Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century
16.06.2023 until further notice

The Hamburger Bahnhof presents a multi-layered panorama of Berlin's art scene and the city itself, spanning from the threshold of the opening of the Berlin Wall through to the present. With the new presentation of the collection in the west wing, the Hamburger Bahnhof invites the public to reflect on the role of art and cultural institutions in fostering inclusion, engagement and social transformation. Some 80 artworks, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures, photographs and videos, explore the sociopolitical and economic factors that have shaped the city and the artistic practices to have emerged from within it. Sibylle Bergemann, Rainer Fetting, Isa Genzken, Mona Hatoum, Emeka Ogboh, Anri Sala, Selma Selman, Isaac Chong Wai and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt are among the 60 artists included in the display. For the first time, the Nationalgalerie’s contemporary art holdings will enter into a long-term exchange with the art collection of the German Federal Government and the collection of the ifa – Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. The exhibition will be further enriched by a selection of significant new acqui-sitions. Familiar major works will be shown alongside others that have rarely, if ever, been shown before.

• Guided Tour
  in English & German
  60 min, 100 € plus admission
  
• Exhibition talk for school classes
  on the topics:
  »Puttung art to music«
  »Spoilt for choice, material«
  60 min, 30 € plus admission if applicable
  90 min, 45 € plus admission if applicable
  (Free admission for educational groups and other authorised persons see > here)
• Workshop
  »Undiscovered corners«
  »Display, set up, park?«
  120 min, 60 € plus admission if applicable
  (Free admission for educational groups and other authorised persons see > here)
• Booking
  > (+49)30 247 49 888
  > museumsdienst@kulturprojekte.berlin
  
  
• Public Guided Tour
  daily in German 2pm & in English 3pm
  

Joseph Beuys. Works from the Nationalgalerie Collection
12.04.2024 until further notice

The Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting its extensive holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys (1921–86) in the Kleihueshalle. Comprising 15 key works by Joseph Beuys, the new presentation in the Kleihueshalle explores the artist’s complex oeuvre and critical reception. Alongside his environment DAS KAPITAL RAUM 1970–1977 (1980), the parcours includes sculptures, drawings, multiples and ground-breaking actions such as I like America and America likes Me (1974). The exhibition examines the ways in which Beuys’s work questioned the nature, materiality, language and perception of the boundaries and tasks of art. At the same time, it contextualises and compares Beuys’ vision of a slow social transformation with historic and contemporary countermodels by Grace Lee Boggs, Angela Davis, Agnes Denes, Donna Haraway among others. The new permanent display is being held to mark the generous donation of works from the family of the collector Erich Marx. It will be accompanied by a rotating series of solo exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists – the first of whom will be artist Naama Tsabar (* 1982) as of 22 March 2022.

• Guided Tour
  in English & German
  60 min, 100 € plus admission
  
• Exhibition talk for school classes
  "Ecology and sustainability"
  60 min/ 30 € plus admission if applicable
  90 min/ 45 € plus admission if applicable
  (Free admission for educational groups and other authorised persons see > here)
• Workshop
  "Who if not us"
  for school classes in German & English
  120 min, 60 € plus admission if applicable
  (Free admission for educational groups and other authorised persons see > here)
• Booking
  > (+49)30 247 49 888
  > museumsdienst@kulturprojekte.berlin
  
  
• Public Guided Tour
  in English 1pm
  in German 12pm
  Sun 09.06., 23.06., 07.07., 21.07., 04.08., 11.08., 18.08., 01.09. & 15.09.
  

Naama Tsabar. Estuaries
12.04.2024 until 22.09.2024

Naama Tsabar's art overcomes the boundaries of sculpture, music, performance and architecture: Hamburger Bahnhof presents the installation and performance artist with her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition focuses on three bodies of work with wall and floor works that also function as musical instruments and can be activated by the audience. The performance, created especially in the exhibition, is developed in close collaboration with a group of female identifying or gender non-confirming musicians and performers from Berlin and New York. With the use of felt in connection with sound, Naama Tsabar corresponds with works by Joseph Beuys, which are also shown in parallel in the Kleihueshalle. The exhibition is the first in a series of contemporary presentations in dialogue with the presentation of Beuys’ works in the collection. Naama Tsabar (b. 1982, lives and works in New York) reveals hidden spaces and systems in her interactive works, re-defining gendered narratives and shifting the viewing experience to a moment of active participation. Her sculptures and installations can be played upon by the audience or in collaborative performances. In the transformational process between sculpture and instrument, between form and sound, the intimate, sensual, corporeal potential of her works becomes tangible. By collaborating with local groups of performers defined as female or non-binary, Tsabar is writing a new feminist and queer history of fluency.

• Guided tour for groups
  in German & English
  60 min, 100 € plus admission
• Exhibition talk for school classes
  "Felt  and Sound"
  60 min/ 30 € plus admission if applicable
  90 min/ 45 € plus admission if applicable
  (Free admission for educational groups and other authorised persons see > here)
• Booking
  > (+49)30 247 49 888
  > museumsdienst@kulturprojekte.berlin
  
  
• Public Guided Tour
  in English 1pm
  in German 12pm
  Sun 02.06., 16.06., 14.07., 28.07.,11.08., 08.09. & 22.09.

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