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The Neue Nationalgalerie shows 20th century visual art from the collection of the Nationalgalerie, which has five other locations: Alte Nationalgalerie, Friedrichswerder Church, Museum Berggruen, Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection and Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.
After almost 50 years of use since its opening in 1968, the Neue Nationalgalerie was extensively renovated and modernised between January 2015 and 2020. It was only sporadically included in cultural events (e.g. Berlin Art Week 2015).
The building of the Neue Nationalgalerie is considered an icon of classical modernism. It was the last work of the internationally famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. With the museum’s glass Upper Hall, he completed his longstanding preoccupation with flowing, open space. The architect died shortly after the building was inaugurated. Thus, with its steel roof and its reduced formal language, the New National Gallery is at the same time considered the legacy of a visionary 20th-century master builder.
It is also worth walking around the only building by the famous German-American architect built in Germany after the Second World War. Since it is close to the Kulturforum, the Philharmonie, Potsdamer Platz and the new gallery district on Potsdamer Strasse, a visit here can be perfectly combined.
Image caption: Neue Nationalgalerie. Kulturforum. Berlin-Tiergarten, Potsdamer Straße 50. © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Maximilian Meisse
© ART@Berlin: Kunst in Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie.
