What is Meetup used for?

Meetup connects you with local groups and events based on shared interests. It's a way to join communities, attend various events, and engage with others who share your passions.

What art groups are in Berlin?

In Berlin, you can find a variety of art groups focusing on painting, sculpture, digital art, and more. Each group offers events and activities tailored to artistic interests.

How do I join an art group?

To join an art group in Berlin, simply search for groups in your area on Meetup, check out their events, and join them directly through the platform. It's easy and convenient.

Can I create my own art group?

Yes, on Meetup, you can start your own art group if you're unable to find one that meets your needs. Engage like-minded individuals and host events through your group.

What types of events can I find?

In Berlin, you can find exhibitions, art workshops, painting sessions, and artist meetups. Participation provides a platform to learn, practice, and exhibit your work.

Is Meetup free for joining art groups?

Joining art groups on Meetup is generally free. However, some activities or events within groups may have a fee, depending on the host's requirements.

How do I RSVP for an event?

To RSVP, find your desired event and click on the RSVP button. This will let the organizer know you're attending and help you keep track of your event schedule.

Can non-artists join?

Absolutely! Many art groups welcome individuals at any skill level, whether you're a professional artist, hobbyist, or simply an enthusiast keen on exploring the art scene.

Will my artistic interests be accommodated?

While there is a wide range of art-focused groups, availability may depend on current groups' themes and interests. Explore various groups to find the right fit.

Are events all in-person?

Some art groups offer both in-person and online events. Availability depends on the organizers, so always check event details on Meetup for the format.

How does Meetup enhance creativity?

By connecting with diverse art groups, Meetup enables you to share ideas, gain new perspectives, and participate in creative collaborations, sparking innovation.

Can I find collaborations in these groups?

Joining art groups may lead to collaborative opportunities with local artists. These interactions can result in joint projects and collective exhibitions.

Does Meetup guarantee art sales?

Meetup provides a platform to showcase your work and connect with potential buyers, but it doesn't guarantee sales. Building relationships is key.

What if no groups interest me?

If you don't find an art group that meets your interests, consider starting your own. This way, you can attract members who share your artistic vision.

Are Meetup events well-organized?

The organization quality varies by group and event. It's wise to read reviews and communicate with event hosts to ensure a positive experience.

Art Groups Berlin

Sprachcafe 06.10. @ 19:00 Topic: Kreativität (creativity)

Tue, Oct 6, 5:00 PM

From German Sprachcafe in Prenzlauer Berg. Let’s practice Deutsch

4.9

Kreativität (creativity)! Join us for our next German Sprachcafe as we cover the topic of creativity Our event begins with a brief moderation at 19:00 where the host will introduce the topic, explain the conversation guidelines, and create groups of different German ability. In your group you will converse with a native German speaker on the topic of creativity. What is your creative outlet? What types of creativity do you see in Berlin? What role does creativity play in your life and work? These topic and more will be discussed with the participants in each group. So practice your German. This event is designed for people with at least A1.1 level German. Make mistakes, have fun, and improve in your language ability. Light snacks and drinks will be served to people in attendance. This event is free of charge! Our event officially ends at 20:30. Weather your just starting learning German, an intermediate, or growing in your language abilities, you are invited to join! This event is hosted by [Zoarkirche](https://efg-zoar.de/) and [Community Church Berlin](communitychurchberlin.de)

35 attendees

Drawing & Coffee: Artist meetup October 17

Sat, Oct 17, 9:00 AM

From Drawing & Coffee

4.9

**Join us this Saturday for a relaxed drawing session and creative exchange.** Connect with fellow drawing enthusiasts of all levels—everyone is welcome! We’ll start with a short warm-up exercise, then dive into free drawing until the end. ☕ Coffee will be provided. 🕐 The session ends at 1:00 PM. We’re looking forward to seeing you there! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Kommt am Samstag zu einer entspannten Zeichenrunde und kreativem Austausch.** Trefft andere Zeichenbegeisterte – alle Niveaus sind willkommen! Wir starten mit einer kurzen Aufwärmübung und gehen dann über ins freie Zeichnen. ☕ Für Kaffee ist gesorgt. 🕐 Die Runde endet um 13 Uhr. Wir freuen uns auf euch!

