Brancusi Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin – 20 March to 9 August 2026

The Centre Pompidou in Paris recently closed for long-term renovation. One positive result is that numerous works in its collection by Constantin Brancusi are free to form the core of this exhibition — the sculptor’s first major show in Germany for 50 years.

It will chart his artistic path from academic training, via a brief period in Auguste Rodin’s workshop, to the peaks of modernism for which he is renowned. Brancusi pushed his medium to the brink of abstraction, developing a new organic vocabulary that evoked — rather than resembled — people and things in the real world.