Title: Status and Perspectives of Dark Matter Searches

Abstract: In the last year many collaborations searching for the dark matter constituent have published results from their experiments. Here I give a review of direct detection searches reported by the DAMA, KIMS, CDMS-II, EDELWEISS-I, CRESST-II and ZEPLIN-I collaborations. I also outline the future plans of each collaboration as well as the XENON10 collaboration.