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Lina Lapelytė. We Make Years Out of Hours, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, 2026 — Lina Lapelytė. We Make Years Out of Hours, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, 2026 © Lina Lapelytė. VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / art/beats, Florian Mag

CHANEL Commission: Lina Lapelytė. We Make Years Out of Hours

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

01.05.2026 to 10.01.2027

Ruin and Rush. Berlin 1910–1930, exhibition view, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2026 — Ruin and Rush. Berlin 1910–1930, exhibition view, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2026 Photo: Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / David von Becker

Ruin and Rush

Berlin 1910–1930

Neue Nationalgalerie

25.04.2026 to 03.01.2027

Exhibition view: “Heavy Fabric” — Exhibition view: “Heavy Fabric” © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christian Krug

Heavy Fabric

Women – Traditional Costume – Life Stories

Museum Europäischer Kulturen

24.04.2026 to 29.03.2027

Grit Kallin-Fischer, Self-portrait with cigarette, detail, around 1928, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin — Grit Kallin-Fischer, Self-portrait with cigarette, detail, around 1928, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

New Woman, New Vision

Women Photographers of the Bauhaus

Museum für Fotografie

17.04.2026 to 04.10.2026

Exhibition view „Shilpa Gupta. What Still Holds“, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 27.03.2026 - 03.01.2027, Depicted: Truth, 2022-2025 — Exhibition view „Shilpa Gupta. What Still Holds“, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 27.03.2026 - 03.01.2027, Depicted: Truth, 2022-2025 © Shilpa Gupta. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Photo: Luca Girardini

Shilpa Gupta

What Still Holds

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

27.03.2026 to 03.01.2027

Aerial view of Karahantepe — Aerial view of Karahantepe © Karahantepe Project Archive/Yusuf Aslan

Building community

Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler and life 12,000 years ago

James-Simon-Galerie

06.02.2026 to 19.07.2026

Exhibition view: “Many Shades of Grès. Fashion Becomes Art” — Exhibition view: “Many Shades of Grès. Fashion Becomes Art” Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / David von Becker

Many Shades of Grès

Fashion Becomes Art

Kulturforum

15.05.2026 to 11.10.2026

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

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

Neue Nationalgalerie

30.04.2026 to 25.10.2026

Ceremonial table in boulette technique from Heidelberg Castle, Johann Daniel Sommer, Heidelberg (?) 1684 — Ceremonial table in boulette technique from Heidelberg Castle, Johann Daniel Sommer, Heidelberg (?) 1684 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Photo: Fotostudio Bartsch

Pewter from the Middle Ages to Art Nouveau

Schloss Köpenick

24.04.2026 to 04.10.2026

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

Bosporus Beats

Views of Istanbul from 1500 to 1800

Kupferstichkabinett

13.02.2026 to 31.05.2026

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 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

Gallery Looks

Fashion Staging at the Gemäldegalerie

Gemäldegalerie

30.01.2026 to 31.05.2026

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 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

Possibilities of an Island

Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg

19.12.2025 to 21.06.2026

News

Museumsinselfest 2025 — Foto: photothek, Thomas Koehler

The Festival on the Museumsinsel returns on June 6 and 7, 2026

MuseumsMeileMitte: Stefan Brandt (Director Futurium), Till Fellrath (Director Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart), Monika Ankele (Director, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité), Johannes Vogel (Director Museum für Naturkunde), Martin Löcker (Managing Director of CA Immo Germany) — © art/beats, Dean Gold / MuseumsMeileMitte (MMM)

MuseumsMeileMitte: Futurium, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Museum of Medical History and Museum of Natural History Launch a Joint Initiative

The 100,000th visitor to the “Brancusi” exhibition: Athena Froso (left) from Cyprus is welcomed at the Neue Nationalgalerie by Nikola Richolt (right), curatorial assistant. — Photo: Neue Nationalgalerie

Brancusi at the Neue Nationalgalerie: More than 100,000 Visitors – Special Events Programme Starts on 13 May 2026

Blick auf den Pergamonaltar während der Sanierung, 2026 — Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, David von Becker

The Pergamonmuseum returns: Opening on June 4th 2027

Book sale at the Kulturforum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Book Sale at the Kulturforum on 30 and 31 May 2026

Key visual: Slices of Life 2026 — © Ethnologisches Museum und Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Slices of Life: Ethnographic Film Days at Forschungscampus Dahlem on 18 and 19 May 2026

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19.05.2026 - 16:00 Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung

Museumswerkstatt für Kinder
Workshop

19.05.2026 - 16:30 Neue Nationalgalerie

Brancusi, exhibition view, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2026, photo: Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / David von Becker

Curators Walk: Brancusi (de)
Curator tour

20.05.2026 - 16:00 Gemäldegalerie

Exhibition view of “Gallery Looks”, Gemäldegalerie 2025, featuring designs by Karen Jessen, a photograph by Ralph Mecke, and paintings by Jacob-Ferdinand Voet and Jan Jansz den Uyl the Elder

Inspirierende Begegnungen: Kunst & Mode
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