With the festival meeting point "BAW Garten," Berlin Art Week also attracts visitors to the countryside. Visitors can experience performances, talks, interventions, workshops and music at the Neue Nationalgalerie. A temporary artistic installation of trees along the iconic building provides the setting and puts the focus on sustainability. Artistically, director Klaus Biesenbach has another treat in store: with Yoko Ono's permission, the museum is allowed to show her 1964 performance "Cut Piece" every day.

This week, the foundation Faurschou New York made the decision to shutter an installation of Yoko Ono’s work Ex It—an indoor arboretum of dogwood and evergreen trees planted in coffins—after four of the trees included in the work died. The installation had opened in April as a major part of the three-artist exhibition “Embrace the World from Within,” which also included works by artists Miles Greenberg and Louise Bourgeois.

Liverpool city centre’s oldest building will hold a talk on the artist, plus a series of behind the scenes building tours and open studios. This September the Bluecoat will celebrate Heritage Open Days, England’s largest festival of history and culture, with a talk on the arts centre’s long relationship with iconic artist Yoko Ono. Responding to this year’s Heritage Open Days theme of ‘Unwrapping Creativity’, the Bluecoat’s Director of Cultural Legacies, Bryan Biggs, will explore both these events in a fascinating free talk. This will be illustrated by archival material including some relating to other events at the arts centre associated with Ono, such as Bed-In at the Bluecoat, 2010.