Guided tour with Danila Bulatov at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin
Saturday 7. March at 12:00 - 14:00
New National Gallery, Berlin
Guided Tour of the Exhibition
“Stress Test. Art between Politics and Society. Neue Nationalgalerie Collection, 1945–2000”
The Second World War, more than any other event in world history, divided the history of art into a “before” and an “after.” It is from the postwar years that we usually begin to trace the history of what we now call contemporary art. This paradigm shift is the focus of an author-led tour by Danila Bulatov, a specialist in Cold War art and postwar Germany.
What did innovation and continuity mean for postwar artists? How were the confrontation with the Nazi past and the postwar division of the country reflected in German art? Why did works of art begin to require, at times, complex conceptual explanations? And finally, who is afraid of red, yellow, and blue? (as the title of a work by Barnett Newman has it).
The tour offers an opportunity to view familiar historical events through the lens of art: to understand how visual languages evolved in countries on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, which themes generated the greatest public tension, and how artists articulated their own positions under conditions of political pressure.
This is a chance to encounter both famous and rarely exhibited works from the Neue Nationalgalerie collection and to immerse yourself in the complex, multilayered history of art from 1945 to 2000, accompanied by an expert who will help uncover hidden meanings and connections between art, politics, and social life.
Join the tour!
When: March 7 , 12:00
Where: Neue Nationalgalerie
Tours will be held in Russian.
Speaker: Danila Bulatov is an art historian, curator, and author of lecture courses at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and the HSE Art and Design School. He is the author of the monograph The Revival of Modernism: German Art 1945–1965. Artistic Theory and Exhibition Practice (2017). He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Münster.
His research interests include Western art of the twentieth century, institutional practices, the political functions and strategies of art, and cultural diplomacy.
New National Gallery • Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
