The Gaza Biennale, an art project rooted in displacement, scatters like seeds around the world to create new hybrids. Through repetition and reproduction, artworks survive the destruction of a genocidal war machine and reappear by virtue of partnerships in different parts of the world. Transcending territory, the Gaza Biennale expands through a human topography that cannot possibly be besieged.

Defying genocide, Gazan artists have continued creating, resisting seemingly endless displacements, bombardments, and forced starvation through their art. Initiated in partnership with the Al Risan Art Museum (Forbidden Museum) in the West Bank, the Gaza Biennale sends their message out into the world.

Arriving in Berlin on November 21, 2025, the Berlin Pavilion will open across different venues in the city to show the works of over thirty artists. It unfolds with exhibitions at sites including Flutgraben, Agit, and Khan Aljanub, and with programs hosted at Galerie & Atelier Arabisk, Casino for Social Medicine, Spore Initiative, and KM28, as well as around the streets of Berlin.

With a collaboratively curated public program, it invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join in these gatherings to practice listening, healing, and mourning; to share joy and sorrow; and to cultivate a communal strength that will ultimately be the key to dismantling oppressive systems based on fragmentation and extractivism—structural relics that lie at the root of the occupation of Palestine and colonial violence worldwide.

The Berlin Pavilion seeks not to become a static exhibition but an evolving platform that continuously initiates its own actions. Refusing to lament the failure of official infrastructures, the Berlin Pavilion builds a new one: an infrastructure made from and by the community, small in its constituent parts, but endlessly expansive in its unity.

At the center of all of this stands Palestine. The gravitational force that brought us all together—not just for a single moment of time, but for generations to come. It is the artists in Gaza who lead the way for this unity with their courage, creativity and endless will to flourish. We hope you will join us to celebrate their work.

The full exhibition program of the Gaza Biennale Berlin Pavilion runs from November 22–December 21 2025.

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Click here for more information on the exhibit’s opening weekend, which runs from November 21-23.

Friday, 21 November

6:30 pm, Flutgraben – Opening reception with a video presentation from the participating artists from Gaza, an introduction to the exhibition by the Berlin organizers and live music by Noah (oud) and Roudi (percussion)

Saturday, 22 November

2-3 pm, Flutgraben – Hala Eid Alnaji: Exhibition as Growth: The Mutating Life of Nazeh | Artist talk

7-9 pm, Khan Aljanub – Jehad Jarbou: AFTER| Artist talk with Michael Mohammed Jabareen

Sunday, 23 November

2-5 pm, AGIT – Walkthrough introducing the works presented at AGIT

2-4 pm, Flutgraben – Familien für Palästina| Calligraphy workshop (Children 6 – 10 years)

Tuesday, 25 November

6-9 pm, Spore Initiative – Gaza Biennale – Berlin Pavilion: Itinerant Archives of Solidarity (Part 1) | Panel with Tasneem Shatat, Ghanem Al Den, and André Ibrahim together with Angela Harutyunyan. Moderated by Lama El Khatib and Joud Al Tamimi | Talk followed by a collective reading from Tasneem Shatat’s book “Archive Out of Coverage”

Thursday, 27 November

5-6:30 pm, Flutgraben – Maher Draidi – Body Language: Movement, Memory, and Resistance | Theater workshop

6-9 pm, Casino for Social Medicine – Zines from Gaza in collaboration with the Gaza Biennale | Talk and workshop

Friday, 28 November

6 pm, Flutgraben – Some Strings – Short films created in response to Refaat Alareer’s poem If I Must Die with Narimane Mari, Philip Rizk, Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson and others| Screening and talk

Saturday, 29 November

12-2 pm, Khan Aljanub – Drawing workshop for children ages 6 to 10 years old led by artist, illustrator, and author Fadi Adleh. (Conducted in Arabic with sign-up)

6 pm, Flutgraben – Art as resistance, creating under genocide: Panel with Gaza Biennale artists Ali Tayeh, Fares Ayash, Khouloud Aldosouqi, and Ameera Alhumayda, moderated by Hiba Obaid

Sunday, 30 November

6 pm, Flutgraben – Meshwar Mixtapes: Intro to Palestine | An immersive collective listening experience curated by DJ DumTak

Monday, 1 December

11 am – 6 pm, 90mil – Rawy Films – DIY Film Workshop. Storytelling With Everyday Objects | This DIY film workshop is designed for anyone curious about filmmaking, especially those with little or no prior experience. The aim is to make the process of creating a film simple, playful, and accessible.

