Exhibitions at Martin-Gropius-Bau from 1981 to 2008
A selection2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999–1981
2009
12 November 2009 to 17 January 2010Istanbul Modern Berlin
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5 November 2009 to 18 January 2010
Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity
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3 October 2009 to 18 January 2010
Harald Schmitt – Seconds That Made History
Photographs of the End of State Socialism
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2 October 2009 to 11 January 2010
Languages of Futurism
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22 July to 4 October 2009
Bauhaus Model
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17 July to 1 November 2009
Herlinde Koelbl. Photographs 1976–2009
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9 July to 5 October 2009
Le Corbusier – Art and Architecture
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1 May to 14 June 2009
SIXTY YEARS. SIXTY WORKS.
Art from the Federal Republic of Germany from ’49 to ’09
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9 April to 10 August 2009
Gandhara. Pakistan’s Buddhist Legacy.
Legends, Monasteries and Edens
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5 April to 28 June 2009
Woman with a Camera: Liselotte Grschebina.
Germany 1908 – Israel 1994
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4 April to 29 June 2009
Hannes Kilian – Photographs
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2008
28 November 2008 to 23 March 2009Robert Lebeck. Photographs 1955–2005
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30 October 2008 to 12 January 2009
Zeitblick (Time Perspective). Acquisitions of the Federal Republic of Germany’s Contemporary Art Collection, 1998–2008
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19 October 2008 to 19 January 2009
Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946–2004
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12 September 2008 to 5 January 2009
The Tropics. Views from the Middle of the Globe
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22 August to 9 November 2008
The Collections of Barbara Bloom
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27 June to 28 September 2008
Painting for Eternity. The Tombs of Paestum
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13 June to 18 August 2008
Man Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent
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12 June to 18 August 2008
Alexander Rodchenko
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9 May to 28 July 2008
Yevgeny Khaldei – The Decisive Moment.
A Retrospective
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17 May to 14 July 2008
good prospects – young german photographers 2007/2008
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14 March to 1 June 2008
Dani Karavan – Retrospective
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13 March to 26 May 2008
Power and Friendship. Berlin – Saint Petersburg 1800–1860
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25 January to 21 April 2008
Karl Valentin. Pioneer of Films and Artisan of Media
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2007
28 October 2007 to 14 January 2008From Spark to Pixel
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13 October 2007 to 14 January 2008
Origins of the Silk Road
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5 October 2007 to 6 January 2008
Roswitha Hecke: Secret Views
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28 September 2007 to 6 January 2008
Eugène Atget – Retrospective
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13 August to 10 September 2007
Silence – Dirk Reinartz and Disciples
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6 July to 1 October 2007
Under the Sign of the Golden Griffin
The Royal Tombs of the Scythians
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15 June to 10 September 2007
Cindy Sherman
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5 May to 29 July 2007
Angkor – Sacred Heritage of Cambodia
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5 May to 29 July 2007
Conservation of the Reliefs at the Temples of Angkor
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28 April to 13 August 2007
Ré Soupault (1901–1996)
The Photographer of the Magic Instant
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9 March to 28 May 2007
Gérard Rondeau – Photographs
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9 March to 28 May 2007
Brassaï (1899–1984)
