Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank

Since 2018, you will find the Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank Foundation on Kaiserdamm, beautifully situated next to the green Lietzenseepark. In the decades before, the foundation had presented over a hundred art exhibitions in cooperation with national and international museums and art institutions at its old location in Budapester Straße.

With its current exhibition programme, the institution would like to bring the works in its art collection more into the focus of people in Berlin and Brandenburg and also reach out to visitors to Berlin. The collection comprises more than 1,500 works by around 200 artists with a strong emphasis on German representational art after 1950. 

In the early days of the Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank Foundation, the focus was on works from East Berlin and outstanding works from the so-called Leipzig School, for example by Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer. Since 1990, works by Berlin and Brandenburg artists in particular have been collected. Since the beginning of the collection, the focus has been on figurative art under the motto "Images of People", later expanded to include "Berlin Cityscapes".

As a rule, two exhibitions are presented each year, supplemented by interactive guided tours, themed events and workshops for children and young people in the creative workshop. In the workshops, the artists' techniques, themes and motifs are explained and creatively realised. 

Incidentally, the Kunstforum also lends out works, particularly the well-known painting "Januskopf" by Harald Metzkes, which hung in Bellevue Palace until 2020.

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