The Hamburger Bahnhof invites its visitors to an anniversary weekend featuring artists and collaborators. The museum will be open throughout, with free admission.

Führung durch die Ausstellung „Joseph Beuys. Werke aus der Sammlung der Nationalgalerie“ im Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Programme for Sunday

Endless guided tour

The 30-hour tour will run non-stop from 12 noon on Saturday through the Hamburger Bahnhof and its exhibitions.

Rieckhallen Studio

The open studio will be open for 30 hours – for those on the move, for the lazy, for dreamers, for night owls, for early risers, for the meticulous...

Education Lounge

In the Education Lounge in H4, there are small tents that can be used for camping and playing. Make yourselves at home in the museum!

1 am – 5.30 am

‘Night at the Museum’ film programme featuring films by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Anne Imhof and Wim Wenders

1 am

Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory (2018)

Directed by Stephen Nomura Schible; running time: 65 minutes

To mark Oscar-winner Ryuichi Sakamoto’s first solo exhibition in Europe, the concert film ‘async’ by Stephen Nomura Schible, filmed at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, will be screened as part of ‘30 Years – 30 Hours’.

2.15 am

Anne Imhof: Maria (2002); running time 10:33 minutes
Work (2003); duration: 21:32 minutes;
Misfits (2002); duration 15:51 minutes
Zebra (2002); duration 19:03 minutes

The video works feature archive footage from Anne Imhof’s early days as an artist, when she lived in a squatted house in Frankfurt alongside other artists, actors and dancers.

3.30 am

Wings of Desire (1987)

Directed by Wim Wenders; running time: 128 minutes

In 2001, the Hamburger Bahnhof presented Wim Wenders’ solo exhibition ‘Images from the Surface of the Earth’. ‘30 Years – 30 Hours’ showcases one of his cinematic works that is inextricably linked to the city.

11 am – 6 pm

Really? Tell us!: What stories do you know about the Hamburger Bahnhof? From oral traditions, anecdotes big and small, right through to gossip and nonsense: listen, collect and find a space for them in the museum; Location: Historischer Übergang West;

9 am

Pyjama tour, all ages: Out of bed and into the museum! Make yourselves at home and join the guided tour in your pyjamas. Don’t forget your slippers.

11 am

Artist talk on ‘Something In and On Something Else’ (2024) by Claudia Wieser with Catharina Gebbers, curator, Hamburger Bahnhof (in German)

12 noon

Artist talk on ‘The Right to be Lazy’ (2007/2009, ongoing) by John Knight with Alice Koegel, curator, Hamburger Bahnhof

2.00 pm

Curator’s tour of the exhibition “Next Door. Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, Tomás Saraceno” with Ulya Soley, curator, Hamburger Bahnhof (in English)

4 pm

Artist talk on the light installation by Dan Flavin, which the artist created in 1996 for the opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof and conceived as an integral part of the building. With Andrea Sartorius, conservator, Hamburger Bahnhof.

4.30 pm

Curator’s tour of the exhibition “A Thousand Times Berlin” with Charlotte Knaup, curator, Hamburger Bahnhof

Registration for the artist talks and guided tours takes place on site at the information desk.

The anniversary weekend is supported by the Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e. V.

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