Past exhibitions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

100 Best Posters 25. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Keyvisual — Design: Ira Ivanova @i_ira und Lou Hillereau @louhllr, D-Berlin

Kulturforum
100 Best Posters 25. Germany, Austria, Switzerland

12.06.2026 to 05.07.2026

Camilo Correa-Costa, Visual Riddle on Primitivist Bias I, 2026, digitised 6x6 cm analogue film — © Camilo Correa-Costa

Museum für Fotografie
Inside Archives
Interventions on Leni Riefenstahl’s Nuba Work

22.05.2026 to 06.06.2026

Beeple. Regular Animals, installation view, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2026 — Photo: Neue Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

Neue Nationalgalerie
Beeple. Regular Animals

29.04.2026 to 10.05.2026

Mastering Type Exhibition 2026 — © Gestaltung: Lukas Horn

Kulturforum
Mastering Type

25.04.2026 to 26.04.2026

Philipp Remus, Pforzheim University, Felt the future – walking with wool, detail, 2025 award winner in the young talent category — Photo: © IDZ / Philipp Remus

Kunstgewerbemuseum
German Ecodesign Award: Thinking Ahead

13.03.2026 to 25.06.2026

Attributed to Workshop of Kano Jinnojō (n.d., active 1st h. 17th c.), Landscape with figures. Screen with 6 panels, ink, colours and gold on paper — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Klaus F. and Yoshie Naumann Collection / Jörg von Bruchhausen

Humboldt Forum
A Thousand Brushes With a Single Style! (Part 2)
The House of Kano and Painting as Family Business

11.03.2026 to 01.06.2026

Johann Christian August Birnbaum, Flower Studies, detail, 8 July 1781 and 18 August to 1 September 1782, gouache on grey-primed paper — Photo: Christoph Müller Stiftung / Kilian Beutel

Gemäldegalerie
“Das alles bin ich!” Christoph Müller’s Gift, Part 4
Leaf by Leaf – A Life with Art

10.03.2026 to 14.06.2026

Jerszy Seymour, Mutuogensis — Photo: Trevor Good, 2026

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Jerszy Seymour: Mutuogenesis

05.03.2026 to 03.05.2026

Melchior Lorck, Süleymaniye Moschee von Nordost gesehen, detail, c. 1570, woodcut on paper — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Dietmar Katz

Kupferstichkabinett
Bosporus Beats
Views of Istanbul from 1500 to 1800

13.02.2026 to 31.05.2026

Exhibition view „Der Berliner Salon“, Gemäldegalerie 2026, with designs by J.A.I.W and paintings by Thomas Gainsborough — Photo: René Lohse für Nowadays

Gemäldegalerie
Avant-Garde in Dialogue
The Berliner Salon at the Gemäldegalerie

03.02.2026 to 22.02.2026

Photo shoot for the magazine ACHTUNG on the occasion of the BERLINER SALON at the Gemäldegalerie 2025, designed by Leya zu Stolberg, with paintings by Peter Paul Rubens — Photo: Ralph Mecke

Gemäldegalerie
Gallery Looks
Fashion Staging at the Gemäldegalerie

30.01.2026 to 31.05.2026

“Fashion x Craft: Echoes of Tomorrow”, Exhibition View, Gemäldegalerie 2025, Collection: V-Collective — Photo: Anasteisha Danger for Fashion Council Germany

Gemäldegalerie
Fashion x Craft: Echoes of Tomorrow

30.01.2026 to 31.05.2026

Key Visual “Schere-Stil-Papier” — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek

Kulturforum
Style–Paper–Scissors
Lette Graphics x Johanna Beckmann

23.01.2026 to 01.03.2026

Carl Wolff, The Kulturforum as a Landscape — © Carl Wolff

Kulturforum
Kulturforum NOW!

