Berlin Art Week 2026: Three Exhibitions Explore Fractured Eastern Promises

Key facts

• Berlin Art Week runs from September 9 to 13, 2026.
• Three exhibitions explore the concept of the 'East'.
• The exhibition 'Die Architektinnen*' is at station urbaner Kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf from September 13 to November 7.
• The exhibition 'Projektionen auf den Osten' is at n.b.k. and Schinkel Pavillon from September 10 to November 8 and December 20 respectively.
• The exhibition 'Izabella Gustowska: Home’s Shadows' is at KVOST from September 10 to November 28.
• The exhibitions are part of the Berlin Art Week program.
• The state election in Saxony-Anhalt is on September 6, 2026.
• The film 'Die Architekten' by Peter Kahane is from 1989/1990.
• Rolf Biebl is a sculptor living in Hellersdorf.
• Hito Steyerl's film 'Land des Lächelns' is from 1996.
• Helmar Lerski's photographs are from his 'Jews and Arabs' project in the early 1930s.
• Lerski's films will be shown on October 7 at Delphi Lux cinema.
• Isabelle Graw is co-founder of Texte zur Kunst.
• The 'Wohlfahrtsausschüsse' were anti-fascist initiatives in the early 1990s.
• Izabella Gustowska was born in 1948 in Poland.
• Gustowska's family house in Poznań has been owned since 1938.
• Judy Chicago's installation 'The Dinner Party' is from 1979.
• Moyshe Kulbak's poetry cycle features Pfeifenmann traveling from Disna to Berlin.
• The exhibitions are part of the Berlin Art Week 'Featured' section.