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Over 20,000 visitors at Festival of Future Nows 2025

03.11.2025
Neue Nationalgalerie

Over 20,000 enthusiastic visitors attended the Festival of Future Nows 2025 over two and a half days at Neue Nationalgalerie.

From the opening on Friday, 31 October 2025, from 7 pm to midnight, through Saturday, 1 November 2025, from 10 am to midnight, to Sunday, 2 November 2025, from 10 am to 6 pm, long queues formed in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie. The third edition of the Festival of Future Nows brought together around 100 international artistic positions—ranging from emerging voices to established practitioners. In a densely packed program, performative, experimental, and participatory works open up diverse and unexpected encounters throughout the museum’s indoor and outdoor spaces.

The first Festival of Future Nows was held in 2014 at Neue Nationalgalerie to mark the conclusion of the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments), a study program led by Olafur Eliasson at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2009 to 2014. Co-directed by Eric Ellingsen and Christina Werner, the Institute explored new approaches to artistic education and research, shaping a generation of artists through an interdisciplinary and experimental practice.

Now, the next exhibition highlight is already being set up in the iconic upper hall of Mies van der Rohe's building: Christian Marclay's acclaimed 24-hour video work The Clock is a compilation of thousands of time-related scenes from film and television in which clocks or timepieces appear. After winning the Golden Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, the work attracted worldwide attention and has since been shown in major museums such as MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate in London. Now The Clock is coming to Berlin for the first time: from 29 November 2025 to 25 January 2026 at Neue Nationalgalerie.