The sounds of designer objects are often as characteristic as their shape. For this reason, from February 21, 2019 onwards visitors will be able to listen to the sounds of various exhibits at Die Neue Sammlung using our new “Sound of Design” Web app.

Featuring around 80 posters, the exhibition provides insights into the immense collection and illustrates the collection’s thematic, geographical, and historical scope.

In 1551, Prince Philip of Spain, the future King Philip II, commissioned Titian, the most famous painter in Europe, to produce a group of paintings showing Classical myths primarily taken from the Roman poet Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’. The exhibition reunites five of the six paintings in the series, from Boston, Madrid, and London, for the first time in over three centuries.

The distribution of religious books and the popularity of devotion to the rosary during the 15th century contributed to an increase in piety in the Burgundian Netherlands, prompting a demand for items for personal prayer and meditation notable for their use of precious materials and tiny size. The exhibition focusses on the beauty of these objects, their function and uses.

This major exhibition will contribute to the scientific knowledge of the work of renowned Quebec Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923-2002). It will be an unparalleled opportunity to follow Riopelle's pictorial and sculptural evolution through his recurring references to northern regions that fueled his imagination and the Indigenous communities that live there.