Temporary Exhibitions | National Museums in Berlin

Amarna 2012. 100 Years of Nefertiti

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0100

7 Dezember 2012 - 13 April 2013
Neues Museum

To mark the anniversary of the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti on 6 December 1912, the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection will be presenting an extensive special exhibition on the Amarna period at the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island. The exhibition focuses on never-before-seen discoveries from the collections of the Berlin museums, supplemented by loans from other museums abroad, allowing Nefertiti's time to be understood within its cultural-historical context. All aspects of this fascinating period are illuminated and explained in detail. Not only are the often-discussed topics of the period's theology and art covered, but also everyday life in the city.

Weihnachtspyramiden

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

30 November 2012 - 3 Februar 2013
Museen Dahlem

Die Ausstellung greift in der Adventszeit einen selten gezeigten, aber außerordentlich interessanten Bestand des Museums Europäischer Kulturen auf. Sie zeigt die kulturhistorische Einbettung und Entwicklungsgeschichte dieses für Deutschland typischen Objekts der Weihnachtszeit, dessen Ausstrahlung weltweit wahrgenommen wird.

Translatio Nummorum.Die zwölf ersten römischen Caesaren in der Renaissance

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

23 November 2012 - 15 März 2013
Bode-Museum

Antike Münzen stellen bis heute das umfangreichste Quellenmaterial dar, das uns jene Epoche überliefert hat. Sie waren seit jeher ein Informationsmedium par excellence, insbesondere in der Antike, als andere Nachrichtenträger weniger verbreitet waren. In der Epoche der Renaissance wurden Münzen nicht nur bevorzugtes Sammelobjekt, sondern spielten eine wichtige Rolle bei der Wiederentdeckung der antiken Kultur. Die Viten der römischen Kaiser und ihre Bildnisse fanden besondere Aufmerksamkeit.

Bogomir Ecker. Idyllen und Desaster

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

16 November 2012 - 17 Februar 2013
Museum für Fotografie

Seit vielen Jahren sammelt der Künstler Bogomir Ecker mit unkonventionellem, eben künstlerischem Blick historische Fotografien: von Landschaftsaufnahmen des 19. Jahrhunderts aus aller Welt bis zur klassischen Presse- und Sensationsfotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts aus den USA. Die Bilder werden von ihm einerseits direkt für die künstlerische Arbeit etwa bei den 'Hammerschlag-Übermalungen' verwendet, dienen aber auch als Inspirationsquelle für skulpturale Werke. Folglich steht im Kaisersaal des Museums für Fotografie eine monumentale Skulptur Eckers im Mittelpunkt, um die sich Fotografien aus den Themengruppen Idyllen und Desaster präsentieren.

Erik Steinbrecher. Über Alles

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0100

1 November 2012 - 17 Februar 2013
Kunstbibliothek

Der 1963 in Basel geborene und in Berlin lebende Künstler Erik Steinbrecher entwirft für die Ausstellung "Über Alles" in der Kunstbibliothek eine besondere Rauminstallation mit seinen Künstlerbüchern. Seine visuell ebenso faszinierenden wie witzigen Künstlerbücher werden darin in einem Spannungsbogen zu seinen Arbeiten in anderen Medien gezeigt, Bücher, Filme, Fotografien und Skulpturen eröffnen durchaus widersprüchliche assoziative Berührungsfelder gegenwärtiger Bildwelten des Alltags.

Josef Strzygowski und die Berliner Museen

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

19 Oktober 2012 - 20 Januar 2013
Bode-Museum

Für den Aufbau einer hochkarätigen spätantiken und byzantinischen Sammlung in den Jahren vor Eröffnung des Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums (1904) griff Wilhelm von Bode auf einen Kenner der byzantinischen Kunst zurück: Josef Strzygowski. Mit Hilfe des in Graz lehrenden Kunsthistorikers wuchs dieser Sammlungsbereich von weniger als 100 auf etwa 2.000 Objekte an. Auch das Ägyptische Museum und die Islamische Abteilung profitierten von seiner Arbeit.

