Berlin

From Gerhard Richter to Dürer: Christie’s to showcase German art and collecting during Berlin Gallery Weekend

Exhibition targeted at Old Master collectors will not compete with the contemporary art event, auction house says

Hartmut Dorgerloh nominated to head Berlin’s Humboldt Forum

If appointed, Dorgerloh, who currently manages the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, will replace the three founding directors

Berlin Art Week moves dates: Two art fairs will open at Tempelhof

Addition of Positions fair helps create critical mass but clashes with Vienna, Chicago

Venues announced for tenth Berlin Biennale

The four permanent locations have been chosen for their historical and contemporary relevance, curator says

Widow of Hitler’s art dealer, Erhard Göpel, bequeaths Max Beckmann works to Berlin

Initial research into provenance 'gave no concrete cause for suspicion that these works were looted', Berlin State Museums says

Berlin Museums chief calls for rules on restitution of colonial artefacts

Hermann Parzinger has global support for the equivalent of Washington Principles on Nazi-confiscated art for objects from former colonies

Berlin art dealer and family donate art by Picasso, Warhol and Richter to city of Chemnitz

Bastian family have collaborated with the German city’s art collection since 2002

Signs look good at start of Art Berlin

Fair throws off disappointment of previous incarnation with reports of early sales

Berlin Kulturforum surveys the long history of alchemy

Spanning 3000 years, the exhibition covers the Egyptian origins of alchemy to its influence on contemporary artists such as Koons

Bode museum finally lays bare its war-damaged collection

An exhibition in Berlin surveys the ethical implications of restoring damaged art

Fixing - or not fixing - the works in Berlin's sculpture collections damaged in 1945

Should they be left as a reminder of a dark past or restored to reflect the artists’ intentions?

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Web salvation for workers’ art as GDR artists are digitally rehabilitated

Shunned since the Wall fell, East German works are now catalogued on the 'Bildatlas'

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Based in Berlin: the mini-biennial to fill in between Venice Biennale and Art Basel

This survey of 80 artists will prevent boredom from setting in as collectors are made to wait for the next superfair

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Berlin gallery rejected from Art Basel calls for trade support

Following the Eigen+Art's exclusion from the fair selection, owner Gerd Harry Lybke protests with a request that his artists are not made available at any other stand

Berlin and Warsaw team up to preserve socialist heritage

Though reconstruction efforts after the devastation of war differed wildly between the two cities, the dialogue will be vital to conservation efforts

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Interview with Sprüth and Magers: “We didn’t want to become bigger, we wanted to become smaller”

Dealers Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers discuss the benefits of teamwork and the Berlin art scene

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Berlin techno club adds art centre to its offerings

Tresor will have new neighbours including art, books, and a Japanese garden

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Two new Holocaust memorials for Berlin

Parliament approves final budgets for monuments to homosexuals and Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis

Louis Soutter: Corbusier’s favourite digital art

Soutter's art on view at Berlin's Galerie Haas & Fuchs

Collectorsarchive

Nazi bunker transformed as private collectors put their art on display

German advertising guru to show over 500 works from his private collection on a rotating basis

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Germany to give €73m towards new visitor centre in Berlin

The complex is expected to attract 4m visitors a year by the end of the decade

The Bode Museum reborn in Berlin

The vast collection of sculptural works removed on the outbreak of World War II are now back on view in the newly-restored building

Work resumes on Berlin Holocaust Memorial after halt in construction when it emerged that company profited from the production of Zyklon B gas during the war

Peter Eisenman's monument was being coated with an anti-graffiti paint made by Degussa AG, which once owned a stake in a firm that made the hydrogen cyanide gas pellets used at Auschwitz

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MoMA art to move to Berlin during renovation

Highlights of the collection are starting a world tour with a stop at the Nationalgalerie

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What's on in Berlin: From Rothko to wrappings

A selection of shows at the leading contemporary and modern galleries

Freud ramps up efforts to find Bacon portrait stolen in Berlin

A poster campaign has been launched to recover the work which disappeared from the Neue Nationalgalerie

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Germany’s first federal minister of culture since World War II resigns

The deputy editorship of Die Zeit newspaper and a better pension prove too tempting for Michael Naumann