University & College Art & Design Trip To Berlin

This famous ‘temple of light and glass’ was opened in 1968. It houses a collection of 20th century European painting and sculpture, including works by Munch, Kirchner, Picasso, Klee, Feininger, Dix, Kokoschka, and many others. ©️Neue Nationalgalerie – CC BY-SA 2.0 de – via Wikimedia Commons.

This former railway station serves as the Museum für Gegenwart(Museum for the Present), part of the Berlin National Gallery. It was set up after entrepreneur Erich Marx offered his private art collection to the city. The focus is on contemporary art of the 20th Century including works by Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein and Joseph Beuys.

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The archive demonstrates how artists and designers created art in a variety of media to be functional and produced on a mass scale.
The Bauhaus Archive is currently being renovated and re-built and will re-open in 2022. The archive is currently housed in a temporary space located at Haus Hardenberg Knesebeckstr. 1-2, 10623 Berlin.

The Bröhan-Museum is the State museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism (1889-1939). Located in the Charlottenberg Palace complex exhibits include glass, ceramics, porcelain, silver and metal work together with furniture, carpets, lighting prints and painting. The Museum features French and Belgian works as well as German and Scandinavian Art Nouveau and French Art Deco.

Give your students a cross-cultural perspective at Germany’s national centre for contemporary non-European art. It presents art exhibition, theatre and dance performances, concerts, author readings, films and academic conferences on non-European visual art and culture. The building was designed in 1957 by the American architect Hugh Stubbins.

This museum is dedicated to 20th century sculpture, but in recent years, has increasingly opened up to contemporary art. It is located in the former studio building of the sculptor Georg Kolbe (1877-1947) the leading German figure sculptor of his generation. It was built in 1928 by Ernst Rentsch, based on designs by Kolbe, and borders on a sculpture garden.

Platoon cultural development is a communication consultancy that specializes in energizing cultural movements and community events. They create sustainable relationships between brands and the artistic and creative subculture. Students can visit their Berlin offices, to find out what it’s like to work at a cutting-edge creative company.