22.01.2026 to 22.03.2026

Süßwasser, Detail, 2025, Fine Art Prints — © Anita Schulte-Bunert

Museum für Fotografie
Rico Reframed
New Perspectives on Rico Puhlmann’s Fashion Photography

16.01.2026 to 15.02.2026

Graphic design using: Alfred Sisley, Woman with a Parasol – Summer Scene, detail, 1883 and James Ensor, The Deadly Sins Dominated by Death, detail, 1904 — © Graphic design: Peter Dorén; photos: Sammlung Julietta Scharf / Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Dietmar Katz

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Possibilities of an Island
Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf

19.12.2025 to 21.06.2026

Seal of Kano Motonobu (1476-1559), Fishing in solitude, detail. Hanging scroll, ink and light colour on paper. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Jürgen Liepe

Humboldt Forum
A Thousand Brushes With a Single Style!
The House of Kano and Painting as Family Business

10.12.2025 to 02.03.2026

Daniël Dupré, On the Way from Tivoli to Vicovaro, 1793, pen and brush in brown over preparatory drawing in pencil — Photo: Christoph Müller Stiftung / Kilian Beutel

Gemäldegalerie
“Das alles bin ich!” Christoph Müller’s Gift, Part 3
On Travelling and Being At Home

02.12.2025 to 08.03.2026

Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010, Single-channel video installation, duration: 24 hours — © Christian Marclay / Installation view, Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Photo: David von Becker

Neue Nationalgalerie
Christian Marclay. The Clock

29.11.2025 to 25.01.2026

He Chongyue, A Billion To One, 2007, Private Collection Zhang, Berlin — Photo: Tzulia Angos

Humboldt Forum
All Under Heaven
Harmony in Family and State

28.11.2025 to 25.05.2026

Newly acquired reliquary bust (Maria lactans), Ulm, around 1520, lime wood, height 23 cm, width 19.5 cm, depth 13 cm, Sculpture Collection, Inv. M 313 (property of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum Association) (Detail) — © Staatliche Museen zu Belin, Skulpturensammlung / Charlen Christoph

Bode-Museum
Back in Berlin
A bust of the Virgin Mary and the Benoit Oppenheim Collection

27.11.2025 to 03.05.2026

Vittore Carpaccio, The Preparation of Christ’s Tomb, detail, c. 1515–1520 — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Thuja Seidel; Public Domain Mark 1.0

Gemäldegalerie
Tribute to Vittore Carpaccio
A Restored Masterpiece and Venetian Painting around 1500

20.11.2025 to 12.04.2026

Construction of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, c. 1985 — Photo: KGM archive, photographer unknown

Kunstgewerbemuseum
A Home/Haunting: 40 Years of the KGM at the Kulturforum

15.11.2025 to 14.06.2026

Exhibition view Annika Kahrs. OFF SCORE, Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art — © Annika Kahrs, 2025 / Produzentengalerie Hamburg. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Annika Kahrs
OFF SCORE

14.11.2025 to 03.05.2026

Seen By #20: Citylicious — © Leonie Hennicke

Museum für Fotografie
Seen By #20
Citylicious

31.10.2025 to 04.01.2026

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, detail, 1903 — © The Scharf Collection, Ruland Photodesign

Alte Nationalgalerie
The Scharf Collection
Goya – Monet – Cézanne – Bonnard – Grosse

24.10.2025 to 15.02.2026

Triptychon installation by Charlotte Ming & Yangkun Shi at Forschungscampus Dahlem — © Marlene Freytag

Forschungscampus Dahlem
Currents – Charlotte Ming & Yangkun Shi
Traces of Colonial Past at the Dahlem Research Campus

19.10.2025 to 22.03.2026

Dorothea Tanning, Spannung, detail, 1942, Schenkung Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch an das Land Berlin 2010 — Image credit: Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Photo: Jochen Littkemann, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024/25

Neue Nationalgalerie
Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism
Provenances from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection

17.10.2025 to 08.04.2026

Oleksandra O., 39, from Kharkiv/Ukraine in Batumi/Georgia, detail, March 2023 — © Frank Gaudlitz

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Flight
Photographs from Moldova, Armenia and Georgia by Frank Gaudlitz

19.09.2025 to 01.03.2026

Wen Congjian (1574 – 1648), The boat ride to the Red Cliff, Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644), album leaf — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Humboldt Forum
Wen Zhengming & Co.
The Concept of jia (Family) in Painting in the Ming Dynasty

17.09.2025 to 16.03.2026

Walter Dahn, Untitled, detail, 1987 — Bildnachweis: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Graphische Gesellschaft zu Berlin / Dietmar Katz © Walter Dahn, Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers

