His identity may be unknown but his work has sparked numerous conversations as he weighs in on topics such as terrorism, politics, and capitalism. Very little is known about the artist, as he continues to maintain anonymity and refuses interviews with journalists.

Banksy uses the city as his canvas; his work appearing on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and also self-built physical prop pieces. Take a stroll through the streets of Bristol and you may spot a couple of Banksy's work....

Since 1961, Arnolfini has been located on the harbour-side in the heart of Bristol, and is a centre for international contemporary arts.

Arnolfini is dedicated to producing and presenting visual arts, performance, dance, film, music, events and workshops, welcoming a broad and diverse audience of all ages.

What's on....

💥 Art in Motion: Friday, 8th July 2022 to Sunday, 24th July 2022

This is a participatory arts organisation based in Bristol that provides opportunities for artists with learning disabilities. Art in Motion works with its artists to support them to develop their practice and find ways to engage with contemporary art. This exhibition charts their work since the pandemic began, showing how they emerged from the isolation of lockdown into a creative force in the city and a source of support and pride for Bristol’s disabled community.

💥 Forest : Wake this Ground: Saturday, 9th July 2022 to Sunday, 2nd October 2022

A major group exhibition to celebrate what lies above and below the forest floor including artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers from across the globe.

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We're taking you to the home-city of the elusive and mysterious street artist Banksy...

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🖌 KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Housed in a former margarine factory, Kunst Werke has been a major non-profit showcase for new talent since the early 1990s.

🖌 Contemporary Fine Arts

Arguably Berlin’s best-known gallery space, Contemporary Fine Arts has been promoting idiosyncratic art from around the world since 1992.

🖌 East Side Gallery

This mile-long section of the Berlin Wall preserves the paintings made on the Wall’s eastern side when it was brought down and is one of the largest open-air permanent art exhibits in the world.

🖌 Schinkel Pavillon

This gallery space is in the gardens of the Kronprinzenpalais, which itself claims to be the world’s first contemporary art institution (the palace displayed work by Berlin’s expressionists from 1918 until the Nazis closed it down for showing ‘degenerate’ art).

For 5 days, from 14th to 18th September, art lovers from across the world gather in Berlin for the "Berlin Art Week" which presents a widely varying program of contemporary art in collaboration with major Berlin art institutions.

Once a year, they present a diverse programme with over 50 partners ranging from museums to exhibition houses, fairs, private collections, project spaces, and numerous galleries. Their partners open their doors together and invite the public to discover something new and to immerse themselves in ongoing developments in the world of contemporary art. Art experts and art lovers from Berlin, Germany and around the world are invited to exhibitions, performances, screenings and an extensive festival programme.

This year will be the 11th edition of Berlin Art Week... one not to be missed!

💥 Sibylle Bergemann

Berlinische Galerie is paying tribute to the Berlin photographer Sibylle Bergemann with a retrospective running until October. On display will be over 200 (partly) unpublished snapshots featuring some of her colour travel photography taken post 1989.

💥 Sascha Wiederhold

Sascha Wiederhold (1904-1962) painted constructivist, futuristic, colourfully Orphistic-Cubist paintings such as ‘Sailboats’ in the harbour (second image in the carousel). The Neue Nationalgalerie is showing around 50 works by Wiederhold, who became a bookseller under the Nazi dictatorship, when art became too risky.

💥 New Queer Photography

In 2020, Berlin art director Benjamin Wolbergs collected the perspectives of 52 queer photographers from around the world for his book New Queer Photography. The exhibition based on this book is now on display at Kreuzberg’s Fotoraum F3, featuring works by 15 artists. Many of the exhibition participants come from the underground scene, but since being featured have won major clients such as Gucci or Vogue.

💥 Ewa Partum

Ewa Partum is one of the artists who paved the way for feminist art in Poland in the 1960s. This exhibition at the Mathias Günther gallery explores her performances, poetry and ‘exercises‘. She combines photography, partly artistic, partly more documentary in character, and objects with letters. And evidence that Ewa Partum’s conceptual mind remains active is proven by a more recent rubber floor work.

🎨 Woman with a Pearl Necklace by Johannes Vermeer

Considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Dutch Golden Age, Vermeer’s work were often intimate depictions of women in domestic scenes. This painting in particular, using oil on canvas, portrays a Dutch woman of the upper-class dressing herself with a pearl necklace.

Find this painting at Gemäldegalerie, Matthäikirchplatz, Berlin, Germany.