20 attendees

Drawing Cafe [#40] Coffee & Sketching in Berlin

Sun, Oct 4, 9:00 AM

From Creative Sessions

4.8

We meet and sketch each other in Berlin. This is just an art gym that we also exercise our social skills. Afterwards usually we go for lunch as a group. **How Does It Work?** This event is simple, we meet and sketch each other doing portraits. Most of the participants use pencils or watercolors. Main aim is to socialize while we draw. There will be plenty of time to talk and get to know each other. We have to mention that this event is suitable for all levels. Many have started to draw in our event actually. **Structure** A. Warmup Phase: We pose to each other for 1 minute. B. Main Phase: We pose to each other for 10 minutes. C. Showcase Phase: We show some of the drawings we did to each other. **Who We Are** Creative Sessions is an art events group located in Berlin. **Is it Free?** The event is free of charge. It is advisable to get a drink though. This is a cafe, we need to have at least half of the people on each table with a drink. They accept only cash and most hot drinks cost from 2.50 to 3.50. **How to help or donate?** The event is provided for free but many people help this be a regular thing. We also need people to volunteer and help for minor tasks like the serving of the drinks or cleaning up. Just send us a message. If you want to donate and keep this event from happening, via Paypal to the host (Miltos) : https://ko-fi.com/miltosthings/ **Art Materials?** Bring your own art materials. **Our Instagram Profile** Follow us on instagram @icreativesessions Use the hashtag #icreativesessions on your post description there to find out drawings from the event!

13 attendees

LIMEN — Art Residency, Sardinia

Sun, Oct 4, 4:00 PM

From Berlin Film Community

4.6

Two of BFC's association co-founders have launched **[LIMEN](https://limen.casa/index.html)**, a two-week art residency taking place October 4–17, 2026, at **[Casa M](https://www.instagram.com/casa___m?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==)** — a restored manor house in the medieval village of Siddi, Sardinia. LIMEN offers filmmakers, artists, researchers, and writers real, uninterrupted time to develop a body of work, set against a landscape shaped by extraction, resistance, and deep relationships to land. Alongside independent studio time, Linda leads group sessions rooted in regenerative practices, opening up memory — personal and collective — as material for the work itself, read through a political and queer lens. **SPOTS:** 8–9 participants **FEE:** sliding-scale €1,100–1,600 (transport in Sardinia, full board, and studio space included) Learn more here: https://limen.casa/index.html **Three spots are reserved for Berlin Film Community members** (membership here: https://berlinfilmcommunity.com/membership.php) **Apply:** https://limen.casa/apply.html Applications close September 20, 2026. **Contact:** linda@berlinfilmcommunity.com or info@limen.casa

1 attendee

Longing, Melancholy, and the Unfulfilled – Do We Need What Remains Unfulfilled?

