Past exhibitions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Fabian Knecht, Lachen ist verdächtig (Laughing Is Suspicious), Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2025 — © Studio Fabian Knecht / Photo: Christopher Häring

Neue Nationalgalerie
Festival of Future Nows 2025

31.10.2025 to 02.11.2025

Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece I, detail, 1969, performance, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Photography by Joan Jonas — © Joan Jonas/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone

Neue Nationalgalerie
PERFORM! 2025
Joan Jonas, Isaac Chong Wai, vAL, Yoko Ono

10.09.2025 to 14.09.2025

Kano Yasunobu (1613-1685) with inscription of Jitsudō Sōden (1613-1676), abbot of temple Daitokuji, Bird resting on a branch, detail, hanging scroll, ink and red colour on paper — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Klaus F. and Yoshie Naumann Collection / Jürgen Liepe

Humboldt Forum
Creating Together
Networks of Creativity in Arts of Japan

10.09.2025 to 01.12.2025

Wolfgang Kunde, Festliche Tafel II (Banquet II), detail, 1975 — © Wolfgang Kunde / Klaus Mantze

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
A Tribute to Wolfgang Kunde

30.08.2025 to 16.11.2025

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel after Samuel van Hoogstraten, Boy Leaning over a Lower Door, detail, 1763, etching and roulette in brown and red — © Christoph Müller Stiftung / Kilian Beutel

Gemäldegalerie
“Das alles bin ich!” Christoph Müller’s Gift, Part 2
Encounters

26.08.2025 to 30.11.2025

Figure of a man dressed in a toga in a found situation — © SABAP-SI und Comune di San Casciano dei Bagni, Foto: Ludovico Salerno. Opere concesse in prestito dalla Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo

James-Simon-Galerie
The Bronzes of San Casciano dei Bagni
A Sensation from the Mud

05.07.2025 to 09.11.2025

Berliner Salon. Fashion Week at the Museum für Fotografie — © Ben Berwers

Museum für Fotografie
The Berliner Salon at the Museum für Fotografie

01.07.2025 to 06.07.2025

Bark beetle galleries on a spruce tree — © Pelin Asa, Matters of Activity / Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Symbiotic Wood

28.06.2025 to 23.11.2025

Burkhard Jacobs, video still, project work, 2024, Virtual Lab II, AMD Berlin — © Burkhard Jacobs

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Virtual Couture
3D Fashion – Digitised, Animated and Interpreted

20.06.2025 to 14.09.2025

Natori Shunsen (1886–1960): Kabuki actor Bandō Shūchō III as dancer Shizuka Gozen in the play “Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees”. Japan, Taishō period, 1925. Polychrome woodblock print. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / courtesy of Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto

Humboldt Forum
Monks and Scholars, Dancers and Courtesans
Depictions of People in Art from Japan

18.06.2025 to 01.09.2025

13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art — © Berlin Biennale

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

14.06.2025 to 14.09.2025

100 Beste Plakate 24, key visual — © Tristesse, Basel

Kulturforum
100 Best Posters 24. Germany, Austria, Switzerland

13.06.2025 to 06.07.2025

A look at the Camille Claudel & Bernhard Hoetger exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie — © Nationalgalerie/David von Becker

Alte Nationalgalerie
Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger
Emancipation from Rodin

06.06.2025 to 28.09.2025

Clemens Gröszer, Marin à cholie, detail, 1983 — Photo credit: bpk / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
STRANGE!
Surrealisms 1950–1990 from the Collections of the Nationalgalerie

30.05.2025 to 16.11.2025

Takehito Koganezawa, Naked Theatre 2019, installation view at KAAT, Yokohama, Japan — Photo: Bozzo

Humboldt Forum
Takehito Koganezawa: One on Two, Two from One

24.05.2025 to 12.10.2025

Lygia Clark. Retrospective, O Eu e o Tu (Série Roupa-Corpo-Roupa), 1967, exhibition view, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2025 — © Neue Nationalgalerie - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / David von Becker