Martin Honert

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

6 Oktober 2012 - 7 April 2013
Hamburger Bahnhof

Erinnerungen an die Kindheit stehen im Zentrum des künstlerischen Werks von Martin Honert, das die Nationalgalerie in einer umfassenden Einzelausstellung in der Haupthalle des Hamburger Bahnhofs präsentiert. Ausgehend von Bildern, die ihm im Gedächtnis geblieben sind, von Familienfotografien und Kinderzeichnungen inszeniert der Künstler Momente der eigenen Biografie und setzt sie in dreidimensionale Objekte um.

Russians and Germans. 1000 Years of Art, History and Culture

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

5 Oktober 2012 - 13 Januar 2013
Neues Museum

For the first time a major exhibition is being held that will highlight the historical depth and diversity of common ties between Russians and Germans. In the exhibition, an arch will be formed telling the story of these two countries' ties, starting with the period of initial contact and intense trade links in the Middle Ages, moving on to the age of lively, dynamic interaction in the 18th and 19th century, through to the fundamental breaks and successful fresh starts in the 20th century.

Chinesische Lackkunst. Eine deutsche Privatsammlung

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

5 Oktober 2012 - 3 Januar 2013
Museen Dahlem

Nach der glanzvollen Präsentation ostasiatischer Lacke aus der Sammlung von Klaus F. Naumann - mit dem Schwerpunkt auf japanischen Lackarbeiten - im Jubiläumsjahr der Ostasiatischen Kunstsammlung 2006 und der anschließenden Ausstellung chinesischer Lackkunst aus der Sammlung Mike Healy, Honololu, wird als dritte Sonderausstellung dieser Reihe eine hervorragende deutsche Privatsammlung in den Sonderausstellungsräumen der Ostasiatischen Kunstsammlung gezeigt, die umfassend die Vielfalt und Schönheit chinesischer Lackkunst vor Augen führt.

Klage um einen verstorbenen Prinzen. Die Pleurants vom Grabmal des Herzogs Jean sans Peur in Dijon

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200

27 September 2012 - 2 Februar 2013
Bode-Museum

Während das Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon wegen Generalsanierung mehrere Jahre geschlossen ist, geht einer seiner Schätze auf Reisen: die "Pleurants" (die "Trauernden") vom Grabmal des Herzogs von Burgund, Johann Ohnefurcht. Es sind 39 Alabasterfiguren, die der Hofbildhauer Juan de la Huerta zwischen 1443 und 1456 anfertigte. Jede Figur ist etwa 35 cm hoch und verkörpert ein Mitglied der spätmittelalterlichen Gesellschaft in individueller Trauerhaltung. Die "Pleurants" zählen zu den überragenden Werken spätmittelalterlicher Plastik.

Romantik und Mittelalter. Architektur und Natur in der Malerei nach Schinkel

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200

14 September 2012 - 6 Januar 2013
Alte Nationalgalerie

In engem Bezug zur Schinkelausstellung am Kulturforum wird die Architekturmalerei in der Nachfolge und im Umkreis des Malers und Architekten Karl Friedrich Schinkel vorgestellt. Das Architekturbild erlebte in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts eine überraschende Blüte, die daraus erwuchs, dass der mittelalterlichen Architektur selbst eine starke emotionale Bedeutung zugefallen war.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel - History and Poetry

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200

7 September 2012 - 6 Januar 2013
Sonderausstellungshallen Kulturforum

An exhibition organised by the National Museums in Berlin - Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings), in conjunction with the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich.
On 6 September 1812 the city of Moscow, at the time occupied by Napoleonic troops, was burning. The fire, probably started by the Russian side in a strategic move is to be regarded as a poignant visual marker symbolizing the turning point of the Napoleonic wars and the subsequent restructuring of Europe. A few months later, during the Christmas period, Schinkel restaged the event and created a sophisticated optical diorama, which was enthusiastically received by the Berlin audience. The exhibition will open on the 200th anniversary of this event, with one of the highlights being a reconstruction of this impressive construction.

The Colonial Eye. Early Portrait Photography in India

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0200

20 Juli - 21 Oktober 2012
Museum für Fotografie

One of the world's most comprehensive and significant collections of portrait photography from India is on exhibit for the first time. The collection was originally thought to be lost during World War II, only gradually returning to Berlin's National Museums beginning in the 1990s.

