The popular fog sculpture by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya in the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie will be extended until the end of October 2025 thanks to a generous donation, and will also be on display during the 2026 summer season. The extension has been made possible by a generous donation from Birgit and Thomas Rabe during the recent Berlin Art Week weekend.
Image above: Nebelskultpur by Fujiko Nakaya in the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie, © Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / David von Becker.
The Neue Nationalgalerie welcomed around 32,000 visitors during this year’s Berlin Art Week. On Sunday, the PERFORM! festival came to a grand conclusion with the ‘Tag im Grünen’ (Day in the Green) and Yoko Ono’s participatory performance ‘Bells for Peace’. PERFORM!, the fourth annual performance festival during Berlin Art Week, presented performances by Joan Jonas, Isaac Chong Wai and Corey Scott-Gilbert | vAL in the outdoor area of the Neue Nationalgalerie from 10 to 14 September 2025.
The ‘Tag im Grünen’ (Day in the Countryside) event also took place on Sunday at the Kulturforum Berlin, as did the participatory Yoko Ono performance ‘Bells for Peace’ on the terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie. At the same time, the exhibition ‘YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER’ celebrated its conclusion with 260,000 visitors.
The creator of the fog sculptures, Fujiko Nakaya, was born in Sapporo, Japan, in 1933. In the 1960s, she gained recognition as a member of the New York collective Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.) and eventually achieved international fame for her immersive fog sculptures. Fujiko Nakaya developed her first fog sculpture for the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, using a system that generates pure water mist.
Nakaya has developed a new installation for the Neue Nationalgalerie that encompasses the entire sculpture garden. Various fog formations lasting approximately eight to ten minutes regularly start from selected sides of the garden, mingle with the trees and the stationary sculptures by Henri Laurens, Wolfgang Mattheuer and Alicja Kwade, and finally drift away from the centre of the sculpture garden into the sky. The moving fog appears in varying densities – sometimes as an almost tangible volume, sometimes as a translucent veil.
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WHERE?
Neue Nationalgalerie
at Kulturforum Berlin
Potsdamer Straße 50
10785 Berlin
