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Eröffnung Ruin und Rausch
Date details
- Date Friday, 24/April/2026 19:00 bis 22:00
- Venue Neue Nationalgalerie
- Address Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
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Ruin and Rush
Berlin 1910–1930
Otto Dix, Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber, 1925, detail
© Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026 / Foto: Frank Kleinbach, Stuttgart
The Neue Nationalgalerie cordially invites you to the opening of "Ruin and Intoxication. Berlin 1910-1930".
With "Ruin and Intoxication", the Neue Nationalgalerie focuses on selected works from its collection of Classical Modernism that thematize Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. These decades - characterized by the First World War and the Weimar Republic - constantly oscillated between opposites: Excess and poverty, emancipation and extremism went hand in hand in the rapidly growing, cosmopolitan metropolis. With around 35 works of different styles, the exhibition brings these ambivalences to life in Berlin at the time.
The opening begins at 19:00
19:10 Welcome
Dr. Joachim Jäger deputy Director Neue Nationalgalerie
19:15 Speeches
Dr. Uta Caspary curator Neue Nationalgalerie
Dr. Irina Hiebert Grun curator New National Gallery
19:30 Opening of the exhibitionTranslated with DeepL
With "Ruin and Intoxication", the Neue Nationalgalerie focuses on selected works from its collection of Classical Modernism that thematize Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. These decades - characterized by the First World War and the Weimar Republic - constantly oscillated between opposites: Excess and poverty, emancipation and extremism went hand in hand in the rapidly growing, cosmopolitan metropolis. With around 35 works of different styles, the exhibition brings these ambivalences to life in Berlin at the time.
The opening begins at 19:00
19:10 Welcome
Dr. Joachim Jäger deputy Director Neue Nationalgalerie
19:15 Speeches
Dr. Uta Caspary curator Neue Nationalgalerie
Dr. Irina Hiebert Grun curator New National Gallery
19:30 Opening of the exhibitionTranslated with DeepL
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