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Lübeck is celebrating the birthday of the city’s most famous son: 150 years of Thomas Mann. The Hanseatic city, where the writer was born on 6 June 1875 and which he later described as his ‘heart’s home in the north’, is dedicating a wide-ranging anniversary programme to the great writer and cosmopolitan. At the centre […] ...

From 25 April to summer 2025, the Neue Nationalgalerie will be presenting key new acquisitions by important female artists of the 20th century in the exhibition “Zerreißprobe. Art between Politics and Society”. This was made possible by the commitment of Birgit and Thomas Rabe, whose support enabled the acquisition of works by Maria Lassnig, Ewa […] ...

The exhibition ‘Image and Power. Zeppelin Photography in Focus’, which will be shown at the Zeppelin Museum from 6 June 2025, is the first comprehensive examination of the zeppelin as a photographic motif. It thus sets a new starting point in the examination of the visual history of the airship and shows how the image […] ...

From 12 May 2023, the Kulturforum will be showing the exhibition “Dürer for Berlin. A Search for Traces in the Museum of Prints and Drawings” of the artist Albrecht Dürer. The Berlin Kupferstichkabinett owns one of the world’s most important collections of Albrecht Dürer’s hand drawings and prints. With the help of around 130 masterpieces, […] ...

The Neue Nationalgalerie is showing a performance by the Italian-Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino in the upper hall from 25 to 27 May 2023. “Entrevidas” was first realised in public space in Rio de Janeiro in 1981. On a street in the city centre, passers-by made their way through hundreds of raw chicken eggs. Within […] ...

The art of the second half of the 20th century is characterised by a diversity of materials, media and methods. At the same time, hardly any other era was so marked by division and turmoil, but also by renewal: “Zerreißprobe. Art between Politics and Society” is the title of this collection presentation of the Neue […] ...

On Friday, April 12, 2024, the Hamburger Bahnhof will open a collection presentation of Joseph Beuys for the first time in the Kleihueshalle, which will be shown with changing contemporary solo exhibitions: After a lengthy refurbishment and the conversion of the collection exhibitions, major works by Beuys will be on display there, including the spatial […] ...

Museum Ludwig presents the exhibition On the Value of Time from 10. August 2023 to 31. August 2025. Every two years, the Museum Ludwig shows works of contemporary art in a new presentation. This time, the installations Mountains of Encounter, 2008, by Haegue Yang (1971 in Seoul, South Korea) and The Documentary: Geocentric Puncture, 2014 […] ...

Ayoung Kim uses artificial intelligence, virtual reality, videos, game simulations, sculptures, references to South Korean webcomics and sound fictions to create a fictional universe with its own temporal and spatial laws at Hamburger Bahnhof. The video installations and sculptures in the artist’s first solo exhibition, which can be seen in a German museum from 28 […] ...

From Friday, 23 May 2025, the Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting the first retrospective of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988) in Germany. With around 150 works, the comprehensive exhibition in the upper exhibition hall presents her entire artistic oeuvre from the 1950s to the 1980s, from geometric-abstract paintings to participatory sculptures and performance works. A […] ...

Light breezes, fast gusts, roaring storms – from 28. March 2025, the new exhibition at the Diözesanmuseum Paderborn will be all about the wind. Centuries-old works of art from the museum’s collection will be combined with contemporary art: sculptures, videos, music and sound stations by the artist duo Baumann-Brieske (Bern/Berlin) will bring the natural phenomenon […] ...

Architekturmuseum der TUM in the Pinakothek der Moderne presents from March 13, 2025 the exhibition Trees, Time, Architecture! Design in Constant Transformation. Trees are among the largest, oldest and most complex living things on earth. They grow slowly and often take decades or even centuries to reach their full size. As such, they exceed the […] ...

Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck shows from April 5th, 2025 the group exhibition Verlagert. Art in motion. From the silver treasure of St. Annen Church to works by Käthe Kollwitz and Andy Warhol’s “Holstentor” (1980) – the depots of the Kunsthalle St. Annen and the St. Annen Museum contain precious treasures from nine centuries, some of […] ...

From 21 February to 31 August 2025, Bozar presents a major solo exhibition of Berlinde De Bruyckere (Ghent, 1964). “Khorós” is the very first large-scale exhibition of her work in Brussels. In “Khorós”, De Bruyckere shows a selection of her work from the past 25 years in dialogue with both historical and contemporary artists, ranging […] ...

Neue Nationalgalerie presents the exhibition DREAM TOGETHER by Yoko Ono from 11. April 2025. YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER at Neue Nationalgalerie is an exhibition featuring works from across Ono’s groundbreaking career. The show is presented on the occasion of the survey exhibition YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND, on view at Gropius Bau from 11 […] ...

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe is currently presenting the group exhibition Glitter. Glitter sparkles and shimmers, fascinates and outrages. It can be found on the stage as well as on protest posters and in children’s rooms. Glitter is omnipresent – and yet the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) is the first museum in […] ...

The Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn presents from 14 March 2025 the author Susan Sontag, who has dedicated her life to the study of visual media. WHEN? Exhibition dates: Friday, 14. March – Sunday, 28. September 2025 Monday closed Tuesday 10 am to 6 pm Wednesday 10 am to 9 pm Thursday to Sunday and public holidays* […] ...

The Neue Nationalgalerie will show on 23th May 2025 the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s (1920–1988) first retrospective in Germany. With around 120 artworks, the comprehensive show in the upper hall will present her oeuvre from the late 1940s to the 1980s, ranging from geometricabstract paintings to participatory sculptures and performances. The interactive approach in Clark’s […] ...

For the first time since 1905, the Alte Nationalgalerie is bringing together the sculptures of two artists whose work and paths crossed several times in Paris: Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger. Both are united by their striving for recognition and their simultaneous rejection of the master of French sculpture, Auguste Rodin. In the midst of […] ...

To mark the start of this year’s Gallery Weekend 2025 in Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting a new site-specific fog sculpture by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya in its sculpture garden – a work that is both monumental and ephemeral, engaging with the iconic architecture of Mies van der Rohe. WHEN? Exhibition period: Friday, 02. […] ...

From 13 June 2025, the Hamburger Bahnhof will be celebrating Berlin’s electronic music culture for the third time with the DJ series Berlin Beats. In the past two years, a total of over 100,000 visitors danced in the museum’s garden during the summer months. This year’s edition of Berlin Beats will kick off with alys(alys)alys […] ...

Das Kupferstichkabinett zeigt ab dem 20. Mai 2025 die Ausstellung “Das alles bin ich!”, die der Schenkung des Sammlers Christoph Müller gewidmet ist. Die Präsentation versammelt ausgewählte grafische Werke, die eine ebenso vielfältige wie persönliche Sammlungsgeschichte widerspiegeln. WANN? Ausstellungsdaten: Ab Dienstag, 20. Mai 2025, von 10 bis 18 Uhr. WO? KupferstichkabinettJohanna-und-Eduard-Arnhold-Platz / Matthäikirchplatz10785 Berlin Abb. oben: […] ...

Tate Modern is currently presenting a landmark exhibition of Do Ho Suh’s practice, marking the first major solo showing of his work in London for a generation. The artist invites visitors to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos and drawings, asking questions about home, memory, identity and how we move through and inhabit the world […] ...

In its second exhibition after moving into the newly designed Blockhaus, the Archive of the Avant-Garde – Egidio Marzona (ADA) is dedicating a comprehensive presentation to visionary architectural concepts, building utopias and dystopias of the 20th century from 16 November 2024. During these decades, architects were called upon to respond to numerous crisis situations and […] ...