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In 2024, the Hamburger Bahnhof team is further accentuating its position as the National Gallery of Contemporary Art in Berlin, through seven solo exhibitions, three new collection presentations, an annual commission for the historical hall, and many outreach initiatives within new formats. "With our new programme, we continue to strengthen the museum's role as a catalyst for inclusion and collective progress," said directors Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath.
Tania Bruguera: Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions (100 Hours Reading. The Origins of Totalitarianism)
February 7–11, 2024
In this 100-hour performance, artists, theorists, and activists will read Hannah Arendt’s “Elements and Origins of Totalitarianism” without interruption, day and night, in Hamburger Bahnhof’s historical hall. Initially performed in May of 2015 at the artist’s home in Havana (Cuba) while she was under house arrest, Bruguera will adapt the piece to the museum’s cultural and socio-political context.
Joseph Beuys: Works from the Collection
From March 22, 2024
In conversation with Naama Tsabar
March 22–September 22, 2024
In this first of a series of dialogue exhibitions in adjacent spaces, canonical installations by Joseph Beuys such as DAS KAPITAL RAUM, 1970–1977, Straßenbahnhaltestelle, 1976, and Das Ende des 20. Jahrhundrets, 1983 will be on view concurrently with works by New York-based artist Naama Tsabar. For her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Tsabar draws from the disciplines of sculpture, music, and architecture, and develops a performance in collaboration with a group of female-identifying or gender non-conforming musicians and performers from Berlin and New York.
Alexandra Pirici
April 25–October 6, 2024
Alexandra Pirici inaugurates the first in a series of annual commissions for the museum’s main historical hall, creating a living landscape where human bodies - including those of visitors - move and perform alongside chemical reactions, mineral formations and physical phenomena. In 2024, this annual exhibition is co-commissioned by Hamburger Bahnhof and Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
Marianna Simnett: WINNER
May 17–November 3, 2024
Commissioned by Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin-based Marianna Simnett presents a multichannel film installation consisting of a three-act ballet for film told through the lens of football. Coinciding with the 2024 European Football Championship in Germany, WINNER echoes the dramaturgy of the game and dissects its socially constructed power hierarchies and constant pressure to perform.
Preis der Nationagalerie: Pan Daijing, Daniel Lie, Hanne Lippard, James Richards
June 7, 2024–January 5, 2025
In June 2024, the prestigious Prize of the National Gallery returns in its new format whereby the prize is jointly awarded to four distinct artists showing different positions in direct dialogue with one another.
Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century, Part 2
From September 6, 2024
The museum’s iconic industrial halls, the Rieckhallen, will host a new collection presentation offering a panorama of Berlin's art scene and the city itself - from the threshold of the opening of the Berlin Wall through to the present.
Mark Bradford
September 6, 2024–March 10, 2025
The first exhibition in Germany by Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford will feature both existing and newly commissioned works through which the artist engages with histories of migration, displacement, and violence, and makes a direct response to the context of Hamburger Bahnhof.
Andrea Pichl
November 8, 2024–May 4, 2025
Berlin-based artist Andrea Pichl enters into dialogue with the collection presentation of Joseph Beuys. The exhibition builds on Pichl’s engagement with architecture in Berlin and beyond, whereby the artist examines tenuous relationships between people, places, and conflicted histories.
Semiha Berksoy
December 6, 2024–May 11, 2025
A leading soprano in 1930’s Berlin, Semiha Berksoy (1910–2004) was forced to return to Istanbul after the outbreak of WWII in 1939. The exhibition, Berksoy’s largest retrospective in Germany to date, covers more than six decades of her work, and is presented within an operatic environment that highlights the versatile nature of her practice.
Hamburger Bahnhof special programmes 2024
The museum’s Open House returns from June 7 to 9, 2024 after its great success with more than 32,000 visitors in 2023. So will Berlin Beats every Thursday night from June 7 until August 29, 2024 after welcoming 50,000 people this summer. This will coincide with the unveiling of the second, site-specific commission for the museum’s Endless Exhibition. The newly launched Volkswagen Group Art4All Family Sunday will take place every Sunday with special programmes for groups of people who identify as a family regardless of gender or relation. From December 2023 onwards, the new series of talks Long Thursdays will take place on Thursdays at 6pm, free of charge, in the museum’s Forum Hamburger Bahnhof. It will feature conversations with artists, panel discussions, film screenings, and a range of one-night events.
Hamburger Bahnhof publications 2024
The exhibitions Naama Tsabar, Alexandra Pirici, Preis der Nationalgalerie, Marianna Simnett, Mark Bradford, Andrea Pichl, and Semiha Berksoy will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue published by Silvana Editoriale Milano.
