The retrospective at the Neue Nationalgalerie provides the first comprehensive insight into Nan Goldin's work from 1980 to the present day. Her individual series of works are shown in the form of slide shows and films in pavilions designed by Hala Wardé in the upper hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie - each of these "buildings" is conceived in relation to the respective series of works; together they form a kind of village. Following its launch in Stockholm and Amsterdam, the exhibition will now be shown in Berlin and will then travel to Milan and Paris.
Nan Goldin (born 1953 in Washington D.C.) is one of the best-known artists of our time and was awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize in 2022, the Golden Lion at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in the same year for her documentary "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'' and the Hasselblad Award, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2007. The examination of the human experience characterizes her work and has profoundly influenced subsequent generations. Her first work, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency", documents life in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Lower East Side, New York City, Berlin and London from the 1970s and 80s to the present day. Goldin photographed the world of her closest circle of friends. Her photographs are snapshots of intimacy and partnership, of everyday life and wild parties, of the struggle between autonomy and dependence.
November 23, 2024 to April 6, 2025
