Timeline
Art History
A century of art in Berlin, from Dada to the clubs.
007 chapters
Short chapters on the moments that shaped the city's art scene. Each one links to places you can still visit.
- 1920 Berlin Dada The First International Dada Fair Berlin Dada stages its biggest show at Otto Burchard's gallery on Lützowufer: photomontage, politics and provocation.
- 1932 Bauhaus The Bauhaus moves to Berlin After Dessau closes the school, Mies van der Rohe moves the Bauhaus to a former factory in Steglitz.
- 1938 Nazi era “Degenerate Art” comes to Berlin The defamatory exhibition travels from Munich to Berlin. Modern art is removed from German museums.
- 1968 Modernism The Neue Nationalgalerie opens Mies van der Rohe's steel-and-glass temple opens at the Kulturforum — a square roof on eight columns.
- 1990 Reunification The East Side Gallery is painted Artists from around the world paint 1.3 km of the Wall along the Spree in Friedrichshain.
- 1991 Techno Tresor opens in a bank vault In the no-man's-land of the former border strip, techno moves into the safe deposit vault of a department store.
- 1998 Contemporary The first Berlin Biennale Started at KW in Auguststraße, the Biennale puts Berlin's young scene on the international map.