Highlights: The most important exhibitions in 2020
From Contemporary Art, Impressionism to Media Art: these are the exhibitions not to miss in the German capital. Preview the most interesting exhibitions for the year 2020 in Berlin.
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Exhibition Highlights 2020
12 May to 14 June 2020
2020 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the Grand Master of Renaissance Art: Raphael. On the occasion of this jubilee, a big «Meeting of the Madonnas» will take place in the Gemäldegalerie.
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06 May to 19 July 2020
From February 2020, visitors can admire works by the French impressionist Claude Monet in the Barberini Museum.
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30 May to 19 July 2020
Hassan Sharif is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century in the Middle East. KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents the first major retrospective of the conceptual artist in Europe.
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Postponed to 2021
Alicja Kwade's installations in the exhibition «In Abwesenheit» («In Absence») transform constructions into models for the perception of time, space and matter.
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21 March to 17 August 2020
The Palais Populaire focuses on the work of one of the most famous artist couples of our time: Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
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11 May - 12 July 2020
Give and receive: The exhibition by Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei at Gropius Bau deals with the culture and rituals of gift-giving.
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6 September 2020 to 3 January 2021
The group exhibition «Magical Soup» shows outstanding works of media art from the collection of the Nationalgalerie, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection and exciting loans.
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14 June to 10 January 2021
Katharina Grosse is one of the stars of contemporary art. «Katharina Grosse. It wasn't us» shows a selection of her outstanding works in the historical hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof.
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March 26 to June 27, 2021
The Berggruen Museum is showing a series of fifteen oil paintings by Picasso in response to the famous portrayal of Eugène Delacroix's «The Women of Algiers».
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© Yayoi Kusama
19 March to 01 August 2021
Yayoi Kusama is the superstar of contemporary art in Japan. In 2021, the Gropius Bau dedicates the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany to the artist.
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18 September 2020 to 21 March 2021
In the exhibition «The Germanic Tribes. A Critical Look» in the James Simon Gallery compares the public image of the Teutons with the current state of research.
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16 October 2020 to 10 January 2021
The exhibition «Masculinities: Liberation through Photography» at Gropius Bau offers a photographic examination of the masculine in all its contradiction and complexity.
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07 November 2020 to 28 February 2021
The exhibition «Impressionism in Russia. Departure to the Avant-Garde» takes a look at the works of the most famous interpreters of Russian Impressionism.
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See the best museum, art and photography exhibitions in Berlin's top museums, galleries and event venues.
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Source: Berlin.de
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Last edited: 4. February 2020