Current exhibitions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Current exhibitions

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

Lygia Clark with her “Unidades” at the Neoconcrete Exhibition, Rio de Janeiro, 1959 — © Cultural Association “The World of Lygia Clark”

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

Exhibition view “(In)Visible Places: Siegfried Hirschmann – A Forgotten Industrial Pioneer” at the Forschungscampus — Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Forschungscampus Dahlem / Julie Nautré

Forschungscampus Dahlem
(In)Visible Places
Siegfried Hirschmann – A Forgotten Industrial Pioneer

18.05.2025 to 20.07.2025

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

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 31.12.2025

Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten District — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek

Kunstbibliothek
Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten District

16.05.2025 to 31.12.2028

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

Film still from Deutschland versenken, 9 November 1999: Christoph Schlingensief in front of the Statue of Liberty — Courtesy Filmgalerie 451, Estate Christoph Schlingensief, Berlin

Neue Nationalgalerie
Christoph Schlingensief. Deutschlandsuche ’99

02.05.2025 until further notice

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 14.09.2025

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 26.10.2025

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 October 2025

Hand of Fatima — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christian Krug

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Muslim InVisibilities: Creating Relationships
Intervention

Permanent exhibition

View into the staircase hall of the Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Rendering: Studio Michael Müller

Neues Museum
Dioscuri – The Given Day

12.04.2025 to 23.11.2025

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

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

The Healing Museum: Mindfulness and Meditation in the Gallery — © Hahn + Hartung

Bode-Museum
The Healing Museum
Mindfulness and Meditation in the Gallery

09.04.2025 until further notice

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

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

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 14.12.2025

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

Kunstgewerbemuseum
RESPIRATION
atelier le balto at the Kunstgewerbemuseum

14.02.2025 to 30.12.2025

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

Exhibition view — © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

Humboldt Forum
Histories of Tanzania

29.11.2024 until further notice

Trial assembly in the model hall of the Gipsformerei, detail with putto after Donatello — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gipsformerei / Fabian Fröhlich

Bode-Museum
The Baptismal Font from Siena
History, Restoration and Reinstallation of a Plaster Cast Model

20.10.2024 until further notice

Jeremy Shaw, Phase Shifting Index, 2020, Installation view: Centre Pompidou, Paris — Photo credit: Timo Ohler

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Museum in Motion
A Collection for the 21st Century

06.09.2024 until further notice

Portrait of prince Corgiyamz‘an (wartime loss), Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), 1776, detail, original painting: hanging scroll, reproduction from glass plate — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

Humboldt Forum
The Ziguangge: Hall of Purple Splendor
Event Venue, Heroes’ Gallery and Theatre of War

28.08.2024 to 31.08.2026

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

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

Joseph Beuys, Das Kapital Raum 1970–1977, Detail, 1980, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Sammlung Marx — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / LaForgia © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Joseph Beuys
Works from the Nationalgalerie Collection

12.04.2024 until further notice

Friedrich Drake, Statuette Karl Friedrich Schinkels, Detail, 1835, Marmor — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
Focus on Schinkel
A Look at His Life and Work

24.11.2023 until further notice

Wolfgang Mattheuer: Brasker Landschaft, detail, 1967 — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie / Roman März © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

Neue Nationalgalerie
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society
Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000

18.11.2023 until further notice

Exhition view “Forum Hamburger Bahnhof“, Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2023 — © Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Forum Hamburger Bahnhof

16.06.2023 until further notice

John Knight, The Right to be Lazy, 2007 / 2009 fortwährend — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia / John Knight

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Endless Exhibition

16.06.2023 until further notice

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 until further notice

Johann Gottfried Schadow, double statue of the princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia, so-called princess group, detail, 1795, plaster, installation in the Friedrichswerder church, 2023 — © Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
The Princesses Are Back!
A New Exhibition of Schadow’s Princess Group in the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche

Permanent exhibition

Gerhard Richter, Abstract painting (944-2), detail, 2016, oil on wood, 40 x 30 cm, loaned by the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation — © Gerhard Richter 2023 (31032023)

Neue Nationalgalerie
Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin

01.04.2023 to September 2026

Bowl with branches and butterflies, China, Jingdezhen, Imperial workshops, probably early to middle Qing dynasty, 17th/18th century, porcelain with onglaze painting — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Saturia Linke, Public Domain Mark 1.0

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Encounters. Non-European Arts and Crafts in the Collection of the Kunstgewerbemuseum

