More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
EXHIBITIONS
Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin
The exhibition shows for the first time the long-term loan from the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation to the Neue Nationalgalerie. The central work in the exhibition is the series Birkenau (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings.
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Christoph Schlingensief. Deutschlandsuche ’99
The Neue Nationalgalerie is honored to present Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) – the highly influential German artist, author, filmmaker, theater and opera director as well as professor of fine arts – with a dedicated room in the current collection presentation Extreme…
EXHIBITIONS
Encounters. Non-European Arts and Crafts in the Collection of the Kunstgewerbemuseum
In June 2022, a new intervention was introduced to the permanent exhibition of the Kunstgewerbemuseum. A small display between the Rococo and the Baroque sections features some 50 exhibits that were previously locked away in the museum’s storage facilities: finely chiselled…
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Fashion from Paris. A Donation of Erika Hoffmann
Coinciding with the donation from Berlin art collector Erika Hoffmann, the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) is exhibiting 20 selected items of clothing and accessories from over 20 years of Parisian fashion history.
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Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society. Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000
The art of the second half of the twentieth century is marked by an enormous diversity of materials, mediums, and methods. At the same time, hardly another era was so characterized by division, rupture, and transformation as the period after the Second World War.
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The Worlds of Rococo. The Porcelain and Faience Collection
The eighteenth century was the century of porcelain. Princes, aristocrats and the well-to-do bourgeoisie were absolutely addicted to this “white gold”. People would even speak of the maladie de porcelain.
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Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten District
A presentation with free admission by the Kunstbibliothek (Art Library) recollects the creative, art-loving populace of the area around the former Matthäikirchplatz (St. Matthew’s Church Square) a century ago.
EXHIBITIONS
A Home/Haunting: 40 Years of the KGM at the Kulturforum
An occasion such as the 40th anniversary of the Kunstgewerbemuseum (KGM, Museum of Decorative Art), which opened in 1985 in a new building designed by Rolf Gutbrod at the Kulturforum in West Berlin, is often an opportunity for celebratory review.
