During the summer holidays, the Neue Nationalgalerie is transformed into a lively creative space for all generations. Over six weeks, we invite children, young people, families and adults to collectively discover the current exhibitions from Lygia Clark to Yoko Ono and to get involved creatively in a variety of ways. Whether in open formats, workshops lasting several days or spontaneous drop-in events – encounters are created here that transcend age and experience boundaries. From interactive freedom of movement to experimental worlds of colour, we offer a variety of approaches that encourage shared exchange and new perspectives on art, dreams and community.
Image above: Sommerferienprogramm der Neuen Nationalgalerie, © Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung, Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Ute Klein
Multi-day summer holiday offer for children
Coletivo: Experience and move
Wed – Fri / 30 July – 1 August 2025 / 11 am – 2 pm
How do geometric constructions get moving? How does art stimulate our senses? How do we become part of a work of art or even a shared body? Experience the exhibition by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, set sculptures in motion and let your senses guide you. Make your own sensory amplifiers. See, hear and smell the world a little differently. Get to know the concept of the ‘Corpo Coletivo’ (collective body) and immerse yourself in movement together.
- For children from 6 – 9 years, max. 12 people
- Duration: several days, 180 minutes
- Participation fee: 36 €
- Meeting point: ticket office / information desk
Multi-day summer holiday programme for young people
Sharing Dreams
Tue – Thu / 5 – 7 August 2025 / 11 am – 2 pm
What dreams do you have for our coexistence? How can we become active together and take a stand? You will explore Yoko Ono’s exhibition, interact with the artworks and build your own installation or develop a performance that encourages others to join in and become part of a joint work.
- For young people, max. 15 people
- Duration: 180 minutes
- Participation fee: 36 €
- Meeting point: ticket office / information desk
Family tours
Imagine Yoko Ono
Sun / 6. July, 3 August + 7 September 2025 / 11 a.m.
What does Yoko Ono dream of? How did she change art? Why are peace and cohesion so important? Since the 1950s, Yoko Ono has been making art that encourages participation and questions. Explore the exhibition together and get active.
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Participation fee including admission: €10 per family (2 people), €15 per family (3 or more people)
- Limited number of participants
- Meeting point: ticket office / information desk
Family workshops
Think squared!
Fri / 8 August, 22 August + 5 September 2025 / 11 am – 2 pm
A search for traces of shapes, colours and figures. What makes the art in the ‘Zerreißprobe’ collection presentation so special? Where can you find yourself? On a tour of the exhibition, you will explore the diverse artworks and themes of the collection. You will then use your discoveries to develop a collective collage on your own themes using a wide variety of materials.
- Duration: 120 minutes
- Participation fee including admission: €15 per family (2 people), €20 per family (3 or more people)
- Limited number of participants
- Meeting point: ticket office / information desk
Colourful, more colourful, your experience
Wed / 30 July, 13 + 27 August 2025 / 11 am – 2 pm
What colours do memories have? What can’t be captured in a photo? The artist Gerhard Richter paints over snapshots with thick traces of colour. Bring reality, memories and emotions to life and breathe new life into your (own) photos with splashes of colour. Please bring your own (printed) photographs to create your own personalised pictures. Otherwise, a selection of pre-printed templates will be available.
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Participation fee including admission: €10 per family (2 people), €15 per family (3 or more people)
- Limited number of participants
- Meeting point: ticket office / information desk
Drop-in workshops for families and young adults
Lygia Clark: Living constructions
Sat / 12 – 5 pm + Sun / 12 – 5 pm
How do geometric constructions get moving? How can we bring objects to life? And how can others help to set them in motion? Build your own moving sculptures. Stack rectangles on top of each other, push parts into each other and wildly intertwine circles and triangles. Think about where you can make individual parts of your sculpture moveable by bending or cutting them.
- Participation free of charge, plus admission
- Limited number of participants
- Meeting point: mediation table in the upper hall
- No online booking required
Lygia Clark: Performative free space
Thu / 4 – 8 pm
In the exhibition, guided by a mediator, you can learn movements together. Get to know the concept of the ‘Corpo Coletivo’ (collective body) in action and develop your own performative moments. Let yourself be inspired by Lygia Clark’s work.