Sun, Oct 4, 9:00 AM

From Elysian Discoveries: Mind, Art, and Curiosity

4.9

# There are things we want, and there are things we long for. A desire can often be concrete: a new job, a journey, a relationship, or a different place to live. Longing seems to reach further. It can be connected to love, belonging, freedom, home, security, meaning, or the feeling of finally having arrived somewhere in life. Sometimes we know exactly what we are longing for. At other times, we simply feel a distance between the life we are living and another possible life we can imagine. This is part of what makes longing so powerful. It can create hope, imagination, creativity, and change. But it can also make the present feel incomplete when an imagined life seems richer or more meaningful than the one we actually have. Longing is often attached to something specific: a person, a place, a profession, a relationship, or a future. But both we and the world around us change. What once represented freedom may later feel restrictive. A place we idealized may no longer exist as we remember it. Even when we achieve what we once wanted, the longing itself may not disappear. Another tension comes from the many different lives we can imagine. We can choose one path, but we cannot live all possible lives at once. Every decision realizes some possibilities while leaving others behind. In this sense, freedom of choice also involves loss: every life we build contains paths we did not take. Can we accept the life we have chosen while still feeling sadness about lives we never lived? Even good decisions cannot guarantee fulfillment. Relationships may end. People change. Bodies, societies, and political circumstances change. Chance can alter our plans in ways we cannot control. Longing is therefore not always purely personal. People may long for a homeland they had to leave, for security in uncertain circumstances, or for a world that no longer exists. Migration, exile, war, and political change can separate people not only from places, but from entire ways of life. Language also offers different perspectives. Words such as *Sehnsucht*, *saudade*, and *toska* overlap, but emphasize different aspects of longing, loss, distance, nostalgia, and inner restlessness. This raises the question of whether these words describe the same basic human experience, or whether language and culture shape how longing itself is experienced. Melancholy belongs to the same emotional landscape. Something may have been beautiful and hurt precisely because it is over. A moment can become more valuable because we know it cannot last. This relationship between beauty, transience, and loss appears strongly in art. We voluntarily listen to sad music, watch melancholic films, and read stories about loss, even though we usually try to avoid suffering in real life. Perhaps art allows us to experience contradictory emotions—beauty and sadness, love and loss, hope and impossibility—without having to resolve them immediately. Longing can therefore move us forward while also keeping us attached to something absent, lost, imagined, or perhaps impossible. This leads to the central question: **Do we actually need something that remains unfulfilled?** Perhaps longing gives life direction, imagination, and movement. But perhaps this idea romanticizes dissatisfaction. Maybe unfulfillment is simply unavoidable in a life where time is limited, possibilities exclude one another, people change, and not everything can be preserved or controlled. In this session, we will explore longing, melancholy, possibility, loss, and the unfulfilled from philosophical, psychological, artistic, cultural, and social perspectives. We will focus on six central questions: 1. **What is longing, and how is it different from an ordinary desire?** 2. **What do we long for when we imagine another possible life?** 3. **What happens when longing meets reality, change, and loss?** 4. **How much is longing shaped by culture, language, history, and society?** 5. **Why are longing, melancholy, beauty, and transience so closely connected?** 6. **Do we need the unfulfilled—or do we simply have to live with it?** This will be an open and reflective conversation connecting philosophy, psychology, culture, art, history, and personal experience. Together, we will explore why human beings are drawn toward what is absent, lost, distant, or still possible—and what it means to live with longings that may never be completely fulfilled. 📅 **Event Details** 🗓️ **Date:** Sunday, 4 October 2026 ⏰ Time: 11:00 📍 Location: Cafe Hardenberg, Hardenbergstraße 10, 10623 Berlin-Bezirk Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf 📱 WhatsApp: For preparation materials, updates, and directions, join the group chat. [Group Chat Bio KI](https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ba8ZAaH2Yuk6FGmD3LLO7H)

13 attendees

Drawing & Coffee: Artist meetup November 14

Sat, Nov 14, 10:00 AM

From Drawing & Coffee

4.9

**Join us this Saturday for a relaxed drawing session and creative exchange.** Connect with fellow drawing enthusiasts of all levels—everyone is welcome! We’ll start with a short warm-up exercise, then dive into free drawing until the end. ☕ Coffee will be provided. 🕐 The session ends at 1:00 PM. We’re looking forward to seeing you there! \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **Kommt am Samstag zu einer entspannten Zeichenrunde und kreativem Austausch.** Trefft andere Zeichenbegeisterte – alle Niveaus sind willkommen! Wir starten mit einer kurzen Aufwärmübung und gehen dann über ins freie Zeichnen. ☕ Für Kaffee ist gesorgt. 🕐 Die Runde endet um 13 Uhr. Wir freuen uns auf euch!

