From Thursday to Sunday, 47 galleries all over Berlin are opening their doors to collectors, buyers and contemporary art lovers.

HERE ARE 10 IDEAS WHERE TO GO:

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Status Quo Vadis?
Panel discussion on cultural practices beyond “the global arts quota”
Thursday, April 27th, 6-8pm,
at ACUD MACHT NEU, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119

In the context of their year long exhibition program « Untie to Tie – On Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies« , the ifa-Galerie Berlin invites to a panel discussion. Cultural producers from different disciplines such as visual arts, music, sociology, and arts management discuss their ideas and approaches regarding the issue of the so- called “global” in their respective fields.
With: Lamin Fofana (artist/producer), Imara Limon (curator), Rolando Vasquez (sociologist), Bahareh Sharafi (curator/program manager for diversity in arts and culture) and others.

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Everything is Getting Better. Unknown Knowns of Polish (Post) Colonialism
Opening: April 27th, 7pm  / Symposium: April 28th 3-7.30 pm
at SAVVY Contemporary, Plantagenstraße 31, 13347

The exhibition Everything is Getting Better, curated by Joanna Warsza, features several artists dealing with the history of Poland being constantly torn between the East and the West. This exhibition and the accompanying symposium propose to reverse the trope of permanent Polish exceptionalism and victimhood by casting a light on how colonial and postcolonial forces have navigated the territories of Eastern-Europe.

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Contemporary And (C&) / Sternberg Press Book Launch Party
Thursday, April 27th, 9pm – late ,
at ACUD MACHT NEU, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119

ContemporaryAnd (C&), a magazine focusing on international art from African perspectives, is celebrating the launch of its first book. Published by Sternberg Press, “I AM BUILT INSIDE YOU,” is a collection of outstanding texts from the magazine’s previous (online) issues.
Music by DJ Nico Adomako.

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Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama
Opening: Friday April 28th, 6–9 pm ,
at WNTRP, Potsdamer Strasse 91

Zanele Muholi sees her artistic practice as “visual activism”, thereby ascribing to her images explicit and causal power to effect change. On occasion of the Gallery Weekend 2017 WNTRP now shows Muholi’s current series Somnyama Ngonyama (Zulu for: hail the black lioness), in which she stages herself in multiple identities for the camera. After stops in the Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town and the Luma Foundation in Arles, these works can be seen for the first time in Germany.

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Kapwani Kiwanga: Linear
Opening: Friday April 28th, 6-9 pm / Artist Talk: Sunday April 30, 12 am
at Galerie Tanja Wagner, Pohlstraße 64

This exhibition Linear is part of a series, following Kiwanga’s solo shows at the Logan Center, Chicago and The Power Plant, Toronto earlier this year. The works reflect the artist’s research into disciplinary architecture, including schools, prisons, hospitals, and mental health facilities.
On Sunday April 30, 12 am there will be an Artist talk with Kapwani Kiwanga and Denise Ryner, an independent curator based in Vancouver and Berlin. She is curently a visiting curatorial researcher in the Visual Arts and Film Department at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

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Candice Breitz: Love Story
Opening Friday 28th , 6–10pm,
at KOW, Brunnenstraße 9, 10119

For the exhibition “Love Story”, Breitz interviewed six people who have gone through extreme suffering within their homelands and then fled to a safer place with the hope of a better future. But instead of having them perform their stories, it is the actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore doing that for them. This produces a stark contrast between the privileged and despairing, the real misery being told through well-known performers.

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The End of the Citicality –
Kerry James Marshall in Conversation with Chris Dercon
Saturday, 29th, 4.30pm,
at Villa Grisebach, Fasanenstraße 25, 10719

American artist Kerry James Marshall in conversation with Chris Dercon, former director of the Tate Modern in London and soon-to-be director of the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin. An event by Grisebach in collaboration with the American Academy Berlin for this year’s Max Beckmann scholarship holder Kerry James Marshall. Registration by email until 25 April 2017 to anna.ballestrem@grisebach.com

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Book-Launch: »Black Dada Readers« from Adam Pendleton
Sunday, April 30th, 4pm
at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin

KW is hosting the book launch of the Black Dada Reader with a reading by Adam Pendleton during Gallery Weekend. The Black Dada Reader is a collection of texts and documents that elucidates “Black Dada,” a term the artist Adam Pendleton uses to define his artistic output.
Pendleton’s solo exhibition, “shot him in the face”, is also still on display until May 14th.

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Kemang Wa Lehulere: Bird Song
currently on view, open Monday – Friday, 10am – 8pm
at Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Unter Den Linden 13-15, 10117 Berlin

Kemang Wa Lehulere, born in Cape Town, is Deutsche Bank’s new “Artist of the Year”. His work, which now includes installations in addition to painting, theatre, performance, and actions, focuses on the repressed history of his home country South Africa. The exhibition at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle his first institutional solo exhibition in Germany.

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Up and Down. Today´s Avant-Garde as Tomorrow´s  Salon Arte
currently on view, open from Wednesday – Sunday, noon – 6 pm
at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art  , Am Sudhaus  3

Up and Down presents artists whose work plays with the boundaries of subculture, high culture, and mainstream. They question the mechanisms on which these attributions are based and explore how they are negotiated.

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