Berlin's KW Institute for Contemporary Art has opened its fall season with three exhibitions that all carry a first: the first Berlin survey of British conceptual artist Susan Hiller, the first major German solo show of South Korean artist KOO JEONG A, and the first institutional solo exhibition of Egyptian artist Rafik Greiss, including a newly commissioned film. The exhibitions run from October 17, 2026 to January 10, 2027.

Susan Hiller's "Bad Dreams" looks back over five decades of a practice that traced how dreams, trances, hallucinations and mystical experiences take shape in culture. Hypnotic audiovisual works appear alongside sculptures of collected domestic objects and imagery drawn from the internet, film and television. It is a fitting Berlin homecoming for an artist who spent decades mapping how personal and collective imaginaries are formed and circulated through mass media and popular culture.

KOO JEONG A's "OUSSSEAN" turns KW's rooms into multisensory environments where light, scent, sound and temperature test the limits of visual perception. The title refers to Ousss, an invented territory that the artist describes as a kingdom perceptible only through concentration, patience and attention. Reconfigured for KW's architecture, the show brings together key works from past decades in their most substantial German presentation to date.

Rafik Greiss's "The City and the City" unfolds as a cinematic essay, its fragments, accelerations, pauses and returns suspended between personal recollection and collective history. Director Emma Enderby frames the season around the unseen technological, sensory and material forces that mediate human experience and memory — an idea the three exhibitions pursue from very different directions.