The French-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga opens Carry Me / Carry On at Galerie Tanja Wagner on Friday 20 November 2026, 6–9pm. The opening is free and open to all. It is her fifth solo show at the gallery on Pohlstraße, just off Potsdamer Straße.
Kiwanga represented Canada at the 2024 Venice Biennale and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2020 and the Joan Miró Prize in 2025. Her work begins with research into materials and the trade routes, labour and power that come with them, then turns that research into spare, carefully made objects.
What to expect
The exhibition brings together five textile works from her Carry Capacity series, some shown earlier in 2026 at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, and Stick Figure, a new group of sculptures that join hand-carved wood with glass shaped while hot. The gallery is compact. To study the textiles up close without a crowd, come back on a weekday afternoon.
Good to know
- When: Friday 20 November 2026, 6–9pm
- Where: Galerie Tanja Wagner, Pohlstraße 64, 10785 Berlin
- Entry: free, no booking
- After the opening: on view until 22 January 2027, Tuesday to Saturday, 11am–6pm
- Getting there: U1 Kurfürstenstraße (about five minutes), U2 Bülowstraße, bus M48 or M85
Nearby
Sean Scully's Block opens at the same time at Galerie Max Hetzler, two minutes away. On the Landwehrkanal, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi shows Steve Reinke's Orphan Parade, which opened on 14 November.