Museum report·Berlin
Christoph Schlingensief show opens at Berlin's Gropius Bau on 9 October
Gropius Bau opens an exhibition on filmmaker and theatre-maker Christoph Schlingensief on 9 October 2026, running to 17 January 2027. Co-developed with MAK Vienna and Wiener Festwochen, the show takes its title from a phrase translating roughly as 'It's no longer my problem, sort out your own mess.' An opening reception takes place on 8 October.

Berlin's Gropius Bau will open a major exhibition devoted to the filmmaker, theatre-maker and artist Christoph Schlingensief on 9 October 2026. Titled "Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine" — roughly, "It's no longer my problem, sort out your own mess" — the show runs through 17 January 2027, with an opening reception scheduled for the evening of 8 October from 7 to 10pm. It is the venue's flagship autumn presentation. The exhibition was co-developed with MAK Vienna and the Wiener Festwochen, bringing institutions from Germany and Austria together around Schlingensief's multidisciplinary practice. The artist, who died in 2010, worked across film, theatre, opera and performance art, and his confrontational projects made him one of the most polarising figures in German-language culture at the turn of the millennium. The Schlingensief presentation arrives within a crowded autumn program at Gropius Bau. Also on view is "Kreuzberg. Kunst und Migration seit 1960," a survey of art and migration in the Berlin district that runs from 10 September 2026 to 17 January 2027. Gabriele Stötzer's exhibition "Dabei sein und nicht schweigen" continues through 6 December 2026, and the BAUBAU play space remains open to visitors. The partnership reflects the continued institutional interest in Schlingensief's legacy on both sides of the border. The Wiener Festwochen is one of Europe's leading theatre festivals, and MAK Vienna is Austria's museum of applied and contemporary art — both contexts in which Schlingensief's boundary-crossing practice found early support during his lifetime. Gropius Bau, part of the Berliner Festspiele, is one of Berlin's most prominent venues for international contemporary art. The Schlingensief exhibition gives the house a substantial single-artist focus for the final quarter of the year, pairing with its two long-running group presentations on Kreuzberg and Stötzer.


