Exhibitions, Concert

Long Night of Museums at Gropius Bau

Shot from the atrium of Gropius Bau with many people.

Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: Persistence of Vision, exhibition opening, Gropius Bau, 2026 © Gropius Bau, photo: Luca Girardini

Once a year, Gropius Bau opens its doors from 18:00 to 2:00 during the Long Night of Museums and invites visitors to explore the current exhibitions.

Tickets are available exclusively via Long Night of Museums Berlin.

As part of the Long Night of Museums, Gropius Bau presents Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition and Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen. There will also be a one-time performance by the artist group Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt as part of Gabriele Stötzer’s exhibition.

Current Exhibitions

A person perceived as female, wearing a black headscarf, is standing outdoors and is massaging her naked breasts.

Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition

15 April to 30 August 2026

Marina Abramović, one of the most influential contemporary artists, presents Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition at Gropius Bau, marking her first major solo show in Berlin since the 1990s. The exhibition brings together historical and new works by the performance artist, tracing her ongoing engagement with ritual, eroticism, death and the body as a site of political resistance.

A black‑and‑white profile portrait of a person with the head slightly tilted upward. Wide, dark paint stripes run diagonally across the face and down the neck, crossing the forehead, eye area, and cheek.

Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen

19 June to 6 December 2026

For more than five decades, Gabriele Stötzer has been grappling with questions of justice, gender and self-determination. Her own body often plays a central role in her work – not as an object, but as a site of resistance and feminist self-assertion. Opening at Gropius Bau in June 2026, Dabei sein und nicht schweigen (Showing up and Not Remaining Silent) will be the artist’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date.

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