In March 2026, Berlin will host the second edition of WOMEN ART OPEN – a citywide program promoting the visibility of female artists, both past and present. Following its successful launch in 2025, the initiative is growing significantly, uniting numerous museums, municipal galleries, art associations, and project spaces. Through exhibitions, performances, discussions, and interdisciplinary events, WOMEN ART OPEN sends a powerful message in support of equality, diversity, and the structural empowerment of female artists within the art world.
Image above: Courtesy of fair share! Sichtbarkeit für Künstlerinnen.
WOMEN ART OPEN 2026: One month, many art venues, shared visibility
The second edition of WOMEN ART OPEN will take place in Berlin throughout the month of March 2026 – a city-wide program to increase the visibility of female artists in history and the present.
Following the successful launch in 2025 with 30 art venues, around 50 events and about 150 participating artists, the initiative is growing significantly this year:
• 54 art venues (municipal galleries, museums, art associations, project spaces)
• Approximately 40 exhibitions including solo and group shows as well as thematic presentations in a feminist context
• nearly 100 events (openings, guided tours, performances, workshops, talks, artist talks, live events)
• Approximately 200 historical and contemporary female artists are visible on site.
• digital web archive with over 500 female artists
WOMEN ART OPEN represents a joint effort by numerous Berlin institutions – from large museums to independent project spaces – and sends a strong signal for diversity, networking and structural empowerment of female artists*.
Educational programs, discourse formats, and performative and interdisciplinary programs create spaces for exchange and new perspectives.
Around 90% of the participating art venues consider an event for International Women’s Day important or very important. This high level of participation is also based on existing professional awareness: 63% of the institutions were already familiar with the fair share! initiative via its website, 40% follow its social media channels, and approximately one in three participants has already experienced fair share! projects firsthand.
fair share! aims to establish the WOMEN ART OPEN initiative as a permanent annual institution in Berlin’s cultural calendar in the long term and, in the long term, to gain a cultural sponsor for future editions.
An interactive city map with all events, online listings and further information is available digitally here: WOMEN ART OPEN 2026
About fair share! Visibility for female artists
fair share! is a widely networked initiative of female visual artists, art historians, and cultural professionals from Berlin. The aim of its diverse actions and projects is to raise awareness of gender equality in the art world and to sustainably increase the public presence of female artists.
In light of current reactionary and anti-feminist developments in many parts of the world, fair share! sends a clear message in support of the rights of women* in general and of female artists* in particular: Art needs equality*.
March 9, 2026 Women’s strike:
fair share! supports the global women’s strike ENOUGH! on March 9th and will participate with a performance at 1 p.m. in the central event at the Brandenburg Gate from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The action is conceived as an artistic contribution to the international feminist protest day and combines artistic expression with socio-political engagement.
Participating museums, municipal galleries, art associations and project spaces:
Akademie der Künste, Alpha nova & galerie futura, Alte Feuerwache | Projektraum, Alte Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, attaque(e)r le visible, A TRANS Projektraum, Bärenzwinger, Basement – Raum für Kunst, Berlinische Galerie – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Schloss Biesdorf, Bröhan Museum. Jugendstil Kunst Design, Brücke-Museum, Alexander und Renata Camaro Stiftung, C/O Berlin, Deutscher Künstlerbund, DIEresidenz Berlin, Frauenmuseum Berlin / Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Galerie im Körnerpark, Galerie im Saalbau, Galerie im Tempelhof Museum, Galerie im Turm, Galerie Kungerkiez, Galerie Wedding – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, GEDOK Berlin, Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Gropius Bau, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Haus am Kleistpark, Haus am Lützowplatz, Haus. Kunst. Mitte., HB55 Kunstfabrik, Humboldt Forum, Inselgalerie Berlin, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin, Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Mich selbst und roam projects e.V., Migrantas & SUSI Interkulturelles Frauenzentrum, Neue Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Reinickendorf, station urbaner kulturen / nGbK Hellersdorf, Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Odalisque Berlin Raum für Kunst & Embodiment, Palais Popoulaire, Galerie Pankow, Projektraum Kurt-Kurt / Kunst und Kontext im Stadtlabor Moabit, Schwartzsche Villa, Stiftung Archiv der Sozialen Künstlerförderung / Stiftung Stadtmuseum, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin – Landesmuseum für Kultur und Geschichte Berlins, Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867, Zora im WerkStadt Kulturverein Berlin, ZAK – Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst.
WHEN?
March 2026 (01.–31. March 2026)
Highlight: Montag, 9. März 2026, 12–16 Uhr
WHERE?
Citywide in Berlin – at 54 art venues (municipal galleries, museums, art associations, project spaces)
Central event on March 9: Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
