Portraits! Surprising encounters from Botticelli to Lempicka
The Picture Gallery invites you to the exhibition opening.
Image gallery
Sandro Botticelli, Giuliano de’ Medici, Detail, 1478 | Tamara de Lempicka, Porträt, um 1931
This major special exhibition invites you on a fascinating journey through the art of portraiture. How did people want to be seen at different times – and how do they see themselves?
Unusual juxtapositions of around 90 masterpieces spanning six centuries reveal astonishing similarities and bring the subjects to life in a new way.
WELCOME
- Gero Dimter, Vice-President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Dagmar Hirschfelder, Director of the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
INTRODUCTION
- Sven Jakstat
- Stephan Kemperdick
Curators of the exhibition in conversation with Marie-Luise Hugler, co-curator
You’re also welcome to bring your children!
- 7.00–8.30 pm: Portrait workshop for children aged 6 to 12. Meet at 6.45 pm in the foyer
No booking is required.
The opening will take place in the central entrance hall of the Kulturforum.
Additional information
Dates
October 2026
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