Crossroads#5 – Literature Meets Art

Everett is internationally renowned for his novels; his work as a painter has received less attention to date. Painting and drawing play a central role in his artistic practice. In his work with text and image, he explores the boundaries of narrative and abstraction and examines how meaning and perception arise, and how representation can simultaneously reveal and conceal.

In conversation with Naomi Beckwith (Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation; Artistic Director, documenta 16), Everett reflects on the interplay between literature and art. Beckwith’s multidisciplinary curatorial approach, based on close collaboration with artists as well as a comprehensive thinking about context and presentation, complements Everett’s cross-genre practice.

Together, they explore how literature and art exist not merely as parallel disciplines, but as forms of research and imagination that illuminate one another.

Free admission.

Online registration is required and available until April 10, 2026.

The event is a collaboration between the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Literaturhaus Berlin.

In the Crossroads series, art and literature meet. Authors meet painters, sculptors meet writers, multimedia artists meet poets; their paths cross in the museum.

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