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KOW

A contemporary art gallery in Berlin

02/09/2026

IN FOCUS: SIMON LEHNER at PARATEXT
until 26.09.2026

Simon Lehner (b. 1996, Wels, Austria) is a Vienna-based artist working in photography and time-based media. A graduate of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, his practice explores identity, memory, and the psychological impact of contemporary image culture. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum Morsbroich and Leopold Museum, and has been recognized by the FOAM Talent Award, the OE1 Talentfund, and numerous international awards and nominations.

Swing by the gallery, Wed–Sat, 12–6pm, to explore Simon Lehner's latest works along with Sophia Eisenhut and Heinrich Dunst at PARATEXT.

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Images:

1) Simon Lehner, Auto–Icon II & III, 2026.

2, 4) PARATEXT, exhibition views at KOW, 2026.

3) Simon Lehner, Peasant Painting VII, 2026.

All images are courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin. Photos: Ladislav Zajac.

08/08/2026

SUMMER HOLIDAYS 💦

THE GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED FOR SUMMER HOLIDAYS FROM AUG 09–SEP 02

SEE YOU AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER FOR BERLIN ART WEEK 2026

Yours,
KOW

30/07/2026

ON VIEW: Heinrich Dunst, Sophia Eisenhut, Simon Lehner
PARATEXT
until 26.09.2026

Paratext refers to text types or text elements that accompany or supplement a text and influence its reception, whether through the author’s own actions or through external support for the author’s intentions.

Swing by the gallery Wed–Sat, 12–6 pm, and immerse yourself in the artists' vastness.
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Images:
Heinrich Dunst, Sophia Eisenhut, Simon Lehner‚ 'PARATEXT' installation views at KOW, 2026, courtesy of the artists and KOW, Berlin. Photographer: Ladislav Zajac

03/07/2026

UPCOMING: HEINRICH DUNST, SOPHIA EISENHUT, SIMON LEHNER
PARATEXT
JUL 10—AUG 08

JOIN US FOR AN EXHIBITION WALK-THROUGH WITH THE ARTISTS AT KOW ON FRIDAY, JULY 10TH AT 6 PM.

The opening starts at 4 pm with ice popsicles and drinks.

We are excited to spend a nice summer day together!

Yours always,
KOW

25/06/2026

SAVE THE DATE: HEINRICH DUNST, SOPHIA EISENHUT, SIMON LEHNER  ‘PARATEXT‘ 10.07—08.08.2026 
OPENING: JUL 10, 4 PM

We are pleased to announce the upcoming group show ‘PARATEXT‘ by Heinrich Dunst, Sophia Eisenhut, and Simon Lehner at KOW.

Excitement is real!

24/06/2026

LAST WEEK OF: CANDICE BREITZ
‘Hot Potato’
until 27.06.2026

ANAGRAMS, 2026

Politicians from across the ideological spectrum have participated in increasingly desperate efforts to control the public narrative. Staatsräson – the vaguely defined
and highly contentious doctrine that is routinely invoked to delegitimise political dissent – has been zealously weaponised against artists, musicians, philosophers, poets, writers and students.

In observance of current trends, Breitz has distilled a new shade of brown for use in the exhibition. All anagrams contain the same basic ingredients: BundesSans (the official typeface of the German federal government) and Staatsräsonbraun (a colour mixed in equal parts from black, red and gold).

Swing by the gallery, WED–SAT, 12–6 PM, for the final days of Candice Breitz's solo exhibition, and explore the artist's views on the inextricable entanglement of the aesthetic and the political.

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Images:
1, 6) Candice Breitz, Anagrams, 2026, exhibition views at KOW 2026, courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin. Photos: Ladislav Zajac.

2) Candice Breitz, Anagrams Never Again [3 variations in Staatsräsonbraun] (Naive Anger), 2026, exhibition view at KOW 2026, courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin. Photo: Ladislav Zajac.

3) Candice Breitz, Anagrams Staatsraeson [6 variations in Staatsräsonbraun], 2026, exhibition view at KOW 2026, courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin. Photo: Ladislav Zajac.

4) Candice Breitz, Anagrams Kunstfreiheit [3 variations in Staatsräsonbraun], 2026, exhibition view at KOW 2026, courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin. Photo: Ladislav Zajac.

5) Candice Breitz, Anagrams Kunstfreiheit [3 variations in Staatsräsonbraun] (U Think Its Free), 2026, exhibition view at KOW 2026, courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin. Photo: Ladislav Zajac.

18/06/2026

FINAL DAYS OF: CANDICE BREITZ ‘Hot Potato’
until 27.06.2026

Join us for the last days of Candice Breitz’s solo exhibition Hot Potato at the gallery. As calls to untether art from politics proliferate in Germany and beyond, Hot Potato traces the historically fraught relationship between artists and the authorities that preside over them – by means of a series of appropriative homages.

Private Dancer, 2026
Video
1:14:30 min

In her newest video work ‘Private Dancer’, the artist de-hibernates a legendary durational performance by the artist Mark Wallinger. In re-performing Wallinger’s intervention more than two decades later, Breitz wistfully invokes a Berlin that no longer exists – a city in which an artist, costumed as a bear, was able to freely haunt the iconic architecture of Berlin’s most representative public art institution during nocturnal hours over ten successive nights. Breitz displaces Wallinger’s performance from the Neue Nationalgalerie to the private premises of a relatively modest gallery storefront, where the time-worn bear – now dancing for its keep – will prance and swagger to an inaudible soundtrack during the gallery’s predetermined working hours. Do not feed the bear.

PUBLIC PROGRAMME:

SATURDAY, JUN 20 at 4 PM
‘LENDING VOICES’
Candice Breitz in dialogue with Bani Abidi

Swing by the gallery this Saturday, JUN 20 at 4 PM, to immerse collectively in Candice Breitz’s show.

