Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg Berlin : Billet

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 until 04.05.2025: Evil FLowers

✔ Permanent exhibition: Surreal Worlds

Special exhibition: Evil Flowers

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of ‘Evil Flowers’ and experience how artists from modernism to the present day interpret the dark facets of Baudelaire's aesthetic. The exhibition "Evil Flowers" can be explored from 12 December 2024 to 4 May 2025 at the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection in Berlin. Inspired by Charles Baudelaire's literary milestone "Les Fleurs du Mal" from 1857, the exhibition sheds light on the diverse influences of this work on art.

Aesthetics of the dark and beautiful

Discover how Baudelaire's masterpiece "Les Fleurs du Mal" also influenced the art world and created a new aesthetic of the dark and beautiful. The exhibition offers a journey from modernism to contemporary works and shows the various aspects, effects and after-effects of Baudelaire's work. Evil Flowers picks up on themes such as spleen and depression and the melancholic and depressive themes from Baudelaire's poetry. Themes such as eroticism and intoxication as well as works that seek beauty in the morbid and ephemeral are also part of the exhibition and this development.

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.