Featured Events in Berlin in May 2025 (May Updated)

From spring 2025, the Gropius Bau will present a comprehensive solo exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking and influential work of artist and activist Yoko Ono. Spanning seven decades of the artist’s powerful, multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1950s to now, YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND will trace the development of her innovative work and its enduring impact on contemporary culture. The exhibition brings together over 200 works including instruction pieces and scores, installations, films, music and photography, revealing a radical approach to language, art and participation that continues to speak to the present moment.

Tim Bernardes Live at Funkhaus Tim Bernardes, a two-time Latin Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and producer, Bernardes has also collaborated with Fleet Foxes, Tom Zé, David Byrne, Gal Costa, Devendra Banhart, Shintaro Sakamoto, and more. Bernardes has emerged as one of Brazil’s most profound musical talents of his generation, a contemporary artist with deep roots in Brazil’s verdant musical heritage. Information Source: Funkhaus Events GmbH | eventbrite

10.05.25 ★ RUSSIAN GLAMOUR FESTIVAL ★ CLUB THE CLOUD BERLIN ★ INSANE ★ LEOMEE ★ MASTER K ★ GRAND OPENING ★ DAS RUSSIAN GLAMOUR FESTIVAL kommt zum ersten Mal nach BERLIN😍 DAS GRÖSSTE RUSSIAN INDOOR EVENT IN NORDDEUTSCHLAND kommt zu euch in die Hauptstadt🫶 LINE UP: 💎INSANE • Der bekannteste DJ DEUTSCHLANDS kommt zu euch in die Hauptstadt 💎LEOMEE • der Resident DJ vom Virage • der größte russischen Discothek in Deutschland 💎MASTER K • Resident DJ vom Russian Vibe Outdoor Festival ❗️EIN unverwechselbares TEAM • bringt euch die beste russische MUSIK❗️ Wir feiern im Herzen von Berlin😍 Lasst uns gemeinsam den THE CLOUD zum ESKALIEREN bringen🍾 🛑FACTS🛑 🗓️10. Mai 2025 ⏰Ab 23 Uhr 🪩CLUB THE CLOUD ⏩️ Alerxanderstr. 7, 10178 Berlin ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ✅TICKETS ONLINE bei Eventbrite.de Online Vorverkaufsticket: 16,00 Euro Fast Lane Ticket: 20,00 Euro (Kein Warten an der Schlange, gesonderter Einlass) 🥂ABENDKASSE wird vorhanden sein🍾 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 🔞 EINLASS AB 18 Jahre ⛔️Hausrecht liegt bei den Türstehern ⛔️Online Vorverkaufsticket ist keine Garantie für den Einlass Information Source: The Garrison Events | eventbrite

The International Spy Museum is proud to host this official exhibition of iconic vehicles, all used on-screen by 007 and his many allies and adversaries. While James Bond is a fictional character, he embodies the spirit of many real spies in this museum. These men and women, from around the world, were inspired by over six decades of the Bond film franchise and its enduring cultural influence. Bond In Motion is a celebration of six decades of 007 vehicles. The exhibition features 17 iconic pieces from the EON Productions Archive and the Ian Fleming Foundation. Props, models scale and clips from the films are also on show alongside cars, motorcycles, submarines, and more from the Q Branch garage.

Aurah Jendafaaq presents EuroBangers (Drag Show with Eurovision Bangers from past and present w/ Aurah Jendafaaq, Queen Justmean, Yenny Stark, Aqua Kaliente, Oriana Nye, Lola Limonero & Leorah Jendafaaq) Doors at 18h Happy Hour 18h-19h Show 19h30-22:00 --- <3 WELCOME TO TIPSY BEAR BERLIN <3 this event, like any event at Tipsy Bear Berlin, is a safer space designed and operated by and for LGBTQIA+ people and BIPOC. We stand firmly against racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and hate of any kind. We stand FOR abundance, consensual pleasure, communal joy, and full presence. Come with respect and kindness. Our bar is wheelchair accessible. We are a smoking bar, guests must be 18+ to enter. NOTE: A ticket for this event does not guarantee your stay or entry. Our staff has the final say. If you are not respectful to our safer space - if there is any complaint from our staff, artists, or guests - then you will be turned away or asked to leave and your ticket will be refunded. Information Source: Tipsy Bear Berlin | eventbrite

