The Berlinische Galerie is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to Raoul Hausmann - a look at an artist who combined Dada, photography, performance and experimentation so radically that his work continues to have an impact today.
Raoul Hausmann is one of the most innovative avant-gardists of classical modernism. For him, art and life were inextricably linked. His goal of overcoming the familiar and always realizing "tomorrow" made him a multimedia artist of the first hour. As a Dadaist, he was one of the inventors of collage. He also developed synaesthetic devices, wrote experimental writings, explored the relationship between body, sound and space in performative presentations and, as a photographer, combined vision with the haptic. However, it was not only artistically, but also in his search for new models of life and the world that he tried throughout his life to break with common conventions and live against the grain of bourgeois society.
The major retrospective at the Berlinische Galerie, with around 200 works from national and international collections, presents this multifaceted and groundbreaking oeuvre for subsequent generations against the backdrop of current discourses. Thanks to the generous support of the Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne Château de Rochechouart, Hausmann's late work, which was created in France after his emigration from Nazi Germany, will also be represented. The Berlinische Galerie is thus continuing its series of successful content-related collaborations with European museums.
November 8, 2025 to March 16, 2026
