Exhibition
Art in Berlin 1880–1980. From the Collection
27 Feb 2018 – 1 Jan 2023
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Admission: 10 Euros, Concession: 6 Euros
Free Admission: under 18
Prices may change for special exhibitions.
Partner Ticketing with Jewish Museum Berlin: If you can show a ticket from Berlin’s Jewish Museum, you are entitled to our reduced rate. The same also applies in reverse.
Museum Sunday: Every first Sunday free admission for all visitors!
Address
- Alte Jakobstraße 124-128
- Berlin
Berlin - 10969
- Germany
Travel Information
- U6 Kochstrasse
The presentation from our collection is a multi-facetted tour through the art of Berlin from 1880 to 1980.
About
Berlin is always changing. The city’s art scene constantly reinvents itself, too. Narrating this eventful history from the dawn of Modernism around 1900 into the 1980s is the theme of our permanent exhibition “Art in Berlin 1880 1980”.
With fresh vigour and diversity since the revamp in October 2020, the collection at the Berlinische Galerie occupies more than 1000 square metres. Waiting to be discovered among the roughly 250 works on show are paintings, prints, photographs, architecture and archive materials rarely or never displayed before.
Walking around this exhibition is like time travel through Berlin: the Kaiser’s era, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the new beginnings after 1945, Cold War in the divided city, and the counter-cultures and unconventional lifestyles that evolved in East and West under the shadow of the Wall. In East Berlin, an alternative art community developed from the late 1970s. In West Berlin from the late 1970s, aggressive art by the “Neue Wilden” placed the divided city back in the international limelight.