The Berlinische Galerie has devoted over 1000 square metres to presenting its collection. Waiting to be discovered among the roughly 250 works on show are paintings, prints, photographs, architecture and archive materials rarely or never displayed before. Walking around this exhibition is like time travel and takes visitors through Berlin in 17 chapters: the Kaiser’s era, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the new beginnings after 1945, Cold War in the divided city, and the counter-cultures and unconventional lifestyles that evolved in East and West under the shadow of the Wall. In East Berlin, an alternative art community developed from the late 1970s. In West Berlin from the late 1970s, aggressive art by the “Neue Wilden” placed the divided city back in the international limelight.

The central work in the exhibition is the series Birkenau (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. Birkenau is the result of Richter’s long and in-depth engagement with the Holocaust and the possibilities of representing it. The works are based on four photographs taken in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which the artist transposed to four canvases before gradually painting over them. With each layer of paint, the depiction of the photographic original disappeared a little more, until it eventually became invisible. The work also includes a large four-part mirror, which is positioned opposite the four Birkenau canvases, creating another level of reflection. Alongside the Birkenau series, other loaned works from various phases of Richter’s career will be exhibited, among them Squatters’ House (1989), 6 Standing Panes (2002), and 4,900 Colours (2007). There is also another large group of works from Richter’s striking series of overpainted photographs.

YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER at Neue Nationalgalerie is an exhibition featuring works from across Ono’s groundbreaking career. The exhibition invites viewers to move beyond passive observation and engage in active participation – both physically and mentally. Often beginning on an individual level, these actions evolve into broader collective efforts, demonstrating the transformative power of communal actions in working toward peace and imagining a different world. The works invite collective actions of repair, healing, cleaning, mending, wishing, imagining, and dreaming. Before entering the exhibition, visitors are invited to engage in a moment of self-reflection through Cleaning Piece (1996). Piles of local river stones are arranged, prompting visitors to reflect on their joys and sorrows. This is followed with instructions to fold paper cranes for peace, gradually filling the exhibition space. In Mend Piece (1966), visitors take part in an act of repair, piecing together broken ceramic cups and “mending with wisdom and love.” The exhibitions central installation, Play It By Trust (1966/1991), features a large chess table where up to 20 players can simultaneously engage in the nearly impossible act of playing with all white chess pieces, challenging them to “play as long as you remember where all your pieces are.”

From spring 2025, the Gropius Bau will present a comprehensive solo exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking and influential work of artist and activist Yoko Ono. Spanning seven decades of the artist’s powerful, multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1950s to now, YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND will trace the development of her innovative work and its enduring impact on contemporary culture. The exhibition brings together over 200 works including instruction pieces and scores, installations, films, music and photography, revealing a radical approach to language, art and participation that continues to speak to the present moment.

Cold Hope, Anne Imhof’s fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Buchholz, presents a group of new large format paintings. The works are based on film stills the artist photographed on a screen, inciting blurs, veils, and wave-like pixel structures in a moiré effect. The resulting images are digitally reworked and then translated into paintings in oil on canvas. Through multiple instances of translation, these images circulate across diverse surfaces and techniques of representation. In these transfers and translations, the paintings shift toward abstraction, altering the conditions of their viewing and the structures of attention in which they exist.