Thursday, 4 December

8 pm – 2 am, Panke – Loud & Clear – Berlin Musicians in Solidarity with Palestine Fundraiser Concert for Gazan Musicians with Wafaa Saied, Jamila & The Other Heroes (duo), Ditty, Maurice Louca/Tony Buck/Mike Majkowski, Slow Steve. DJs: Andreya Casablanca, The Tarts, DJ Skuun

7-9 pm, Khan Aljanub – Educator Lab: Pedagogical tools and art examples from global contexts | This workshop is aimed at educators, cultural practitioners, and anyone working with young people. It offers practical methods and international examples of how art can be used as a tool for dialogue, empathy, and critical thinking in times of war, displacement, and injustice.

Friday, 5 December

6-8 pm, AGIT – Rawy Films – Beyond reporting: Journalism under genocide | Artist talk Rami Abu Jamous and Emad Badwan

Saturday, 6 December

12-3 pm, Dammweg 216 – Loud & Clear – Tanja Al Kayyali (tatreez berlin) together with Maysa Bardaweel (Gaza Biennale) | Tatreez workshop

5 pm, Flutgraben – Frauen machen Druck | The Great Feminist Tree of Life | Participatory woodcutting

6 pm, Galerie & Atelier Arabisk – Poetry Night

Sunday, 7 December

6 pm, Flutgraben – UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE FIREFLIES
Listening session with firefly frequencies (Part 1) | firefly frequencies with a special program designed for the Gaza Biennale – Berlin Pavilion

Monday, 8 December

7-9 pm, IL KINO – Basma al-Sharif “Morgenkreis” Premiere and “Capital “ | Double screening

8-10 pm, KM28 – Making Waves – Gaza Biennale edition | Performance + Panel

Wednesday, 10 December

6-9 pm, Spore Initiative – Gaza Biennale – Berlin Pavilion: Itinerant Archives of Solidarity (Part 2) | Panel with Racha Salti, Kristin Kouri, and Hatem Imam (Past Disquiet) together with Pablo Abufom (Museo de Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Chile) and Senka Ibrišimbegović (Ars Aevi Museum). Moderated Fadi Abdelnour

Thursday, 11 December

5 pm, Flutgarben – Gaza Biennale – Frauen machen Druck | The Great Feminist Tree of Life | Participatory woodcutting

Friday, 12 December

6 pm, Flutgarben – YA Z AN: A Journey Through Ramallah – Slow Radio | Listening session

Saturday, 13 December

6 pm, Flutgarben – GENocideAI: a discussion on AI, epistemicide, and (catastrophic) art with Nora Al-Badri (artist), Fazil Moradi, and Laex (computer scientist)

Sunday, 14 December

2-5 pm, Et al. Press (Neukölln) – Open printmaking workshop with archival posters from international movements in solidarity with Palestine.

2-5 pm, Flutgraben – Lilipad Drop-in family workshop

2-5 pm, Flutgraben – Eid Cookies Workshop with the Khalat from Hildashaus

6-8 pm, Flutgraben – Makan Ashgvari | concert

Wednesday, 17 December

7 pm, Flutgarben – MUSIC OF LIBERATION – John Kameel Farah, piano & electronics (Baroque-Arabic-Futurism) | Concert

Thursday, 18 December

5 pm, Flutgarben – Frauen machen Druck | The Great Feminist Tree of Life | Participatory woodcutting

Friday, 19 December

6 pm, Casino for Social Medicine (Starting point: Hermannplatz) – Ola Al Shrif (Gaza Biennale) & Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland | Al-Shadidah (The Slingshot) | Artist talk

Saturday, 20 December

6 pm, Flutgarben – UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE FIREFLIES | Listening session with firefly frequencies (Part 2) | firefly frequencies with a special program designed for the Gaza Biennale – Berlin Pavilion

Sunday, 21 December

Finnisage

With an artist talk by Ghanem Al Den and public printing of the Great Feminist Tree of Life (Frauen machen Druck).

Every Saturday

5-10 pm, Flutgraben

Anti-Imperial Kitchen: During the four weeks of the Berlin Pavilion, we invite visitors to join us for communal meals as an act of mutual care. Follow gbb2025.substack.com for updates