Fri, 16 Jan 19h at Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst Opening: Madness and Practice: Liz Dawson + Lucy Teasdale
In Madness and Practice, Liz Dawson's paintings and drawings and Lucy Teasdale's sculptures draw us into a space where gestures, surfaces, and fragments fold back onto themselves, narrating a persistence in small but deliberate shifts. Marks that initially suggest they were quickly made and forms that appear pliable reveal how the seemingly futile can overlap with an attentiveness that is breathtakingly poetic. (Text: Ilyn Wong)

Closing event 
Finissage + Event on Sat, February 7, 2026, from 6 pm
On view 17 Jan-7 Feb 2026
Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Brunnenstr. 29
10119 Berlin

Fri, 16 Jan 19h at Haus am Lützowplatz Opening Radenko Milak: Post-Millennium Tension

Welcome Address: Thomas Isenberg, Deputy chairperson of the board and Dr. Marc Wellmann, Artistic Director Haus am Lützopwlatz (HaL)
Introduction: Max Dax, Curator of the exhibition. The artist will be present.

Post-Millennium Tension is Radenko Milak's first exhibition in Berlin and his first institutional solo exhibition in Germany since his critically acclaimed show 365 at Kunsthalle Darmstadt in 2014. The title of the exhibition points to the show's underlying current depicting a world that has come off its hinges in the still-young 21st century. It refers to the second album by the British artist Tricky, who released Pre-Millennium Tension in 1996.

Milak's watercolours establish a connection to the collective unconscious by referencing decisive events of the early 21st century. In numerous black-and-white watercolours—some composed of many individual sheets assembled into monumental images—the artist, born in 1980 in Travnik, Bosnia, presents key moments of world history. These works, based on iconic photographs of current and past political and social events, are rendered in watercolour. By shifting from one medium (photography) to another (watercolour), Milak captures and reflects the growing tension, instability, and uncertainty of the world while maintaining a consistently neutral standpoint.

The exhibition forms a complex narrative that mirrors contradictory developments whose loose ends converge in the 21st century. Beginning with a reference to Francisco de Goya's Desastres de la Guerra (1810–14), Milak's paintings depict scenes ranging from the destruction of Cologne during the Second World War, to Stanley Kubrick's portrayal of artificial intelligence in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the Munich massacre of 1972, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and Berlin's present-day Berghain.

coming up:
February 27, 2026, 7 pm
Artist talk and book presentation with Radenko Milak and Max Dax. (*English)
March 6 2026, 7 pm
Udo Kittelmann im Gespräch mit Max Dax, moderiert von Marc Wellmann. (*German)

16 Jan-8 Mar 2026
Haus am Lützowplatz
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin

Radenko Milak, Panama Hotel 50x60 cm, watercolor, 2025 Courtesy of Galerie Christine König, Vienna

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:00 at SCOTTY Manja Ebert, Sabrina Labis: I can not believe it
On view 17 Jan-28 Feb 2026
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With "I can not believe it.", SCOTTY presents an exhibition featuring artists Manja Ebert and Sabrina Labis. The show brings together two positions that reflect on the processes behind the creation and circulation of digital images, examining the contextual shifts and narratives that emerge within social networks. Both artists focus on the shifting contexts and narratives that emerge in social networks, using strategies of collecting, organizing, and reconfiguring found footage to investigate the intersections between digital technology, networked communication, and perception.

In "Brubble", Manja Ebert translates the invisible flows of data and the hidden background processes of social networks into a tangible video and light installation. The work invites viewers to reflect on resource consumption and the dynamics of a content culture that constantly (re)produces, shares, and instrumentalizes new material. Ebert continues these investigations in OBEY, where she engraves screenshots from platforms such as TikTok into smartphone displays, confronting them with paradoxical calls to action. The result is a reflection on the equivalence and interchangeability of social media content—where information, advertising, fake news, and AI-generated images merge into a single, continuous stream. Ebert's works expose the underlying structures and visual codes that shape how we experience digital imagery today.

In her work "Weird Stars", Sabrina Labis takes as her starting point a collection of amateur YouTube videos gathered over several years. In these recordings, laypeople attempt to document allegedly unusual celestial phenomena while narrating their own interpretations off-screen before sharing them online. Labis weaves these digital fragments into her own constellation, creating a space of negotiation where questions of perception, truth, and imagination intersect with the formation of conspiracy myths and fake news. With "Weird Certificates", Labis extends her reflections: for each amateur video, she purchases a star online and displays its accompanying certificate. These documents retroactively lend the recordings an absurd credibility, revealing how facts can be performatively produced in a digitally networked world.

The exhibition is part of the official program for the Vorspiel of transmediale 2026.

Exhibition Tour: 31.01.2026, 6 pm
Artist Talk: 07.02.2026, 6 pm
Finissage: Sa, 28.02.2026, 6 pm

SCOTTY
Oranienstr. 46
10969 Berlin

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:00 at Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Performance _Up Close – Goldrausch 2025_ Performance “The Lips the Teeth the Tip of the Tongue” by Paulette Penje and Olga Hohmann

wih Brenda Alamilla, Yedam Ann, Mara Kirchberg, Kodac Ko, Malin Kuht, muSamichelle mattiuzzi, Sarah Reva Mohr, Mio Okido, Paulette Penje, Belén Resnikowski, Aura Roig, Victoria Sarangova, Sophia Tabatadze, Saša Tatić, Marie Zbikowska

The exhibition shows current works by fifteen visual artists working in Berlin: surreal paintings and archival photographs that challenge our visual perception, while multimedia installations xplore power structures and open up portals to other worlds. In research-based video works and drawings, temporality becomes tangible as a gesture of remembrance. What the diverse motifs and media have in common is that they take a look up close—at individual biographies, at social conditions, and at political struggles.