Bruno und die Schatten der Vergangenheit Bruno erholt sich noch von einer Schussverletzung, als ein geheimnisvoller Fund sein Interesse weckt: Bei einem verfallenen Schlösschen wird ein Grab mit drei Skeletten gefunden, offenbar aus dem 2. Weltkrieg. Ist es im idyllischen Saint-Denis zu Kriegsverbrechen gekommen? Bruno begibt sich auf Spurensuche in dunkle Zeiten, doch auch in der Gegenwart wird er dringend gebraucht: Internationale Besucher müssen mit Köstlichkeiten aus dem Périgord bewirtet werden, und die malerische Vézère schwillt zu einem reißenden Strom an, der ganz Saint-Denis in Gefahr bringt. Der Schauspieler Steffen Groth liest Passagen aus Martin Walker´ s Buch vor. 400 Seiten/ 26,-€/ Diogenes Verlag GmbH Hier geht's zum Buch ... Freut euch auf einen spannenden Abend mit Martin Walker am Freitag, den 16.05.2025, ab 20.15 Uhr in eurer Hugendubel Buchhandlung in Berlin Steglitz! Portrait: Martin Walker, geboren 1947 in Schottland, ist Schriftsteller, Historiker und politischer Journalist. Er lebt in Washington und im Périgord und war 25 Jahre lang bei der britischen Tageszeitung The Guardian . Heute ist er im Vorstand eines Think-Tanks für Topmanager in Washington. Seine Bruno -Romane erscheinen in 18 Sprachen. Hinweise: Diese Veranstaltung kann in Bild und Ton zu PR-Zwecken aufgezeichnet werden. Bleiben Sie in Kontakt! YouTube| Instagram| Facebook Information Source: Buchhandlung Hugendubel | eventbrite

In diesem Workshop, geleitet von der Moderatorin Rakel Ochoa, werden wir gemeinsam mit recycelten Materialien einen Teil der Bühne für das musikalische Märchen Der Regenschirm von Lu bauen. Wir werden Spaß daran haben, Flaschen, Tetrapaks, Kappen, Seile und alles, was ihr kreativ recyceln möchtet, zu bemalen und zu gestalten. Am nächsten Tag, dem 17. Mai um 14 Uhr, wird die Vorstellung mit dem während des Workshops erstellten Bühnenbild stattfinden. En este taller, dirigido por la mediadora Rakel Ochoa, vamos a construir juntos con materiales reciclados parte del escenario del cuento musical El paraguas de Lu . Nos divertiremos dando color a botellas, tetrabriks, tapones, cuerdas y lo que queráis reciclar creativamente. El día siguiente, 17 de mayo a las 14 horas, se hará la función con el decorado creado durante el taller. Information Source: Instituto Cervantes Berlin | eventbrite

LA FIESTA DE LA SALSA LEGENDARIA Das SALSA-LIVE-EVENT in der Mitte von Berlin! LIVE MUSIK von CONEXIÓN feat. Mayelis, tanzen ohne Ende, Cocktails und After-Show-Party! Fantastische DJ-Sets von DJ FISMO Kuba und Salsa-Tanzanleitung zu Beginn mit Fismo. SALSA, SON CUBANO, CHA CHA CHÁ, TIMBA, REGGAETON...! Ab 19:30 h Einlass Ab 20:00 h Tanzanleitung mit Fismo Ab 21:00 h Live Musik von CONEXIÓN und heiße Musik zum Tanzen von DJ FISMO Kuba 100% Live __________________________________ EN ESPAÑOL ¡LA FIESTA DE LA SALSA LEGENDARIA ! SALSA - LIVE y CALIENTE CONEXIÓN - Salsa Live Band feat Mayelis, DJ Sets y clase de baile con DJ Fismo Kuba 19:30 h: Entrada 20:00 h: Clase de baile con Fismo 21:00 h: Música en vivo de CONEXIÓN feat. Mayelis y luego música caliente de DJ Fismo Kuba para bailar. 100% en vivo! Information Source: Pfefferwerk Events | Pfefferberg Haus 13 | eventbrite

+++ ST. BEAUFORT LIVE IN BERLIN +++ For the first time in three years, St. Beaufort returns to stage in Berlin. With new and old songs and in their new duo line-up, they can't wait to see you again, and enjoy a night of acoustic music with you. Please note: this is the band's first time at Bar Bobu in Friedrichshain. It's a cosy, intimate venue - but with limited space. We recommend getting your tickets as early as possible to save your spot. Information Source: Blue Whale Records | eventbrite

