize), Mariechen Danz (Berlinische Galerie, Gasag Art Prize) Rohini Devasher (PalaisPopulaire, Artist of the Year) or Laura Huertas Millán and Sarker Protick (C/O Berlin, After Nature. Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize). In addition to exciting solo shows, fascinating themed exhibitions such as ‘Träum Weiter. Berlin, the 90s’ (Ostkreuz, C/O Berlin), ‘Orangerie der Fürsorge’ (nGbK), ‘Society. Or Infinite Rehearsals’ (Savvy Contemporary) and ‘Durchdringen: Das U/unheimliche s/Sehen’ (Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank).
Unique special programs promise an eventful festival beyond the openings. A variety of live performances, for example by Göksu Kunak and Ewa Dziarnowska (Sophiensæle), Anan Fries (Hebbel am Ufer HAU2) and Yvonne Rainer’s historic ‘Trio A’ (Neue Nationalgalerie) will be shown exclusively during Berlin Art Week. Livia Rita (Spoiler at Cank), Slavs and Tatars (Sinema Transtopia) and Alvin Lucier (singuhr-projekte) will also enrich the Berlin Art Week program with other selected special projects thanks to ‘BAW featured’. While Naama Tsabar, Lydia Lunch and Jelena Fužinato transform the Hamburger Bahnhof into a sound performance festival, KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents an entire performance weekend with Sarah Aviaja Hammeken and Amina Szecsödy. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt also invites you to a big opening weekend with a concert and congress under the theme ‘heimaten’ and the haubrok foundation celebrates the final day of the festival week with a summer party. If you want to experience artists such as Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff (Fluentum), Donata Wenders and Thomas Florschuetz (Ivo Wessel Collection) up close, don’t miss ‘Meet the Artist’, the new format in the collections.
The art market also delights with unique event formats during Berlin Art Week. In addition to the Positions Berlin Art Fair at the former Tempelhof Airport, the festival week invites more than 50 of Berlin’s most important galleries to a Gallery Night with the Gallery Weekend Berlin. There are some new venues to discover, such as KOW, Galerie Thomas Schulte and ChertLüdde, young positions such as Oliver Bak (Sprüth Magers) and Kayode Ojo (Sweetwater) and numerous openings.
As a central meeting point for all visitors, the festival meeting point ‘BAW Garten’ at the Gropius Bau invites you to discover the entire Berlin Art Week program free of charge and outside during the entire festival week. For five days, art enthusiasts and the curious can come together here to get in the mood for the festival with performances, workshops, drinks and refreshments.
About Berlin Art Week
Berlin Art Week is an annual art festival that presents the capital’s diverse art scene. As the largest association of major players in contemporary art in Berlin, the festival presents a diverse program with over 100 partners throughout the city, from museums and exhibition venues to fairs, private collections and project spaces as well as numerous galleries.
Berlin Art Week is a project of Kulturprojekte Berlin. It is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It is realized with the support of Berliner Volksbank eG.
WHEN?
Opening: Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Festival dates: Wednesday, September 11 – Sunday, September 15, 2024