10 attendees

Drawing Cafe [#41] Coffee & Sketching in Berlin

Sun, Oct 11, 9:00 AM

From Creative Sessions

4.8

We meet and sketch each other in Berlin. This is just an art gym that we also exercise our social skills. Afterwards usually we go for lunch as a group. **How Does It Work?** This event is simple, we meet and sketch each other doing portraits. Most of the participants use pencils or watercolors. Main aim is to socialize while we draw. There will be plenty of time to talk and get to know each other. We have to mention that this event is suitable for all levels. Many have started to draw in our event actually. **Structure** A. Warmup Phase: We pose to each other for 1 minute. B. Main Phase: We pose to each other for 10 minutes. C. Showcase Phase: We show some of the drawings we did to each other. **Who We Are** Creative Sessions is an art events group located in Berlin. **Is it Free?** The event is free of charge. It is advisable to get a drink though. This is a cafe, we need to have at least half of the people on each table with a drink. They accept only cash and most hot drinks cost from 2.50 to 3.50. **How to help or donate?** The event is provided for free but many people help this be a regular thing. We also need people to volunteer and help for minor tasks like the serving of the drinks or cleaning up. Just send us a message. If you want to donate and keep this event from happening, via Paypal to the host (Miltos) : https://ko-fi.com/miltosthings/ **Art Materials?** Bring your own art materials. **Our Instagram Profile** Follow us on instagram @icreativesessions Use the hashtag #icreativesessions on your post description there to find out drawings from the event!

8 attendees

Drawing Cafe [#43] Coffee & Sketching in Berlin

Sun, Oct 25, 10:00 AM

From Creative Sessions

4.8

We meet and sketch each other in Berlin. This is just an art gym that we also exercise our social skills. Afterwards usually we go for lunch as a group. **How Does It Work?** This event is simple, we meet and sketch each other doing portraits. Most of the participants use pencils or watercolors. Main aim is to socialize while we draw. There will be plenty of time to talk and get to know each other. We have to mention that this event is suitable for all levels. Many have started to draw in our event actually. **Structure** A. Warmup Phase: We pose to each other for 1 minute. B. Main Phase: We pose to each other for 10 minutes. C. Showcase Phase: We show some of the drawings we did to each other. **Who We Are** Creative Sessions is an art events group located in Berlin. **Is it Free?** The event is free of charge. It is advisable to get a drink though. This is a cafe, we need to have at least half of the people on each table with a drink. They accept only cash and most hot drinks cost from 2.50 to 3.50. **How to help or donate?** The event is provided for free but many people help this be a regular thing. We also need people to volunteer and help for minor tasks like the serving of the drinks or cleaning up. Just send us a message. If you want to donate and keep this event from happening, via Paypal to the host (Miltos) : https://ko-fi.com/miltosthings/ **Art Materials?** Bring your own art materials. **Our Instagram Profile** Follow us on instagram @icreativesessions Use the hashtag #icreativesessions on your post description there to find out drawings from the event!

2 attendees

Drawing Cafe [#42] Coffee & Sketching in Berlin

Sun, Oct 18, 9:00 AM

From Creative Sessions

4.8

We meet and sketch each other in Berlin. This is just an art gym that we also exercise our social skills. Afterwards usually we go for lunch as a group. **How Does It Work?** This event is simple, we meet and sketch each other doing portraits. Most of the participants use pencils or watercolors. Main aim is to socialize while we draw. There will be plenty of time to talk and get to know each other. We have to mention that this event is suitable for all levels. Many have started to draw in our event actually. **Structure** A. Warmup Phase: We pose to each other for 1 minute. B. Main Phase: We pose to each other for 10 minutes. C. Showcase Phase: We show some of the drawings we did to each other. **Who We Are** Creative Sessions is an art events group located in Berlin. **Is it Free?** The event is free of charge. It is advisable to get a drink though. This is a cafe, we need to have at least half of the people on each table with a drink. They accept only cash and most hot drinks cost from 2.50 to 3.50. **How to help or donate?** The event is provided for free but many people help this be a regular thing. We also need people to volunteer and help for minor tasks like the serving of the drinks or cleaning up. Just send us a message. If you want to donate and keep this event from happening, via Paypal to the host (Miltos) : https://ko-fi.com/miltosthings/ **Art Materials?** Bring your own art materials. **Our Instagram Profile** Follow us on instagram @icreativesessions Use the hashtag #icreativesessions on your post description there to find out drawings from the event!

