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🚶‍♀️TOURS: 5 Suggestions for an Exhibition Stroll this Weekend⁠
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🟢 Sun Yitian: Romantic Room
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⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
‚Born 1991 in Zheijang, Sun Yitian’s paintings explore her personal history, intertwined with cultural and societal changes in China, through the country’s image worlds, as well as by how Western culture has been depicted in Chinese everyday life. 
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🟢 ⁠Bombois by Anholt: Catherine Anholt, Tom Anholt, Sara Anstis, Emmanuel Bornstein, Ian Davis , Thomas Delaroziere, Andriu Deplazes, Louis Fratino, Georgina Gratrix, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Ryan Mosley, Minyoung Kim, Simphiwe Ndzube, Magdalena Shummer-Fangor, Esther Pearl Watson
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⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
Camille Bombois is one of the most storied unknowns of French art in the 20th century. For this exhibition Tom Anholt decided to invite other artists, friends and admired ones, to revisit Bombois – and to create a conversation between Bombois holdings of Galerie Judin and contemporary responses.
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🟢 Thomas Struth
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⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
⁠Thomas Struth’s work is characterised by his long-term and careful pursuit of themes that revolve, in various guises, around the relationship between people and their environment. His photographs capture today’s society through images of cultural spaces, as well as the natural world, portraiture and places of industrial and technological innovation.

🟢 Marina Adams: The Art of Living Slowly
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⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
A subtle nod to examine the speed and direction of our internet present. She considers how slowing down can offer another sense of time and space, opening room for clarity, and like deep breathing can bring an expansion of heart and a gain in empathy.

🟢 Lotta Antonsson: Principles of Uncertainty
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⏰ Saturday 11–6pm⁠
Antonsson is loosely inspired by the scientific concept that there are inherent limits to what can be known and measured. The very act of observing changes what is observed – leading to reflections on how our perceptions shape our reality. Her current work reflects this tension.

Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society
Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000

On view until September 28, 2025


The art of the second half of the twentieth century is characterised by great contradictions and an enormous variety of media and artistic strategies. At the same time, scarcely any other age has been so marked by division and turmoil, and also by renewal. In light of this, the Neue Nationalgalerie has chosen the title ‚Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society‘ for the upcoming presentation of its postwar collection. It shows 163 works by 143 artists.

Image: Cornelia Schleime: Selbstinszenierung „Ich halte doch nicht die Luft an“, Hüpstedt 1982, Reprint 2016, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 42 x 29.7 cm, Edition of 6+2AP © The artist and Courtesy Galerie Judin, Berlin / Foto: Bernd Hiepe.