A Major Retrospective
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31 January to 9 April 2007
Gabriele Münter Prize 2007
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2006
30 November 2006 to 22 January 2007Hermann Nitsch. Orgies Mysteries Theatre.
Retrospective
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3 November 2006 to 7 January 2007
“famous” – Photographies
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3 November 2006 to 7 January 2007
Mutations I – Photographies
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5 October 2006 to 15 January 2007
Rebecca Horn
Drawings, Sculptures, Installations, Films 1964–2006
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5 October to 12 November 2006
Peintures / Painting
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5 August to 6 November 2006
Martin Munkácsi. Budapest – Berlin – New York
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13 May to 4 September 2006
Egypt’s Sunken Treasures
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12 April to 10 July 2006
Baroque in the Vatican – Art and Culture in the Rome of the Popes
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17 March to 9 July 2006
Robert Polidori – Photographs
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10 March to 17 April 2006
Architectural Design Competition: Topography of Terror. Berlin
exhibition of the 309 competition entries
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2005
2 December 2005 to 19 February 2006Transatlantic Impulses
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5 November 2005 to 15 January 2006
Bernhard Heiliger 1915–1995: A Sculptor’s Cosmos
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22 October 2005 to 29 January 2006
Bernhard Heisig – The Fury of Pictures
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20 October 2005 to 8 January 2006
Rundlederwelten
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24 September to 14 November 2005
After the Fact
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9 July to 3 October 2005
Urban Realities: Focus on Istanbul
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10 June to 29 August 2005
Kindred Spirits. Hungarian Photographers 1914–2003
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20 May to 5 September 2005
The New Hebrews. A Century of Art in Israel
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11 March to 6 June 2005
Günther Uecker – Twenty Chapters
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29 January to 11 April 2005
Gold and Jewels in the India of the Mughal Era:
Treasury of the World
The al-Sabah Collection at Kuwait National Museum
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22 January to 18 April 2005
Robert Capa – Retrospective
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20 January to 18 April 2005
Stanley Kubrick
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2004
17 December 2004 to 10 January 2005Smile please, you’re in!
Ten photographers from the ten new EU member states
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20 November 2004 to 31 January 2005
Time of Dawn
Japan's Archaeology and History up to the first Emperors
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3 November 2004 to 10 January 2005
Light and Colour in the Russian Avant-Garde
The Costakis Collection
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28 October to 5 December 2004
Paris + Klein
Photographies by William Klein
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28 October to 5 December 2004
Portraits of Viennese – Photographie
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26 October to 19 December 2004
The Auschwitz Trial 4 Ks 2/63
Frankfurt am Main
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23 September to 8 November 2004
Canadian Photography
in the 19th Century and Today – Broken Ground
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10 September to 13 December 2004
Sophie Calle
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2 September to 18 October 2004
Francis Alÿs
blueOrange – Prizewinner 2004
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21 August to 17 October 2004
Born in Europe – New Identities
Photographies and Video Works
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16 July to 13 September 2004
Sigrid Rothe
up close – photographic painting
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26 June to 13 September 2004
The Kremlin. Divine Glory and Luxury of the Czars
Treasures from the Kremlin Museum, Moscow
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15 May to 17 August 2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson – Retrospective
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7 May to 5 July 2004
Hugo Brehme – Photographer.
Mexico Between Revolution and Romance
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25 April to 5 July 2004
Hans Christian Schink
Photographs
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27 February to 28 June 2004
Fabrizio Plessi
Dream World
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14 February to 18 April 2004
3rd berlin biennale for contemporary art
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4 February to 12 April 2004
Gabriele Münter Prize 2004
An exhibition of the prizewinners Ulrike Rosenbach and
Cornelia Schleime as well as 38 selected artists
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2003
19 December 2003 to 16 February 2004Young Photographic Art from Berlin.
Berlinskaja Lazur.
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8 November 2003 to 5 January 2004
Ekspedicija
A Journey to Russia’s Poets.
Photographies by Eberhard Schorr and Texts by Christiane Schuchart
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17 October to 15 December 2003
Dirk Reinartz
Internal Affairs – Photographies
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10 October 2003 to 11 January 2004
August Sander
People of the 20th Century
The Complete Portraiture Project
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25 September 2003 to 5 January 2004
Berlin – Moscow / Moscow – Berlin 1950–2000
from today’s perspective
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13 July to 17 September 2003
Art Spiegelman
»Kisses From New York«
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6 June to 24 August 2003
The American Scene 2000
Photographers and Writers Portrait the USA
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28 May to 3 August 2003
Why!
