Affinità Elettive. Picasso, Matisse, Klee e Giacometti. Artworks from Museum Berggruen - Neue Nationalgalerie in dialogue with some of the masterpieces of Gallerie dell’Accademia

The exhibition is curated by Giulio Manieri Elia and Michele Tavola, Director and Curator of the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice, and Gabriel Montua and Veronika Rudorfer, Head of and Curator of Museum Berggruen in Berlin, one of the most important European state institutes of modern art, named after the Paris-based art dealer and collector Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007). In the year 2000, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage) managed to purchase Heinz Berggruen’s collection for the Nationalgalerie with funding from the German government and the state of Berlin.

The title of the exhibition, Affinità Elettive - Elective Affinities, was chosen to evoke and underline the potential dialogue that arises from the meeting of these two important collections from similarities in iconography to subject matter. The title is inspired by the famous novel of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a writer who spent time in Venice during his travels to Italy.