Homme de lettres.Federic. The King at his Writing Desk

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0200

6 Juli - 30 September 2012
Kunstbibliothek

The exhibition 'Homme de lettres - Féderic: The King at his Writing Desk' traces the broad spectrum of Frederick the Great's literary output and its impact. The exhibition revolves around several key questions such as: how did governance, conducted from the monarch's study, actually work? What did dominion over Prussia look like when seen from the perspective of the king's writing desk? What was the intellectual context in which Frederick's historical and political works were written? What was the dynastic and intellectual background to Frederick's correspondence? Other areas covered in the exhibition are Frederick as a musician and composer, the portrayal of the king as a literary figure in films of the twentieth century, Frederick's relation to his hounds and his trusted confidants (his lector and lords-in waiting).

Zurück zu den Anfängen.Schätze früher Hochkulturen der Ägäis in der Antikensammlung

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Ende Juni 2012 - 7 Juni 2013
Altes Museum

Die kleine Ausstellung im Obergeschoß des Alten Museums "Zurück zu den Anfängen. Schätze früher Hochkulturen der Ägäis in der Antikensammlung" thematisiert anhand beispielhafter Bestände der Antikensammlung die ägäische Bronzezeit und die materiellen Hinterlassenschaften der bronzezeitlichen Entwicklung mit dem Höhepunkt der "Palastkultur".

Eleganz und raue Sitten. Cornelis Bega.Ein Haarlemer Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

29 Juni - 30 September 2012
Gemäldegalerie

Erstmals wird Cornelis Bega (1631/32 -1664) eine umfassende Einzelausstellung gewidmet. Bega, ein angesehener Haarlemer Maler, malte vorwiegend ländliche Genreszenen; er wurde "als einer der besten seiner Zeit" hoch gelobt. Gezeigt wird eine repräsentative Auswahl von ca. 40 Gemälden, 20 Zeichnungen und einigen Radierungen, vor allem aus den letzten Jahren des Künstlers, in denen er begeisternde malerische Eleganz und farbliche Raffinesse erreicht.

Jenseits des Horizonts. Raum und Wissen in den Kulturen der Alten Welt

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

22 Juni - 30 September 2012
Pergamonmuseum

Die Ausstellung widmet sich den vielfältigen Fragen des Wissens über Räume in antiken Kulturen des erweiterten Mittelmeerraumes. Bereits in der Antike hat der Mensch seine Lebensumwelt beobachtet, sich ihren natürlichen Bedingungen angepasst und sie nach seinen Bedürfnissen geformt. Durch die Entwicklung von Schrift konnte er neue Organisationsformen schaffen, Wissen festhalten und weitergeben sowie Informationen archivieren.

Porcelain for the Palaces of Frederick the Great

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

15 Juni - 28 Oktober 2012
Schloss Köpenick

During the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) Frederick II had Prussian troops take control of the Meissen porcelain factory and ordered scores of highly coveted porcelain works be produced for his court. In 1761 he encouraged Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky (who became a leading merchant and financier in Frederick II's reign), to set up his own porcelain factory in the Prussian capital Berlin. But when this commercial venture was poised to fail, the king swiftly decided to take over the production site and in 1763 established it as a royal factory, with the royal sceptre as its trademark.

Alfredo Jaar - The way it is. An Aesthetics of Resistance

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

15 Juni - 16 September 2012
Alte Nationalgalerie

In cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie and Alte Nationalgalerie, the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK) is showing the first retrospective exhibition in Germany of the internationally acclaimed artist Alfredo Jaar (* 1956 / Santiago de Chile).

China and Prussia. Porcelain and Tea

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

8 Juni - 31 Dezember 2012
Museen Dahlem

Examples of Chinese porcelain are on display that once formed part of the porcelain service for Frederick II, crafted sometime around 1755. The 'Royal Prussian Asiatic Company in Emden to Canton and China' was founded by the king and from 1750 to 1757 it sent four trade ships to East Asia. On its return to Emden in north Germany, one of these ships bore the dinner service, embellished with the Prussian coat of arms, as a gift for the king.

