Current exhibitions

Gan Ku (1749/1756-1838), Tiger, detail, 1822, right screen of a pair with 6 panels each, ink and colours on paper
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Klaus F. and Yoshie Naumann Collection / Jörg von Bruchhausen

Humboldt Forum
Beastly Good!
Animals, Birds, and Plants in Arts of Japan

10.06.2026 to 07.09.2026

Dancing Zhong Kui, detail, China, Yangliuqing, first half 20th c., woodblock print
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Humboldt Forum
Ghostbuster: Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller
Here to Protect the Family

18.03.2026 to 28.09.2026

Leonard Suryajaya, Mom's Heaven, detail, 2025
© Leonard Suryajaya

Humboldt Forum
Nothing As Our Ground

28.11.2025 to 03.08.2026

Meryl McMaster, Time's Gravity, detail
© Meryl McMaster, Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain

Humboldt Forum
Making Kin

28.11.2025 to 03.08.2026

Nlabephee Kefas Othaniel (rechts) und Pa Kanawa Musa (links) während einer Recording Session in Kwangkah village of Dza
© Hammanson Sule (Fotograf)

Humboldt Forum
Being Related
Shared Language, Shared Knowledge?

03.10.2025 until further notice

End of the Berlin scroll: The Paravarta monastery, detail
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Jürgen Liepe

Humboldt Forum
The Legend of Prince Vishvantara: Boundless Generosity

24.09.2025 until further notice

Leaf in Sanskrit, China, Xinjiang, Kizil
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Iris Papadopoulos

Humboldt Forum
Language Families

September 2025 to late 2026

Manichäische Electae, Detail, China, Xinjiang, Kocho, 10. Jh., Seide mit Farben
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Thomas Arens

Humboldt Forum
Family and Religion

August 2025 to late 2026

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

Humboldt Forum
Histories of Tanzania

29.11.2024 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

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