# Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Museum in Moabit, Berlin, one of On View's top museums there. - Address: Invalidenstraße 50–51, Berlin, 10557 - Hours: Tue–Fri 10–6 (Thu to 8), Sat–Sun 11–6 - Website: https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/hamburger-bahnhof - Instagram: [@hamburger\_bahnhof](https://www.instagram.com/hamburger_bahnhof/) - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/berlin/map/hamburger-bahnhof-nationalgalerie-der-gegenwart Next: Sophie Calle, “Is It Better?”, Nov 13–Apr 4, opening on the museum’s 30th-anniversary weekend (Nov 13–15). ## Exhibitions ### Ryuichi Sakamoto: *seeing sound, hearing time* Sep 11, 2026 – Jun 20, 2027 · on view · Rieckhallen The first major European retrospective of the composer and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto: seven works in five large sound-and-image installations. Spread over about 1,500 square meters of the Rieckhallen, the show includes IS YOUR TIME (2017), a piano damaged in the 2011 tsunami and played by seismic data from earthquakes worldwide, and installations from his 2017 album async made with Shiro Takatani and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Two films by Carsten Nicolai use music from Sakamoto’s last album, 12. Curated by Ingrid Buschmann with Sachiko Namba. Full details: [smb.museum](https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/hamburger-bahnhof/exhibitions/detail/ryuichi-sakamoto/) On On View: https://onview.so/berlin/hamburger-bahnhof-nationalgalerie-der-gegenwart/seeing-sound-hearing-time ### *\[ materialistin \]. Matter of Care, Care of Matter* Group exhibition · Jul 3, 2026 – Mar 14, 2027 · on view Sculptures and site-specific installations by eight women sculptors from Leipzig who work together as the collective \[ materialistin \]. Laura Eckert, Enne Haehnle, Elisabeth Howey, Lucy König, Agnes Lammert, Wibke Rahn, Theresa Rothe and Sophie Uchman work in steel, stone, plaster, concrete, plant fibers, wax and clay. The group spans several generations, has no hierarchy, and shares tools, contacts and know-how to meet the physical and financial demands of sculpture, while taking feminist and political positions. Curated by Sam Bardaouil. Full details: [smb.museum](https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/hamburger-bahnhof/exhibitions/detail/materialistin/) On On View: https://onview.so/berlin/hamburger-bahnhof-nationalgalerie-der-gegenwart/materialistin-matter-of-care-care-of-matter ### *CHANEL Commission: Lina Lapelytė. We Make Years Out of Hours* Solo exhibition · May 1, 2026 – Jan 10, 2027 · on view · Historic Hall A performance installation in the Historic Hall, where performers and visitors move 400,000 wooden cubes while singers fill the space. Twelve performers and visitors stack and rebuild the spruce and pine 10-centimeter cubes into piles, walls and hills, to a soundtrack and songs whose words come from 15 poets, among them Khalil Gibran, Etel Adnan and Ocean Vuong. It is the second CHANEL Commission. Lapelytė, born in Kaunas in 1984, co-created the Golden Lion–winning opera Sun & Sea. The cubes go on to a public artwork in Eisenhüttenstadt in 2027. Full details: [smb.museum](https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/hamburger-bahnhof/exhibitions/detail/chanel-commission-lina-lapelyte-we-make-years-out-of-hours/) On On View: https://onview.so/berlin/hamburger-bahnhof-nationalgalerie-der-gegenwart/chanel-commission-lina-lapelyte-we-make-years-out-of-hours ### Shilpa Gupta: *What Still Holds* Mar 27, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027 · on view · Kleihues Halle Shilpa Gupta’s show centers on TRUTH, a walk-through installation of oversized letters about language, power and control. Visitors move between the giant letters of TRUTH (2022–25), joined by further works by the Mumbai-based artist, who works across installation, video, sculpture and performance. The show is set in dialogue with the museum’s Joseph Beuys display in the Kleihues Halle, the fourth in a series pairing a woman artist with Beuys, after Naama Tsabar, Andrea Pichl and Delcy Morelos. Full details: [smb.museum](https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/hamburger-bahnhof/exhibitions/detail/shilpa-gupta/) On On View: https://onview.so/berlin/hamburger-bahnhof-nationalgalerie-der-gegenwart/what-still-holds ### *A Thousand Times Berlin: The Collection* Group exhibition · From Jun 12, 2026 · on view · West wing A new presentation of the collection: more than 70 works by over 50 artists on Berlin’s art scene and its ties to the world since 1989. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and video installations by artists including Katharina Grosse, Mona Hatoum, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Katharina Sieverding, Thomas Struth, Danh Võ and Cemile Sahin take up the city’s division, its club and subculture myths, and migration. Well-known pieces hang beside rarely shown works, loans from the German federal government’s collection and new acquisitions. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Charlotte Knaup. Full details: [smb.museum](https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/hamburger-bahnhof/exhibitions/detail/a-thousand-times-berlin/) On On View: https://onview.so/berlin/hamburger-bahnhof-nationalgalerie-der-gegenwart/a-thousand-times-berlin-the-collection ### *Next Door* Group exhibition · Oct 9, 2026 – Jun 27, 2027 · on view, just opened Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson and Tomás Saraceno Five artists who had studios beside the museum between 2002 and 2013 show together again for its 30th anniversary. Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman show a new film made in response to Nauman’s permanent installation at the end of the Rieckhallen; Thomas Demand floats pavilions carrying large photographs; Olafur Eliasson projects rings of light that respond to sound; Henrik Håkansson shows a video installation on the beat of a butterfly’s wing; and Tomás Saraceno shows 14 Billions (Working Title), a spider-web installation not seen for more than fifteen years. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Ulya Soley. Full details: [smb.museum](https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/hamburger-bahnhof/exhibitions/detail/next-door/) On On View: https://onview.so/berlin/hamburger-bahnhof-nationalgalerie-der-gegenwart/next-door --- On View's listing, as of Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Every gallery and museum in Berlin: https://onview.so/berlin.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt