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Ursula Sax
Until 6 September 2010
These works really pack a swing! In her artworks, Ursula Sax examines the dynamics of figures developing and moving in a space. The Berlinische Galerie, which was recently gifted 80 pieces by Sax, is showing sculptures and objects by the Berlin artist.
Mona Hatoum
Until 5 September 2010
The Lebanese artist has just been awarded the renowned Käthe-Kollwitz Prize, which is presented by the Akademie der Künste. Just why she was an excellent choice for this award becomes amply clear in her exhibition, which features installations and pieces depicting emotions that fluctuate between violence and vulnerability.
Kaisersaal
Until 5 September 2010
The renovation work for the Kaisersaal in the Museum of Photography was completed last autumn. The opening show is an exhibition of architecture photography by Eugène Atget, Albert Renger-Patzsch and Candida Höfer.
Sofia Hultén
Until September 4th 2010
Her minimalist objects may look like objets trouvés or things that have been industrially manufactured, but you’d be wrong: the artist Sofia Hultén makes all her pieces painstakingly by hand as a way of exploring the innate spirit of these objects.
Who knows tomorrow
Until September 26th 2010
A “zitty top” score may seem over the top for an exhibition with so many weak points as this first one by the Neue Nationalgalerie in recognition of post-colonial reality. But we’ll give it one anyway: two of the five works and the book on display are outstanding.
Bruce Nauman
Until October 10th 2010
Bruce Nauman’s grand exhibition culminates in these two dark corridors in the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art museum. His first Berlin retrospective highlights the physical experience in his work and compares the more successful part to the work of artists of his generation.
Being Singular Plural
Until October 10th 2010
Dazzling Bollywood aesthetics are nowhere to be found here, instead the exhibition features contemporary Indian film and video art, as made popular by Raqs Media Collective, and portrays philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s image of society.
Jo Baer
until 26 June 2010
The long and painful road from figurative art to abstraction is wonderfully illustrated in this retrospective of Jo Baer. The work of the artist, who was born in 1929 in Seattle, is displayed in all its development stages and stylistic quandaries in this spacious exhibition.
Dali Museum
With over 400 exhibits, Europe’s largest permanent show of Dali’s work, located right at the pulsating heart of Berlin at the Potsdamer Platz, gives fascinating insight into the multifaceted work of this titan of the art world.
Temporary Art Hall
A private initiative creates something that Berlin couldn’t be bothered to do for 14 whole years: it plans, constructs and fills a new art hall. Temporarily. And slips into the politics of art.
The Neue Museum
The Neue Museum reopened on 17 October 2009, restored to more than its former glory with new fittings and furnishings. The Ägyptische Museum (Egyptian Museum) and the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Musuem of Prehistory and Early History) have also moved back in.