The World of Man and Beyond
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17 May to 10 August 2003
The Aztecs
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15 March to 4 May 2003
Breaks in the Wall
Arts and Culture in Germany in the Eighties
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2002
6 December 2002 to 30 March 2003People • Times • Spaces
Archeology in Germany
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23 November 2002 to 10 February 2003
After the Flood
The Sculpture Collection of Dresden in Berlin
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10 November 2002 to 9 February 2003
!AVANT-GARDES!
Art in Central Europe 1910–1930
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1 November 2002 to 24 February 2003
Ken Adam: James Bond – Berlin – Hollywood
Visionary Film Architecture
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31 July to 21 October 2002
The Second Creation
Pictures of the instustrial World from the 18th century to the present
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17 July to 16 September 2002
New German Architecture
A Reflective Modernism
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12 July to 29 September 2002
The Hittites
The People of a 1000 Gods
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5 July to 7 October 2002
Here is New York
The Demcracy of Images
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9 May to 29 July 2002
Europeans in Paris
Works by 17 Photographers of the Métis agency
8 May to 6 June 2002
The Faded Ideal
Comtemporary Photographers examin “Classic Today”
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16 March to 2 June 2002
The (Im)perfect Human
About the right to imperfection
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8 March to 2 June 2002
The Greek Classic
Idea or Reality
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8 March to 29 April 2002
Eva Castringius
The Big Sky: Los Angeles – Berlin. Photographies
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2001
17 November to 30 December 2001Platen Artists
Portraits of Artists by Angelika Platen (1968–1974 and 1998–2000)
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8 September to 30 December 2001
Christo und Jeanne-Claude
Early Works, 1958–69 and Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971–95
A Documentary Exhibition
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17 May to 29 July 2001
The Short Century
The Short Century of Liberation and Independence in Africa (1945–1994)
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13 May to 19 August 2001
Europe’s Centre around 1000
A German-Polish-Slovakian-Czech-Hungarian Exhibition Project
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2000
10 December 2000 to 4 March 2001Theatrum naturae et artis
Miraculous Chambers of Knowledge
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14 May to 29 October 2000
7 Hills
Images and Signs of the 21st Century
1999
19 November 1999 to 6 February 2000Collected Rooms – Collected Dreams
German Art from 1960–1990. The Hans Grothe Collection
23 May to 3 October 1999
Unity and Right and Freedom
Ways of the Germans 1949–1999
1997
7 September 1997 to 11 January 1998German Images
Art from a Divided Country
7 September 1997 to 11 January 1998
Positions of Artisitic Photography in Germany since 1945
5 September to 2 November 1997
Correspondence
Twelfe Artists from Scotland and Berlin
6 May to 27 July 1997
The Epoch of Modernism – Art in the 20th Century
1996
15 September 1996 to 5 January 1997Marianne and Germania 1789–1889
France and Germany. Two Worlds – one Revue
August to October 1996
Fivetimesthree
Works on Paper by 15 Artists.
Purchases from Donations of the Deutschen Bank
May to October 1996
Anne Ratkowski
The Forgotten Artist of the Novembergroup
April 1996
The Power of Images
March to May 1996
Africa
The Art of a Century
1995
3 September 1995 to 7 January 1996Moscow – Berlin / Berlin – Moscow 1900–1950
March 1995 to April 1995
Jakob Steinhardt
The Prophet
1994
November 1994 to February 1995The Crack in Space
Positions of Art since 1945
in Germany, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic
May to July 1994
The Traces of the Unborn
Berlin-Projects of Daniel Libeskind
March to May 1994
Jawlensky – Antes
12 Pictures about 12 Meditations
1993
October 1993 to January 1994Crystallazations, Splinterings
Bruno Taut’s Glass House
12 September to 12 December 1993
Japan and Europe 1543–1929
May to June 1993
Wolfgang Frankenstein
Painting and und Grafic Arts
April to June 1993
Journeys to Jerusalem.
