Berlin Art Week’s Unlikely Alchemy: Power Stations, Parade Paintings, and Glitchy Memories

Berlin Art Week turns the city into a living laboratory where art and space collide in unexpected ways. This year, the festival’s spirit of experimentation is everywhere—from a former power station transformed into a kinetic art playground, to airport hangars hosting the city’s largest art fair. Highlights include immersive installations like Lam’s “Tales of the Altersea,” which weaves 3D scans of Chinese restaurants into haunting digital landscapes, and Bettina Pousttchi’s crash barrier sculptures that twist the language of public infrastructure into poetic forms. Meanwhile, Beatriz Milhazes channels the pulse of Rio Carnival into dazzling abstractions, and Anicka Yi’s hybrid creations blend biological matter with machine logic, complete with a custom scent. Berlin’s galleries aren’t just showing art—they’re reimagining what an exhibition can be, turning familiar spaces into sites of transformation and surprise. In this city, even a hotel lobby or an old hangar can become a portal to the unexpected. #BerlinArtWeek #ContemporaryArt #ArtExhibitions #Culture