In his sculptures and paintings, Alberto Giacometti focused throughout his career on an almost unique motif: the representation of the human being, which he considered to be the raison d’être of the artistic gesture. The exhibition and the book “Histoire...
Frans Hals “Family Portraits” Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) is one of the greatest portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age and, along with Rembrandt, responsible for revolutionising the genre. The artist is mostly famous for his individual portraits and his...
Jaume Plensa, (Barcelona, 1955) is a world-renowned sculptor best known for his constructions in the public space resembling the heads of women that are multiple meters tall. With their eyes closed, they have an almost meditative expression. Plensa’s...
More than fifty masterpieces from the collections of the Palazzo Barberini and Galleria Corsini are on display in Museum Barberini; an exhibition that forms the key event of the summer festival Italy in Potsdam. Focusing on a narrative’s decisive moment, Caravaggio...
Bringing together a community of artists, botanists, and philosophers, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain echoes the latest scientific research that sheds new light on trees. Organized around several large ensembles of works, the...
This exhibition draws on the Museum’s Islamic art collection to explore the personal and professional life of Calouste Gulbenkian and his collecting activities during the first decades of the 20th century. Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1869-1955) was of Armenian origin,...
