French artist Cyprien Gaillard examines monuments and their relocation. The aim of the game is to recover the thrill of discovery. Defiance is the answer. The object is the Pergamon altar, which was brought to Berlin piece by piece in the 1880s.

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LA artist Sterling Ruby reimagines the US as an acronym of its own flag: RWB. A country that has wrapped itself in its own iconography becomes something else. Ruby’s principle appears to be that paranoid delusions are the gateway to a kind of truth.

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The art world is deeply superstitious. Especially about numerology. Especially when state institutions are at the helm. And so the Neue Nationalgalerie contrives to honour Heinrich von Kleist's death (not his work!). Through August 14.

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Jochen Kienzle's show is centred on photographer Josef Kramhöller, cast as a Kafkaesque avatar of himself, while the city is a dirty smear behind a crystalline thumbprint. Suspect it has something to do with performance being the mode of exposition.

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All Access World is designed as a fictional corporation to promote "a more democratic approach to monument ownership and distribution.” For monument, read ‘culture’. Snow's sprawling multimedia sculptures invite participation.

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Though there are always some turkeys, the annual Berlin- Paris exchange airs the art rooms of the city. The pick this year is the Arp/Schwitters show at Isabella Bortolozzi. Both were formative artists of the Dada movement.

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Hear Alaskan artist Reynolds's discuss his trilogy: “Secret Machine” focuses on Edweard Muybridge's photo-experiments, “Secret Life” is set in a plant-filled apartment and “Six Easy Pieces” dissects a physics textbook. Through April 3.

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This group show plots various strategies. Absurdist solipsism, typifed in Thomas Kratz’s “Me, Me, Me” watercolour series, seems dominant. Though Jamie Isenstein’s finger sculptures suggest it might just be a question of getting your hands dirty.

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In a world of Google Streetview and Wikileaks, it can seem impossible to escape the social glare. For many Turkish artists this is not a principle taught at art school – it's a seriously pressing issue. Tanas gives them a voice. Don't miss it this!

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Currated by gallerist André Buchmann and named after an early Ballard novel, The Crystal World features painting by Clare Woods, collages by Dennis Hollingsworth, Bettina Pousttchi’s crushed crowd barriers, and much more. Today's it. Don't miss!

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Theory alert! Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment is the backdrop for Roe Ethridge's photography, brightly coloured paintings from various artists and a sneakily placed mantrap in the middle of the floor. Today's it. Don't miss it!

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There’s something ‘explosive’ in all the works in this group show organized by Emil Holmer. Forged within are sculptures and paintings in bright colours, burning tar and dripping abstractions... Look out Berlin!

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German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans’ tenth solo show is a return from abstraction, back to reality. Through the images, which are assembled in a photographic ‘installation’, Tillmans attempts a sort of natural history of the modern world.

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Like many contemporary Chinese artists, Beijing-born Ouyang Chun likes to do things big: some of his canvases are over five metres long. This will please collectors like Thomas Olbricht, who likes buying very big things and then putting them in his very big “Room” on Auguststraße. Chun’s painting cycle is a narrative of the birth and death of a fictional king across more than 30 large canvases. Chung mixes crude, geometric figures with elements of classical Chinese paintings. But the subject, the subject! And by a painter from the People’s Republic of China? Something very interesting is going on here… Through January 9

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Like many contemporary Chinese artists, Beijing-born Ouyang Chun likes to do things big: some of his canvases are over five metres long. This will please collectors like Thomas Olbricht, who likes buying very big things and then putting them in his very big “Room” on Auguststraße. Chun’s painting cycle is a narrative of the birth and death of a fictional king across more than 30 large canvases. Chung mixes crude, geometric figures with elements of classical Chinese paintings. But the subject, the subject! And by a painter from the People’s Republic of China? Something very interesting is going on here… Through January 9

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Post-1950s suburbia fortified the nuclear family against the outside world… but there was a back door to the castle. Between family home and white picket fence, the front garden is a gray zone between public and private, where patio chairs and garden ornaments are sentries of normality guarding dirty laundry. It’s been the weasel under the Hollywood cocktail cabinet since 1957’s Peyton Place, and serially updated by Pleasantville, American Beauty and David Lynch. Alfred Hitchcock urbanized it, fingering the Rear Window of a Manhattan apartment block as the urban equivalent. Michael Haneke identified the European species in Hidden. Illustrators Rinah Lang and Romy Blümel’s drawing and paintings, collages and object art, add an artistic investigation to the survey. Through October 22.

