Exhibitions Archive
In honour of its initiator, the Brücke artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, the Brücke-Museum presents together with the neighbouring Kunsthaus Dahlem the 17 finalists of the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship for one weekend. Programme Saturday, …
A major collection presentation celebrates the 120th anniversary of the Brücke artists’ group, the art of Expressionism and the Brücke-Museum. On 7 June 1905, four young architecture students came together in …
In the summer of 1922, Lise Gujer (1893-1967) met the Brücke artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the Swiss climatic health resort of Davos. Shortly after meeting him, she began to …
The exhibition Biographies of Modern Art: Collectors and Their Works presents eight Jewish collectors whose artworks are now in the Brücke-Museum ‒ art historian Rosa Schapire, art critic Max Osborn, …
The exhibition Hanna Bekker vom Rath. A Rebel for modern art honours an important pioneer of modernism. Born and raised in a time when women did not have the right to …
The exhibition The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time. Artistic Testimonies of War and Repression presents historical and contemporary positions that address state violence and opression. The …
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978 in Zakopane, Poland) creates large-scale, brightly coloured textile collages and paintings. Her first solo exhibition in Germany sees the artist embarking on an artistic dialogue with …
On June 7, 1905, four young architecture students founded the artists’ group Brücke in Dresden. Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and - the less well-known today - Fritz Bleyl wanted …
What is a museum? What are its tasks and how does it work? The exhibition celebrates the 55th anniversary of the Brücke-Museum, which opened on 15 September 1967, and aims to …
The Brücke-Museum presents the 14 finalists of the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship in an exhibition. The scholarship is a prize genuinely intended by an artist for artists to promote young talent. Shortly …
1910 was one of the most formative years of the Brücke artists’ group and their artistic zenith. Established five years earlier by architecture students Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and …
The Brücke-Museum houses the collection of the estate of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Part of it is a body of works of more than 100 cultural works from over 20 regions in …
The Brücke artists lived and worked during a period when Imperial Germany was one of the largest colonial powers in Europe. The exhibition Whose Expression? The Brücke Artists and Colonialism …
This year, the Brücke-Museum presents ars viva 2022. Since 1953, the ars viva prize has been awarded by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft to outstanding young artists based in Germany. …
The Berlin architect and urban planner Werner Düttmann would have turned a hundred years old on 6 March 2021. This anniversary is celebrated with the large-scale exhibition Werner Düttmann. Building. …
The Argentinian-Swiss painter Vivian Suter’s invitation to the Brücke-Museum marks the first time that the collection will enter into a direct dialogue with a contemporary artist. The expansive installation presents Suter’s …
The exhibition Max Kaus. Among Friends presents the multi-faceted work of this Berlin-based artist. At the same time, it acknowledges the generous gift made by Sigrid Kaus who has, over …
Until spring 2021, the landscape architects of atelier le balto will revitalised the garden of the Brücke-Museum. Situated alongside the Grunewald, the museum is set on a spacious forest area. …
“I never display unframed pictures in exhibitions … if I do something, I do it as properly and as well as possible, otherwise I would rather not do it at all,” wrote …
The Garden Bridge is an outdoor project in the garden of Brücke-Museum. Inspired by the Brücke artists’ original stated intentions of bridging the old and the new, project space Kinderhook …
The exhibition Escape into Art? is the first critical and detailed examination of the artistic practice, scope and everyday life of the former Brücke artists during the Nazi period. The history …
Over seven decades, art dealer, academic, collector and artist friend Eberhard W. Kornfeld (b. 1923 in Basel, Switzerland) has dedicated himself to the life and work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. …
“We live in what might be the most exhilarating and exciting time ever to have been.” This is how the physician and publicist David Sarason described the eventful year of …
With Casa Isadora, the artist Sol Calero (*1982 in Caracas, Venezuela) has built a pavilion in the garden of the Brücke- Museum in the form of a walk-in painting that …
On 25 September 1967, ten days after the official opening of Brücke-Museum, artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff wrote to architect Werner Düttmann: “My dear Mr. Düttmann, now that the furore of the …