Joseph Beuys
Works from the Nationalgalerie Collection

12.04.2024 until further notice
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Please note: From 26 January through 26 March 2026 the exhibition will remain closed due to installation work in the Kleihueshalle.


The Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting its extensive holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys (1921–86) in the Kleihueshalle.

Comprising 15 key works by Joseph Beuys, the new presentation in the Kleihueshalle explores the artist’s complex oeuvre and critical reception. Alongside his environment DAS KAPITAL RAUM 1970–1977 (1980), the parcours includes sculptures, drawings, multiples and ground-breaking actions such as I like America and America likes Me (1974). The exhibition examines the ways in which Beuys’s work questioned the nature, materiality, language and perception of the boundaries and tasks of art. At the same time, it contextualises and compares Beuys’ vision of a slow social transformation with historic and contemporary countermodels by Grace Lee Boggs, Angela Davis, Agnes Denes, Donna Haraway among others.

The new permanent display is being held to mark the generous donation of works from the family of the collector Erich Marx. It will be accompanied by a rotating series of solo exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists – the first of whom will be artist Naama Tsabar (* 1982) as of 22 March 2022.

Curator

The exhibition will be curated by Catherine Nichols, curator and researcher at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.


A permanent exhibition of the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart / Alexander Rentsch
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
© Kulturprojekte Berlin, photo: Alex Rentsch
Estuaries, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2024, performance view, composed and performed by Julia Biłat, Gabriela Burdsall, Arone Dyer, Tatiana Heuman, Naïma Mazic, Rasha Nahas, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues, Sarah Strauss, Naama Tsabar
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Laura Fiorio

12.04.2024 to 22.09.2024

Andrea Pichl. Wertewirtschaft, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 8.11. – 4.5.2025
© Andrea Pichl / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia

08.11.2024 to 04.05.2025

Mondayclosed
Tuesday10 am to 6 pm
Wednesday10 am to 6 pm
Thursday10 am to 8 pm
Friday10 am to 6 pm
Saturday11 am to 6 pm
Sunday11 am to 6 pm
Please note: From 26 January through 26 March 2026 Joseph Beuys. Works from the Nationalgalerie Collection will remain closed due to installation work for the exhibition Shilpa Gupta in the Kleihueshalle.

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