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Artists with African connections present site-specific works of sculpture, installation, textiles, and video work in Berlin’s national galleries: El Anatsui at the Alte Nationalgalerie; Pascale Marthine Tayou at the Neue Nationalgalerie; Yinka Shonibare at Friedrichswerdersche Kirche; and Zarina Bhimji and António Ole at Hamburger Bahnhof. Through September 26.

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In the 1920s, a generation of women took charge of the freedoms offered between two world wars. Photographic technology offered a new means of capturing the immediacy of that life. Breslauer studied photography in Berlin; her portrait photographs mastered the emergent style, “Neues Sehen”. In Paris, she snatched moments of life off the streets, in parks and along the Seine, with tramps and street performers. She later traveled to Palestine, Spain and Italy, documenting her experiences with photo reportage. Through November 1.

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More than 450 objects have been snatched from the art, everyday life and religion of Ancient Mexico for this mammoth exhibition. The specimens include huge bits of architecture, filigree vessels and figures, stone carvings, masks and god statues. The exhibition hints that this may be the last time 15 large murals will be allowed out of Mexico for display. These items are some 2,000 years old. Which makes you wonder: what will represent Europe in museums 2,000 years hence? Through October 10.

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Yoko Ono is inviting Berliners to participate in this exhibition inspired by a poisoned apple. On the first floor, visitors can leave behind stories or images they associate with violence, or investigate “The Hole” – a shattered pane of glass that claims to put viewers in the dual perspective of gunman and victim. Frowns are forbidden on the second floor: “Smile Room“ records visitors’ smiles and beams them on a video loop. An adult roller-coaster ride while reading a Zen instruction manual. Very Yoko. Through November 13.

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Artists with African connections present site-specific works of sculpture, installation, textiles, and video work in Berlin’s national galleries: El Anatsui at the Alte Nationalgalerie; Pascale Marthine Tayou at the Neue Nationalgalerie; Yinka Shonibare at Friedrichswerdersche Kirche; and Zarina Bhimji and António Ole at Hamburger Bahnhof. Through September 26.

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In the 1920s, a generation of women took charge of the freedoms offered between two world wars. Photographic technology offered a new means of capturing the immediacy of that life. Breslauer studied photography in Berlin; her portrait photographs mastered the emergent style, “Neues Sehen”. In Paris, she snatched moments of life off the streets, in parks and along the Seine, with tramps and street performers. She later traveled to Palestine, Spain and Italy, documenting her experiences with photo reportage. Through November 1.

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Artists with African connections present site-specific works of sculpture, installation, textiles, and video work in Berlin’s national galleries: El Anatsui at the Alte Nationalgalerie; Pascale Marthine Tayou at the Neue Nationalgalerie; Yinka Shonibare at Friedrichswerdersche Kirche; and Zarina Bhimji and António Ole at Hamburger Bahnhof. Through September 26.

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Damien Hirst teams up with Michael Joo at Haunch of Venison to form a double act, or perhaps a consultancy team, to help the Berlin Zoo decide, finally, what to do with Knut. Whereas Hirst proposes pickling as the general solution, Joo is more subtle: Hirst dips a zebra in formaldehyde, whereas Joo casts it in bronze, then paints it pink. Hirst paints a ram’s horns gold, then puts them in formaldehyde; Joo cuts up an elk’s antlers and re-extends them with steel rods, and then bolts the result to the wall. But Hirst’s medicine cabinet, stocked with black pills, may prove the best remedy for all…Through August 14.

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Damien Hirst teams up with Michael Joo at Haunch of Venison to form a double act, or perhaps a consultancy team, to help the Berlin Zoo decide, finally, what to do with Knut. Whereas Hirst proposes pickling as the general solution, Joo is more subtle: Hirst dips a zebra in formaldehyde, whereas Joo casts it in bronze, then paints it pink. Hirst paints a ram’s horns gold, then puts them in formaldehyde; Joo cuts up an elk’s antlers and re-extends them with steel rods, and then bolts the result to the wall. But Hirst’s medicine cabinet, stocked with black pills, may prove the best remedy for all…Through August 14.

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