2 attendees

Kreativgruppe/ Arts&Crafts group

Tue, Oct 27, 10:00 AM

From Handarbeitsgruppe/ Knitting & Crochet group🧶🍂

4.8

Willkommen in der Kreativgruppe! Hier wird gemalt, gezeichnet und gebastelt. Man kann eigene Ideen umsetzen oder sich an den Vorschlägen der Gruppenleitung orientieren. In der ersten Stunde von 11-12 wird in Stille oder bei leiser Musik gearbeitet, in der zweiten Stunde von 12-13 Uhr sind auch lautere Tätigkeiten wie das Arbeiten mit Holz möglich. Kunstmaterialien werden zur Verfügung gestellt und die Gruppe ist kostenlos. Wir freuen uns, mit euch gemeinsam kreativ zu werden! Welcome to the arts & craft group! This is a space to paint, draw or craft together. You can either work on your own projects or follow the impules of the group facilitator. From 11 -12 we work in silence/ with soft background music, from 12 - 1 it's possible to do more noisy crafts like woodworking. We have a variety of art supplies available and the group is for free. Let's get creative & crafty together!

3 attendees

ART & SOUL - CREATIVE PAINTING

Sun, Oct 11, 2:00 PM

From Artists & Writers Hangout & Events in Berlin

4.8

**A space where creativity flows and inspiration comes to life.** Start Your weekend afternoon in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere made for painting, connecting & enjoying the moment. Whether You know it as Drink & Draw, Sip & Paint, or Wine & Paint, this experience brings together the best of art, people & good energy — all in one place. With easy and encouraging guidance from our Creative Teachers, You’ll create Your own artwork using acrylic paints and oil pastels, while enjoying a calm & inspiring environment. ‍ Our Painting Sessions are perfect whether You’re just starting out or already have experience — no pressure, just creativity and fun. ‍ **WHEN:** Every Friday: "Date & Paint Edition" – for singles & couples to connect and meet new people 4 – 5:30 pm Every Saturday: "Creative Flow Edition" – start Your Saturday with art and inspiration 4 – 5:30 pm Every Sunday: "Chill Vibes Edition" – slow, mindful painting for a smooth Sunday 4 – 5:30 pm > Whether You’re planning a date, taking time for Yourself, or meeting friends, this is Your moment to relax, express Yourself &take home something You created. ‍ **INCLUDES:** All materials (canvas, acrylic paints, oil pastels, brushes & more) **SIGN UP & TICKETS:** No registration needed. Simply come by & get Your ticket at the box office before the session. LEVEL: All levels WHAT YOU NEED: All materials provided (canvas, acrylic paints, oil pastels, brushes & more) COSTS: €20 General (Tickets at the Box Office) \- Free FOR DNA\. MEMBERS See You soon :) Love. DNA

1 attendee

The WAY ART WORKSHOP

Thu, Oct 15, 4:00 PM

From The WAY Berlin

🎨 The WAY Art Workshop – My Home 🏡 Lass deiner Kreativität freien Lauf! 🎨 Bei unserem Acrylmal-Workshop kannst du zur Ruhe kommen, neue Menschen kennenlernen und eine entspannte, inspirierende Zeit in herzlicher Gemeinschaft genießen. ✨ Thema: My Home (Acrylmalerei) 📅 15. Oktober (Donnerstag) 🕕 18:00–20:00 Uhr 📍 Connections Cafe Prinz-Georg-Straße 10, 10827 Berlin 🎨 10 € (inkl. Material) 👥 Nur 10 Plätze – first come, first served! ☕ Komm vorbei, male, begegne neuen Menschen und gönn dir eine kreative Auszeit voller Ruhe und Freude. Wir freuen uns auf dich! 💛