Berlin Neue Nationalgalerei (Berlin - Tokyo Exhibition)

In August, we visited the Neue Nationalgalerie and its Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin exhibition, which explored the historical and artistic connections between the cities, through their avant-garde movements, and artist exchange, in the twentieth century. The Upper Hall contained contemporary installations and paintings which explored urban space. One installation was an intriguing cloth labythrinth which, as the light shone through the cloth, revealed technicolour prints of small spaces in Tokyo. Downstairs contained some fine pen and ink work by Japanese illustrators, whose influence was seen in images by Berlin Dada artists. I particularly liked the Dada collage and work of Hannah Hoch.