29.12.2025
Neue Nationalgalerie
With around 600,000 visitors in 2025, the Neue Nationalgalerie is once again Berlin’s most visited art museum. Together with the current international exhibition tours, the Neue Nationalgalerie reached over 1.3 million visitors worldwide in 2025.
With successful special exhibitions by Yoko Ono, Lygia Clark, Fujiko Nakaya, Nan Goldin and currently Christian Marclay, the Neue Nationalgalerie has enjoyed consistently high visitor numbers in Berlin this year. Exhibitions such as Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin, and the regularly updated collection presentation Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000 also attracted numerous visitors.
With over 4,000 educational and outreach programs alone, the Neue Nationalgalerie reached over 46,000 participants, including more than 12,000 schoolchildren and students.
The Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg in Berlin-Charlottenburg welcomed around 40,000 visitors in 2025.
The ongoing international exhibition tours of the Neue Nationalgalerie are also very popular:
After reaching well over half a million people in previous years with masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen’s collection, the tour has so far attracted around 620,000 visitors in 2025 at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and, currently, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. The tour will continue in 2026 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
The exhibition Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945. Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, touring the United States, has attracted over 54,000 visitors at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and currently at the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico. In 2026, the tour will continue at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, and the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark.
Exhibitions
YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER
11.04.2025 to 14.09.2025
Lygia Clark: Retrospective
23.05.2025 to 12.10.2025
Fujiko Nakaya
02.05.2025 to 19.10.2025
Nan Goldin
23.11.2024 to 06.04.2025
Christian Marclay. The Clock
29.11.2025 to 25.01.2026
Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism
17.10.2025 to 08.04.2026
Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin
Permanent exhibition
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society
18.11.2023 to 25.04.2027
Brancusi
20.03.2026 to 09.08.2026