Latest Events in Berlin(July Updated)

From July 3rd to 5th, 2026, the world's top hand-cranked organ artists will once again gather in Berlin, joining thousands of music lovers from around the world at Breitschöderplatz. Hand-cranked organ enthusiasts from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the United States, and other countries will come together in Berlin to perform hand-cranked organs. They will transform the area between the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church and the EUROPA Center into "Berlin's largest hand-cranked organ concert." The highlight of the festival was a parade of organ players in historical costumes that began at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday along Electoral Street.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel left the cities to paint and live in nature. In their paintings, drawings, prints and watercolours, they celebrate the landscape, life, the human body and dynamic existence. The exhibition focuses on the Brücke artists' quest for harmony between humans and nature. Almost 100 years after the Brücke debate, our relationship with nature has changed fundamentally. What can we learn from nature? How can a new relationship between nature, art and humanity emerge? Coinciding with the exhibition, the museum's artistic nature trail Learning from … Nature will open in the garden, for which nine contemporary artists are creating new site-specific works.

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.

Already 2,000 years ago, the emperors of China had portraits of loyal officials and generals made in order to display them in their palaces. This presentation features depictions of meritorious officers that the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736–1795) had commissioned for their display in the hall of fame Ziguangge to demonstrate his power and legitimacy. In the 20th century they became spoils of war not one but two times. Located adjacent to the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Ziguangge is a two-storey pavilion. During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736 – 1795), the building was a venue for military rituals and banquets and housed paintings with battle scenes of the imperial military campaigns and portraits of meritorious officers.

The exhibition examines the transformative potential of public art and explores the methods and motivations behind such works, as well as their social impact.