Map of TOP25 Photo Galleries in Berlin the Best Photo Galleries in the Capital
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Map of TOP25 photo galleries in Berlin The best photo galleries in the capital Bornholmer Str. Schönhauser Allee Prenzlauer Allee Beusselstr. Westhafen Wedding Gesundbrunnen 25 U7 Weißer See Junfern- heide Eberswalder Str. 15 Bernauer Str. Schwartzkopffstr. 22 13 Nordbahnhof 16 23 Senefelderplatz Oranien- 24 Naturkundemuseum 17 Rosenthaler burger Str. Platz Rosa-Luxem- 18 19 21 burg-Platz Weinmeisterstr. Oranienburger Tor 20 14 Hackescher Markt Landsberger Westend Alexander- Allee 12 S46 Bellevue platz Hauptbahn- Fried- Schillingstr. Bundestag U5 hof richstr. Strausberger Platz Sophie- Weberwiese Charlotte-Platz Branden- Bismarckstr. Tiergarten burger Tor Jannowitzbrücke Frankfurter Tor Messe Nord / ICC Ernst-Reuter- Hansaplatz Samariter Str. Märkisches Museum Magdalenenstr. Potsdamer Platz 9 11 Platz 4 Ostbahnhof Stadtmitte 10 Frankfurter Allee Westkreuz Savignyplatz 2 Mendelson7 Heinrich-Heine-Str. 3 Warschauer Zoologischer Garten -Bartholdy-Park 1 Anhalter Bahnhof U12 Str. Ostkreuz S5 U1 8 Moritzplatz S7 Wittenbergplatz Kurfürstenstr. S75 Uhlandstr. Schlesisches Tor U1 5 Kurfürsten- Gleisdreieck Hallesches Tor Kottbusser Tor Görlitzer damm U2 Park Nollendorf- 6 platz U3 U4 Mehringdamm Hermannplatz Treptower Park Gneisenaustr. Kleistpark Platz der Luftbrücke S8 S41 S9 S42 Eisenacher Str. Rathaus Julius- Schöneberg Sonnenallee Leber-Brücke Bundesplatz Südkreuz Tempelhof Neukölln U9 Innsbruckerplatz Schöneberg S2 S25 U6 Hermannstr. U8 S1 The top photography locations in the city 1 1. Camera Work Gallery Kantstraße 149, 10623 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S Savignyplatz / U Uhlandstraße Opening hours: TUE – SAT 11am – 6pm Entrance price: free Info: Camera Work was founded in 1997 and now is one of the world’s leading photo galleries. The gallery exhibits the works of both well-known and young, contemporary artists. © leinwandfoto.de – Berlin 1 / 10 2 2. Galerie Springer Berlin Gallery Fasanenstr. 13, 10623 Berlin S/U-Bahn: U Uhlandstraße Opening hours: TUE – FRI 12pm – 6pm, SAT 12pm – 3pm Entrance price: free Info: The gallery’s programme includes a group of international artists. In the past years, the gallery has focused on art photography. In addition to 4-6 exhibitions annually in Berlin, the gallery supplements its activities by curating private and public collections. 3 3. C/O Berlin Foundation Museum Hardenbergstr. 22-24, 10623 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S+U Zoologischer Garten Opening hours: exhibition 11am – 8pm, café 10am – 8pm Entrance price: 10 Euro, 6 Euro discounted Info: C/O Berlin is an exhibition house for photography and visual media. C/O Berlin presents internationally renowned artists, promotes young talent and organises a training programme for children and young people. 4 4. Museum für Fotografie & Helmut Newton Stiftung Museum Jebensstr. 2, 10623 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S+U Zoologischer Garten Opening hours: TUE – SUN 11am – 7pm, THU 11am – 8pm Entrance price: 10 Euro adults, 5 Euro discounted Info: The Museum für Fotografie opened in 2004 and has drawn more than a million visitors to its exhibitions since then. It presents the photography collection of the Kunstbibliothek and works of the Helmut Newton Foundati- on. From 1 Jun 2016, a €2 reduction in the entry fee (€1 for discounted tickets) is available for those holding valid entrance tickets for C/O Berlin. © leinwandfoto.de – Berlin 2 / 10 Johanna Breede 5 PHOTOKUNST 5. Johanna Breede Photokunst Gallery Fasanenstr. 69, 10623 Berlin S/U-Bahn: U Uhlandstraße Opening hours: TUE – FRI 11am – 6pm, SAT 11am – 4pm Entrance price: free Info: For eight years, she managed the photography department of the Villa Grisebach Auctions and has been exhi- biting since 2009 in her own minimalistic rooms in Fasanenstrasse 69. The portfolio is characterised by classic but also contemporary photography by established artists such as Stefan Moses, Robert Lebeck and Ulrike Ottinger. 6 6. Sammlung Fotografie Art library Matthäikirchplatz 6, 10785 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S+U Potsdamer Platz Opening hours: exhibition TUE – FRI 10am – 6pm, SAT & SUN 11am – 6pm Entrance price: free Info: The Kunstbibliothek of the national museums in Berlin is one of the world’s largest museum libraries. The photography collection unites around 42,000 exposures. Parts of the collection are also exhibited in the Museum für Fotografie. The “Art Photography Collection” was formed on the basis of the purchase of the collections of Fritz- Matthies Masuren and Ernst Juhl. 7 7. Kehrer Galerie Gallery Potsdamer Straße 100, 10785 Berlin S/U-Bahn: U Kurfürstenstraße Opening hours: WED – SAT 12pm – 7pm Entrance price: free Info: The Kehrer Gallery represents German and international photographers who are of great importance for photography today as well as for the history of the medium. The Kehrer Gallery inventory thus represents all pho- tographic genres and also includes the aspect of “photography about photography”. © leinwandfoto.de – Berlin 3 / 10 8 8. Neue Galerie Berlin Gallery Ludwigkirchstraße 11, 10719 Berlin S/U-Bahn: U Spichernstraße Opening hours: MON – FRI 10am – 6pm, SAT 10am – 1pm Entrance price: free Info: The NEUE GALERIE BERLIN was founded in 2015 by Tanja Unger. The rooms are at once a gallery for pho- tography and an event platform for readings and discussions. One particular focus of the gallery is “the political image” as well as photo journalism. 