September 14–18, 2022
Berlin Art Week celebrates its 11th edition with a diverse festival programme of contemporary art at more than 100 locations all across the city.
This September, for the 11th edition of Berlin Art Week, the most renowned museums and art institutions, private collections, prizewinning project spaces, and numerous galleries will be showcasing the diverse Berlin art world with a wide-ranging programme of contemporary art. Open to all, the extended outreach and education programme “Explore Berlin Art Week” will offer a variety of workshops, events, and tours that allow visitors to experience art up close and from a new perspective. All week long, the festival centre “BAW Garten”—free admission and open air—will invite local residents and art lovers to discover and participate. The digital Journal returns this year and will provide further insights into Berlin’s contemporary art world, complementing and expanding Berlin Art Week’s programme.
Festival centre “BAW Garten”
With the motto “Explore,” this year’s Berlin Art Week will be presenting its festival centre “BAW Garten” as its main point of public outreach at Uferhallen in Berlin-Wedding. For the duration of the festival, local residents, art lovers, and those who are simply curious about art can come together throughout the day. From Wednesday to Sunday, BAW Garten will offer a chance to exchange, discover, and participate with workshops, performances, and conversations with artists, or just to spend some time with a drink in hand. Open studios in the area will provide an opportunity to gain insights into artistic practices and to catch a glimpse of how the artists work. BAW Garten also provides information about tours all around town through Berlin’s various “Kieze” (neighbourhoods) and the entire festival programme of Berlin Art Week.
Programme highlights 2022
This year’s programme especially spotlights artists and their studios. Whether at the numerous open studios at the BAW Garten, different art collectives, or a variety of prize-winning project spaces—there’ll be so much to discover.
At no less than three venues you’ll also have the opportunity to marvel at the works of artist Mona Hatoum. A panorama of queer photography will await you at C/O Berlin—and PalaisPopulaire will focus on non-binary artist LuYang. Jenna Sutela at Schering Stiftung will make you question health-optimization and Schinkel Pavillon will be pushing boundaries with Anna Uddenberg and Jon Rafmann, all while the art fair “Positions” at former Berlin Tempelhof Airport shows prospective collectors, art experts, and other visitors a broad sampling of what the art world currently has to offer.
This year’s Berlin Art Week will also be taking you to rather unusual locations. Get ready for an eerie experience on a trip to the outskirts of Berlin: in her exhibition Female Remedy, artist Leila Hekmat will be transforming Haus am Waldsee into a religious sanatorium for women and a portal to the human psyche. KW Institute for Contemporary Art will be moving with artist Rachel Rossin to a site-specific installation at Tieranatomisches Theater exclusively for this year’s Berlin Art Week—just like ifa-galerie Berlin, which will be moving between not two, but three locations, while HAU Hebbel am Ufer’s Tactical Tech will display a structure located on the forecourt of the Technikmuseum. Art will become a matrix that is laid over the city’s topography, making it doubly worthwhile to pursue its tracks across Berlin.
Read interviews, insights, Q&As, essays in our Journal and discover the entire Berlin Art Week programme here.
Press contacts
Kathrin Luz Communication, baw [at] luz-communication.de
Denise Gamon, d.gamon [at] kulturprojekte.berlin