Helmut Newton. White Women / Sleepless Nights / Big Nudes

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

2 Juni - 18 November 2012
Museum für Fotografie

Originally conceived for and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the current exhibition at the Helmut Newton Foundation is dedicatedto Newton's first three legendary publications. The motifs published in the books have been transformed into modern exhibition prints. During Newton's lifetime, these photographs bordering between fashion and nude photography were never displayed together.

Fascinated by Blue and White.Chinese Porcelain in Islamic Painting

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

11 Mai - 12 August 2012
Pergamonmuseum

Long before the European obsession for Chinese porcelain began, the attractive high-fired wares were one of the treasured imports in the Islamic Middle East. Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain especially fascinated everyone who laid eyes upon it. Since its first real appearance in the Middle East in the 14th -century, blue and white wares were eagerly collected, copied, exchanged, and - especially in the Indo-Persian world - , displayed in "porcelain houses" (chini-khane), all carefully arranged in individually shaped niches.

secret universe III.Morton Bartlett

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

11 Mai - 23 September 2012
Hamburger Bahnhof

The third exhibition of the "secret universe" series presents the work of the American artist Morton Bartlett (1909-1992). Central works of his oeuvre are fifteen semi-life-sized dolls, twelve girls and three boys. Having dropped out of Harvard in order to work as a commercial photographer, Bartlett began producing these dolls in the middle of the 1930s, attempting to make them seem as life-like as possible.

On the Plurality of Worlds. The Arts of the Enlightenment

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

10 Mai - 5 August 2012
Sonderausstellungshallen Kulturforum

The European Enlightenment is famed as an epoch of literature and philosophy, an epoch of writing. Its significance for the fine arts, however, has often been overlooked, which is unfair, for in art the Enlightenment found a force that is able to change our world by creating new ones. The exhibition 'On the Plurality of Worlds' revolves around this revolutionary idea, inspired by the speculations of Enlightenment thinkers that our cosmos is merely one of many universes. The exhibition derives its name from the title of a book that fuelled the imaginations of Enlightenment thinkers more than any other: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, published in 1686.

Comic Life

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

5 Mai - 28 Oktober 2012
Museen Dahlem

The exhibition gives us a glimpse into the daily lives of seven people who are very much influenced by their fascination for and the aesthetic of comics. The acclaimed illustrator Marko Djurdjevic, the prizewinning graphic novel author Ulli Lust, publisher Dirk Rehm, gallery owner Carsten Laqua, collector René Köhler, manga enthusiast Nicole and comic researcher Professor Dietrich Grünewald - are all united through their passion for this type of pictorial narrative.

Fascinated by Nature. Landscapes, Plants and Animals in the Tradition of East Asian Painting from the Neumann-Ogando Collection

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200

4 Mai - 5 August 2012
Museen Dahlem

About 60 pictures by Japanese and Chinese painters from the 18th to 20th centuries in the form of scroll paintings as well as several graphic prints will be on display at this exhibition. The works have been selected from the Neumann-Ogando collection which is being unveiled to the public in such detail for the first time and will be explored further in the accompanying catalogue.

Qiu Shihua. White Field

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

26 April - 5 August 2012
Hamburger Bahnhof

This exhibition in the National Gallery's Hamburger Bahnhof of paintings that include many major canvases amounts to the first solo exhibition dedicated to the work of the Chinese artist Qiu Shihua ever to go on show in a European museum. The exhibition covers his early paintings from the seventies up to his most recent canvases, thus forming a representative overview of the creative output of Qiu Shihua (born 1940 in Sichuan, lives and works in Beijing and Shenzhen, China).

Ceramic and Glass

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

26 April - 30 September 2012
Bode-Museum

The storerooms of the Museum of Byzantine Art contain an array of ceramics and several surprisingly well preserved glass objects from the East Roman Empire. Most of these objects have never been placed on public display before. Several selected ceramics and some glassware from Egypt and Asia Minor are now on display in rooms 110 and 113 of the Bode Museum.

Anthony McCall.Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

20 April - 12 August 2012
Hamburger Bahnhof

For the first time, the work of the New York-based artist Anthony McCall will be presented in a solo exhibition at a German museum. McCall's unique projections, which he has been developing since the 1970s, exist at the boundaries between cinema, sculpture and drawing: animated lines are projected in a dark room filled with a light haze, allowing viewers to step into the beam of light and change its appearance.

