11.07.2025
Museum Berggruen
Canberra is the next stop on the international tour of the Museum Berggruen – Neue Nationalgalerie. From 31 May to 21 September 2025, a selection from the collection will be on view at the National Gallery of Australia in the nation’s capital.
For the first time, the most significant works from the Museum Berggruen’s collection will be presented to an Australian audience. Under the title Cézanne to Giacometti – Highlights from Museum Berggruen / Neue Nationalgalerie, the exhibition traces the dynamic developments and interactions in 20th-century European and Australian art.
On display are masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and Alberto Giacometti—artists who not only shaped European Modernism but whose work resonated on other continents and inspired generations of artists worldwide.
In dialogue with key works from the National Gallery of Australia, the show focuses on the encounters and artistic impulses between pioneering European painters and sculptors and Australian artists such as Grace Cossington Smith, John Russell, Dorrit Black, and Ann Dangar. In this way, the exhibition reveals the intricate web of European and Australian Modernisms and tells an expanded art history beyond Eurocentric narratives.
The exhibition is curated by Gabriel Montua and Natalie Zimmer (Museum Berggruen) together with Deirdre Cannon, David Greenhalgh, and Simeran Maxwell (National Gallery of Australia).