Neue Nationalgalerie
Lygia Clark: Retrospective

23.05.2025 to 12.10.2025

Abraham Bloemaert, Saint Candida and Saint Gelasia, detail, 1611, pen and brown ink with green wash heightened with white — © Christoph Müller Stiftung / Kilian Beutel

Gemäldegalerie
“Das alles bin ich!” Christoph Müller’s Gift, Part 1
A World Made of Words and Images

20.05.2025 to 24.08.2025

Anna Berry's installation “The constantly moving happiness machine” — © Anna Berry

Forschungscampus Dahlem
Anna Berry
The Constantly Moving Happiness Machine

18.05.2025 to 20.07.2025

Paul Klee, Angelus Novus, 1920, Oil transfer and watercolor on paper, 318 x 242 mm, Gift of Fania and Gershom Scholem, Jerusalem; John Herring, Marlene and Paul Herring, Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder, New York — Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Elie Posner

Bode-Museum
The Angel of History
Walter Benjamin, Paul Klee and the Berlin Angels 80 Years After WWII

08.05.2025 to 13.07.2025

Cult of Mist by Fujiko Nakaya in the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie — © Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / David von Becker

Neue Nationalgalerie
Fujiko Nakaya
Fog Sculpture in the Sculpture Garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie

02.05.2025 to 19.10.2025

Jijang Siwangdo 지장 시왕도, detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Jürgen Liepe CC BY-SA 4.0

Humboldt Forum
Going Through Hell
Concepts of the Afterlife in Korea During the Goryeo Period (918–1392)

24.04.2025 to 20.10.2025

YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER, key visual — Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Neue Nationalgalerie
YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER

11.04.2025 to 14.09.2025

Prayers to the sun, detail, 1976, Ali Seliem (1948– ), wool — © Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre, Cairo, Egypt

James-Simon-Galerie
Threads of Egyptian Life
Tapestries from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center in Cairo

11.04.2025 to 02.11.2025

Miriam Arentz, brooches “Traces of Time” — © Lucie Eisenmann, Miriam Arentz

Kunstgewerbemuseum
The Art of Making 2025
Arts, Crafts and Design from Paris and Berlin

04.04.2025 to 01.06.2025

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Lilies, detail, from the series „Big Flowers“, Edo period, ca. 1833. Polychrome woodblock print — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / courtesy Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto

Humboldt Forum
Elegant Blossoms
Flora and fauna in Arts of Japan

26.03.2025 to 09.06.2025

Signed Shen Zhou (1427 – 1509), Crossing the river in wind and rain, detail of a handscroll, Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), 19th c. ? — Image credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Humboldt Forum
Jinshixue: The Study of Ancient Artifacts and the Material Residues of the Past, Part 2

12.03.2025 to 15.09.2025

Anaïs Boudot, Le gant, detail, from the series "Les oubliées," 2021, print on aluminium, 36 x 48 cm — © Anaïs Boudot. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Binome, and The Eyes Publishing

Museum für Fotografie
Surrender to the Dreamers

08.03.2025 to 27.04.2025

Helmut Newton, Italian Vogue, Monte Carlo 2003 (SX-70) — © Helmut Newton Foundation

Museum für Fotografie
Polaroids

07.03.2025 to 17.08.2025

Franz Marc, Horses Resting, detail, 1912, color woodcut, 17 x 22.9 cm (print) — © Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jörg. P. Anders

Kupferstichkabinett
The Cosmos of “Der Blaue Reiter”
From Kandinsky to Campendonk

01.03.2025 to 15.06.2025

Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. - 20.7.2025, pictured: Delivery Dancer's Sphere, 2022 — © Courtesy Ayoung Kim & Gallery Hyundai / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Ayoung Kim
Many Worlds Over

