We’ve got our top picks for Gallery Weekend, 10 free club events for May Day, plus much more—& mostly for free!

Check out our full post for Gallery Weekend here!

Neue Nationalgalerie presents the interactive installation "Regular Animals" by famed NFT -digital artist Beeple. The installation features autonomous robotic dogs with hyper-realistic heads of globally recognizable figures, which roam freely and transform AI-processed data into printed images, released directly into your hands. Watch our TikTok about it here.

For Gallery Weekend, Hamburger Bahnhof presents the second annual CHANEL Commission in the Historic Hall. Lithuanian Artist Lina Lapelytė has transformed the space into a dynamic and collective installation consisting of sound and shared action. Constructed with over 400,000 timber cubes, the exhibition invites visitors to become active participants, by building and dismantling the ever-evolving landscape.

Performance artist Göksu Kunak takes over Ebensperger, starting on Gallery Weeekend. 'REMAINS' transforms the space through bodies, gestures, and time, with performers marking the space via movement, exhaustion, presence, and disappearance.

Dittrich & Schlechtriem present new works by Monty Richthofen. HARD 2 4GET begins at their new space at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, before spreading out through the city over the weekend, with temporary interventions at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Victory Column and Strausberger Platz. The project was inspired by the artist’s ongoing research into the unofficial inscriptions applied to military equipment and aircraft, transforming them into new poetic compositions.

To celebrate Gallery Weekend 2026, max goelitz presents a solo exhibition by James Turrell that will unfold over several monoths. Since the 1960s, Turrell's has explored the relationship between light, space, and perception. For the first time in Berlin, 'sensing fields' will display a work from Turrell's glass series.

Gallery Gudmundsdottir opens their private bunker location for Gallery Weekend, showing a two-channel video work by Simon Mullan. The film focuses on the "Wheel of Death": a ritualistic fairground act involving knife throwers. The artwork is available to watch by appointment only.

ChertLüdde presents Petrit Halilaj's ‘Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!’ — an exhibition that focuses on Halilaj’s open-air opera, staged in June 2025 in Kosovo. Shortly before the opera's premiere, some of the artist's storage containers were broken into and defaced with hate speech. This exhibition shares the vandalized containers with the public for the first time and tells the journey of the artists to replace what was lost in only a few days time.

House Berlin begins its second chapter with an exhibtion in the iconic Halle am Berghain. Gravity Ease Contract is curated by artist David Douard, who brings together artists who tell intimate stories that draw on their own experiences and focus on the outside world, as if seen through the cracks in their very own private rooms. The artists capture and reflect echoes of the outside world in the form of music, videos, and fragments of popular culture.

'perceptual territories – cut, split, layered' brings together the works of three artists: Shilpa Gupta, Renata Lucas and Haegue Yang to deconstruct prevailing narratives of reality using historical, political and subjective precedents. They use various methods like subverting geometry, fragmenting the quotidian and navigating sound through form, to ground the viewer in time and space. Together, these experiments cast the world in a new light.

Anton Janizewski presents Dead End, Jiyoon Chung’s first exhibition in Berlin. Dead End explores the idea of “crisis-ordinariness”: the ordinariness of crises. Through a variety of visual triggers, Chung aims to disrupt the familiar rhythm of everyday life. The exhibition explores the expectation of insecurity and feelings of unease.

Paper Positions is back with the tenth edition of its international art fair. With 70 international galleries featuring contemporary and modern art, the fair is focused on drawing and the material paper.

Head to 032c store on Saturday to check out the opening of artist Zuzanna Czebatul’s new installation, created in collaboration with USM Haller.

Kuboraum presents an evening of DJs at Hamburger Bahnhof. “We Travel to Know Our Own Geography” features FRANKIE & Kelman Duran, Canzonieri, and Buttechno for a program of live music and performances.

Take your Gallery Weekend from exhibition to party in just one location. Stop into Studio1111 for ‘Chronos’ by Simon Mullan as a spatial, multi-channel video installation. ‘Chronos’ is comprised of raw MiniDV footage shot by Mullan between 2004 and 2014, exploring the tension between subculture, society and personal identity. After 22:30, the vibe shifts to a party format with DJs Natalia Escobar, Aliar, and Horkheimer.

Not sick of art just yet? It's also the fourth annual Sellerie Weekend, featuring 75 spaces, 555 artists and 55 events.

The line-up is too stacked to even mention and I’m sure the queue will be crazy! You can also buy advance tickets for priority entry.

Mitte Pizza fave Magic John’s is opening their new beer garden space. Swing by on Thursday to celebrate this and their sixth birthday with drinks, pizza, DJs and more.

Local natural wine favorite Nature’s Calling hosts a street party with LPG Biomarkt. If you prefer a pet nat to sekt, this is a good bet.

It’s La Maison’s seventh birthday and they’re celebrating with a May Day bash.

Bamnat and Zola come together for a street party with Heidegluehen’s Woody, Khadija and DJ Schowi.

Ta Cabron recently re-opened after renovations just in time for the May Day festivities. Stop by for a margarita (or two) and a selection of DJs.

Celebrate Mai 1 Wen Cheng style with spicy noodles, drinks by BRLO and listen to DJs Tom Peters, Anna Schreit and Dilivius Lenni.

LoveDeluxe is back for one day, at Prenzlauer Berg’s Allan’s ABC. Pop in for some fresh wine or bubbles and an Uppercut Beef Baguette Dip. (Bonus points for avoiding the Kreuzberg chaos!)

Celebrate the launch of Söderberg x Sven Marquardt at the new location of Berlin avant-garde fashion fave Orimono.

In need of a new outfit or two to carry you through the weekend? The Joo Vintage Clothing Swap will sort you right out.