The FU-BEST-program distributes annual passes for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the beginning of every semester. Here’s a brief introduction of the museums included in the pass as well as an overview over their collections.
Alte Nationalgalerie
In their permanent exhibition Art of the 19th Century, the Alte Nationalgalerie shows a comprehensive collection of art of the era between the French Revolution and the First World War, between Classicism and Secessions. It features paintings of Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne and sculptures by Auguste Rodin as well as works by Berthel Thorwaldsen, Antonio Canova and Ridolfo Schadow.
Neue Nationalgalerie
The Neue Nationalgalerie is dedicated to the twentieth-century art from the Nationalgalerie’s diverse collection, having featured artists such as Rosa Barba, Gerhard Richter, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Maria Kulikovska. Currently, they are exhibiting the work of Monica Bonvicini, amongst others.
Currently:
Monica Bonvicini
I do You
25.11.2022 to 30.04.2023
Museum für Fotografie
The Museum für Fotografie (Museum of Photography) has been a magnet for photography enthusiasts from all over the world since its opening in 2004.
The Helmut Newton Foundation occupies the two lower floors in the building and has for many years presented its hugely successful permanent exhibition ‚Helmut Newton’s Private Property‘, as well as individual exhibitions on Helmut Newton’s work, his wife Alice Springs, and his contemporaries.
In the Kaisersaal on the museum’s second floor, the Kunstbibliothek’s Collection of Photography presents a series of rotating exhibitions that explore the medium of photography in all its protean forms. In an upcoming exhibition, the Israeli Holocaust remembrance centre Yad Vashem is showing its much-admired exhibition Flashes of Memory: Photography During the Holocaust.
Flashes of Memory
Photography During the Holocaust
24.03.2023 to 20.08.2023
James-Simon-Galerie
Hamburger Bahnhof
Hambuger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum for the present) is a former train station from the 1840s that connected the train route Hamburg-Berlin. The train station was, however, closed in 1884. From the start of the 19th century the former entrance hall was then restructured to be used as a museum. Today it is one of the most successful places for contemporary art. There are regular changing exhibitions and the building alone is worth a visit.
Currently:
Sandra Mujinga
IBMSWR: I Build My Skin With Rocks
09.12.2022 to 01.05.2023
Picture Sources: Sources: https://www.smb.museum/typo3temp/assets/processed/0/5/csm_sandra-mujinga-ausstellungsansicht-ibmswr-2_xl_86f7472820.jpg ; https://berliner-zeitung.imgix.net/2022/12/09/149a064f-d89c-4fb7-81ff-f5a6f2620e43.jpeg?auto=format&fit=max&w=1410&auto=compress
