Search in:

Currently open are selected venues on the Museumsinsel Berlin and at the Kulturforum, as well as the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Museum Europäischer Kulturen. More information and online tickets

Press images

To aid current press coverage on the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and our exhibitions, we provide a selection of images, available for free. Please use the specified caption and credit line for every image. Images cannot be passed on for use by third parties.

For any other form of use (for advertising or commercial purposes or in scholarly publications) please contact the photo agency bpk, the Berlin picture agency dedicated to art, culture, and history. For further information concerning the copyright please contact . 

You do not need a password to download press images. For documentation purposes, we kindly ask that you to fill in a contact form before completing the download. We keep your data confidential, as per our privacy policy. We do not disclose data to third parties. 

Using the checkboxes that appear when you click on the press images, you can select the images you want and then download them in a ZIP folder by clicking on the button ‘download selected images’. The corresponding captions and credit lines are automatically added to this ZIP folder in the form of a PDF file. Depending on the speed of your Internet connection, the download may take some time. All press images relating to an exhibition presented by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin should be removed from all online media within four weeks after the exhibition ends.

Current press images

<p>Apichatpong Weerasethakul , <strong>One Water</strong>, 2013<br>Single-channel Video,SD digital, 4:3, Stereo (Shown in Silent), colour<br>1:11 Min.<br>Courtesy the Artist</p>

04.11.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Nation, Narration, Narcosis: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories | planned for 4.11.2021 – 3.4.2022
Download images

22.08.2021
Neue Nationalgalerie | Reopening with "Die Kunst der Gesellschaft. 1900-1945. Die Sammlung", "Alexander Calder. Minimal / Maximal" and "Rosa Barba. In a Perpetual Now" | planned from 22.8.2021
Download images

01.08.2021
Museum of Photography | Ruth Walz. Theatre Photography | planned from summer/autumn 2021
Download images

20.06.2021
Alte Nationalgalerie | Paul Gauguin - Why are you angry? | planned from 20.6. – 24.10.2021
Download images

18.06.2021
Kulturforum | 100 Best Posters 20 Germany Austria Switzerland | planned from 18.6. – 4.7.2021
Download images

<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Joseph Beuys</strong> © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Sammlung Marzona</span></p>

13.06.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Starting from Language. Joseph Beuys at 100 | planned for 13.6. – 19.9.2021
Download images

02.06.2021
Kupferstichkabinett | Hell's Black and Starlight. Dante's Divine Comedy in Modern and Contemporary Art | planned from 2.6. – 15.8.2021
Download images

<p>Rhonda Roland Shearer, <strong>Anthropocentrism Series: I am a Technocrat</strong>, 1990 <br>Bronze, red patina, 366 x 110 x 14 cm <br>Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof © Rhonda Roland Shearer / Seth Joel</p>

30.05.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Scratching the Surface. Works from the Sammlung der Nationalgalerie, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof and loans | planned for 30.5. – 7.11.2021
Download images

21.05.2021
James-Simon-Galerie | Akhmim. Egypt’s Forgotten City | planned from 21.5. – 12.9.2021
Download images

07.05.2021
Museum Berggruen | Picasso & Les Femmes d’Alger | planned for 7.5. – 8.8.2021
Download images

<p><strong>Palmyra </strong>© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Hermann Burchardt</p>

06.05.2021
Forschungscampus Dahlem, Ethnologisches Museum | From … To … Zarkashat Turathia. Connected by collections | planned from 6.5. - 5.9.2021
Download images

01.05.2021
Gemäldegalerie | Late Gothic. The Birth of Modernity | planned for 1.5. – 5.9.2021
Download images

<p><strong>The<em> Human Trace</em> tableware set</strong> © Bartosz Grześkowiak, Arkadiusz Szwed</p>

27.04.2021
Museum Europäischer Kulturen | People From the Porcelain Factory. Human Trace Tableware | planned from 27.4. – 12.9.2021
Download images

