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Displaying Power: Art as Strategy of Rule
19 February-13 June 2010. Throughout history, art has been associated with power. While today's millionaire anthropologists generously support the arts, some critics argue that their reasons for doing...
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11- 21 February 2010. The 60th edition of the Berlin festival opened with the showing of Apart Together by Wang Quan
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The Return of the Gods: Berlin's Hidden Olympus
Until 11 April 2010. This exhibition at the National Museums, now in its final months, commemorates the return of museum pieces to Berlin from the Soviet Union in 1958. Sculptures and vases make up th...
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Until 6 June 2010. Featuring artefacts dating from 300 BC - 800 AD, this exhibition displays elements of an Ancient Egyptian childhood, such as children
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15 November 2009 - 31 January 2010. This production by the Children's Ensemble is loosely adapted from the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen and is aimed at a younger audience. The magical world of...
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Faces of India - People on camera
3 November 2009 - 28 February 2010. In the early 1980s German technician and photographic enthusiast Helmut Schilke travelled to the Indian subcontinent. His experiences there fascinated him and he wa...
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Cranach and Renaissance Art under the Hohenzollern
31 October 2009 - 24 January 2010. Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) was a German renaissance painter best known for his portraits and mythological nudes. As court painter to the Electors of Saxony,...
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23 November - 31 December 2009. Berlin's famous Christmas markets, set in the squares and and streets of the city centre, have something for everyone. Breitscheidplatz market takes place in the area a...
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Carl Gustav Carus: Nature and Ideas
9 October 2009 - 10 January 2010. Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) was a multi-talented individual, at once a physician and painter, a philosopher and scientist, who socialised and collaborated with othe...
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1 Oct-20 Dec 2009. At the heart of the city's cultural life for over five decades, the Berliner Festspiele festival showcases contemporary music, ballet and theatre, and includes JazzFest Berlin, Maer...
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17 Sept 2009 - 3 Jan 2010. To celebrate the bicentennial of British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882), 2009 has been nominated internationally as 'Year of Darwin'. This comprehensive exhibition il...
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10 July 2009 - 07 March 2010. In honour of the Sandman's 50th birthday, the Film Museum Potsdam is celebrating the children's legend and television star with an extensive exhibition. 50 years ago, whe...
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The Photographs of Herlinde Koelbl (1976 - 2009)
17 July - 1 November 2009. A photographic exhibition of Herlinde Koelbl's works from 1976
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A Different Approach to the World: The Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace
9 July 2009 - 17 January 2010. This exhibition explores key ideas involving the future sharing of the Humboldt Forum by The National Museums in Berlin, the Humboldt Universit
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22 July - 04 October 2009. The 90th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus movement is celebrated with an exhibition of work by the Bauhaus masters and their students. The comprehensive display is...
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6 June 2009 - 17 January 2010. Born in 1867, Emil Nolde originally trained as a wood-carver. In 1894 he created a postcard-series, the proceeds from which enabled him to become a painter. He progresse...
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7 May - 9 Nov 2009. The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the defining events of 1989/1990 are celebrated with a daily, open air exhibition in the Alexanderplatz square. The exhibiti...
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4 June 2009 - 31 January 2010. Helmut Newton (1920-2004) was one of the most influential and controversial photographers of the twentieth century. He first achieved international fame in the 1970s as...
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Picture Dreams. Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection
19 June - 22 November 2009. The Neue Nationalgalerie hosts 'Picture Dreams', an exhibition made possible by the visiting Pietzsch Collection, one of the most significant collections of Surrealist art...
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Berliner Festspiele: Woman with a Camera: Liselotte Grschebina
5 April - 28 June 2009. The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents an exhibition by photographer Liselotte Grschebina of 100 photographs taken in Germany and Palestine between 1929 and the 1940s. Born in 1908 in...
