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KW announce Summer Programm 2023 Download (as of 17 May 2023)
KW announce Spring Program 2023 Download (as of 3 March 2023)
KW announce Fall Program 2022 Download (as of 8 September 22)
KW announce KW Digital Program exhibition Rachel Rossin – THE MAW OF Download (as of 27 August 22)
KW announce winning artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2022 Download (as of 25 August 2022)
KW announce Spring Program 2022 Download (As of: 27 January 2022)
KW Institute for Contemporary Art present the annual program 2022 Download (As of: 20 January 2022)
KW announce second part of 30 years Jubilee Auction in cooperation with Grisebach Download (As of: 1 November 2021)
Katharina Grosse elected as chair of the board of KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V. Download (As of: 30 September 2021)
KW announce its fall program 2021 Download (As of: 28 September 2021)
KW present program of Open Secret Download (As of: 20 September 2021)
KW announce its anniversary weekend program as part of 30 Years of KW Download (As of: 1 September 2021)
KW is part of MuseumSunday Berlin Download (As of: 21 June 2021)
KW present summer program 2021 Download (As of: 22 June 2021)
KW announce auction as part of its anniversary program Download (As of: 26 May 2021)
KW Jubilee Auction in cooperation with Grisebach: The auction catalogue with an overview of the works you will find here.
KW present KW Digital and its inaugural exhibition The Last Museum Download (As of: 20 April 2021)
KW announce 30th anniversary program 2021 Download (As of: 20 April 2021)
KW announce program 2021 Download (As of: 18 January 2021)
Rabih Mroué Receives Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020 Download
KW present Fall/Winter program 2020/2021 Download
Updated annual program 2020 Download (As of: 3 August 2020)
Director Krist Gruijthuijsen’s contract extended until 2024 Download
COVID-19: Reopening of KW on 30 May 2020 Download
KW announce new curators Download
COVID-19: KW will be closed from 14 March until 19 April 2020 Download
Partnership between KW and BPA to promote the visibility of emerging Berlin-based artists Download
KW announce Winter and Spring program 2020 Download
KW announce program 2020 Download | Overview (As of: 28 July 2020)
KW announce Fall program 2019 Download
KW announce Summer program 2019 Download
KW announce Winter and Spring program 2019 Download
KW select Andrea Büttner and Rachel O’Reilly for the KW Production Series 2019 Download
KW announce program 2019 Download | Overview Program 2019
KW announce Fall program 2018 Download
KW announce Berlin Art Week program 2018 Download
KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Volkswagen Group announcing VW Research Fellowship (m/f) Download
Anna Daučíková honored with Schering Stiftung Art Award 2018 Download
KW present Olaf Nicolai: Brecht in der Autowerkstatt Download
KW announce KW on location Download / Program booklet
KW announce Winter and Spring program 2018 Download
KW announce annual program for 2018 Download / Overview annual program
Long-term project REALTY kicks off in October 2017 Download
KW announce Fall program 2017 Download
Pause: Margaret Honda Download
KW Productions Series Download
KW announce Summer program 2017 Download
Pause: Anthony McCall / Book launch Black Dada Reader Download
KW announce the first exhibitions of 2017 Download
KW announce new artistic team Download
Press Kits
Summer Program 2023: Enrico David, Emily Wardill, Hervé Guibert Download
Spring Program 2023: Martin Wong, Win McCarthy, Karen Lamassonne Download
Fall Program 2022: Michel Majerus, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Atiéna R. Kilfa Download
Spring Program 2022: Peter Friedl, Rabih Mroué, Oraib Toukan Download
Summer Program 2021: Michael Stevenson, Zeros and Ones, stanley brouwn Download
Fall and Winter Program 2020/2021: Amelie von Wulffen, Leonilson Download
Winter and Spring program 2020 – New dates: Hassan Sharif, Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili Download
Winter and Spring Program 2020: Hassan Sharif, Kris Lemsalu Malone & Kyp Malone Lemsalu, Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili Download
Fall Program 2019: Christina Ramberg, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, STATISTA Download
Summer Program 2019: Anna Daučíková, Heike-Karin Föll, Image Bank Download
Winter and Spring Program 2019: David Wojnarowicz, Reza Abdoh, Frank Wagner Download
Fall Program 2018: Steve Bishop, Tamara Henderson, Sidsel Meineche Hansen Download
Fall Program 2018: Beatriz González Retrospective 1965–2017 Download
KW’s Berlin Art Week Program Download
KW on location: Lynn Hershman Leeson Download
Pause: AA Bronson’s Garten der Lüste Download
Spring Program 2018: Judith Hopf, Trix & Robert Haussmann Download
Fall Program 2017: Willem de Rooij, Lucy Skaer Download
Summer Program 2017: Enemy of the Stars, Hiwa K, Nicholas Mangan Download
Spring Program 2017: Ian Wilson: Hanne Lippard, Adam Pendleton, Paul Elliman Download
KW announces its annual program 2017 Download
Pressefotos
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Enrico David
Destroyed Men Come and Go
Enrico David, Untitled, 2015. © Enrico David. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.