- Participation free of charge, plus admission
- Limited number of participants
- Meeting point: in the exhibition
- No online booking required
Exhibitions
Lygia Clark. Retrospective
until 12 October 2025
A special exhibition of the Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in co-operation with the Kunsthaus Zürich. The Neue Nationalgalerie is showing the first retrospective of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988) in Germany. With around 120 works of art, the comprehensive show in the upper exhibition hall presents her entire artistic oeuvre from the late 1940s to the 1980s, from geometric-abstract paintings to participatory sculptures and performative works. A central aspect of the exhibition is the interactive approach in Clark’s work. Visitors can interact with a large number of newly produced exhibition copies.
YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER
until 14 September 2025
A special exhibition of the Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER” is an exhibition of works from all phases of Yoko Ono’s groundbreaking artistic oeuvre, all of which have the common goal of creating peace. The exhibition invites the public to actively participate beyond mere contemplation – both physically and mentally. The actions often begin on an individual level and then evolve into broader, collective actions that demonstrate the transformative power of collective action for peace and imagining a better world. Ono’s works call for collective action: Repairing, restoring, cleaning, wishing, imagining, dreaming.
Fujiko Nakaya
until 14 September 2025
A special exhibition of the Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
In its sculpture garden, the Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting a new site-specific fog sculpture by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, which plays monumentally and ephemerally around the iconic architecture of Mies van der Rohe. Born in Sapporo, Japan in 1933, Nakaya achieved international fame in 1970 for her immersive fog sculptures, which she creates using a system of pure water mist. Since then, she has had important solo exhibitions, most recently at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2019), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2022) and the Fondation Beyeler (2024). For the Neue Nationalgalerie, Nakaya has developed a new installation that encompasses the entire sculpture garden and opens up new perspectives on the architecture of Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie.
Torture test. Art between politics and society. Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000
until further noticebis auf weiteres
A presentation of the collection of the Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
The art of the second half of the 20th century is characterised by great contradictions and an enormous variety of media and artistic strategies. At the same time, hardly any other era was so characterised by division and disruption as well as far-reaching renewal: “Zerreißprobe. Art between Politics and Society” is the title of the Neue Nationalgalerie’s presentation of art from 1945 to the turn of the millennium. It shows 163 works by a total of 143 artists – including Marina Abramović, Francis Bacon, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Valie Export, Maria Lassnig, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Barnett Newman, Pippilotti Rist, Cornelia Schleime, Christoph Schlingensief, Carolee Schneemann, Andy Warhol and many more.
Gerhard Richter. 100 works for Berlin
until further notice
A special exhibition of the Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
“Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin” shows a selection of works on long-term loan to the Nationalgalerie from the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation. The central work of the exhibition in the Grafisches Kabinett of the Neue Nationalgalerie is the cycle ‘Birkenau’ (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. It is the result of Richter’s long and deep examination of the Holocaust and its representability. In addition to the Birkenau cycle, more than 90 other works by the artist from several creative phases since the 1980s are on display, including ‘Besetztes Haus’ (1989), ‘4900 Farben’ (2007) and ‘Strip’ (2013/2016). Another group of works comprises pieces from the important group of works ‘Übermalte Fotografien’ (since 1986). The exhibition was created in close collaboration with the artist.
WHEN?
Start of the summer holiday programme: Thursday, 24 July 2025
Multi-day workshops for children: Wednesday to Friday, 30 July – 1 August 2025, 11:00 – 14:00
Multi-day workshops for teenagers: Tuesday to Thursday, 5 – 7 August 2025, 11:00 – 14:00
Family tours: Sundays, 6 July, 3 August and 7 September 2025, each at 11:00
Family workshops: Fridays, 8 August, 22 August and 5 September 2025, 11:00 – 14:00
Drop-in workshops: Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00 – 17:00 (dates vary)
Opening hours of the Neue Nationalgalerie:
Tuesday – Wednesday: 10:00 – 18:00
Thursday: 10:00 – 20:00
Friday – Sunday: 10:00 – 18:00
WHERE?
Kulturforum Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie
Potsdamer Straße 50
10785 Berlin
COST?
Participation fee for multi-day workshops: €36
Family tours and workshops: between €10 and €20 per family, depending on number of participants
Admission to the Neue Nationalgalerie: regular fees (varies by exhibition, please check online)
Some workshops are free of charge, admission not included