25.04.2021
Helmut Newton Stiftung im Museum für Fotografie | America 1970s/80s. Hofer, Metzner, Meyerowitz, Newton | from reopening – 10.10.2021
Download images

25.04.2021
Museum für Fotografie | Before and After. The Educational Photography Collections of the Berlin University of the Arts 1850 – 1930 | reopening – 1.8.2021
Download images

25.04.2021
Friedrichswerdersche Kirche | Ideal and Form. 19th Century Sculpture from the Nationalgalerie Collection | from reopening – auf Weiteres
Download images

25.04.2021
Bode-Museum | The Second Glance: All Forms of Love | from reopening – further notice
Download images

25.04.2021
Bode-Museum | Plain Talk: About the History of the Bode-Museum | from reopening – further notice
Download images

<p>Kühn, Max (20.11.1888 - 1970), <strong>Pflanzen brechen aus der Erde</strong>, 1928 <br>Öl und Tempera auf Holz, 28,5 x 29,5 cm © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie<br> Foto: bpk / Andres Kilger</p>

25.04.2021
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg | Pflanzen brechen aus der Erde. Nature and Art from Max Ernst to Nuria Quevedo | from reopening – 30.9.2021
Download images

25.04.2021
Schloss Köpenick | Flora, Fauna and Fable. Painting on Ceramics: Grita Götze, Heidi Manthey, Sonngard Marcks | reopening – 3.10.2021
Download images

25.04.2021
Bode-Museum | From Eve to Greta. Women on Coins and Medallions | from reopening – 6.1.2022
Download images

25.04.2021
Museum für Fotografie | SEEN BY #15: Nothing ever happened (yet) | from reopening – 30.5.2021
Download images

<p>„Magical Soup. Media Art from the Nationalgalerie Collection, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof and Loans“, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, 2020 / Nam June Paik, <strong>I Never Read Wittgentstein (I Never Understood Wittgenstein)</strong>, 1997 / 2013 purchased by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie / Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Mathias Völzke</p>

13.04.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Magical Soup. Media Art from the Nationalgalerie collection, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof and loans | until 18.4.2021
Download images

13.04.2021
Kulturforum | Claudia Skoda. Dressed to Thrill | 13.4. – 18.7.2021
Download images

13.04.2021
Gemäldegalerie | Bastianino: The living cross of Ferrara. The restoration of a forgotten altarpiece| 13.4. – 11.7.2021
Download images

13.04.2021
Kupferstichkabinett | Time for Take-Off! Images of Flight from Albrecht Dürer to Jorinde Voigt | until 1.8.2021
Download images

<p><strong>Bunny Rogers</strong>, Self-portrait as Clone of Jeanne d’Arc (Vanessa Joan), 2019 <br>Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle PhotoRag Ultrasmooth 305g on aluminum, silver plated artist frame, purple, 200.5 x 163 x 7.5 cm / 79 x 64 1/4 x 3 in, Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, acquired 2020 by private supporters in honor of Udo Kittelmann (Director of the Nationalgalerie 2008-2020), courtesy the artist and Société</p>

13.04.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Bunny Rogers. Self Portrait as clone of Jeanne D’Arc | bis 18.4.2021
Download images

<p>Xinyi Cheng, <strong>The Horse Wearing a Red Ear Bonnet and Eye Blinders</strong>, 2020 <br>Oil on canvas <br>160 x 145 cm <br>© Photo: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy the artist / Balice Hertling</p>

13.04.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Xinyi Cheng. The Horse with Eye Blinders | until 6.6.2021
Download images

<p><strong>Pauline Curnier Jardin. Fat to Ashes</strong>, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, 2021, © Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 / Mathias Völzke</p>

13.04.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Pauline Curnier Jardin. Fat to Ashes | 13.4. – 19.9.2021
Download images

13.04.2021
Kunstbibliothek | The Piranesi Principle. Marking the 300th birthday of the great Italian master | 13.4. – 11.7.2021
Download images

<p><strong>Key Visual</strong> of the discussion series <em>99 Questions</em> © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Collage: Giuliani | von Giese / © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Waltraud Schneider-Schütz</p>