9 9. Silber & Salz Gallery Holzmarktstraße 19 – 23, 10243 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S+U Jannowitzbrücke Opening hours: FRI & SAT 1pm – 5pm or by arrangement with curator Chris Schmidt at +491716998792, and following instructions at www.silberundsalz.de Entrance price: free Info: Silber & Salz is a new Berlin photo gallery in the trendy Friedrichshain district. The photo gallery has been at home in a scrapped overseas shipping container on the Holzmarkt grounds since 2015. The grounds on the Spree have been developed as a space for urban creativity – art and culture are integral components of the concept. 10 10. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain Gallery Helsingforser Platz 1, 10243 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S+U Warschauer Straße Opening hours: TUE – SAT 2pm – 6pm, THU 10am – 8pm Entrance price: free Info: The Fotogalerie Friedrichshain in Helsingforser Platz is the oldest communal photo gallery in Berlin. When it was founded in 1985, it was the first gallery in the GDR to be dedicated solely to the medium of photography. 30 years after it opened, the focus is still on socially documentary and committed photography. © leinwandfoto.de – Berlin 4 / 10 11 11. Die Aktgalerie Gallery Krossenerstr. 34, 10245 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S+U Frankfurter Allee / U Samariterstraße Opening hours: FRI – SUN 3pm – 7pm Entrance price: free Info: The Aktgalerie is managed by the Arbeitskreis für künstlerische Aktfotografie e.V. (working group for artistic nude photography). The working group is a non-profit, registered association whose goal it is to promote and maintain visual art in the form of artistic nude photography. 12 12. aff galerie Gallery Kochhannstr. 14, 10249 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S Landsberger Allee Opening hours: SAT & SUN 3pm – 6pm Entrance price: free Info: The aff Gallery in Berlin is a non-commercial gallery for photography, operated by a collective of photogra- phers. It sees itself as a platform for contemporary photography, on which emergent artists are presented on a regular basis. 13 13. Chausee 36 Gallery Chausseestrasse 36, 10115 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S Nordbahnhof / U Naturkundemuseum Opening hours: WED – SAT 2pm – 7pm Entrance privce: n/a Info: CHAUSSEE 36 is a platform for creative exchange and collaboration. The focus is on the analysis of photogra- phy as a preferred medium for documentation as well as a starting point for the guiding principle that the past, present and future all stand together in a mutual, inseparable relationship. © leinwandfoto.de – Berlin 5 / 10 14 14. argus fotokunst Gallery Marienstr. 26, 10117 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S+U Friedrichstraße Opening hours: WED – SAT 2pm – 6pm Entrance price: free Info: argus fotokunst was founded in 1996 in Berlin by the documentary film-maker Norbert Bunge. He has made it his goal to present the classic photography of the 20th century. His preference, deliberately distancing itself from digital photography, is story-telling, documentary monochrome photography. 15 15. Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer Museum visitors centre, Bernauer Straße 119, 13355 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S Nordbahnhof / U Bernauerstraße Opening hours: TUE – SUN 10am – 6pm Entrance price: free Info: The Berlin Wall memorial stretches along both sides of Bernauer Straße. On the border strip which was originally in East Berlin, you will find the open-air exhibition on the history of the partition. The visitor centre and documentation centre are located on the opposite side of the street. 16 16. Robert Morat Galerie Gallery Linienstraße 107, 10115 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S Oranienburger Str. / U Oranienburger Tor Opening hours: TUE – SAT 12pm – 6pm Entrance price: n/a Info: The ROBERT MORAT | GALERIE deals with contemporary photography and photography from the 20th cen- tury, and presents temporary exhibitions of German and international photographers from its inventory in both locations, in Berlin and Hamburg. © leinwandfoto.de – Berlin 6 / 10 17 17. galerie hiltawsky Gallery Tucholskystraße 41, 10117 Berlin S/U-Bahn: S Oranienburger Straße Opening hours: TUE – SAT 2pm – 7pm Entrance price: free Info: The galerie hiltawsky in Berlin-Mitte presents contemporary and classic photography of the 20th century by German and international artists. The gallery, which was founded in 2009 by Christian Hiltawsky,