INDEX is a bimonthly exhibition listings calendar for contemporary art in galleries, institutions and project spaces, published and edited by Kirsa Geiser since 2002. The printed edition of the listings calendar is available at all participating venues in Berlin as a fold-out pamphlet, while the continually updated online version of INDEX can be consulted at indexberlin.com. The idea behind INDEX is to provide a clearly organised selection of the most important contemporary art exhibitions in Berlin in a compact format for professionals and the gallery-going public. The selection of exhibition venues is determined by the editor together with a jury.
Various features available on the mobile and desktop versions of the website are likewise intended to help you plan your visits to exhibitions throughout Berlin according to your own wishes and schedule. The content is sorted by three lists: exhibitions, venues and artists. You can choose from a range of elements via the Filter to costumize these according to your interests, such as special dates, opening hours, districts, venues-types. INDEX helps you planing a tour with the feature Tourplan as well as putting your selection into Favorites.
In addition, INDEX has long been informing its readership about upcoming openings and other events in Berlin via the newsletter INDEX Weekly, sent out at the beginning of each week. Please subscribe here!
The cover of each issue of the printed A5 size listings calendar (that was called by the New York Times “Berlin´s nifty gallery guide“) is always designed by an artist based in or exhibiting in Berlin. All of the covers to date – by artists ranging from Sergej Jensen to Natalie Czech to Tobias Zielony to Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili – are archived on our website.
INDEX also offers selected artist´s editions for sale. They can be viewed and ordered here.