Klara Lidén: Kunstwerke

Artworks is the first comprehensive overview exhibition and also the first institutional solo exhibition by Klara Lidén (born 1979, Sweden) in Berlin. Lidén has lived in the city since the 2000s and has established herself as an influential voice examining power relations, the interplay between interior and exterior spaces, and forms of civil disobedience.

Her artistic practice is closely related to the architecture and infrastructure of the cities where Lidén has lived—Berlin, New York, and Stockholm—and draws on materials from urban space. The exhibition spans three floors of KW and brings together key works from the early 2000s to the present, including performances, sculptures, spatial interventions, and video works. Kunstwerke illustrates how Lidén repeatedly tests the rules that govern buildings, streets, and markings in public space—often using her own body. This reveals how such structures shape behavior and how environments characterized by control and exclusion can be reclaimed through subtle appropriation.

Curator: Emma Enderby

Assistant Curator: Lara Scherrieble

Highlight: This show is one of the top exhibitions in Berlin in 2026.