Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of Contemporary Art by Silva Wischeropp

About "Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of Contemporary Art"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

This architectural interior shot at the Museum für Gegenwart was taken during my art project at the Akademie für Digitale Medien Berlin in the late afternoon hours of 18 October 2016 with the Nikon D90 camera.

With the opening of the Museum für Gegenwart in the Hamburger Bahnhof in November 1996, the Nationalgalerie also gained a permanent exhibition venue for contemporary art, which is constantly changing due to the lively exhibition programme. The Hamburger Bahnhof is the Nationalgalerie's largest building and its dimensions alone are impressive. Since the Hamburger Bahnhof was taken over by Berlin and the federal government in November 2022, the museum has been called Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.

From the terminus station to the Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

The former terminus station was closed in 1884 after only 38 years of operation. Today it is the only remaining railway station building from the second half of the 19th century in Berlin. The use of the late classicist head building as an exhibition space followed quite quickly: in 1904 it housed the Transport and Building Museum. The building was badly damaged during the Second World War and remained unused until 1984. In 1996, it was reopened as the Museum für Gegenwart. In November 2022, the federal government and the state of Berlin jointly acquired the museum.