28.02.2025 to 20.07.2025

Lucas Hugensz van Leyden (1494–1533), The Milkmaid, detail, 1510, engraving — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Dietmar Katz

Gemäldegalerie
Get to Work!
The Work and Toil of Women

18.02.2025 to 18.05.2025

Deus silentii? — Photo: Eric Lanz

Bode-Museum
Leaps in Time: Art Sees Art
The HBKsaar’s Guest Appearance at the Bode-Museum

15.02.2025 to 13.04.2025

Reconstruction of the Byzantine costume of a royal mother from Makuria after a wallpainting in the medieval cathedral of Faras, Nubia (Sudan) — © Paulina Matusiak und Eddy Wenting

Bode-Museum
Dress to Impress
Reconstructions of Medieval Robes from Nubia

06.02.2025 to 12.04.2025

Fashion Meets Masterpieces. The Berlin Salon at the Gemäldegalerie — Image credits: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

Gemäldegalerie
Fashion Meets Masterpieces
The Berlin Salon at the Gemäldegalerie

04.02.2025 to 23.02.2025

Konstantin Grcic, Chair One, 2002 | Luc Wolff, Bleu #76, watercolour on paper, 2024 — © Holger Herschel

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Double Mise en Évidence
WALLPAPERS by Luc Wolff

31.01.2025 to 11.05.2025

Francesco Granacci, Enthroned Madonna with Child and St John the Baptist, detail, 1519 — © Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art / Photo: Christoph Schmidt, Gemäldegalerie

Gemäldegalerie
From Odesa to Berlin
European Painting of the 16th to 19th Century

24.01.2025 to 22.06.2025

Kano Sansetsu (1589–1651), Bird on a snow-covered branch of a plum tree, detail, Japan, Edo period, first half of the 17th century, hanging scroll, ink on paper — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Klaus F. and Yoshie Naumann Collection / Jürgen Liepe

Humboldt Forum
Tranquillity, Reduction and Monochrome in Arts of Japan

18.12.2024 to 10.03.2025

Gernot Bubenik, Plant No. VIII, detail, 1968 — © Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Photo: Nationalgalerie / André van Linn © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Evil Flowers

12.12.2024 to 04.05.2025

Semiha Berksoy. Singing in Full Colour, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 6.12. – 11.5.2025 — © Courtesy the estate Semiha Berksoy & GALERIST, Istanbul / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo LaForgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Semiha Berksoy
Singing in Full Colour

06.12.2024 to 11.05.2025

Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori, archaeologist, Nairobi, Kenya — © Nationalmuseen Kenia (NMK)

James-Simon-Galerie
Planet Africa
Archaeological Time Travel

06.12.2024 to 27.04.2025

Terracotta of a saddled donkey — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Andreas Schröder

Neues Museum
Utterly Indispensable
The Donkey in the Ancient World

05.12.2024 to 04.05.2025

Christmas tree decoration cucumber, 2024, Germany — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christian Krug

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Christmas Time with All the Senses
Surprises From the MEK’s Collection

29.11.2024 to 05.02.2025

Nan Goldin, Picnic on the Esplanade, Boston, 1973, detail — courtesy the artist

Neue Nationalgalerie
Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well

23.11.2024 to 06.04.2025

Andrea Pichl. Wertewirtschaft, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 8.11. – 4.5.2025 — © Andrea Pichl / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Andrea Pichl
Values of Economy

08.11.2024 to 04.05.2025

Unknown, A Fireworks test in Nuremberg, copperplate engraving, after 1665 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz

Kulturforum
Cracked Up and Burnt Down
Fireworks Across Five Centuries

08.11.2024 to 09.02.2025

Joseph Kosuth, A Four Colour Sentence, 1966. Variously coloured neon tubes, electric cable and transformer — © Joseph Kosuth / photo: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart / Jens Ziehe / Courtesy Sprüth Magers

Neue Nationalgalerie
The Very First Edition
Artists’ Books from the Marzona Collection