Collateral Events:
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 6 pm Finissage: exhibition tour with Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa & Hannah Kruse
Opening hours: Daily 10 am – 8 pm (Closing days: December 24 +25, December 31 + January 1)
Free admission

Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt
Galerie im Körnerpark
Schierker Str. 8, 12051 Berlin

Friday, 23 January to Saturday, 24 January, with free admission from 8 PM to 10 AM the next morning.
ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT to see The Clock — the exhibition ends Jan 25, 2026!
Open Tuesday–Sunday, daily until 8 PM 
The exhibition is made possible by the @freundedernationalgalerie.

Neue National Galerie 
Potsdamer Straße 50,
10785 Berlin

Mon 26th January, from 6–10 pm @BcmA opening of the group exhibition Our Voice
Participating artists: Tatiana Zhabina, Kasia Knychała, Hanna Hajda, Océane Houssin, Adeline Meilliez, Sarah Maria Serve, Suska Bastian, FEMEN GERMANY
There is a strength within us.
Sometimes we feel it, sometimes we forget it, sometimes we are convinced it does not exist, that we have lost it, that we never had it, and yet it is always there.
It is this strength that the exhibition “Our Voice” speaks of. Through the work of various women artists, the exhibition explores sexual violence, the impact it has on our lives, and, above all, how we continue to move forward in our bodies, in our everyday lives.
“Our Voice” invites us to look at what is said and what is left unsaid, through works that tell stories of pain, fracture, and anger, but also of creativity and the capacity to rebuild, or not. Because rebuilding oneself can also be an obligation that weighs heavily.
This work takes place within a reality that, in Germany in 2024, shows:
53,451 women were victims of sexual violence;
Prostitution is legal, rendering the trade of women’s bodies and sexuality legal, along with the sexual violence that can result from it;
308 women were killed. Among these, 191 by a partner, ex-partner, or family member;
18,224 women were recorded as victims of digital/online violence (threats, harassment, stalking, etc.)
The list goes on. These figures only represent violence reported to the authorities; many instances remain unreported.
Talking about it again and again is vital to make our voices heard.
Curated by @claire___bouchard

Visiting hours:Thurs—Fri, 16:00–20:00 / Sat 12:00–17:00
 BcmA
Audre-Lorde-Str. 78,
Berlin

EXTENDED until January 31st ! Gerhard Hoehme &Delia Jürgens: Like Wolves on the Fold at Galerie Georg Nothelfer

At the intersection of two generations, the exhibition "Like Wolves on the Fold" presents the works of Gerhard Hoehme, a key figure of post-war German Informel, and Delia Jürgens, a young artist who explores questions of contemporary painting in the information age.

"Fold" stands for the invisible in between: on the one hand, as a seismographic mountain fold that opens up a new meaning between the two artistic positions. On the other hand, "Fold" refers to Jürgens' series "Fassaden – A Morning Full of Dust, You're Half Inside and Half Way Out," in which she processes impressions of street life in Los Angeles, alluding to the greedy, intrusive behavior of investors towards distressed properties.

The exhibition combines the two artistic perspectives in the day and night rhythm of light and invites the audience to discover the tension-filled spaces between history, the present and urban life.

until 31 Jan 2026
Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Corneliusstr. 3
10787 Berlin
Collage of two images by Gerhard Hoehme and Delia Jürgens

Mateusz Choróbski: P.OST @Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 
P.OST, the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by Polish artist Mateusz Choróbski. Developed specifically for the Kunstverein, the exhibition brings together sound, video, light, and sculptural installations that reflect on memory, transformation, and the layered identity of Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Choróbski’s work explores the tension between nostalgia and memory, questioning the tendency to idealize the past and examining how nostalgia can be understood - as sentimentality, heritage, or misunderstanding.

The title P.OST refers both to the vanished OST sign on the Volksbühne and to the question of what comes “after the East.” Drawing inspiration from the architectural and cultural history of Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, particularly Hans Poelzig’s designs for the Babylon cinema, he transforms the gallery into a stage built from traces, shadows, and fragments of the surrounding urban fabric.

His broader practice spans video, installation, performance, sound, and sculpture. Choróbski frequently juxtaposes the human body with architecture, exploring what remains when social, political, or material systems reach exhaustion—ruined modernist buildings, the weight of debt, or the fragile body at rest. 

Curated by Chiara Valci Mazzara and Susanne Prinz.

Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz
Linienstrasse 45
10119 Berlin
Detail from work in progress: Mateusz Choróbski, That Passed the Time, 2025

On January 24, we invite you to the matinée “The Just City – Zine E: Self-Determined Urban Practice.” Over coffee, snacks, and mimosas, we’ll come together to flip through zines and casually brunch the system away! As part of the event, we will introduce the LIVErary and launch an open call for publications on collective urban practice. We welcome published and self-published works in all formats, especially from intersectional perspectives. Simply bring your contributions with you and exhibit them together with us. At the same time, they will become part of our growing archive!
The highlight of the day is the release of the new issue of The Just City, created in cooperation with New York University Gallatin. You can also look forward to workshops on zine-making and linocut printing, as well as a curated zine selection from the LIVErary.
Come by, read, listen, and think ahead with us. Or brunch your way deliciously into tomorrow with waffles by @buendnissfeuerundflamme.
Image: @jakobwirth