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We facilitate around four to six large and small exhibition projects every year for the National Gallery buildings. Over the past decades we have made over 150 exhibition wishes come true.

Recently, for example, Isa Genzken's "75 years - 75 works" in the upper hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie - or, a little longer ago, Gerhard Richter's "Panorama", "The most beautiful French come from New York", "Melancholy - genius and madness in art". ", "The MoMA in Berlin", "Andy Warhol and Picasso - the time after Guernica", to name just a few selected highlights. At the Hamburger Bahnhof the expansive exhibitions in the central hall by Katharina Grosse, Anne Imhof, Tomas Saraceno and Carsten Höller's SOMA. The audience favorites of the Alte Nationalgalerie range from international exhibition collaborations such as the currently shown “Secessions – Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann” to “Goya-Prophet of Modernism” and spectacular collection presentations such as “Impressionism-Expressionism – Art Turnaround” to monographic exhibitions of individual artists such as Rembrandt Bugatti, Anton Graff or, most recently, Caspar David Friedrich.

In addition to our focus on exhibition projects, we acquire works of art from the 19th century to the present. Over 300 works with a total value of 55 million euros have so far been added to the Nationalgalerie's collection.

To do this, we raise donations, gifts and legacies or use the interest income from our foundation, which was set up specifically for the acquisition of contemporary art. So with the foundation that we were able to establish with the sensational proceeds from the exhibition “The MoMA in Berlin” (2004, Neue Nationalgalerie) and endow it with six million euros. Our most controversial purchase was certainly the purchase of Barnett Newman's “Who is afraid of red, yellow and blue IV” in the early 1980s. The then director Dieter Honisch and the FRIENDS mobilized numerous artists against conservative currents in West Berlin politics and society in order to finally transform the initially prevailing dislike into widespread approval.

We get people excited about art and bring them close to it. Every year we organize up to 30 events exclusively for our members. By meeting artists as well as those responsible for curatorial work, we create a special form of exchange, take a look behind the scenes and make the relevance of art and culture for our society beautifully tangible.