27.10.2024 to 26.01.2025

Joseph Breitenbach: Max Ernst, Paris 1936. silver gelatine paper, 35.3 x 27.8 cm. Würth Collection — © The Josef and Yaye Breitenbach Charitable Foundation

Museum für Fotografie
FOTOGAGA. Max Ernst and Photography
A Visit from the Würth Collection

18.10.2024 to 27.04.2025

Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Penance of St. John Chrysostom, detail, 1509, engraving — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett

Gemäldegalerie
Are You Dreaming?
On Closed Eyes in Art

15.10.2024 to 16.02.2025

Su-Ran Sichling, Scholars’ stones (1950), (1950), (1970), 2015, detail, exposed aggregate concrete, terrazzo, walnut, brass, gum — © Su-Ran Sichling / Photo: Robert Vanis

Humboldt Forum
Beyond Borders
Artistic Internationalism in East Germany

03.10.2024 to 31.03.2025

Claude Monet, Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, detail, 1867 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Alte Nationalgalerie
Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape

27.09.2024 to 26.01.2025

Johan Barthold Jongkind, Evening Sun over Antwerp Harbour, detail, 1868, etching — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Dietmar Katz

Kupferstichkabinett
A Different Impressionism
International Printmaking from Manet to Whistler

25.09.2024 to 12.01.2025

Zhao Zhiqian (1829 – 1884), Calligraphy, Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), dated 1865, folding fan — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Humboldt Forum
Jinshixue: The Study of Ancient Artifacts and the Material Residues of the Past, Part 1

18.09.2024 to 10.03.2025

Robertina Šebjanič, Neotenous dark dwellers _Lygophilia — © Robertina Šebjanič

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Robertina Šebjanič: Lygophilia
Aquatic Life: A Symbol of Extinction, Scientific Wonder, and Cultural Heritage

14.09.2024 to 05.01.2025

Mio Okido, Facial Facade, 2024, print on cloth — © Mio Okido

Humboldt Forum
Mio Okido
Remembered Images, Imagined (Hi)Stories – Japan, East Asia and I

14.09.2024 to 03.02.2025

Exhibition view, Mark Bradford: Keep Walking, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart — © Courtesy Mark Bradford und Hauser & Wirth / Photo: © Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo LaForgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Mark Bradford
Keep Walking

06.09.2024 to 18.05.2025

A look into the Sámi collection of the Museum of European Cultures — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christian Krug

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Áimmuin
Re-Connecting Sámi Heritage

15.08.2024 to 30.11.2025

Necklace, on loan from Nadia Kabalan — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christian Krug

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Muslim InVisibilities
Three Variations of One Installation

08.08.2024 to 13.04.2025

Dawid Tomaszewski, pink trouser suit with transparent tulle cape, spring/summer 2022 — © Dawid Tomaszewski

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Excess in Elegance
Dawid Tomaszewski: A Decade and a Half

04.07.2024 to 26.01.2025

Helmut Newton, Self-portrait in Yva´s studio, Berlin 1936 — © Helmut Newton Foundation

Museum für Fotografie
Berlin, Berlin
20 Years of the Helmut Newton Foundation

07.06.2024 to 16.02.2025

Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024 — Image credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024
Pan Daijing. Dan Lie. Hanne Lippard. James Richards

07.06.2024 to 05.01.2025

Amazons in battle with Greeks, detail, Attic red-figure Pelike, c. 400–390 BC — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius

Altes Museum
Goddesses and Consorts
Women in Ancient Myth

24.05.2024 to 04.05.2025

Counterfeit antique coins made to be sold in large numbers to tourists as originals, donation, 2024 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett / Franziska Vu

Bode-Museum
Sticky Fingers – Counterfeit Coins
The Dark Side of Numismatics

17.05.2024 to 21.09.2025

Exhibition view — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christian Krug

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Flow: The Exhibition on Menstruation

06.10.2023 to 09.03.2025