Galerie Wedding Gallery in Berlin

Editorial Profile

Galerie Wedding — Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst is a municipal gallery located within the Rathaus Wedding, a Neue Sachlichkeit building on Müllerstraße that also carries a history as a site of utopian civic ambition. Established in 2009 and operating under the cultural administration of Berlin-Mitte, it functions as a publicly funded, free-access exhibition space and is one of several communally operated venues that form an important institutional layer within contemporary art in Berlin. Its programme centres on Berlin-based artists whose work intersects the socio-political with the everyday — questions of community, belonging, memory, and urban experience — and has been structured around thematic exhibition cycles carrying titles that function as conceptual frames: POLY, XO, SoS, UP, and POW each constituted multi-year programming arcs that mark the gallery's curatorial history.

The space has also distinguished itself through its curatorial appointments: Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung served as artistic director between 2015 and 2018, before going on to direct Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Beyond exhibitions, the programme encompasses guided tours, workshops, lecture performances, and the ongoing format Sunday Art Makers, extending the gallery's commitment to community engagement and participatory practice. Recent exhibitions have included Malplaquetstraße 33 – Jugend einer Monteurin (2026) and Die gesiezte Tochter. My Total Deconstruction of an Armenian Family (2026), projects that typify the space's sustained investment in personal, diasporic, and urban histories. Within the broader landscape of galleries in Berlin, Galerie Wedding occupies a specific position as a municipally rooted venue operating entirely outside commercial frameworks, with close ties to the city's institutions in Berlin through overlapping curatorial and civic networks.