The exhibition is aimed at gamers of all ages, but also at visitors who have little experience with computer games. The fact that computer games have developed into a leading medium is no longer a daring thesis. The social and aesthetic significance of the interactive and multimedia medium can no longer be overlooked. The computer game has freed itself from its origins as a laboratory experiment and toy and has become "the" medium of digital society, somewhere between pop culture, entertainment and art. With the opening of the exhibition »The World of Games« in the fall of 1997, the ZKM was one of the first art institutions worldwide to give video game culture a permanent public platform in an art context. Since then, the ZKM has repeatedly reshaped the presentation of games in a series of different exhibitions.

The Berlinische Galerie has devoted over 1000 square metres to presenting its collection. Waiting to be discovered among the roughly 250 works on show are paintings, prints, photographs, architecture and archive materials rarely or never displayed before. Walking around this exhibition is like time travel and takes visitors through Berlin in 17 chapters: the Kaiser’s era, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the new beginnings after 1945, Cold War in the divided city, and the counter-cultures and unconventional lifestyles that evolved in East and West under the shadow of the Wall. In East Berlin, an alternative art community developed from the late 1970s. In West Berlin from the late 1970s, aggressive art by the “Neue Wilden” placed the divided city back in the international limelight.

The central work in the exhibition is the series Birkenau (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. Birkenau is the result of Richter’s long and in-depth engagement with the Holocaust and the possibilities of representing it. The works are based on four photographs taken in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which the artist transposed to four canvases before gradually painting over them. With each layer of paint, the depiction of the photographic original disappeared a little more, until it eventually became invisible. The work also includes a large four-part mirror, which is positioned opposite the four Birkenau canvases, creating another level of reflection. Alongside the Birkenau series, other loaned works from various phases of Richter’s career will be exhibited, among them Squatters’ House (1989), 6 Standing Panes (2002), and 4,900 Colours (2007). There is also another large group of works from Richter’s striking series of overpainted photographs.

LAS Art Foundation is pleased to present Pollinator Pathmaker, a living artwork and participatory project conceived by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. This impactful initiative in interspecies art uses algorithmic technology to generate planting schemes for gardens, computed to support the greatest diversity of pollinating insects possible. It signals a shift toward the post-anthropocentric thinking necessary to face the current climate and biodiversity crises, and toward the non-human aesthetics and experimental formats that pave the way. Ambitious and future-minded, it is exemplary of how art can act as a driver for change, and offer new perspectives on our shared planet. Growing in the forecourt of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the LAS- commissioned garden will be the first edition outside of the UK. LAS has committed to amplifying Pollinator Pathmaker’s impact by undertaking an extensive public campaign, which calls upon local communities, hobby gardeners and activists to get involved in pollinator protection by planting their own version of the artwork – what the artist refers to as DIY Editions – via Ginsberg’s free online tool: www.pollinator.art. Responding to the alarming decline in pollinator populations in recent decades, Ginsberg has worked with horticulturalists, pollinator experts and an AI scientist to devise an algorithmic tool that designs bespoke gardens for pollinating insects. Supported by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the LAS Edition will be customised for Continental Europe, and will feature more than 7,000 plants of 80 different varieties, planted over a 722-square-metre plot.

LAS Art Foundation is pleased to present Pollinator Pathmaker, a living artwork and participatory project conceived by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. This impactful initiative in interspecies art uses algorithmic technology to generate planting schemes for gardens, computed to support the greatest diversity of pollinating insects possible. It signals a shift toward the post-anthropocentric thinking necessary to face the current climate and biodiversity crises, and toward the non-human aesthetics and experimental formats that pave the way. Ambitious and future-minded, it is exemplary of how art can act as a driver for change, and offer new perspectives on our shared planet. Growing in the forecourt of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the LAS- commissioned garden will be the first edition outside of the UK. LAS has committed to amplifying Pollinator Pathmaker’s impact by undertaking an extensive public campaign, which calls upon local communities, hobby gardeners and activists to get involved in pollinator protection by planting their own version of the artwork – what the artist refers to as DIY Editions – via Ginsberg’s free online tool: www.pollinator.art. Responding to the alarming decline in pollinator populations in recent decades, Ginsberg has worked with horticulturalists, pollinator experts and an AI scientist to devise an algorithmic tool that designs bespoke gardens for pollinating insects. Supported by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the LAS Edition will be customised for Continental Europe, and will feature more than 7,000 plants of 80 different varieties, planted over a 722-square-metre plot.

