To examine the moments of contact and exchange between groundbreaking European artists and their Australian counterparts, this exhibition brings together over eighty works from the collection of Museum Berggruen in Berlin with over seventy-five works from the NGA collection.
Avant-garde visions of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and Alberto Giacometti shaped twentieth-century modern art in Europe, and Australian artists such as Russell Drysdale, Grace Crowley, John Passmore, and Dorrit Black brought their ideas and style back to Australia – transforming Australian art in parallel.
Grace Crowley, Composition – movement, 1951. National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1993. © The Estate of Grace Crowley. Courtesy National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
National Gallery of Australia
31 May to 21 September 2025
Australian Capital Territory
