The very last chance art: quickly visit these seven exhibitions in Berlin!

Sometimes you invite yourself to the plate as a art lover – and there are some exhibitions that you absolutely wanted to see. So that they do not feel that way, we have put together the views that will soon end, but are worth it.

The seven exhibitions invite you to change perspectives. A hand-picked buffet of the finest artic snacks. Bon appetite!

1 Focus on women

© Johanna Maria Fritz / Ostkreuz

Circus girls in the Islamic world, women in Afghanistan locked under the Taliban or a series about modern witches in Romania: The reports of the only 30-year-old Eastern Cross photographer Johanna-Maria Fritz always arise from the core of the conflicts, often close to people, often women and girls.

Fritz elicits a peculiar spell on the hard reality that makes the madness of this world noticeable, less often invites you to dream.

Nightmarish and yet fascinating: a space on the subject of virginity with previously unpublished photos of Bernadette Lang, which in Salzburg was drawn to the eternal virgin in Salzburg, through the martyr maid Agatha of Catania, whose cut off breasts were reached, to the living child-goddess Bungmati Kumari, an incarnation of the delightful Hindu goddess Taleju.

2 Mirror, mirror on the wall

© Sammy Baxter

60 internationally renowned fashion and art photographers, including Brian Griffin, Gottfried Helnwein, Eva Losada, Erwin Olaf and Elizaveta Porodina, have only photographed models with Down syndrome for the “Radical Beauty” project.

The photo settings and productions were developed by the photographers in close cooperation with the portrayed and implemented with the same commitment, the same creativity and professionalism as other photo productions or campaigns.

The result is impressive works that convey the desire to play the role and in the visual experiment and impressively reflect the unique personalities of the protagonist: whether tender intimacy, sober realism or plump joie de vivre.

“Radical Beauty” radically questions our ideas of beauty, attractiveness and aesthetics.

3 Art that looks up

© Sujatro Ghosh

The Martin Roth initiative is one of the largest protective programs for endangered artists: inside and cultural.

The IFA gallery is presenting for the first time in the joint exhibition “Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds” works by around 50 scholarship holder: inside, which were able to continue and further develop their artistic practice in Germany.

Among them Maikon K, who was arrested by the Brazilian military police in 2017 after his nude performance “DNA of Dan” in the National Museum in Brasilia. In 2020, he was able to move to Germany with the help of the Martin Roth initiative.

Another artist whose work can be seen is Sujatro Gosh. In his photo series “The Cow Mask Project”, the social position of Indian women critically puts it to the test. The project, which accuses the company to protect cows more than women, brought Gosh sharp criticism and partly threats.

4 Smallest worlds

© Kathrin Linkersdorff, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Become and pass. Kathrin Linkersdorff staged in the area of ​​tension between art and science with experimental approaches and process -like methods from microbiology, transience.

At the center of Linkersdorff’s work is the aesthetic concept of Wabi-Sabi, which the artist got to know in a two-year Daad scholarship in Tokyo. This is about the idea that transience and imperfections are valuable components of life.

Linkersdorff is currently working as an artist in Residence at Humboldt University. Her latest work “Microverse I/II” deals with biological change processes that are caused by bacteria.

5 Appreciation of an icon

© David Lachapelle, Courtesy Camera Work, Berlin

When celebrity photographer David Lachapelle stood ahead of Sandro Botticelli’s “Venus and Mars” for the first time, he was deeply impressed by the power of composition. A post -coital scene in which the god of war has nodded while Venus looks at a little unsatisfied.

Lachapelle, who was currently dealing with Africa’s exploitation at the time, transformed the painting into an allegory about the struggle between war and greed and love and beauty based on the gold trade.

That was in 2009, after the financial crash. But who could embody Africa on a level like Simonetta Vespucci, the aristocratic beauty that had posed for Botticelli?

Of course Naomi Campbell, the Black supermodel, which today, among others. for African fashion designers.

The Camera Work gallery recognizes Campbell’s Werdegang, the complexity of their work and their influence on photography and pop culture in 30 portraits, files and fashion photographs.

In addition to Lachapelle, works by Bryan Adams, Anton Corbijn, Patrick Demarchelier, Herb Ritt, Ellen of Ungwerth and much more can be seen.

6 Give and take

© Kai Richter, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

The “Poetics of Transition” emissions shows spaces in exchange for humans. The artists Gesa Lange, Christl Mudrak, Katja Pudor, Kai Richter (Fig. “Structtering the Space”), HEE SEO and Joshua Zielinski go to discuss the boundaries between human and natural rooms, find their equality in discussion with architecture and nature.

Man as the author is to be explicitly questioned, since the right to exist from people and nature develop and take. The sensual experience comes to the fore and should see, hear, hear, buttons and feel visitors at the interface between humans and nature.

7 Art in exile

© Courtesy Tammam Azzam / Kornfeld Galerie Berlin

Anna Havemann, the curator of the Kunst Mitte house, has created a place there for artists: inside, who were often successful in her home countries, but would only be insufficiently represented in the exile capital Berlin.

An failure, for both sides, because the view coming from the outside and staying from here (indefinitely), the perspective expands for everyone. It is not just a feeling of longing and melancholy that blows through the exhibition, but tenderness.

A great strength of Anna Havemann’s exhibitions in the Kunst Mitte house is always how works of art, sequences of space are even related to two floors and establish new connections.

With characters in an empty room, Aaajiao (*1984, China), whose work was erased from the net, is reminiscent of the fate of the Uigures, which are divided into “pleasant”, “average” and “uncomfortable” in the re -education camps. Tendencies that he recognizes in categories such as: “integrated”, “qualified”, “not integrated”.

Next door a work by Rula Ali (* 1981, Qamishli, Syria): “My language is not the language of my daughter”, which has translated German phrases like “I am smoking” into Arabic characters.

Shirin Ashkari (*1988, Tehran) paints as obsessed with her family’s fig tree so as not to lose her roots. But Berlin also found its place in her work.