The Opposite of Now
Twelve artistic projects mark the Jewish Museum’s anniversary through contemporary questions. Allow time for different voices and media rather than expecting a single historical narrative.
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Current exhibitions with shared venue details and actual visiting hours. Start with the work that interests you, then check the current session and any separate museum admission or reservation requirements.
Twelve artistic projects mark the Jewish Museum’s anniversary through contemporary questions. Allow time for different voices and media rather than expecting a single historical narrative.
Objects from Berlin’s club culture become museum evidence. The exhibition asks what can be preserved from a scene whose meaning often depends on a particular room, crowd and night.
Nine people recall being fourteen when the Berlin Wall fell. Their video accounts show how the same historical break entered different lives in East and West.
Spray decoration turns everyday ceramics into a study of colour and repeatable design. The Bröhan Museum’s collection provides the examples, including objects made for ordinary domestic use.
Michael Wesely layers historical views of Prenzlauer Berg with present-day photographs. The overlaps make urban change visible within a single image rather than through a simple before-and-after pair.
Carrie Mae Weems’s retrospective brings together a practice concerned with power, representation and history. Give the exhibition enough time for the relationships between images to emerge.
Stelios Kallinikou looks at the landscape around Akrotiri in Cyprus through photography and film. Ecology and the presence of military infrastructure occupy the same field of vision.
Susanne Kriemann’s photographs connect landscapes with the traces of uranium extraction. Sites in Saxony, Thuringia and Limousin place the environmental story across national borders.
Amnon David Ar’s paintings are presented in dialogue with the world of Kurt Mühlenhaupt. Everyday subjects provide a point of contact between different artistic perspectives.
The body becomes a meeting point for questions of identity and social expectation. The Georg Kolbe Museum provides a setting where those contemporary questions sit alongside a sculptural legacy.
Graduation work recognised through the Mart Stam prize comes together at the Zitadelle. Compare how young designers and artists turn individual research into a public presentation.
The exhibition examines German involvement in Angola through contemporary artistic perspectives. Mussunda Nzombo and Bruno Fonseca are among the voices addressing the colonial history.
Laura Bruce moves between recognisable figures and abstract structures. Pearls and Hooks gives that shifting relationship room to develop across the exhibition.
Ewa Finn and Katharina Poos bring painting into a shared exhibition at the Zitadelle. Look for the conversation between their approaches rather than treating the two positions as separate stops.
Funda Özgünaydin’s collages use animals to approach questions that also concern people. The title offers a useful starting point for considering who is allowed to speak within an image.
Lina Lapelytė brings collective singing and repeated actions into Hamburger Bahnhof’s historic hall. The exhibition develops over time, with a separate performance schedule to check before visiting.
Women’s clothing from Danube Swabian communities carries histories of identity and movement. Heavy Fabric approaches garments as evidence of social life as well as material objects.
Shilpa Gupta explores language, borders and the ways power shapes movement. The presentation places her work in conversation with the museum’s Joseph Beuys and Marx collection context.
Photography records rooms and stages as places of performance. Look at how an image can retain the suggestion of an action even when a space appears empty.
Sofie Dawo’s textile work tests what fabric can do when its construction is questioned. Threads and structures become active elements in the exhibition rather than decorative surfaces.