Cy Twombly & The School of Fontainebleau

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

6 April - 7 Oktober 2012
Hamburger Bahnhof

Cy Twombly is among the select group of artists represented in the Marx Collection by a comprehensive series of works. Erich Marx initially focused on Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol when establishing his collection. Key works by these artists are permanently on view in the Kleihues Hall. New hangings enable individual series to be considered in new contexts, thus deepening the viewer's experience of the work.

Architektonika 2

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200

5 April 2012 - 13 Januar 2013
Hamburger Bahnhof

Architektonika displays works from both the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and the Nationalgalerie's own collections as well as selected works on loan, which all draw on architecture through different approaches. Sculptural and photographic works, films and paintings illustrate how differently artists have approached the interface between art and architecture since the 1960s. Last year, the emphasis was placed on the sculptural and visual qualities of architectural structures; this year the central question is how architecture defines urban space, the way we live, and thus also social structures.

'Old Fritz, Who Lives in his People'.The Image of Frederick the Great in Adolph Menzel

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

23 März - 24 Juni 2012
Alte Nationalgalerie

Between them, the National Gallery and the Kupferstichkabinett have in their collecitons most of the paintings and works on paper that the young Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) created depicting the life of Frederick the Great. Besides the many famous pictures from this time, executed with an enthusiastic eye for detail, we also have hundreds of studies, working proofs and woodblocks from the artist's numerous major illustrative series.

On the Edge of Reason.The Picture Series in the Age of the Enlightenment

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

16 März - 29 Juli 2012
Kupferstichkabinett

The exhibition whisks visitors to the murky edges of the Age of Reason. The creative and fantastical visual world of the capriccio thrived all the way through the 18th century, existing beyond the intellectual, socially critical and emancipatory endeavours of the Enlightenment. Stock themes of myth and reality, of antiquity and the modern day, of arcadias and Commedia dell´Arte, of ornament and decay all merge, piece-by-piece to form a kaleidoscope of playfully vivid imaginings. The pictures on display here depict the fancifully capricious but equally dark, irrational sides of nature, architecture and humankind.

Lu Hao: Karl Marx and Eternal Peace. Pictures of Two Grand Avenues in Beijing and Berlin

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

10 März - 17 Juni 2012
Museen Dahlem

Lu Hao, a young artist born in 1969 and now based in Beijing, created two 50-metre long horizontal scrolls, 'Recording 2005 Chang'An Street' and 'Recording 2006 Chang'An Street', which show views of the north and south sides of the avenue in Beijing. The works were shown at documenta 12 in Kassel in 2007. From 2010 to 2011 Lu Hao worked on their Berlin pendant: the 'Berlin Scrolls', which run to 21 metres in length and depict the north and south side of Karl-Marx-Allee.

Metamorphosis of Japan after the War. Photography 1945 - 1964

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

9 März - 17 Juni 2012
Museum für Fotografie

An exhibition organized by the Japan Foundation in cooperation with the Art Library - National Museums in Berlin, kindly supported by the Japanese-German Center Berlin.
In the years following the Second World War in Japan, photography played an important role in the development of a new national identity. From the shock of the atomic bomb to the country's re-emergence at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, important photographers documented the birth of a new Japanese nation. This exhibition includes 123 photographs, as well as books, magazines and exhibition catalogues featuring works from 11 leading representatives of Japanese photography of these years.

Alberto Giacometti. Prints

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

7 März - 17 Juni 2012
Neue Nationalgalerie

In 1985 the Kupferstichkabinett managed to acquire a large part of Alberto Giacometti's body of prints, which spans more than 350 chalk lithographs and etchings. To coincide with the major exhibition 'Divided Heaven - The Collection 1945-1968 - New National Gallery', which also features Giacometti's bronze sculpture 'Thin Woman without Arms' (1958/1960), the Kupferstichkabinett now presents 20 master prints by the Swiss artist that were created between 1951 and 1965 in Paris and are now on display in an intimate, one-room show in the New National Gallery.

