Museum

A sharp critic of popular culture, Kruger addresses the viewer directly to expose the power dynamics that underlie identity, desire and consumerism. Kruger’s large-scale commission for MoMA will envelop the Marron Family Atrium with the artist’s bold textual statements about truth, faith and power. Image above: Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I […] ...

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, […] ...

Green Vault shows from 24 June 2023 the exhibition ” … the beauty of the whole world” – Collection of Heinrich Taddel and his Stone Cabinet. On the occasion of the 300th birthday of the Green Vault in June 2023, magnificent stones will be the focus of an exhibition that is the result of six […] ...

From 8 July 2023, the Museum Barberini in Potsdam shows its own Dutch form of Impressionism: Wolken und Licht (Clouds and Light) presents around 100 works by artists ranging from Vincent van Gogh to Piet Mondrian that have hardly been shown in Germany to date. The exhibition Clouds and Light. Impressionism in Holland shows until 22 […] ...

Edvard Munch’s (1863-1944) radical modernism in painting challenged his time. This was especially true of the Berlin art scene at the turn of the century, on which the Norwegian symbolist had a great influence. The exhibition “Edvard Munch. Magic of the North” is a cooperation with MUNCH in Oslo and tells of the relationship between […] ...

From June 2023, Ether’s Bloom will be the first part of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme with a series of new projects. These include a writer in residence, artistic explorations of AI, a podcast, lectures and talks. The second part of the programme is the development of an app with a special focus on mediation […] ...

Art, Trade and Society in Hanau between the Pre-March and the Post-War Era No period before saw such great changes and disruptions in Germany and the whole world as the century between the 1848 Revolution and the reconstruction after the Second World War. Image caption: Chain of office of the Lord Mayor of Hanau, design […] ...

From 14 September 2023, the Georg Kolbe Museum will be showing the exhibition “In Paradise, the Snow Falls Slowly” by artist Lin May Saeed as a dialogue with Renée Sintenis. Styrofoam creatures climb out of their cages and colonise the Georg Kolbe Museum, wire lobsters free themselves from captivity with their scissors, figures taken from […] ...

The Gropius Bau presents the most comprehensive retrospective to date of General Idea, the Toronto-based artist group that blurred the boundaries between art, media and creative activism. WHERE? Gropius Bau Niederkirchnerstraße 7 10963 Berlin WHEN? Friday, 22.09.2023 – Sunday, 14.01.2024 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 11:00-19:00 Saturday, Sunday 10:00-19:00 Tuesday closed COSTS? The entrance fee is […] ...

The exhibition at Berlins Museum für Fotografie explores the experimental philosophical concept of hyperstition and makes it the starting point for new artistic works by young artists on speculative themes in photography and video. WHEN? Opening: Friday, 5. May 2023, 6 p.m. Event period: Saturday, 6. May – Sunday, 18. June 2023 Opening hours: Tue […] ...

To accompany the exhibition “Wolf Biermann. A Lyricist and Songwriter in Germany” (until 14 January 2024), the German Historical Museum in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Berlin State Library invites you to the discussion series “Biermann in Context” in the Pei-Bau. On five evenings, journalist and literary critic Lothar Müller […] ...

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Pinakothek der Moderne, the Modern Art Collection presents itself in a new way on 3,600 square metres of exhibition space with around 350 works by more than 150 artists. Under the programmatic exhibition title MIX & MATCH, painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography and video art meet […] ...

In a major show, the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s important collection of contemporary art presents its most recent acquisitions and donations (something new) in dialogue with important works that have already enriched the collection for some time (something old) and highlights them with special loans that are on the museum’s wish list for permanent acquisition (something desired) […] ...

A sharp critic of popular culture, Kruger addresses the viewer directly to expose the power dynamics that underlie identity, desire and consumerism. Kruger’s large-scale commission for MoMA will envelop the Marron Family Atrium with the artist’s bold textual statements about truth, faith and power. Image above: Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I […] ...

From 17 March 2023, the Bode Museum will be showing the exhibition “Timeless. Contemporary Ukrainian Art in Times of War”. The sculpture collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art at the Bode-Museum house objects from the 3rd to the 18th century. Despite the historical distance and the often Christian motifs, these representatives of European cultural […] ...

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, […] ...

On the occasion of her 75th birthday, the Neue Nationalgalerie is honouring Isa Genzken with the exhibition “Isa Genzken. 75/75” and shows 75 sculptures from all creative phases of the German artist from the 1970s until today. On view are major works such as the 10-metre-long “Blue-Grey-Yellow Hyperbolo ‘MBB” (1981), “Atelier” (1990), “Venice” (1993), “Nefertiti […] ...

LAS Art Foundation presents Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s Pollinator Pathmaker, a living artwork and participatory initiative. At the core of the project is an algorithm-based tool that designs gardens based on the needs of pollinating insects. WHEN? Exhibition days: Tuesday, 20. June 2023 – Sunday, 1. November 2026 Image above: Digital rendering of Pollinator Pathmaker LAS […] ...

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 […] ...

Bode-Museum will be showing the exhibition Ius in nummis – the numimatic collection of the legal scholar Thomas Würtenberger from 26 May 2023. Law concerns us all. It not only permeates the state, but touches and orders the lives of all people. The exhibition project “Ius in nummis” is about sources of law that are […] ...

Neue Nationalgalerie presents the exhibition Kraftfelder by the artist Judit Reig from 30 June 2023. On the occasion of the artist’s centenary and the donation of three major works by Judit Reigl, the Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting the first solo museum exhibition of the Hungarian-French artist in Germany. With the donation, the Nationalgalerie is the […] ...

An exhibition in our time. – Superman is thwarted and flies into the wall, an oversized hybrid bunny offers maternal protection, a pair of seahorses swap traditional gender roles and passion strikes sparks: with selected contemporary works by 31 female artists of different generations and cultural influences, the exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda is […] ...