To mark the 100th anniversary of Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain, British artist Heather Phillipson is transforming the Kunsthalle St. Annen into a walk-in art. For her solo exhibition, she draws significant inspiration from the motif of time and social change.
Chemnitz is European Capital of Culture in 2025. Part of its cultural programme is PURPLE PATH, an art and sculpture trail that will showcase works by renowned international, national and Saxon artists. The result is an exhibition in public space which includes pieces from Tony Cragg, Richard Long and Sean Scully.
16 exceptional emerging filmmakers will come to Berlin to take part in this year’s Berlinale Talents. Berlinale Talents is the talent development programme run by the Berlinale, Berlin’s international film festival, with 200 filmmakers selected from all over the world. This year’s theme is Listen Courageously: Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance. Find out more about the programme and this year’s Talents here.
Our annual online programme of short films, Five Films for Freedom, celebrates global stories in support of LGBTQIA+ communities across the world. This year the programme returns between 19-30 March. Don’t miss this selection of five short films made by filmmakers from around the world, selected from BFI: Flare’s festival programme and made available to global audiences online for an exclusive period of 11 days.
Festival EIGHT BRIDGES: Musik for Cologne will present on 18 May 2025 “The Oddity Effect”, a new work by British composer Christian Mason and poet Paul Griffiths at the prestigious Kölner Philharmonie. The concert will be immediately following the world premiere in Frankfurt on 16 May, both performed by one of Germany’s most renowned ensembles for contemporary music: Ensemble Modern.
The Berlin Festival for New Music MärzMusik returns between 21-30 March 2025 with an exciting line-up, including artists from the UK. UK artists featured at the 2025 festival include Claudia Molitor, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Laura Bowler. The full line-up will be published in February.
Jason Martin’s new solo exhibition comes to Berlin’s Buchmann Galerie from 31 January – 8 March. Martin channels a minimal approach to painting through an expansive yet controlled use of colour, brush and medium. Working in pigment, acrylic, oil paint, graphite and cast metal, Martin interrogates the fundamentals of painting, veering from epic and luscious compositions of swirling forms to pared-down and muted abstractions in precisely blended tones.
Coming of Age. Age of Coming. Of Coming Age marks Matt Copson’s first institutional solo exhibition. In his hybrid practice—drawing from pop culture, myths, ancient philosophy, and medieval folklore—Copson explores existential questions and contemporary subjectivity, which he sees as increasingly defined by constant flux, spectacle, and the economies of attention. More details here.
Art meets music: Peter Doherty’s second solo exhibition “Felt Better Alive” will open at the Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin on 6 February 2025. Doherty, known as the frontman of the bands ‘The Libertines’, ‘Babyshambles’ and others, expands his artistic palette with this exhibition and creates an innovative intersection of visual art and music. ‘Felt Better Alive’ is not just a collection of artworks, but an expression of his deep, creative journey.
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to the internationally renowned British artist Sarah Morris. The exhibition features over a hundred artworks—including paintings, drawings, film posters, immersive film installations, and a new site-specific wall painting—which foreground thirty years of groundbreaking work.