08.04.2021
Ethnologisches Museum und Museum für Asiatische Kunst im Humboldt Forum | Diskursreihe "99 Fragen" startet am 15.4.2021
Download images

06.04.2021
Alte Nationalgalerie | Dekadenz und digitale Träume: Virtuelle Ausstellung zum belgischen Symbolismus ab sofort online
Download images

01.04.2021
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Grenzwanderungen an Ostern: Filmdokumentation zu Michael Schmidt ab sofort im kostenfreien Stream
Download images

<p><strong>Alexandru Ciubotariu</strong> (no title and year), Romania © Alexandru Ciubotariu</p>

16.03.2021
Museum Europäischer Kulturen | comiXconnection | from reopening – 30.5.2021
Download images

16.03.2021
Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama | PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi | from reopning – further notice
Download images

16.03.2021
Pergamonmuseum | From a Fragment to a Monument. The Ishtar Gate in Berlin | from reopening – 3.10.2021
Download images

16.03.2021
Pergamonmuseum | Radiance of the Alhambra | from reopening – 18.7.2021
Download images

<p>Gerhard Richter, <strong>Birkenau</strong>, 2014<br>Oil on canvas, 260 x 200 cm<br>GERHARD RICHTER KUNSTSTIFTUNG</p>

15.03.2021
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz | Kooperation mit Gerhard Richter: Zyklus „Birkenau“ in der Alten Nationalgalerie zu sehen – Über 100 Werke des Künstlers künftig dauerhaft in Berlin
Download images

10.03.2021
Nationalgalerie | Shortlist des Preis der Nationalgalerie 2021: Lamin Fofana, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Sandra Mujinga, Sung Tieu
Download images

01.03.2021
Kunstgewerbemuseum | Design Lab #7: Talk to me! Question the collection | bis 31.7.2021
Download images

25.02.2021
Gemäldegalerie | 58 rooms, 112 panoramas, 1,200 works of art: Virtual tour now online
Download images

17.02.2021
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | Memorial column commemorates personalities of the historic Tiergarten quarter
Download images

<p><strong>Landingpage lab.Bode pool</strong> © SMB, lab.Bode / 2021 (illustration: Zeloot, 2021)    </p>

12.02.2021
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | lab.Bode - Initiative to strengthen outreach work presents the lab.Bode pool: a digital impulse generator for outreach work in museums | Digital launch on 17.2.2021
Download images

31.12.2020
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | The 3D Model of the Pergamon Altar
Download images

07.12.2020
Gemäldegalerie | Gemäldegalerie | In her book "Twelve Paintings" Tal Sterngast explores the contemporary relevance of the Old Masters
Download images

30.10.2020
Gipsformerei | And there it was, made of plaster: The Reconstruction of the Brandenburg Gate Quadriga | Open workshop in the German Bundestag | until 30.10.2022
Download images

31.08.2019
Haus Bastian | The center for cultural education of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Download images

13.07.2019
James-Simon-Galerie | The central entrance building of the Museumsinsel Berlin
Download images

01.01.2019
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | Museum buildings and institutes
Download images

Mechtild Kronenberg
Head of Press, Communication, Sponsorship
Phone: +49 30 266423401
Fax: +49 30 266423410
E-Mail: kommunikation[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Markus Farr
Press officer Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Phone: +49 30 266423402
Fax: +49 30 266423410 
E-Mail: 

Fiona Geuß
Press officer Nationalgalerie
Phone: +49 30 39783417
Fax: +49 30 39783413
E-Mail: 

Timo Weißberg
Press officer Dahlem
Phone: +49 30 266426803
Fax: +49 30 266426804
E-Mail: presse[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Markus Farr
Press images
Phone: +49 30 266423402
E-Mail: pressebilder[at]smb.spk-berlin.de

Konstanze Hausstätter
Permission for commercial purposes (film, photograph, or record audio request)
Phone: +49 30 266423412
E-Mail: kommunikation[at]smb.spk-berlin.de