KW Production Series:
Emily Wardill
Identical
Emily Wardill, Identical, 2023, Video installation. Courtesy Carlier Gebauer
Hervé Guibert
This and More
Hervé Guibert, Chambre de Mathieu, c. 1989; © Christine Guibert/Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris.
Martin Wong
Malicious Mischief
Martin Wong, Tell My Troubles to the Eight Ball (Eureka), 1978—81, Acrylic on canvas
121,9 x 121,9 cm, Courtesy of the Martin Wong Foundation and P.P.O.W, New York © Martin Wong Foundation
Win McCarthy
Innenportrait
Fridge Peripheries, 2022, Silber-Gelatine-Faserdruck, 25 x 20 cm © Win McCarthy
Karen Lamassonne
Ruido / Noise
Karen Lamassonne, Sueño húmedo III, (Wet Dream III), 1987, Photography with crayon, 28 x 36 cm ©Karen Lamassonne
Michel Majerus
Early Works
Michel Majerus, Ohne Titel, 1991, © Michel Majerus Estate, 2022. Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin
Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Another World
Christopher Kulendran Thomas, The Finesse (film still), 2022, in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann
Atiéna R. Kilfa
The Unhomely
Atiéna R. Kilfa, The Unhomely, 2022, video still (man descending the staircase). Courtesy the artist
Peter Friedl
Report 1964–2022
Peter Friedl, Snjókarl, 1999 (Detail). Color slides. Courtesy the artist.
Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué
Under the Carpet
Rabih Mroué, Self Portrait as a Fountain, 2006. Courtesy the artist.
Oraib Toukan
What Then
Oraib Toukan, Via Dolorosa, 2021. Image study in a single-channel video (color, sound). Courtesy the artist.
A Year with ...
BLESS N°72 BLESSlet
BLESS N°66 Architecture Souvenir Baggages, Architecture Souvenir Baggage II shown at Anders Wohnen, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany, 2019. Model: Margot Kaag, Courtesy BLESS 2019
Pause: Tobias Spichtig
Die Matratzen
Tobias Spichtig, Die Matratzen, 2016. Courtesy the artist and Jan Kaps, Cologne, Photo: Mareike Tocha
Renée Green
Inevitable Distances
Renée Green, Sites of Genealogy: Loophole of Retreat, Installation view, PS1 Museum, New York 1990. Courtesy Free Agent Media; Bortolami Gallery, New York; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin; Photo: Tom Warren
Understudies:
I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing
(right) Manbi, Nô mask of a young woman; Japan, Edo period, 18th century; (left) Deigan, Nô mask of a ghost of a middle aged women; Japan, Edo period, 18th century; Courtesy Museum Rietberg Zurich, Photo: Iman Issa
Michael Stevenson
Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief
Michael Stevenson, (sketch for a wall drawing), 2021; Courtesy the artist
Zeros and Ones
Lutz Bacher, In Memory of My Feelings (Detail), 1990; Courtesy The Estate of Lutz Bacher and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York
Leonilson, Inflammable, ca. 1990, Courtesy Projeto Leonilson, Photo: Eduardo Ortega
Amelie von Wulffen, Untitled, 2019, Oil on canvas, Courtesy the artist, and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Gio Marconi, Milan, and Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris
Yazan Khalili, Medusa, 2020, Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy der Künstler und Mophradat, Foto: Frank Sperling
Yazan Khalili, Medusa, 2020, Installation view of the exhibiton Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Frank Sperling
Yazan Khalili, Medusa, 2020, Installation view of the exhibiton Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Frank Sperling
Yazan Khalili, Medusa (Detail), 2020, Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy der Künstler und Mophradat, Foto: Frank Sperling
From left to right: Jasmina Metwaly, Anbar (Badrawi’s atelier), 2019, Untitled (Detail), 2019–2020, and Anbar (Assem’s pictures), 2019, Installation view of the exhibition Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Frank Sperling
