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Helmut Newton, Stern, Los Angeles, 1980 — Helmut Newton, Stern, Los Angeles, 1980 © Helmut Newton Estate

America 1970s/80s

Hofer, Metzner, Meyerowitz, Newton

Museum für Fotografie

09.10.2020 to 16.05.2021

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Side view of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii, ca. 1778 — Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Side view of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii, ca. 1778 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek / Dietmar Katz

The Piranesi Principle

Marking the 300th Birthday of the Great Italian Master

Kunstbibliothek

04.10.2020 to 07.02.2021

Jean Delville, Portrait Madame Stuart Merill - Mysteriosa, Detail, 1892 — Jean Delville, Portrait Madame Stuart Merill - Mysteriosa, Detail, 1892 © Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels / J. Geleyns - Art Photography

Decadence and Dark Dreams

Belgian Symbolism

Alte Nationalgalerie

18.09.2020 to 17.01.2021

Rider and his horse, coloured plaster figure representing Germanic ancestors, after 1913, model by Heinrich Keiling, Halle — Rider and his horse, coloured plaster figure representing Germanic ancestors, after 1913, model by Heinrich Keiling, Halle © Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz / V. Iserhardt

The Germanic Tribes

Archaeological Perspectives

James-Simon-Galerie

18.09.2020 to 21.03.2021

„Magical Soup. Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans“, Exhibition View Hamburger Bahnhof –
Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin 2020 / Nam June Paik, I Never Read Wittgentstein (I Never
Understood Wittgenstein), 1997 / 2013 erworben durch die Freunde der Nationalgalerie — „Magical Soup. Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans“, Exhibition View Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin 2020 / Nam June Paik, I Never Read Wittgentstein (I Never Understood Wittgenstein), 1997 / 2013 erworben durch die Freunde der Nationalgalerie © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Mathias Völzke

Magical Soup

Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin

06.09.2020 to 03.01.2021

Michael Schmidt, untitled, from the EIN-HEIT / U-NI-TY series, detail, 1991-94, gelatin silver print — Michael Schmidt, untitled, from the EIN-HEIT / U-NI-TY series, detail, 1991-94, gelatin silver print © Stiftung für Fotografie und Medienkunst mit Archiv Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt – Retrospective

Photographs 1965—2014

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin

23.08.2020 to 17.01.2021

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Judith with her Maidservant, 1489 — Domenico Ghirlandaio, Judith with her Maidservant, 1489 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt

Between Cosmos and Pathos

Berlin Works from Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas

Gemäldegalerie

08.08. to 01.11.2020

„Katharina Grosse. It Wasn’t Us“, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für
Gegenwart – Berlin, 2020 / Courtesy KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, London, Tokyo / Gagosian /
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien — „Katharina Grosse. It Wasn’t Us“, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2020 / Courtesy KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, London, Tokyo / Gagosian / Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien © Katharina Grosse / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020 / Photo: Jens Ziehe

Katharina Grosse

It Wasn’t Us

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin

14.06.2020 to 10.01.2021

Paul Klee, Rote und weisse Kuppeln (Red and White Cupolas), detail, 1914, watercolour and gouache on paper on cardboard — Paul Klee, Rote und weisse Kuppeln (Red and White Cupolas), detail, 1914, watercolour and gouache on paper on cardboard © Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Klee in North Africa

1914, Tunisia | Egypt, 1928

Museum Berggruen

03.03.2020 to 10.01.2021

Anthony Caro, The Last Judgement Sculpture, exhibition view Gemäldegalerie 2019, Sammlung Würth, — Anthony Caro, The Last Judgement Sculpture, exhibition view Gemäldegalerie 2019, Sammlung Würth, © Barford Sculptures Ltd, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / David von Becker

Anthony Caro

The Last Judgement Sculpture from the Würth Collection

Gemäldegalerie

20.12.2019 to 01.11.2020

Prometheus group — Prometheus group © asisi / Tom Schulze

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

Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama

Presentation of the collection

The hall of Roman architecture — The hall of Roman architecture © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius

Architecture of Antiquity

Market Gate of Miletus

Pergamonmuseum

Presentation of the collection

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The Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Statement on the Act of Vandalism on 3 October 2020 in Museums on the Museumsinsel Berlin

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche, exterior view — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Reopening of the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche on 27 October 2020

museum4punkt0: Digitale Konferenz „Zukunft gemeinsam entwickeln“ — © museum4punkt0 / Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Stephanie Scholz, bearbeitet von Julia Rhein, CC BY 4.0

museum4punkt0: Digital Conference on „Developing the Future Together“

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin im Bode-Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

The Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin Performs at the Bode-Museum

Shadi Ghadirian, Qajar #3, detail, 1998 — © Shadi Ghadirian, courtesy of the Silk Road

Museum für Islamische Kunst Shows Online Exhibition "Capturing Iran’s Past" on Google Arts & Culture

View of the East Facade of the Humboldt Forum — © SHF / GIULIANI | VON GIESE

Eröffnung des Humboldt Forums am 17. Dezember 2020

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The Ishtar Gate in the Pergamonmuseum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / Olaf M. Teßmer — The Ishtar Gate in the Pergamonmuseum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / Olaf M. Teßmer

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Christian Gottlieb Schick (1776–1812), Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker, 1802 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker — Christian Gottlieb Schick (1776–1812), Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker, 1802 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

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Wilhelm Trübner: Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant, 1877 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger — Wilhelm Trübner: Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant, 1877 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger

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The Rathgen-Forschungslabor’s reference collection of pigments — The Rathgen-Forschungslabor’s reference collection of pigments © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

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