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The Berlinische Galerie is Berlin’s state museum of modern art, photography and architecture. Founded in 1975 as a private initiative, it collects art made in Berlin from 1870 to the present, with both a regional and an international focus. Since 2004 it has occupied a converted glass warehouse on Alte Jakobstraße in Kreuzberg, close to the Jewish Museum, where it shows its permanent collection “Art in Berlin 1880–1980” alongside monographic and thematic exhibitions, the IBB Video Space and the GASAG Art Prize.
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Alte Jakobstraße 124–128, 10969 Berlin, Germany
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How a mid-life relocation ignited a German modernist revolution
An expansive survey at the Berlinische Galerie traces how Lovis Corinth's 1901 move transformed him into a cornerstone of early twentieth-century avant-garde practice.
Tracing transience through material memory
The Berlinische Galerie hosts Jeewi Lee's first major Berlin solo show, exploring sand, impermanence, and ecological shift alongside the GASAG Art Prize 2026.
Artists associated with the museum's collection and programme.
Lovis Corinth (1858–1925) was a German artist and writer whose mature work as a painter and printmaker realised a synthesis of Impressionism and Expressionism. Born in Tapiau in the Province of Prussia, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, then moved to Berlin, where in 1902 he opened a painting school for women. He joined the Berlin Secession and served as its president from 1915 to 1925, succeeding Max Liebermann. His early work was naturalistic, but after a stroke in 1911 his style loosened and took on expressionistic qualities, with more vibrant colour in portraits, landscapes, nudes and biblical scenes.
Jeewi Lee is an artist who works with serial paintings, sculptures, site-specific installations and interventions made from simple, seemingly worthless materials in which traces of time and transience are inscribed as memories. Combining materials analysis with aspects of Taoist philosophy and personal mythology, she develops a poetic, meditative visual universe. She is the recipient of the GASAG Art Prize 2026, which comes with her first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin.
Su Yu Hsin (born 1989 in Taichung, Taiwan) is a film artist who studied at Shih Chien University in Taipei, the Royal College of Art in London and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). In 2023 she received the 26th Federal Prize for Art Students. Her work has been shown at Kunsthalle Winterthur, GfZK Leipzig, SculptureCenter in New York, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centre Pompidou-Metz. She lives and works in Berlin and Taipei.
Josef Kaiser (1910–1991) was a German architect, urban planner, university teacher and tenor, born in Celje. He studied architecture in Prague from 1929 to 1935. His designs decisively shaped the architecture of East Berlin in the 1960s, and with more than 400 projects he was among the busiest architects in the GDR. The buildings realised in the second construction phase of the Karl-Marx-Allee, including the Kino International, are counted among the most important examples of postwar modernism. He died in Altenberg in the Ore Mountains in 1991.
Simona Andrioletti is an artist working with moving image. Her video Defence. What do you do with your anger? (10 min.) is a found-footage collage of re-filmed material, in which individuals try, unsuccessfully, to defend themselves against physical, emotional and environmental oppression.
Simone C Niquille is a designer and researcher whose work investigates the representation of identity and personal data in a world of networked cameras and digital images. Her short film The Fragility of Life (24 min.) follows a Hillary Clinton impersonator in the final days before the 2016 US presidential election and questions the ownership of one’s own image.
Vika Kirchenbauer is an artist working with video, text and performance. Her video This Suffocating Now (16 min.) reflects on increasingly fascist tendencies in contemporary Germany, combining personal experiences of medical gender discrimination with archival and protest footage.
Rolf von Bergmann (1953–1988) was a German photographer shaped by the West Berlin art scene around the Galerie am Moritzplatz. He documented queer subculture and the art, fashion and club scene of the 1970s and 1980s in West Berlin and New York, where he studied with Lisette Model at Parsons School of Design. He photographed figures such as Klaus Nomi, Nina Hagen, Divine, John Waters, Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol, and died in 1988 during the AIDS crisis.
Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987) was a Norwegian-French painter and printmaker, one of the best-known women artists in 20th-century Norwegian art. Her work developed from early humorous illustrations and socially critical drawings to large abstract landscapes, often using metal leaf, which brought her international breakthrough from the late 1950s. She took part in documenta II in Kassel and the Bienal de São Paulo.