Left: Jasmina Metwaly, Anbar (Badrawi’s atelier), 2019, Right: Jasmina Metwaly, Untitled (Detail), 2019–2020, Installation view of the exhibition Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Frank Sperling
From left to right: Jasmina Metwaly, Untitled (Detail), 2019–2020, and Anbar (Marta’s studio), 2019, Installation view of the exhibition Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Frank Sperling
Jasmina Metwaly, Untitled (Detail), 2019–2020, Installation view of the exhibition Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Frank Sperling
Front: Jasmina Metwaly, Untitled (Detail), 2019–2020, Back: Jasmina Metwaly, Untitled (Thank you notes), Anbar, 2019, Installation view of the exhibition Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions: Jasmina Metwaly & Yazan Khalili at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artist and Mophradat, Photo: Frank Sperling
Jasmina Metwaly, Anbar, 2019, Courtesy Jasmina Metwaly
Yazan Khalili, Medusa, 2020, Courtesy Yazan Khalili
Kris Lemsalu Malone, Love Song Sing-Along (Detail), 2019/2020, Installation view of the exhibition Love Song Sing-Along at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artists, Photo: Frank Sperling
Left: Kyp Malone Lemsalu, Love Song Sing-Along Serie 1–14 (Detail: 7–14), 2019/2020; Right: Kris Lemsalu Malone, Love Song Sing-Along (Detail), 2019/2020, Installation view of the exhibition Love Song Sing-Along at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artists, Photo: Frank Sperling
Kris Lemsalu Malone, Portrait vor Kyp Malone Lemsalu Love Song Sing-Along Serie 1–14 (Detail 10), 2019/2020; Installation view at the exhibition Love Song Sing-Along at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artists, Photo: Frank Sperling
Kyp Malone Lemsalu at the opening performance of the exhibition Love Song Sing-Along at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Courtesy the artists, Photo: Frank Sperling
Kris Lemsalu Malone & Kyp Malone Lemsalu, 2019, Photo: Eric Martin
Left: Hassan Sharif, Handwriting No. 1, 1983; Middle: Barrel, 1985; Right: Handwriting No. 2, 1983; Installation view of the exhibition I Am The Single Work Artist at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020; Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation Collection; Photo: Frank Sperling
Hassan Sharif, Broom, 2016; Installation view of the exhibition I Am The Single Work Artist at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020; Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation Collection; Photo: Frank Sperling
Hassan Sharif, Installation view of the exhibition I Am The Single Work Artist at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020; Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, Photo: Frank Sperling
Benjamin Patterson, Piano d’oiseux tropical, 1989, Courtesy Archivio Conz, Berlin, Photo: Giorgia Palmisano
Esther Ferrer, Piano con alas, 1986, Courtesy Archivio Conz, Berlin, Photo: Giorgia Palmisano
f.l.t.r.: Christina Ramberg, Black Widow, 1971, Courtesy Illinois State Museum, lllinois Legacy Collection; Konrad Klapheck, Der Mann in der Frau (L’homme dans la femme), 1986, Courtesy private collection. Installation view The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ghislaine Leung, SHROOMS, 2016, Courtesy the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York. Installation view The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Photo: Frank Sperling
Christina Ramberg, Tight Hipped, 1974, Copyright the Estate of Christina Ramberg, Courtesy Collection Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, The Bill McClain Collection of Chicago Imagism.
