Nika Kutateladze: Acacia Bloom
Nika Kutateladze spent five years living alongside the holdouts and largely abandoned houses of a mountain village. Working on board, Kutateladze builds up layers of oil and then works them away.
What to see in Berlin galleries this week
Gallop's picks for Berlin galleries, October 30–November 5, 2026: 4 shows worth the trip, plus 4 openings and 4 last chances, each with a note from Gallop's editors.
Our picks
Olaf Metzel: Mondrian Ambiente
Metzel takes on modern architecture and design, invoking Piet Mondrian, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret, Oscar Niemeyer and Carlo Scarpa. In his sculptures he twists, warps and crushes these subjects, breaking their straight lines and distorting their clean, symmetrical structures.
Zigsen Liu: Left and Yet to Come
In these paintings, Liu treats his medium as a response to image generation, down to the imprint of his gesture in each brushstroke. Halo (2026) can be turned upside down, which brings another image into view.
Andreas Eriksson: Horizontal Fold
Recent painting, photography, weaving and sculpture by Eriksson share the rooms with more than two decades of his publications. Bronze casts from his ongoing series Content is a Glimpse preserve birds found dead after colliding with his studio windows.
Opening this week
Johannes Raimann: Oje Oje
Raimann’s photographic works engage with information technologies and the systems that shape and reflect societal and political structures. The exhibition ranges from ancient tablets and archaeological ruins to digital archives and contemporary storage systems.
Beyond the Future
Students from Birgit Brenner's course at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart contribute works made in response to the Art’Us collections, under a concept developed with Art’Us. The artists listed include Kader Attia, David Ivo Ehimare, Hans Op de Beeck and Frank Thiel.
Tu Hongtao: Stone Standing in the Wind
Made after Tu moved from Chengdu to Hong Kong, these abstract paintings respond to the city's vertical density and visual saturation. The gallery says they treat landscape as feeling and memory rather than a specific place, layering impressions that disrupt linear space.
Anne Griffiths: The Bliss of Rain
Fourteen paintings by Griffiths depict rain as experienced in the landscape and the body. Almost every composition is built around a waterline, with forest above and its reflection below.
Last chance
Carrie Mae Weems
Photographs in Weems’s Seaside series depict the artist from behind, facing the ocean’s horizon on a single beach. In one image sequence, she sits at an easel while pages from her sketchbook are caught by gusts of wind.
Sabine Moritz: Rot Gelb Blau Staub
Twelve large-format canvases, arranged in groups of three, join a quadraphonic oil painting, a smaller still life, and early works on paper. The twelve equally sized canvases are loosely inspired by fire, air, earth, and water.
September
A group exhibition gathers works by six gallery artists that loosely address transformation. Hartmann’s Temporary Bliss is a large landscape meticulously hand-painted from bed sheets.
Stef Heidhues: Hook, Line and Sinker
Sculptures here start from everyday objects such as safety goggles, saddles and advertising signs, scanned and remade by hand in other materials. In the Placeholder series, aluminum casts of Styrofoam packaging become frames, with security stickers as imagery.
Everything else on view: every gallery show in Berlin.
Questions
What gallery shows should I see in Berlin this week?
Gallop's picks for the week of October 30: Nika Kutateladze at Molitor (Tiergarten); Olaf Metzel at Wentrup (Charlottenburg); Zigsen Liu at Future Gallery (Tiergarten); Andreas Eriksson at Barbara Wien. Each comes with a short note on what's in the show.
Which Berlin gallery shows open this week?
Opening the week of October 30: Johannes Raimann at Klemm's (Mitte); Beyond the Future at Eigen + Art Lab (Mitte); Tu Hongtao at Société (Charlottenburg); Anne Griffiths at Kristin Hjellegjerde (Tiergarten).
Which Berlin gallery shows close this week?
Last chance the week of October 30: Carrie Mae Weems at Barbara Thumm, until Saturday Oct 31; Sabine Moritz at Max Hetzler, until Saturday Oct 31; September at Gnyp, until Saturday Oct 31; Stef Heidhues at Eigen + Art, until Saturday Oct 31.
How does Gallop choose its weekly picks?
Gallop's editors go through every show on view in Berlin each week and pick a handful worth the trip, with a note on each. The same picks go out in Gallop's weekly email every Thursday, and every show is on the Gallop map with the gallery's address and hours.
Gallop's picks for Berlin, every Thursday.
