Berlin · Art
Berlin Art Week
Institutions, project spaces and an art fair, coordinated across five days in September
Berlin has never had a dominant art fair and has instead built a coordinated week: the institutions open their autumn exhibitions, the project spaces programme together, the galleries extend hours and a fair runs alongside rather than at the centre.
The result suits the city: decentralised, cheap, heavy on off-space programming and best navigated by bicycle with a rough plan.
Berlin
While you are in Berlin
MuseumIconBerlin · Mitte
Museumsinsel
Five museums on one sandbank in the Spree, built to hold an empire's idea of itself
Opera houseStanding roomBerlin · Mitte
Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Frederick the Great's opera house, rebuilt three times and still the best acoustics in the city
Concert hallIconBerlin · Tiergarten
Berliner Philharmonie
The hall that invented vineyard seating and changed concert architecture worldwide
Art
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La Biennale di Venezia
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