Permanent exhibition

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

Buddha (Pakistan, 2--3. century) in the module "Buddhist Art in South Asia. Stupas, Buddhas,
Bodhisattvas" of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

Humboldt Forum
Ethnological Collections and Asian Art

Permanent exhibition

Key visual for the exhibition “Plain Talk: About the History of the Bode-Museum” — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Bode-Museum
Plain Talk
About the History of the Bode-Museum

18.11.2020 until further notice

Exhibition view Ideal and Form, with double statue of Princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia, so-called Princess Group by Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1795, Friedrichswerder Church, 2023 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
Ideal and Form: 19th Century Sculpture from the Nationalgalerie Collection

Permanent exhibition

A Musical Gathering (detail), Fulda, ca. 1770, porcelain — © Kunstgewerbemuseum / Saturia Linke

Kunstgewerbemuseum
The Worlds of Rococo
A new presentation of the porcelain and faience collection

Permanent exhibition

PERGAMON Panorama, view from the top visitor platform — © asisi / Tom Schulze

Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama
PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360°-Panorama by Yadegar Asisi

17.11.2018 until further notice

The ‘Crown of Kerch’. This diadem of a noble lady was discovered in a Migration-period tomb in Kerch, in the ancient city of Panticapaion, Crimea. It is inlayed with red, garnet gemstones. Late 4th/1st half of 5th Century AD. — © Römisch-Germanisches Museum/Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne

Neues Museum
The Crown of Kerch
Treasures from the Dawn of European History

19.10.2017 to 22.09.2027

The Giant Mechanical Nativity Scene from the Ore Mountains. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Ute Franz-Scarcigalia; CC NC-BY-SA

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
The Giant Mechanical Nativity Scene from the Ore Mountains

Permanent exhibition

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

Permanent exhibition

Ansicht der Sammlungspräsentation mit der „Tänzerin“ von Antonio Canova — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bode-Museum / Wolfgang Gülcker

Bode-Museum
Sculpture and Painting 13th-18th Century

Permanent exhibition

Small cabinet, Augsburg, c. 1705 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Arne Psille

Schloss Köpenick
RoomArt, Furniture and Decorative Art from the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo

Permanent exhibition

Abukir, Griechenland, 1. Hälfte 3. Jh. n. Chr. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett / Lutz-Jürgen Lübke

Bode-Museum
Coins and Medals

Permanent exhibition

Christ the Merciful, Detail, Icon / mosaic made of glass, in base of wax, on wood (around 1100) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst/ Jörg P. Anders

Bode-Museum
Late Antique and Byzantine Art

Permanent exhibition

View of the sculpture hall, in the centre, Princess Group by Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764–1850), 1795–1797 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

Alte Nationalgalerie
Art of the 19th Century

Permanent exhibition

Büste der Königin Nofretete, Neues Reich, 18. Dynastie, Amarna, Ägypten, Um 1340 v. Chr. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Jürgen Liepe

Neues Museum
Ancient Egypt

Permanent exhibition

The Berlin Gold Hat is decorated with various types of circular ornamentation, which can be explained as a lunisolar calendar, i.e., a calendar based on both the sun and the moon. It represents the connection between cult, knowledge and material wealth. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Claudia Plamp

Neues Museum
Prehistory and early history

Permanent exhibition

Exhibition view: “Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe” — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Ute Franz-Scarciglia

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe

Permanent exhibition

Swords and lance, Bronze. 9.-8. Century BC, Stölln — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Klaus Göken

Neues Museum
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age

Permanent exhibition

View in to the Modegalerie — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Achim Kleuker

Kunstgewerbemuseum
A Space for Applied Arts, Fashion and Design

Permanent exhibition

View into the presentation of the collection "Surreal Worlds" — © Jean Dubuffet / Kurt Schwitters / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Thomas Bruns

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Surreal Worlds

Permanent exhibition

A cross-section sample of the finds from the Treasure of Neupotz, 2nd half of the 3rd century AD — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Claudia Klein

Neues Museum
Treasures from the Rhine: The Barbarian Treasure of Neupotz

Permanent exhibition

Busts of Cleopatra (50-30 BC) and Julius Caesar (1-50 AD) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius

Altes Museum
Ancient Worlds. Greeks, Etruscans and Romans

Permanent exhibition

Frans Hals, Catharina Hooft with her nurse, ca. 1619/20 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt

Gemäldegalerie
Paintings from the 13th to 18th Century

Permanent exhibition