The Holy Land in Maps and Views from Five Centuries. Loewenhardt Collection
May to July 1993
American Art in the 20th Century
Painting and Plastic Art 1913–1993
February to March 1993
1st Realism Triennal
1992
December 1992 to January 1993Naum Gabo
The Contest for the Place of the Soviets
Moscow 1931–1933
September 1992 to January 1993
America 1492–1992
New Worlds – New Realities
June to July 1992
Laboratory of the Year
12 January to 26 April 1992
Patterns of Jewish Life
Jewish Thinking and Belief, Life and Working in the Cultures of the World
1991
May to July 1991Berlin Today
Projects for the New Berlin
April to July 1991
Metropolis
International Art Exhibition Berlin 1991
January to March 1991
Construction and Rhythm
Watercolor Paintings and Drawings by 1900–1975
January to February 1991
Chillida
Orangerie 1991
1990
December 1990 to April 1991Bucklicht Männlein and Angel of History
Walter Benjamin – Theorist of th Modern Age
December 1990 to February 1991
Bartold Asendorf 1888–1946
Works on Paper
November 1990 to January 1991
Capital Berlin
International Contest for Urban Development Ideas 1957/58
November 1990 to January 1991
Correspondence
Ten Artists from Sweden and Berlin
October to November 1990
Hermann Muthesius in the Werkbund-Archive
August to November 1990
Bismarck – Prussia, Germany and Europe
August to October 1990
Herbert Sonnenfeld
A Jewish Photographer in Berlin 1933–1938
April to June 1990
Present Eternity
Traces of the Transcendental in the Art of Our Time
February to April 1990
Ludwig Meidner
Apocalyptic Landsapes
1989
December 1989 to January 1990Walls of Coloured Glass
The Archive of the United Workshops for mosaic and
Glass Painting Puhl & Wagner, Gottfried Heinersdorf
Oktober to December 1989
Bernhard Heisig
Retrospective
August to October 1989
Correspondence
The Artists from Saint-Etienne and Berlin
August to October 1989
Faded Things
Werkbund and Articles 1945–1949
28 May to 27 August 1989
Europe and the Orient 800–1900
February to April 1989
Walter Stöhrer
Images 1961–1988
February to April 1989
Rolf Szymanski
Plastic Arts and Drawings 1956 to 1988
1989
Zone 5
Art in the City of Four Sectors 1945–1951
1989
Max Missmann
Photographer for Architecture, Industry, Illustration, Landscape and Technology
1988
September 1988 to January 1989Stations of the Modern Age
The Important Art Exhibitions of the 20th Century in Germany
June to August 1988
Kaiser Augustus
The Lost Republic
March to August 1988
Henry Ries
Photographies from Berlin, Germany and Europe 1946–1951
February to June 1988
The secret block for a secret person in Ireland
January to May 1988
Joseph Beuys
1987
15 August to 22 November 1987Me and the City
Man and City in the German Art of the 20th Century
15 August to 22 November 1987
Berlin, Berlin
Central Exhibition for the 750 Years Celebration of the City of Berlin
February to November 1987
Packe Ice and Moulded Glass
From the Arts and Crafts Movement to the German Werkbund
January 1987 to April 1987
The Unused Look
Art of Our Time from the Berlin Point of View
1986
November 1986 to March 1987Art in Berlin from 1870 till Today
1985
12 May to 18 August 1985Europe and the Emperors of China 1240–1816
12 May to 18 August 1985
Palace Museum Beijing
Treasures from the Forbidden City
1984
September to December 1984Idea, Process, Result
The Reparair and Reconstruction of the City
An Exhibition on the occasion of the International Building Exhibition Berlin
1983
Deutscher Künstlerbund1982
13 June to 29 August 1982Myths of the New World
About the History of the Discovery of Latin America
March 1982
The Horses of San Marco
1982/83
Zeitgeist
International Art Exhibiton
1981
18 August to 15 November 1981Prussia – Attempt of an End Result
March to May 1981
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Works and Effects
1981
The Structural Surroundings of the Nazareth Church
