“Locating things — stories of objects and spaces in the Deutsches Historisches Museum”
From May 2026, the German Historical Museum in Berlin’s Pei-Bau will be inviting visitors on a fascinating search for clues through its own collection with the exhibition “Locating Things”. The show presents history not only as a sequence of time, but also as movement and change in spaces. The focus is on objects and collections […]
Nature, power and faith: a look at the exhibition at the Deutsches Historisches Museum
The exhibition “Nature and German History. Faith — Biology — Power”, which can be seen at the German Historical Museum in Berlin from 14 November 2025, takes visitors on a journey through 800 years of German history. From the spiritual concepts of nature of Hildegard von Bingen to the ideological appropriations of the Nazi era […]
Feliciano Lana — The history of the whites in the Humboldt Forum
With the exhibition “Feliciano Lana — The History of the Whites”, the Humboldt Forum in Berlin offers an extraordinary insight into the life and perspective of the indigenous artist Feliciano Lana from Brazil. His watercolours illuminate the eventful history of contact between indigenous people and whites on the upper Rio Negro. From a local and […]
Stories of Tanzania: An exhibition with a critical view at the Humboldt Forum
The exhibition “History(s) of Tanzania” at the Humboldt Forum provides a multifaceted insight into the past and present of a country that has been shaped by trade networks and colonialism like no other. Early on, transregional trade routes connected Tanzania’s present-day societies with the world. The colonial era in particular, first under German and then […]
The Kerch Crown — splendour from Europe’s early days
Extraordinary treasures can currently be admired at the Neues Museum Berlin: the special exhibition “The Crown of Kerch — Treasures from Europe’s Early Period” presents gold jewellery from the Black Sea during the Migration Period, silver clasps and magnificent belts from early medieval graves. These treasures once belonged to the collection of the collector Johannes […]
Between death and life — the special exhibition “Dioscuri — The gift of a day” at the Neues Museum
From 12 April 2025 to 15 March 2026, the staircase hall of the Neues Museum will be dominated by an extraordinary artistic presentation: with “Dioscuri — The Gift of a Day”, the German-British artist Michael Müller has created a space-filling painting that takes up and reinterprets the ancient myth of the twins Castor and Polydeuces. […]
In the footsteps of Georg Schweinfurth — researcher, botanist and pioneer of Egyptology
Anyone visiting the Neues Museum in Berlin this autumn will be immersed in the fascinating world of Georg Schweinfurth. The special exhibition “On Untravelled Paths — Georg Schweinfurth and Egyptology” honours the multifaceted legacy of the important African researcher, who died 100 years ago. Schweinfurth was not only a pioneer of botanical science, but also […]
Lovis Corinth — Then came Berlin! The success story of a modern painter
The exhibition “Lovis Corinth — Then Came Berlin! (AT)” at the Berlinische Galerie puts one of the most influential painters of modernism in the spotlight. Lovis Corinth, born in Tapiau in 1858 and raised in East Prussia, moved from the more traditional Munich to the up-and-coming metropolis of Berlin in 1900. Corinth himself commented: “It […]
Care as resistance — The exhibition “Politics of Care” at the Berlinische Galerie
In the midst of ecological, social and political crises, the question of care and responsibility is becoming a central social challenge. The exhibition “Politics of Care. Care as Resistance” at the Berlinische Galerie from 5 November 2025 brings together three moving video works that explore contemporary practices of care and open up new perspectives beyond […]
Raoul Hausmann — Visionary of Dadaism: Insights into the Berlin retrospective
The Berlinische Galerie is dedicating an extensive retrospective to Raoul Hausmann, one of the most influential avant-gardists of classical modernism. Under the title “Vision. Provocation. Dada.”, around 200 works from national and international collections will be presented, illustrating Hausmann’s multifaceted and pioneering work. The artist saw art and life as inextricably linked and strived throughout […]
Between oil, power and art: the exhibition “Monira Al Qadiri — Hero” at the Berlinische Galerie
In her exhibition “Hero”, the artist Monira Al Qadiri, who grew up in Kuwait and now lives in Berlin, focuses on the complex connections between the oil industry, global power and ecological crises. At the centre of the presentation is the motif of the oil tanker, which symbolises consumer capitalism, political interests and the enormous […]
Rediscovery of a sculptor: Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff at the Berlinische Galerie
The exhibition “Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff — Sculptures and Drawings 1946–1970” at the Berlinische Galerie honours one of the most important sculptors of the post-war period. Meier-Denninghoff (1923–2011) shaped the international art world of the 1950s and 1960s with her innovative metal sculptures: her works were presented at renowned events such as the documenta in Kassel, the […]