LAS Art Foundation is pleased to present Pollinator Pathmaker, a living artwork and participatory project conceived by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. This impactful initiative in interspecies art uses algorithmic technology to generate planting schemes for gardens, computed to support the greatest diversity of pollinating insects possible. It signals a shift toward the post-anthropocentric thinking necessary to face the current climate and biodiversity crises, and toward the non-human aesthetics and experimental formats that pave the way. Ambitious and future-minded, it is exemplary of how art can act as a driver for change, and offer new perspectives on our shared planet. Growing in the forecourt of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the LAS- commissioned garden will be the first edition outside of the UK. LAS has committed to amplifying Pollinator Pathmaker’s impact by undertaking an extensive public campaign, which calls upon local communities, hobby gardeners and activists to get involved in pollinator protection by planting their own version of the artwork – what the artist refers to as DIY Editions – via Ginsberg’s free online tool: www.pollinator.art. Responding to the alarming decline in pollinator populations in recent decades, Ginsberg has worked with horticulturalists, pollinator experts and an AI scientist to devise an algorithmic tool that designs bespoke gardens for pollinating insects. Supported by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the LAS Edition will be customised for Continental Europe, and will feature more than 7,000 plants of 80 different varieties, planted over a 722-square-metre plot.

The International Spy Museum is proud to host this official exhibition of iconic vehicles, all used on-screen by 007 and his many allies and adversaries. While James Bond is a fictional character, he embodies the spirit of many real spies in this museum. These men and women, from around the world, were inspired by over six decades of the Bond film franchise and its enduring cultural influence. Bond In Motion is a celebration of six decades of 007 vehicles. The exhibition features 17 iconic pieces from the EON Productions Archive and the Ian Fleming Foundation. Props, models scale and clips from the films are also on show alongside cars, motorcycles, submarines, and more from the Q Branch garage.

The International Spy Museum is proud to host this official exhibition of iconic vehicles, all used on-screen by 007 and his many allies and adversaries. While James Bond is a fictional character, he embodies the spirit of many real spies in this museum. These men and women, from around the world, were inspired by over six decades of the Bond film franchise and its enduring cultural influence. Bond In Motion is a celebration of six decades of 007 vehicles. The exhibition features 17 iconic pieces from the EON Productions Archive and the Ian Fleming Foundation. Props, models scale and clips from the films are also on show alongside cars, motorcycles, submarines, and more from the Q Branch garage.

The Gemäldegalerie is showcasing 60 paintings from the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odesa, the famous port city in the south of Ukraine that has in recent years been ravaged by war. The artworks in question were evacuated from the city before the onset of war and transferred to safety in Berlin, where they will be brought into dialogue with paintings from the collections of Berlin’s museums. The large-scale special exhibition, which follows on from a small preview presentation in the spring of 2024, is an extraordinary collaborative project funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Marking twenty years since artist, writer and performer Vaginal Davis made Berlin her home, Gropius Bau presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition of her work in Germany. In her expansive oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets Black counter-culture and resistance meets desire. Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt features large-scale installations, paintings, video and film works, zines, writing, music and performances, offering an overview of Davis’ practice and artistic collaborations. In the exhibition, the Berlin-based art collective CHEAP presents the installation Choose Mutation, with photographs by Annette Frick. Fabelhaftes Produkt invites you into the universe of Vaginal Davis, populated by literary heroines, mythical figures and real icons.

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