Open Days 2026

With our Open Days 2026 on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 July, we are celebrating the most important event in our 80th anniversary and, on 2,000 square metres of exhibition space, we are providing you with insights into the research and work processes of our emerging artists and designers.   

The Open Days officially open with a ceremonial event at 12 p.m. on 11 July 2026. You are warmly invited to attend this event and can register here.

From 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. on both days, around 800 students from the departments of Sculpture, Stage and Costume Design, Painting, Fashion Design, Product Design, Textile and Material Design, Visual Communication, Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Theory and History, Spatial Strategies, and Art Therapy will present projects and graduation assignments from the 2025/26 academic year.

Alongside the exhibitions, we are offering a diverse programme of lectures on the history of the university, performances, films, live demonstrations, talks, and guided tours.

Programme

Presentation of the Graduation Collections from the Fashion Design Department
"Seefashion26"

The Fashion Design Department is presenting 19 current bachelor’s and master’s graduation collections. The fashion show seefashion26 will take place on Thursday, 2 July 2026, at 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the ZK/U (Centre for Art and Urbanistics) in Berlin-Moabit.

The collections reflect the graduates’ individual perspectives on the role and design of fashion today. Their work reveals a broad range of approaches - from open-ended experimentation with form and material to conceptual and analytical design - while engaging with social, ecological, and historical issues. Through their collections, the graduates demonstrate a clear awareness of their role and position as designers within a broader societal context.

You can only attend "seefashion26" if you have registered. Both shows are already fully booked.

Graduation exhibition of the Painting and Sculpture Departments
"escalators to: big bang“

Under the title “escalators to: big bang”, 43 master-class students and undergraduates from the Painting and Sculpture departments present their work at the Radsetzerei (a former warehouse) on the RAW site in Berlin-Friedrichshain (please note the new exhibition venue). We warmly invite you to the opening on Friday, 3 July 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The exhibition will also be open on the weekends of 4–5 July and 11–12 July 2026.

Through painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, textile work and installation, the graduates of the weissensee school of art and design berlin offer their perspectives on our turbulent present. The title escalators to: big bang points to the contradictions inherent in the students’ artistic journey: an escalator moves steadily and efficiently upward, while personal and artistic development is complex, multilayered, and rarely linear. The exhibition marks the moment of departure - from the protected environment of the university into the unpredictable world of contemporary art. For visitors, it offers the opportunity to discover emerging talents at the beginning of their careers.

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End-of-course assignments from the Department of Visual Communication
"Are you asleep? I am up walking around“ 

On Thursday, 9 July 2026, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., graduates in Visual Communication will be celebrating the opening of their end-of-course exhibition, “Are you asleep? I am up walking around”, in the feldfünf project spaces in the Metropolenhaus – not far from the Jewish Museum. The exhibition will run until 12 July.

The course of study in visual communication does not aim to specialise in book design, illustration or interaction – it is conceived in more general terms. Against the background of fields of work that are developing dynamically and based on a broad understanding of visual culture and its role in society, the course enables students to develop independent creative standpoints. The projects presented in the exhibition reflect the diversity of this course of study, both in the wide range of subjects they address and in the variety of media employed.

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Fashion Exhibition
"by choice and by chance: seefashion stories 1995–2025"

As part of the university’s 80th anniversary, the Departments of Fashion Design and Theory and History have collaborated to present a participative fashion exhibition in the foyer of the weissensee school of art and design berlin. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, 1 July, at 7:00 p.m. and will be on view until 12 July.

On display will be clothing, photographs, fashion drawings and visions by alumni who studied in the Department of Fashion Design between 1995 and 2025. The aim of the exhibition is to present fashion design in Weißensee as a multi-layered process that reflects and actively helps to shape developments in aesthetic perceptions, culture, society and the media.