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Images:

Candice Breitz, Private Dancer, 2026, video stills, courtesy of the artist and KOW, Berlin.

14/06/2026

OPENING TODAY: MARIO PFEIFER at
A Thousand Times Berlin — The Collection Hamburger Bahnhof
12.06.2026 until further notice

For its 30th anniversary, Hamburger Bahnhof presents its new iteration of the collection in the west wing, focusing on Berlin’s art scene in global dialogue from 1989 to today. Over 70 works by more than 50 artists, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, and video installations, reflect Berlin’s myth of hedonism and subculture in an international context.

PUBLIC PROGRAMME:

JUN 14 at 2 PMpfeifer
OPEN HOUSE. TAGE DER OFFENEN TÜR AT HAMBURGER BAHNHOF
Artist Talk with Charlotte Knaup (Curator Hamburger Bahnhof)

On Sunday, June 14th, the artist Mario Pfeifer and curator Charlotte Knaup will be exchanging about his work 'Again / Noch Einmal' as part of the exhibition 'A Thousand Times Berlin' at the Hamburger Bahnhof’s 30 year ceremony.

The talk will be held in German. Admission is free.

Join us for Mario Pfeifer's open talk this Sunday, June 14th, at the Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.

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Images:

Mario Pfeifer, 'Again / Noch Einmal', installation views at the 10th Berlin Biennale 'We don’t need another Hero' – Akademie der Künste, curated by Gabi Ngcobo with Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Yvette Mutumba, 2018. © Timo Ohler

10/06/2026

OPENING TODAY: ANNA EHRENSTEIN & HIWA K at KYIV BIENNIAL — A Bird That Cannot Land
11.06–13.09.2026

The Kyiv Biennial is a nomadic, international project that interweaves artistic, political, and social issues. A Bird That Cannot Land, its chapter at KW, takes shape as an extensive live and discursive program and a large-scale exhibition spanning the entire building, contributing to the biennial’s reflections through contemporary art, sound, and exchange.

PUBLIC PROGRAMME:

FRIDAY, JUN 12 at 7 PM

FROM HERE TO THERE: PRACTICE, DISTANCE AND SELF-POSITIONING
Talk with Julia Ciamafiejeva and Farahnaz Sharifi
Moderated by Azar Mahmoudian

The panel brings together artists and authors to reflect on personal experiences of resettlement and the continuation of artistic practice across changing contexts. Rather than approaching the topic abstractly, the discussion centres on lived experience: how relocation is perceived, processed, and translated into creative work.

SUNDAY, JUN 14 at 6 PM

THE CLOUD IS STILL BALKANIZED
Performance with Yara Mekawei

During the Kyiv Biennial, Anna Ehrenstein will host a hybrid lecture-performance combining video, sound, and hypnotic techniques with Yara Mekawei. Building on The 'Balkanization of the Cloud' (2022), one of Ehrenstein’s earlier works, the performance reflects on how nation-state logics continue to reassert themselves within supposedly borderless digital infrastructures.

KW Curatorial Team:
Sofie Krogh Christensen (Curator)
Linda Franken (Assistant Curator)
Radia Soukni (Exhibition Assistant)

If you are in Berlin, join us for the public events at KW Institute for Contemporary Art with Hiwa K and Anna Ehrenstein.
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Images:
1) Lesia Vasylchenko, Night Without Shadows and Light Without Rippling of Waves, 2025, courtesy the artist and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

2) Hiwa K, Julia Ciamafiejeva & Farahnaz Sharifi, courtesy the artists and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

3) Ehrenstein, Katragjini & Mizarahi, 2022, Nationstate As Instagram Influencer, video still, courtesy the artists and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and KOW, Berlin.

03/06/2026

CURRENTLY ON VIEW: ANNA BOGHIGUIAN 'Weaving Culture' at
Solo show
until 15.08.2026

Curated by Nairi Khatchadourian

Over the course of half a century, Anna Boghiguian has traveled across the four continents, weaving connections between microhistories and the ways in which material cultures are informed by constantly shifting human geographies, while
always drawing on mythologies that inhabit our imaginaries.

After her one-month residency with AHA collective, during which she visited carpet workshops, met with displaced women weavers from Nagorno-Karabagh, and traveled through southern Armenia to the border city of Meghri, a paper to carpet
translation process was initiated. Over the course of nine months, the displaced weavers, together with local dyers, translated 37 drawings created during the diasporic artist’s residency into a rich textile language, using local wool and more
than two hundred dyes. Bringing together displaced women weavers, including those formerly part of the renowned Artsakh Carpet workshop, the project has supported them in re-establishing their practice in Yerevan and in workshops across
nearby villages.

“It is a great opportunity to read what the weavers share about their lives and their experiences, their reactions to my work, and their experiences while weaving,
especially in terms of color”— Anna Boghuiguian.

When in Yerevan, swing by the National Gallery of Armenia to immerse yourself in Anna Boghiguian's threads. And stay tuned for the upcoming Artist Talk by Anna Boghiguian in July.

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Images:

1,2,4,5,6) “Weaving culture. Anna Boghiguian” exhibition view, courtesy of the artist, AHA collective, and KOW, Berlin. Photo: Sevak Thomasians / AHA collective.

3) Anna Boghiguian, 'Trees Have a Memory', carpet cartoon designed by Artsakh Carpet, courtesy of the artist, AHA collective, and KOW, Berlin.

7) Anna Boghiguian and Nairi Khatchadourian along the Araks River Meghri, Armenia, July 2025, courtesy of the artist, AHA collective, and KOW, Berlin. Photo: Sevak Thomasians.

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