Gallery Weekend Berlin, 1–3 May 2026, at the Neue Nationalgalerie

**Gallery Weekend Art Talks at the Neue Nationalgalerie, 1 to 3 May 2026** © Gallery Weekend Berlin

Gallery Weekend Berlin, 1–3 May 2026, at the Neue Nationalgalerie

17.04.2026
Neue Nationalgalerie

On the occasion of this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting three exhibitions: Ruin and Rush. Berlin 1910–1930, Beeple. Regular Animals and the reopening of Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculpture. The Gallery Weekend Art Talks will feature a diverse, free programme of talks and panels with international guests in the upper hall throughout the weekend from Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May 2026.

Friday, 1 May 2026

11 am
The Future of the Art World
Panel with Marion Ackermann (President, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), Grace Yao (Founder and CEO, Artlas), and Thomas Girst (Global Head of Cultural Engagement, BMW Group), moderated by András Szántó (author and cultural strategy advisor)
12:30 pm
From the Internet to Museum Walls
Beeple in conversation with Lisa Botti (Curator, Neue Nationalgalerie)
2 pm
Simulacra, Soap Operas, and Sacrifice
Göksu Kunak in conversation with Léon Kruijswijk (Performance Curator, Mudam Luxembourg)
3:30 pm
On Craft and Unexpected Materiality
Pae White in conversation with Kimberly Bradley (art critic, culture writer, and editor)
5 pm
Photographic Vertigo
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili in conversation with Carina Bukuts (Chief Curator, Kunsthalle Wien)

Saturday, 2 May 2026

11 am
The Challenge of Live Art in Museum Spaces
Panel with Joel Valabrega (Head of Programme and Curator, Galeria Municipal do Porto), Matilde Guidelli-Guidi (Curator and Co–Department Head, Dia Art Foundation), Billy Tang (Artistic Director, YDP), moderated by Gregor Quack (Volkswagen Group Curator, Neue Nationalgalerie)
12:30 pm
about curating
Thomas Demand in conversation with Lynne Cooke (curator and writer)
2 pm
Hermetic Worlds and Total Constellations
Stella Zhong in conversation with Martin Germann (curator)
3:30 pm
On Intuition, Memory, and Becoming
Edi Rama and Anri Sala in conversation with Natalia Gierowska (political scientist and art critic)

Sunday, 3 May 2026

11 am
The Power of Abstract Figuration
Katherine Bradford in conversation with Chloe Stead (Associate Editor, Frieze)
12:30 pm
Ecological Transience and Fantastical Transformation
Anne Duk Hee Jordan in conversation with Haeju Kim (Senior Curator and Head of Residencies, Singapore Art Museum)
2 pm
Die Überwindung der Moderne
Markus Lüpertz in conversation with Dr. Dorothea Schöne (Director Kunsthaus Dahlem)
This talk will be held in German

All talks will be held in English unless otherwise noted.

Limited number of participants, free admission, no registration required

Event series

GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN TALKS

Exhibitions

Ruin and Rush
25.04.2026 to 03.01.2027

Beeple. Regular Animals
29.04.2026 to 10.05.2026

Fujiko Nakaya: Fog Sculpture in the Sculpture Garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie
30.04.2026 to 25.10.2026

Brancusi
20.03.2026 to 09.08.2026

Christoph Schlingensief. Deutschlandsuche ’99
02.05.2025 to 25.04.2027

Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society
18.11.2023 to 25.04.2027

Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin
Permanent exhibition

Press release

Neue Nationalgalerie | Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026 at Neue Nationalgalerie | 1. – 3.5.2026

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