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Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ is a 24-hour video work that takes viewers on a journey through a century of film history. Now ‘The Clock’ is coming to Berlin for the first time: from 29 November 2025 to 25 January 2026 at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Since its premiere in London in 2010 and winning the Golden Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, the work has attracted worldwide attention and has since been shown in major museums such as MoMA in New York (2012/13 + 2024/25), MCA in Sydney (2013), Centre Pompidou in Paris (2014) and Tate in London (2018/19).
The Clock is a compilation of thousands of time-related scenes from films and television programmes in which clocks or timepieces appear. After years of meticulous research and editing, Christian Marclay has assembled these scenes and fragments into a seamless 24-hour film experience. The result is an immersive audiovisual journey through film history – and at the same time a functioning clock: the installation is precisely synchronised with local time in Berlin, blurring the line between cinematic and …
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Photo above: Christian Marclay, The Clock2010Single-channel video installationDuration: 24 hours. © Christian Marclay. Photo © White Cube (Ben Westoby).