Dodo (1907-1998) - A Life in Pictures

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0100

1 März - 28 Mai 2012
Kunstbibliothek

The first ever presentation and long-overdue rediscovery of Dodo's graphic work provides a broad insight into an artistic life that was shaped by constant upheaval. Dodo, born in 1907 in Berlin as Dörte Clara Wolff, enjoyed a care-free upbringing in a wealthy Jewish milieu. Even as a young woman, she possessed an allure over those around her and a nature that was uncompromising and intensely emotional.

Changes of View. Painting in the Medium of Prints in the 19th Century

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

21 Februar - 20 Mai 2012
Gemäldegalerie

As part of its series of rotating studio exhibitions, the Kupferstichkabinett presents works from its collection that offer a glimpse into four graphic reproduction techniques typical of the 19th century: copperplate engraving, lithography, steel engraving and early forms of photography. The 19th century was also a time when art history emerged as an accepted scholarly discipline in its own right. Large-format publications containing reproductive prints of works held in major art collections and portfolios of individual artists or on specific themes were published with the aim of disseminating knowledge of works from the early modern period. The various methods used in bringing the public closer to historic works of art can be traced in the Kupferstichkabinett's own extensive collection of works from this period. The choice of reproductive technique deployed at the time also documents the changing view on the art of the early modern period.

Hans-Peter Feldmann.The Dead

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

9 Februar 2012 - 27 Januar 2013
Hamburger Bahnhof

The National Gallery's collection features several important works by Hans-Peter Feldmann. The artist recently made a donation to the National Gallery of his key work, 'Die Toten' ('The Dead'). We are proud to announce that it now forms part of the collection and is to go on display in a special exhibition dedicated exclusively to this work.

Frederick's 'Montezuma'. Power and Meaning in the Prussian Court Opera

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

27 Januar - 24 Juni 2012
Musikinstrumenten-Museum

The exhibition centres around the 'tragedy for music', Montezuma, composed in 1755 by Carl Heinrich Graun and performed for the first time in the royal opera house on Unter den Linden. Frederick the Great personally wrote the opera's libretto.

It's Enough for 8 Groschen ...Frederick the Great Seen through His Coins and Medals

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

24 Januar - 14 Oktober 2012
Bode-Museum

Coins and medals reflect the history of Prussia and its great king in an immediate way: quite literally in the palms of our hands. No other European monarch wrought such wide-reaching changes to his country's coinage and monetary system as Frederick II of Prussia. With his coinage reforms of 1750 and 1764, he not only set Prussia on a new course, but also significantly paved the way for later monetary developments in the rest of Germany.

Of Final Things. Death and Burial in Mark Brandenburg 1500-1800

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

13 Januar - 24 Juni 2012
Neues Museum

The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sepulkralkultur der Neuzeit (a work group on sepulchral culture in the modern era) was founded in Berlin in 2009 with the aim of exploring different aspects of death and dying in the early modern era. This exhibition presents the results of various interdisciplinary projects in three sections.

Following in the Footsteps of Grünwedel. Research on the restoration of Central Asiatic wall paintings as part of the KUR programme

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

10 Dezember 2011 - 31 Dezember 2012
Museen Dahlem

The National Museums in Berlin owns the most important collection of artworks from Central Asia in the world. For this we mainly have to thank the inquiring mind of researcher and indologist Albert Grünwedel (1876-1935). Grünwedel led the first Turfan expedition in 1902 and was director of the Department of Indian Art at the Museum of European Ethnology in Berlin.

The Giant Mechanical Nativity Scene from the Ore Mountains

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

9 Dezember 2011 - bis auf weiteres
Museen Dahlem

One highlight in the new permanent exhibition at the newly reopened Museum of European Cultures is the mechanical 'Weihnachtsberg', a giant nativity scene set in a hillside town that originates from the Erzgebirge, near the border of Germany and the Czech Republic, in the 19th century. The Weihnachtsberg is more than an ordinary nativity scene: spread over an area covering 15 square metres, over 300 figures reinact the most important points in the life of Christ, ranging from the Annunciation to his birth and the Passion.

Divided Heaven. 1945 - 1968. The Collection. Neue Nationalgalerie

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

11 November 2011 - Ende I. Quartal 2013
Neue Nationalgalerie

After 'Modern Times. The Collection 1900-1945', the second instalment in the showing of the National Gallery's collection of 20th-century art will go on display in November 2011.

