Crossroads#5 – Literature Meets Art

Percival Everett and Naomi Beckwith

Naomi Beckwith / Percival Everett

Please join Percival Everett, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and visual artist, for a conversation at the crossroads of literature and visual art. Internationally celebrated for his formally inventive fiction, Everett is less widely known for his painterly practice. Yet painting and drawing have long been central to his artistic life. Working across text and image, he probes the limits of narrative and abstraction, asking how meaning is constructed, how perception is shaped, and how representation both reveals and obscures.
In dialogue with Naomi Beckwith (Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation; Artistic Director, documenta 16), Everett will reflect on the interplay between literature and visual art. Beckwith’s multidisciplinary curatorial approach, grounded in close collaboration with artists and expansive thinking about context and display, offers a compelling counterpart to Everett’s cross-genre practice.
Together, they will explore how literature and visual art intersect not merely as parallel disciplines, but as mutually illuminating forms of inquiry and imagination.
Free admission. Online registration is required and possible until 10 April 2026.

This event is a collaboration between Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, the American Academy in Berlin, and Literaturhaus Berlin.
It is part of the Crossroads# Literature Meets Art series. Authors meet painters, sculptors meet writers, multimedia artists meet poets; their paths cross in the museum.

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Next date:

• Date Saturday, 02/May/2026 15:00 bis 17:00
• Venue Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
• Address Invalidenstraße 51, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten