Kick-off: From Odessa to Berlin. European painting of the 16th to 19th centuries – Gemäldegalerie | 13.02.-28.04.2024

From 13 February 2024, the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will be presenting a focused selection of paintings from the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art. The occasion is the second anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine. The presentation is the prelude to a major special exhibition that will show paintings from Odessa together with works from the Berlin collections from January 2025. The project is a special presentation of the Gemäldegalerie with the support of the Alte Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Shortly after the start of the Russian attack on Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the most important paintings from the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art were moved to an emergency storage facility, where they were temporarily removed from the war zone. As there are close links with the painting collections of the Staatliche …