Pergamon. Panorama of the Ancient City

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

30 September 2011 - 30 September 2012
Pergamonmuseum

From 30th September 2011 to 30th September 2012 the National Museums in Berlin presents the first major exhibition dedicated entirely to the ancient city of Pergamon. To accompany the exhibition, the company asisi erects a new monumental 360° panorama of the city in the cour d'honneur of the museum on the Museum Island.

Box with a view. On the way to the Humboldt Forum

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

30 Juni 2011 - bis auf weiteres
Humboldt-Box

Nulis, ancestor of a native American clan on the West coast of Canada, welcomes visitors to the Humboldt Box with open arms. His mask is still worn today during Potlatch ceremonies held by the Kwakiutl and is a symbol of the generosity with which gifts are handed out to guests. It is with this gesture that the Humboldt Box invites visitors to catch a glimpse of the project of the future: the Humboldt Forum, due to be erected directly below the box on Schlossplatz. In a joint exhibition, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin's Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst, the Humboldt-Universität and the Zentral- und Landesbibiliothek Berlin will unveil to the public their plans for the Humboldt Forum by highlighting topics from all over the globe.

Helmut Newton: Polaroids

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0200

10 Juni 2011 - 20 Mai 2012
Museum für Fotografie

Polaroid technology revolutionized photography. Polaroids have been used in artistic and commercial photography, both in creating preliminary studies and as a medium in their own right. Their use took off very soon after the introduction of the instant photograph at the Optical Society of America in 1947 by its inventor, Edwin Land. This unique imaging process has found enthusiastic devotees all over the world and in nearly all genres of photography - from landscape and genre, portrait and self-portrait, fashion and nudes.

Ai Weiwei. Teahouse, 2009

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100

5 Februar 2011 - bis auf weiteres
Museen Dahlem

'Teahouse, 2009' is an iconic work by the most famous Chinese conceptual artist working today, Ai Weiwei (born in 1957 in Beijing). From 5 February 2011, the work will be on display in one of the museum's main rooms, after being presented as a permanent loan from Dieter and Si Rosenkranz.

Of Dragons and Heroes. Exhibition in the Children's Gallery at the Bode Museum

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

15 November 2010 - 17 Juni 2012
Bode-Museum

An exhibition for children aged 4 to 10.
Tales of dragons and heroes are fantastical and real at once, colourful and faded, brash and gentle, grand and pithy. They've already been told a thousand times before, can be read out loud, acted out and or become the stuff of painting. But they can also be newly invented and told for the first time. In our museum, we've got a host of dragon-slayers, proud knights and women saints, just waiting to be discovered.

Treasures of Faith. Masterpieces from the Dom-Museum, Hildesheim, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, on display in the Bode Museum

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200

30 September 2010 - 1 April 2013
Bode-Museum

The most famous testaments to medieval church art from the National Museums' Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin, and the Dom-Museum, Hildesheim, have been brought together in a show hosted in the Bode Museum. The impetus for the exhibition is both positive and distinctly practical in nature, as extensive renovation work is currently being undertaken at both the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts and the Dom-Museum in Hildesheim. Rather than having the two institution's most beautiful treasures hidden away from the public during this time, the exquisite sacred art treasures will go on show, brought together for the first and last time.

Die Sammlungen. The Collections. Les Collections

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100

16 Februar 2010 - bis auf weiteres
Hamburger Bahnhof

Since November 1996, Hamburger Bahnhof has housed the Museum für Gegenwart (Museum for Contemporary Art) of the Nationalgalerie. Parallel to its special exhibitions, the museum also presents works from its own significant collections in changing exhibitions within the 10,000 square meters of space at its disposal. Major works from the Nationalgalerie, the Marx and Marzona Collections as well as the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof are shown in varying constellations.

Plaster Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture at the Freie Universität Berlin

Fri, 01 Apr 1988 00:00:00 +0200

II. Quartal 1988 - bis auf weiteres
Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik Berlin

The Plaster Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture contains roughly 2000 plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. It is used for teaching and research at the university and also serves as a museum with the aim of making ancient sculptures accessible to a wide audience.