Kunstverein Tiergarten Gallery in Berlin

Tiergarten · Contemporary programme

Editorial Profile

Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord operates as a municipally supported exhibition space within Berlin’s Tiergarten district, positioning itself between a kunstverein model and a publicly funded project space. Its program is oriented toward contemporary artistic research, with a particular emphasis on emerging and mid-career practitioners working across installation, video, performance, and conceptual practices. Rather than maintaining a fixed aesthetic direction, the curatorial approach tends to privilege thematic and process-based projects, often unfolding through extended exhibition formats, discursive events, and collaborations. Within the broader landscape of contemporary art in Berlin, the space contributes to a network of non-commercial venues that sustain experimentation and critical inquiry beyond market-driven frameworks.

The exhibition program frequently reflects an engagement with socio-political questions and spatial conditions, aligning with Berlin’s tradition of research-oriented and context-sensitive artistic production. Projects are often developed in dialogue with artists over time, resulting in site-responsive works that extend beyond conventional exhibition formats. In relation to other galleries in Berlin, the venue occupies a distinct position, functioning less as a commercial platform and more as part of a hybrid infrastructure that overlaps with institutions in Berlin, where public funding enables risk-taking and interdisciplinary exchange. This positioning allows it to operate both locally and within broader networks of kunstvereine and cultural institutions, facilitating collaborations and exchanges that situate its program within a wider European context while remaining closely tied to Berlin’s decentralized and production-oriented art scene.

Selected Artists

Sam Auinger

Austrian

Sound ArtSite-SpecificResearch-Based
About

A sound artist and composer whose practice investigates urban listening, acoustic perception, and public space through site-responsive projects that transform everyday environments into shared auditory experiences.

Ingo Gerken

German

SculptureInstallationConceptual Art
About

An artist known for sculptural and object-based interventions that enter books, display contexts, and exhibition spaces, questioning how artworks circulate through images, catalogues, and institutional framing.

Julia Lübbecke

German

InstallationPhotographyVideo Art
About

A visual artist whose transdisciplinary installations use sculpture, photography, video, text, and performative elements to examine archives, feminist histories, institutional orders, and fragile forms of memory.

Angela Glajcar

German

SculptureInstallation
About

A sculptor recognized for suspended paper and fiberglass works that create fragile spatial structures, using tearing, layering, light, and emptiness to reshape how viewers experience volume and space.

Ruth Campau

Danish

PaintingInstallationSite-Specific
About

An artist working in expanded painting, often using translucent surfaces, colour, and architectural scale to create immersive installations where brushwork, light, and surrounding space remain closely interdependent.

Schirin Kretschmann

German

PaintingInstallationPerformance
About

An artist whose practice connects painting with installation and process-based action, transforming sites through minimal material gestures that foreground perception, temporality, movement, and the instability of surfaces.

Astrid Busch

German

PhotographyInstallationVideo Art
About

An artist working across photography, installation, objects, and moving image, translating architectural impressions and found visual material into spatial image arrangements shaped by light and perception.

Rona Lee

British

Video ArtSculpturePerformance
About

An expanded-practice artist using video, sculpture, photography, performance, and research to explore marine environments, feminist theory, subjectivity, and the limits of scientific and sensory knowledge.

Selected Exhibitions

Critical Friends

Group show2026

Sam Auinger, Ingo Gerken, Julia Lübbecke, Katharina Reich

About

A group exhibition of sound works, sculpture and installations exploring collecting as artistic practice, with projects that question archives, value systems, public listening and how knowledge is preserved or shared.

InstallationSculptureSound Art

MAP 2025 – Arrival?

Group show2025

A Sông Kollektiv, ba-bau AIR Kollektiv, Kayle Brandon, Felix Dreesen, Quang Vinh Giang, Yuhei Higashikata, Jeroen Jacobs, Đình Bảo Châu Ngô, Vũ Hải Nguyễn, Alexander Noah, Benjamin Sunarjo, Lem TragNguyen, Florian Witt

About

A collaborative project linking Bremen, Hanoi and Berlin, focused on mobility, migration, language and exchange through performances, sound works, participatory actions, videos and in-situ sculptures developed across several years.

Curated Group ShowPerformanceVideo Art

THE LINE BETWEEN US – Elf Positionen queerer Fotografie

Group show2025

Sitara Ambrosio, Nora Bibel, Lucas Bihler, Marcus Höhn, DeLovie Kwagala, Jo Langenhoff, Mit Euren Spuren, Jeannette Petri, Minh Duc Pham, Lotte Reimann, Vincent Wechselberger

About

An eleven-artist photography exhibition examining queer self-representation, visibility, resistance and social vulnerability through portraits, documentary projects, self-portrayals and installations made from within LGBTQIA* perspectives.

PhotographyInstallationCurated Group Show

Gravity’s Rainbow

Group show2025

Gabriele Basch, Antje Blumenstein, Astrid Busch, Ruth Campau, Anja Gerecke, Franziska Hünig, Ellen Hyllemose, Schirin Kretschmann, Sophia Schama, Nicola Staeglich, Klaus-Martin Treder, Torgny Wilcke

About

A twelve-artist exhibition on expanded painting, moving from panels and wall objects to colorful sculpture and site-specific installations that test surface, materiality, support and the gallery’s social context.

PaintingSculptureSite-Specific

Can you help me?

Solo show2024

Veronika Radulovic

About

Veronika Radulovic’s Berlin solo exhibition brought together works connected to her long engagement with Vietnam, lacquer techniques, colonial histories and intercultural dialogue across drawing, photography, writing and conceptual practice.

DrawingPhotographyConceptual Art

every now and again

Group show2024

Sophie Innmann, Rafael Ibarra, Simone Zaugg, Pätzug/Hertweck, Pfelder, Ricoh Gerbl

About

A guest-curated group exhibition on time and temporality, bringing together performances, sculptural movement, spatial interventions, mechanical installations, road-movie imagery and poetic text works around cycles and punctual events.

Curated Group ShowPerformanceInstallation

approaching world

Group show2024

Birgit Cauer, Nathalia Favaro, Kati Gausmann, Juliane Laitzsch, Muriel Valat-B

About

A group exhibition exploring field research, long-term observation, deceleration and repetition through drawing, performance, geological inquiry, textile objects and video, framed around time as natural phenomenon and cultural practice.

Research-BasedDrawingVideo Art

v01ces – The Human Voice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Group show2023

aLifveForms (fed & cared for by JP Raether), Erik Bünger, Sean Dockray, Kyriaki Goni, Libby Heaney, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern), Jesse McLean, Pedro Oliveira

About

A curated VOICE:over exhibition investigating the human voice under artificial intelligence, voice cloning and machine listening, using audio installation, video, documents and drawing to address embodiment, surveillance and posthuman speech.

Sound ArtVideo ArtInstallation

Gallery Overview

Kunstverein Tiergarten
City
Berlin
Area
Tiergarten
Address
Turmstraße 75, 10551 Berlin, Germany
Type
Gallery
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