Group exhibition

Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society

The Nationalgalerie’s collection of art from 1945 to 2000, from East and West Germany, Western Europe, the US and former socialist countries.

Fourteen sections cover realism and abstraction, politics, Pop and the everyday, feminism, identity and ecology, opening with Günter Brus’s 1970 performance Zerreißprobe. Artists include Joseph Beuys, Francis Bacon, Lee Bontecou, Rebecca Horn, Valie Export, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Bridget Riley and Pipilotti Rist.

Hanne Darboven’s Sunrise Sunset is on view until Oct 19 and the Rebecca Horn room until Oct 26; the rest runs to April 2027.

Full details at smb.museum