The largest retrospective organized in Germany in recent decades dedicated to trailblazing sculptor Constantin Brancusi will be held from March 20 to August 9, 2026, under the High Patronage of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron, and the President of Romania Nicusor Dan, at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Romanian Cultural Institute announced in a release on Tuesday.
The exhibition will open on March 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Bringing together more than 150 sculptures, photographs, films, and archival documents from international collections, the exhibition will also partially reconstruct the artist's famous Paris studio, offering the public - for the first time outside France - a rare insight into how Brancusi conceived and organized his artistic universe, the statement notes.
The curators of the exhibition are Klaus Biesenbach and Maike Steinkamp of the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, together with Ariane Coulondre and Valérie Loth of the Centre Pompidou Paris.
The Brancusi exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is organized in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, with support from the National Gallery's patrons' association, FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie.
According to the same source, the exhibition also includes works loaned by Romanian museum institutions, including the National Museum of Art of Romania and the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, highlighting the connection between Romania's cultural heritage and the international recognition of Brancusi's body of work.
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