Map of TOP25 Photo Galleries in Berlin the Best Photo Galleries in the Capital

Map of TOP25 photo galleries in Berlin The best photo galleries in the capital

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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. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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 photographic genres and also includes the aspect of “photography about photography”.

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 photography and an event platform for readings and discussions. One particular focus of the gallery is “the political image” as well as photo journalism.

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. 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.

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. 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 photographers. It sees itself as a platform for contemporary photography, on which emergent artists are presented on a regular basis.

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 photography 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.

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. 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. 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 century, and presents temporary exhibitions of German and international photographers from its inventory in both locations, in Berlin and Hamburg.

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, offers both renowned and young photographers a platform for temporary exhibitions.

18. CWC Gallery Gallery Auguststraße 11–13, 10117 Berlin

S/U-Bahn: S Oranienburger Straße

Opening hours: TUE – FRI 10am – 6pm, SAT 11am – 6pm

Entrance price: free

Info: The CWC Gallery opened in 2012 in the former Jewish girls’ school in Berlin by the architect Alexander Beer. It thus combines external late-Expressionist architectural elements of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement and, internally, contemporary positions from photography, painting and sculpture.

19. Kicken Berlin Gallery Linienstraße 161a, 10115 Berlin

S/U-Bahn: S Oranienburger Str. / U Rosenthaler Platz

Opening hours: TUE – FRI 2pm – 6pm

Entrance price: n/a

Info: For 40 years, the Galerie Kicken has been setting standards in the innovative dissemination of the medium of photography. One of the strengths of the gallery is its diversity. Just about all the big names in art photography from the 19th century right up to the present are represented in the programme. The focus lies in the 20th century.

20. Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung Foundation Auguststr. 75, 10117 Berlin

S/U-Bahn: S Oranienburger Straße

Opening hours: TUE – SUN 11am – 6pm, THU 11am – 9pm

Entrance price: free

Info: The foundation is dedicated to the scientific investigation of works by Alfred Ehrhardt: as a photographer and cultural filmmaker, an outstanding representative of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement. In addition to its archiving activities, the foundation exhibits contemporary and historical photography which deals with the theme of “nature” and the “construction of the natural”.

21. Galerie für Moderne Fotografie Gallery Schröderstrasse 13, 10115 Berlin

S/U-Bahn: S Nordbahnhof

Opening hours: THU – SAT 12pm – 6pm

Entrance price: free

Info: The focus of the gallery programme is on the medium of photography and concentrates on the presentation of internationally-established artists and the discovery of young photographic work. Since disseminating the diversity of current, contemporary photography in the gallery’s programme plays a great role, the focus is always also on the conceptual position of photography today in addition to fashion photography.

22. imago fotokunst School Veteranenstraße 20, 10119 Berlin

S/U-Bahn: U Rosenthaler Platz

Opening hours: TUE – FRI 2pm – 7pm

Entrance price: free

Info: imago fotokunst, founded in 1997 by Manuela Schäwe and Mathias Richter, has established itself in the Berlin photography scene as a multifaceted meeting place for students, teachers, photographers and gallery visitors. The gallery displays temporary author exhibitions and presents final project works by graduates of the imago yearly and development courses. .

23. pavlov‘s dog Gallery Bergstrasse 19, 10115 Berlin

S/U-Bahn: U Rosenthaler Platz / S Nordbahnhof

Opening hours: THU – SAT 4pm – 8pm

Entrance price: free

Info: pavlov’s dog is a gallery for contemporary photography in Berlin-Mitte.

24. Rath Gallery Gallery Rosenthaler Str. 66, 10119 Berlin

S/U-Bahn: U Rosenthaler Platz

Opening hours: TUE – SAT 12pm – 6pm

Entrance price: n/a

Info: The Rath Gallery is Oliver Rath’s showroom and stage. But it is also a gallery which exhibits photography as a focus. The gallery is in a constant state of change; since August 2012 it has exhibited, aside from works by Oliver Rath, other extraordinary artists, and offers space for pop-up concepts and out-of-the-ordinary events.

25. PHOTO EDITION BERLIN Gallery Ystaderstr.14a, 10437 Berlin

S/U-Bahn: S+U Schönhauser Allee

Opening hours: WED 2pm – 6pm & SAT 12pm – 4pm

Entrance price: n/a

Info: The PHOT EDITION BERLIN is an internationally renowned gallery for contemporary photography. Opened in 2008, the gallery now is one of the most celebrated addresses for art photography in Germany. The focus is on artists living in Berlin and the rest of Germany, internationally outstanding positions and artists of concrete and generative photography.

The must-sees of photo rooms in Berlin are the C/O Berlin, the museum of photography 1 (Museum für Fotografie including the Helmut Newton Foundation) and the Photographic Collection of the Art Library (Sammlung Fotografie).

Some venues offer combined tickets which entitle the holder to visit multiple exhibitions. 2

Once a year during the end of April until early May the „Gallery Weekend Berlin“ takes pla- 3 ce. For three days up to 50 new and well-respected galleries grant free admission to their exhibitions and events.

The most common closing days of the galleries are sunday and monday. 4

The gallery centers in eastern Berlin are located between Oranienburger Tor, Rosenthaler 5 Platz and Hackescher Markt. In western Berlin they can be found bewteen Hardenberg Platz, Zoologischer Garten and Fasanenstrasse.

All listed galleries are located inside the Berlin S-Bahn ring. You can reach them via the 6 BVG „AB-ticket“. For more than two trips per day a day ticket is recommended.

Season tips: Berlin is most beautiful in spring and summer. But in Octobre the „Festival of 7 Lights“ makes up for the bad weather. For one week the sights of Berin are portrayed in a colourful play of light and art.

Plenty of galleries offer the option to be visited visit outside the opening times. Just ask for 8 an appointment or a private guided tour.

You want to enjoy even more culture? No big deal: In Berlin you an find an array of more 9 than 400 galleries and more than 100 museums. Have fun!

Hinweis: Die Listungs-Reihenfolge der Fotogalerien stellt keine Wertung dar.