Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg Berlin: Ticket

The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection shows traces of the development of fantastic art. The works and artworks in this collection range from Giovanni Battista Piranesi to Francisco de Goya and culminate in the surrealism of Max Ernst and René Magritte.

Your ticket to the current exhibitions in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection Berlin:

✔ Special exhibition from 19.12.2025 - 03.05.2026: Possibilities of an Island - Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf

✔ Permanent exhibition: Surreal Worlds

Special exhibition: Possibilities of an Island - Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf

The exhibition explores, in 12 chapters, how art can offer ways to respond to the threats and challenges of everyday life. This special exhibition features around 150 works - including paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculptures, and objects - by renowned artists such as Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Egon Schiele, Max Beckmann, and Hannah Höch, as well as by lesser-known creators of fantastic art like Alfred Kubin, Léon Spilliaert, and Unica Zürn.

Permanent exhibition: Surreal Worlds

The permanent exhibition "Surreal Worlds" in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection shows the permanent collection in changing presentations. Surrealism takes centre stage. In addition to the main representatives of Surrealism, important precursors and successors of the movement that emerged in Paris in the early 1920s are also on display.

Discover important surrealists in the exhibition "Surreal Worlds" in the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection

Here you have the unique opportunity to explore the development of fantastic art not only on the well-known highways, but also on its winding byways. The collection includes selected works by almost all members of the Surrealist movement centred around the French writer André Breton. The artists Max Ernst and Hans Bellmer, but also René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy and André Masson are represented in this collection.