Kupferstichkabinett
YES TO ALL
The Gifts of Paul Maenz Gerd de Vries to the Kupferstichkabinett

12.09.2025 to 11.01.2026

Exhibition view “Petrit Halilaj. An Opera Out of Time”, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 11.9.2025 – 31.5.2026 — © Petrit Halilaj, 2025.Courtesy of the artist, mennour, Paris, ChertLüdde, Berlin and kurimanzutto, New York and Mexico City. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Petrit Halilaj
An Opera Out of Time

11.09.2025 to 31.05.2026

Helmut Newton, Untitled, Saint-Tropez 1975 — © Helmut Newton Foundation

Museum für Fotografie
Newton, Riviera & Dialogues
Collection Fotografis x Helmut Newton

05.09.2025 to 15.02.2026

Lovis Corinth, Woman with Rose Hat, 1912, detail, oil on canvas — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Reinhard Saczewski

Alte Nationalgalerie
In Sight!
Lovis Corinth, the Nationalgalerie and the “Degenerate Art” Campaign

18.07.2025 to 25.01.2026

Delcy Morelos, Madre, 2025, earth, clay, water, wood, metal, jute, hay, straw, cinnamon, cloves, buckwheat, chia seeds, tobacco, honey, dimensions variable. Exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 11.7.2025 – 25.1.2026 — © Delcy Morelos, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Delcy Morelos
Madre

11.07.2025 to 25.01.2026

Rico Puhlmann, portrait of Naomi Campbell, in sweater by Michael Kors, detail, 1992 — Photo: Rico Puhlmann Archive © Klaus Puhlmann, Berlin

Museum für Fotografie
Rico Puhlmann
Fashion Photography 50s–90s

27.06.2025 to 15.02.2026

Toyin Ojih Odutola, Spirited Awey: Chihiro — Ifemelu + Companions @ Adijatu Str. (A Thousand Happenings @ Adijatu Str.), detail, 2025 — © Toyin Ojih Odutola, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Toyin Ojih Odutola
U22 – Adijatu Straße

13.06.2025 to 04.01.2026

Exterior view of the cabinet prior to restoration — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Walter Borgers

Humboldt Forum
Conservation in Dialogue
A Glimpse Behind the Scene

24.05.2025 to 01.06.2026

Bahr Yusuf in Medinet el-Fayum (Egypt), Georg Schweinfurth, who accompanied Heinrich Schliemann and Rudolf Virchow on their journey in the Fayum in 1888, sitting on the bank on the left. — © private (with kind permission) / Photo: Rudolf Virchow, 1888

Neues Museum
On Paths Untrodden
Georg Schweinfurth and His Significance for the Collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

23.05.2025 to 08.02.2026

George Nuku in the Oceania exhibition of the Ethnologisches Museum at the Humboldt Forum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Pierre Adenis

Humboldt Forum
Manatunga – Artistic Interventions by George Nuku

18.05.2025 to 31.05.2026

Klára Hosnedlová, CHANEL Commission: Klára Hosnedlová. embrace, 2025, installation view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 1.5. – 26.10.2025 — © Courtesy Artist, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, White Cube / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Nationalgalerie , Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
CHANEL Commission: Klára Hosnedlová. embrace

01.05.2025 to 04.01.2026

Maison Margiela, vest, Spring/Summer 1994, detail, paper, printed, painted — Photo: Max Fahrig

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Fashion from Paris
A Donation of Erika Hoffmann

27.02.2025 to 07.06.2026

RESPIRATION. atelier le balto im Kunstgewerbemuseum — © atelier le balto

Kunstgewerbemuseum
RESPIRATION
atelier le balto at the Kunstgewerbemuseum

14.02.2025 to 11.01.2026

Exhibition view „Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century“, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2023 — © the artists / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century

16.06.2023 to 29.03.2026

Hands-On Station "Interweaving Messages" — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / David von Becker

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
ALL HANDS ON: Basketry

24.05.2022 to 24.05.2026

Exhibition views of the permanent exhibition "Helmut Newton's Private Property" — © Helmut Newton Foundation / Museum für Fotografie, Photo: Stefan Müller

Museum für Fotografie
Helmut Newton's Private Property

03.11.2004 to 04.01.2026