🎨 The Head of Christ by Rembrandt

Rembrandt painted the Head of Christ during the baroque period in 1648. This piece in particular is considered to be a turning point in the artist’s work, and the portrait based on a Jewish model. You can find this artwork also at Gemäldegalerie among 16 other works by Rembrandt.

🎨 Portrait of a Young Girl by Petrus Christus

Dutch painter, Christus painted Portrait of a Young Girl, a work widely celebrated as one of the most beautiful portraits to come out of the Northern Renaissance – sometime between 1465 and 1470. The small oil-on-oak panel can be admired at the Gemäldegalerie.

🎨 Woman with a Dead Child by Käthe Kollwitz

Germany’s most celebrated female artist, Kollwitz’s work revolves around the struggles of the working class in her poverty-stricken neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg. This drawing of a mother holding her dead son was around the time of the First World War. It now sits in the Neue Wache, a memorial in Central Berlin to remember the many lives lost in the war.

🎨 Potsdamer Platz by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is one of the most famous artists of the expressionist movement, which has roots as far back as pre-WWI Germany. This particular painting shows two prostitutes in Potsdamer Platz in 1914, Berlin. Scenes like this were the focus of Kirchner’s work, and he painted a very different picture of life in Berlin from the mainstream view of the time. Potsdamer Platz forms part of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie collection, and can be admired at the Hamburger Bahnhof while the Neue Galley is under construction.

Germany's capital is recognised as a city full of culture and creativity which is reflected in the local art scene. Berlin is an artistic hub drawing people in from all over the world, and it has been estimated there are around 20,000 artists living and working in the city.

Turn your notifications on to hear about the latest galleries and exhibitions coming up in the multicultural and diverse city of Berlin!

Are you a professional artist living in your home country?

Join our community to have the opportunity to feature your works of art on our online gallery and reach a new community of global travellers.

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Who guessed the city from our stories?!

We're taking you to the home-city of the elusive and mysterious street artist Banksy...

Turn on notifications so you never miss a post from us!

🖌 KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Housed in a former margarine factory, Kunst Werke has been a major non-profit showcase for new talent since the early 1990s.

🖌 Contemporary Fine Arts

Arguably Berlin’s best-known gallery space, Contemporary Fine Arts has been promoting idiosyncratic art from around the world since 1992.

🖌 East Side Gallery

This mile-long section of the Berlin Wall preserves the paintings made on the Wall’s eastern side when it was brought down and is one of the largest open-air permanent art exhibits in the world.

🖌 Schinkel Pavillon

This gallery space is in the gardens of the Kronprinzenpalais, which itself claims to be the world’s first contemporary art institution (the palace displayed work by Berlin’s expressionists from 1918 until the Nazis closed it down for showing ‘degenerate’ art).

💥 Sibylle Bergemann

Berlinische Galerie is paying tribute to the Berlin photographer Sibylle Bergemann with a retrospective running until October. On display will be over 200 (partly) unpublished snapshots featuring some of her colour travel photography taken post 1989.

💥 Sascha Wiederhold

Sascha Wiederhold (1904-1962) painted constructivist, futuristic, colourfully Orphistic-Cubist paintings such as ‘Sailboats’ in the harbour (second image in the carousel). The Neue Nationalgalerie is showing around 50 works by Wiederhold, who became a bookseller under the Nazi dictatorship, when art became too risky.

💥 New Queer Photography

In 2020, Berlin art director Benjamin Wolbergs collected the perspectives of 52 queer photographers from around the world for his book New Queer Photography. The exhibition based on this book is now on display at Kreuzberg’s Fotoraum F3, featuring works by 15 artists. Many of the exhibition participants come from the underground scene, but since being featured have won major clients such as Gucci or Vogue.

💥 Ewa Partum

Ewa Partum is one of the artists who paved the way for feminist art in Poland in the 1960s. This exhibition at the Mathias Günther gallery explores her performances, poetry and ‘exercises‘. She combines photography, partly artistic, partly more documentary in character, and objects with letters. And evidence that Ewa Partum’s conceptual mind remains active is proven by a more recent rubber floor work.

Germany's capital is recognised as a city full of culture and creativity which is reflected in the local art scene. Berlin is an artistic hub drawing people in from all over the world, and it has been estimated there are around 20,000 artists living and working in the city.

Turn your notifications on to hear about the latest galleries and exhibitions coming up in the multicultural and diverse city of Berlin!