Christina Ramberg, O.H.B., 1976, Copyright the Estate of Christina Ramberg, Courtesy Collection Karin Tappendorf.
Christina Ramberg, Glimpsed, 1975, acrylic on masonite, Copyright the Estate of Christina Ramberg, Courtesy Elmhurst College Art Collection.
Anna Daučíková
Back: Anna Daučíková, Upbringing by Exercise, 1996/2016, 17 b/w-photographies; Right: Anna Daučíková, We Care For Four Eyes II, 2002, HD-Video; Installation view of the exhibition, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the artist Photo: Frank Sperling
Anna Daučíková, Installation view of the exhibition, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, Installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Frank Sperling
Anna Daučíková, Expedition for Four Hands and Accompaniment (Detail), 2019, Mixed-Media-Installation with three channel video projection, glass, stones, publication, Installation view of the exhibition, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, Installation view speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, my brain, 2010–19; Installation view (detail) speed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Frank Sperling
Installation view ‘Image Bank’ at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Art Gallery, University of British Columbia (CA), Photo: Frank Sperling
Heike-Karin Föll, linguistic operations/spatial concepts, 2017, Courtesy the artist
Image Bank
Installation view ‘Image Bank’ at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Art Gallery, University of British Columbia (CA), Photo: Frank Sperling
Front: Image Bank: Colour Bars – Spectrum Sets, 1972–73, paint on wood; Middle: Eric Metcalfe: Leopard Realty, ca. 1973, HD-Video, paint, no sound; Back: General Idea: Hands of the Spirit, 1974, 5 plexiglass rods; Installation view of the exhibition, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy Collection of the Eric Metcalfe Fonds / Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of Britsh Columbia (CA), Photo: Frank Sperling
Installationsansicht ‘Image Bank’ in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy the Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Art Gallery, University of British Columbia (CA), Foto: Frank Sperling
Bob Strazicich, Mr. Peanut Mayoral Campaign: Mr. Peanut descends steps of Vancouver Court House, 1974, gelatin silver print, Collection of the Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia
David Wojnarowicz
David Wojnarowicz, A Fire in My Belly, 1986-1987, still from Super 8 film,
Installation view of the exhibition David Wojnarowicz Photography & Film 1978-1992 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2019; Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York; Photo: Frank Sperling
Andreas Sterzing, David Wojnarowicz (Silence = Death), 1989, New York, Photography, Courtesy the artist, the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P·P·O·W, New York
Reza Abdoh
Reza Abdoh, Bogeyman, 1991, film still, Installation view of the exhibition Reza Abdoh, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy Adam Soch and the Estate of Reza Abdoh, Photo: Frank Sperling
Frank Wagner in the exhibition Félix González-Torres (1957–1996), RealismusStudio / nGbK Berlin, 1996, Photo: Jürgen Henschel
Jimmy Robert
Jimmy Robert, Joie noire, Performance with Courtney Henry at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2019, Berlin, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Frank Sperling
Tamara Henderson, Language of Mud, 2018, Installation view of the exhibition Womb Life, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London/Piraeus, Photo: Frank Sperling
Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Installation view of the exhibition Real Doll Theatre, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London/Piraeus, Photo: Frank Sperling
Beatriz González, Los Suicidas del Sisga No 2, 1965, Oil on canvas, Courtesy the artist, Óscar Monsalve and Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Collection Museo La Tertulia, Cali
KW Production Series: Jamie Crewe und Beatrice Gibson
Jamie Crewe, Pastoral Drama, 2018, Installation view of the exhibition KW Production Series, KW Institute for Contemporary Art at Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin, 2018, Courtesy Jamie Crewe, Photo: Frank Sperling
Evelyn Taocheng Wang
Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Hospital Conversations, Three Versions of Change, 2018, Installation view of the exhibition What is he afraid of?, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Fons Welters, Photo: Frank Sperling
AA Bronson, Garten der Lüste, 2018, Installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Photo: Frank Sperling