"Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte"

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

07. 06. 2006 - 03. 10. 2006

On the occasion of the Germany Year in Japan 2005/2006, the Nationalgalerie Berlin (National Gallery) and the Mori Art Museum Tokyo, supported by the Berlin Kunstbibliothek (Art Library), the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings) and the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (Museum of East Asian Art), have organized a comprehensive art show with the title "Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte".

Despite their geographical distance, for over a hundred years Berlin and Tokyo have been linked by historical and art historical connections which will now be highlighted for the first time in a representative exhibition.

Starting with Japonism, the connections lead via the avant-garde periodical Der Sturm, Dada, photography of the 1920s and the Bauhaus to an exchange during the years of National Socialism (particularly in the area of film). After the war, close connections - upheld through friendships between artist and DAAD exchange programmes - manifest themselves within Neo-Dada, Fluxus and 1980s installation art. The Upper Hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) is given over entirely to the most recent art and the subject of artistic interventions referring to the context of urban space.

For the architectural design of the Upper Hall, the Nationalgalerie is pleased to have been able to commission the Japanese architect Toyo Ito. He will transform Mies van der Rohe's glass temple into an exciting space, a completely new experience in which art and architecture enter an unusual fusion.


Curators: Angela Schneider, Gabriele Knapstein, Andres Lepik (Berlin);
David Elliott, Nanjo Fumio, Hirose Mami, Kataoka Mami (Tokyo)

Artists: Franz Ackermann, Akamatsu Rinsaku, Akasegawa Genpei, Josef Albers, Ay-O, Baido Kunimasa (Utagawa Kunimasa Iv), Frank Badur, Georg Baselitz, Herbert Bayer, Max Beckmann, Joseph Beuys, Aenne Biermann, Wilhelm Böckmann, Candice Breitz, Marianne Breslauer, Marcel Breuer, Bunriha Kenchiku Kai (The Society Of Bunriha Architects), Max Burz, David Burliuk, Suse Byk, Chargesheimer, Lovis Corinth, Domon Ken, Ei-Q , Hermann Ende, Annika Eriksson, Hans Finsler, Arno Fischer, Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Fukuzawa Ichiro, Fumon Gyo, Walter Funkat, Furukawa Narutoshi, Furusawa Iwami, Fred Gravenhorst, Walter Gropius, Katharina Grosse, George Grosz, Hans Grundig, Hahakabe Kinshu, August Hajduk, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Hamamatsu Kogenta, Hamaya Hiroshi, Hanaya Kanbee, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, Raoul Hausmann, Hayashi Tadahiko, John Heartfield, Erich Heckel, Florence Henri, Higuchi Tadao, Hirai Terushichi, Hannah Höch, Karl Hofer, Honjo Koro, Horino Masao, Ichiyosai Kuniteru (Utagawa Kuniteru Ii), Ikebe Hitoshi, Leiko Ikemura, Inoue Yasuji, Ishii Shigeo, Ishimoto Kikuji, Iwamiya Takeji, Julius Jacob, Jikken Kobo (Hasegawa Saburo, Kitadai Shozo, Otsuji Kiyoji, Saito Yoshishige, Teshigahara Sofu, Yamaguchi Katsuhiro), Kageyama Koyo, Kanbara Tai, Wassily Kandinsky, Katsukawa Shuntei, Kawabata Ryushi, Kawabe Masahisa, Kawakami Ryoka, On Kawara, Peter Keetman, Keiji Kobo, Kimura Ihee, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kishida Ryusei, Kobayashi Mango, Koga Harue, Koishi Kiyoshi, Oskar Kokoschka, Georg Kolbe, Käthe Kollwitz, Kon Wajiro, Leo Kornbrust, Kosugi Takehisa, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Kuwabara Kineo, Martin Liebscher, Wassili Luckhardt, Machida Ryuyo, Jeanne Mammen, Franz Marc, Elli Marcus, Ludwig Meidner, Erich Mendelsohn, Adolph von Menzel, Harald Metzkes, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Boris Mikhailov, Mise Koichi, Mizutani Takehiko, László Moholy-Nagy, Wilhelm Morgner, Morooka Koji, Murayama Tomoyoshi, Hermann Muthesius, Nagano Shigeichi, Nagano Yoshimitsu, Nakahara Minoru, Nakamura Kenichi, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Nakayama Iwata, Namba Kakuzo, Natori Yonosuke, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Oscar Nerlinger, Emil Nolde, Okamoto Taro, Okubo Koroku, Onchi Koshiro, Emil Orlik, Nam June Paik, Victor Palmov, Max Pechstein, Walter Peterhans, Hans Poelzig, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Daniel Richter, Werner Rohde, Willy Römer, Hajo Rose, Charlotte Rudolph, Fritz Rumpf, Saeki Shunko, Sawada Tetsuro, Christian Schad, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Eugen Schönebeck, Kurt Schwitters, Friedrich Seidenstücker, Shimabuku , Shiomi Mieko, Shirataki Ikunosuke, Otto Steinert, Jakob Steinhardt, Gunta Stölzl, Sasha Stone, Horst Strempel, Sugiura Hisui, Sumiya Iwane, Jiro Takamatsu, Takehito Koganezawa, Takizawa Mayumi, Tamamura Hokuto, Georg Tappert, Tiger Tateishi, Bruno Taut, Max Taut, Frank Thiel, Togo Seiji, Tsuchiura Kameki, Tsuda Seifu, Tsumaki Yorinaka, Umbo , Wolf Vostell, Wadachi Tomoo, Corinne Wasmuht, Watanabe Yuzuru, William Wauer, Jupp Wiertz, Emmett Williams, Yamada Mamoru, Yamaguchi (Okamura) Bunzo, Yamashita Kikuji, Iwao Yamawaki, Yanase Masamu, Tadanori Yokoo, Yorozu Tetsugoro, Yoshu Chikanobu, Yva


Author Text & in deutsch: Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
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