Iran. 5.000 Years of Art and Culture

Iran. 5.000 Years of Art and Culture

30 October 2021 to 20 February 2022

The exhibits, many of which have never been shown before, illustrate the outstanding importance of Iran as a driving force for intercultural exchange and provide insights into the art of the courts and urban elites.

Iran. 5.000 Years of Art and Culture

© The Sarikhani Collection, Foto: H.-D. Beyer

Bust of a Sasanid king or prince, bronze, 5th century BC

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The exhibition shows around 320 objects from the Sarikhani Collection as well as numerous collections of the National Museums in Berlin, highlighting Iran's outstanding importance as a source of inspiration and centre of intercultural exchange between the Mediterranean, China and India from the first advanced civilizations of the 3rd millennium BC to the end of the Safavid Empire in the early 18th century. In a chronologically structured course with seven stations, they illustrate incisions, adaptations and transformations.

Highlights are the pre-Islamic empires of the Achaemenids and Sasanids, the formation of a Persian-Islamic culture and the artistic masterpieces of the 9th to 13th centuries as well as the heyday of the Safavids.

"Iran. Art and Culture from Five Millennia" is a exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art in cooperation with the Sarikhani Collection in London.

At a glance

Exhibition
Iran. 5.000 Years of Art and Culture
Location
Pergamonmuseum and James-Simon-Galerie
Start
30. October 2021
End
20. February 2022
Opening hours
Not yet known
Admission Fee
12 Euro, red. 6 Euro
 Adresse
Bodestraße 1-3
10178 Berlin

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