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Andy Warhol. Velvet Rage and Beauty – around 250,000 visitors!

With around 250,000 visitors, the special exhibition “Andy Warhol. Velvet Rage and Beauty” in the Neue Nationalgalerie on Sunday, October 6, 2024 ended as a huge success.
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New FRIENDS Reception / Old National Gallery, 2024 / National Gallery - State Museums in Berlin / © Photo Romana Eder-Grabher

New FRIENDS reception in the Alte Nationalgalerie

The FRIENDS invite new members and sponsors to a reception in the colonnade of the Alte Nationalgalerie.
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Exhibition view “Caspar David Friedrich. Infinite Landscapes", Monk by the Sea, detail, 1808-1810 / Alte Nationalgalerie, 2024 / (from left to right) Sina Jentzsch, Sintje Guericke, Birgit Verwiebe, Dylan Furcall, Julia Landmann, Ralph Gleis © National Museums in Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Image © Romana Eder Grabher

Already more than 200,000 visitors!

More than 200,000 visitors have already visited the special exhibition “Caspar David Friedrich,” which has been running since April 19, 2024. “Infinite Landscapes” in the Alte Nationalgalerie. 
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Exhibition view “Infinite Exhibition”: Claudia Wieser, Something In and On Something Else, 2024Ca. 400 cm x 280 cm x 120 cm, glazed ceramic tiles (10x10cm), aluminum, stainless steel, mirror glass on MDF, digital print on aluminum Dibond © Claudia Wieser / Photo: Jacopo La Forgia / Nationalgalerie - Berlin State Museums

CLAUDIA WIESER – SOMETHING IN AND ON SOMETHING ELSE

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Exhibition view "Nancy Holt: Circles of Light" / Gropius Bau, 2024 © Holt/Smithson Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 / Photo © Lilian Vogt

Special tour “Nancy Holt – Circles of Light”

The FRIENDS met for a special viewing and tour of Nancy Holt's exhibition Circles of Light with curator Dr. Clara Meister in the Gropius Building.
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47th General Meeting / FRIENDS of the Nationalgalerie / Neue Nationalgalerie, 2024 / Photo © David von Becker

Invitation to the extraordinary general meeting

Post published on May 22, 2024 | The extraordinary general meeting will take place on Friday, June 7, 2024 at 7 p.m. (punctual) in the Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Strasse 50, 10785 Berlin.
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Exhibition view “Marianna Simnett. WINNER”, 2024 / Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of the Present / © National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery / Courtesy the artist and Société, Berlin / Photo © Romana Eder-Grabher

Preview+E “Marianna Simnett – Winner”

On the occasion of the 2024 European Football Championship taking place in Germany, the artist Marianna Simnett is producing the multi-channel film installation “WINNER”.
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47th General Meeting / New National Gallery, 2024 / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 / © Photo David von Becker

47th general meeting and traditional annual dinner

Following the 47th ordinary general meeting, around 500 FRIENDS met for the traditional annual dinner in the upper hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie.
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Installation view "Alexandra Pirici. Attune", 2024 / Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Aktuell / 2024 © Courtesy the artist, Hamburger Bahnhof and Audemars Piguet / Photo © Edi Constantin

“Alexandra Pirici – Attune” Preview+E

An hour before the official opening, the FRIENDS had the opportunity to experience the site-specific, performative environment of “Attune”.
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