SKD: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Permanent Exhibition

Masks and Crowns. Court festival culture and representations of power

Residenzschloss — Rüstkammer

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Masken und Kronen. Festkultur und Machtrepräsentation am Dresdner Hof (Detail)

Special Exhibition

08/02/2026 —31/05/2026

Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard Munch. The Big Questions of Life

Albertinum

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, Selbstbildnis mit Hand am Kinn, 1906/07 und Edvard Munch, Selbstbildnis vor blauem Himmel, 1908

Ausstellung der Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann im Residenzschloss

28/03/2026 —03/01/2027

Kunstkammer Contemporary III

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Ausstellungsansicht "Kunstkammer Gegenwart III"

Special Exhibition

22/11/2025 —28/06/2026

Hercules – Hero and Antihero

Semperbau am Zwinger — Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and Skulpturensammlung bis 1800

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Peter Paul Rubens, Der trunkene Herkules, von einem Satyr-Paar geführt, um 1613/14

Exhibition of the Puppentheatersammlung at the Kraftwerk Mitte

06/09/2025 —28/06/2026

William Kentridge. Listen to the Echo

Kraftwerk Mitte — Puppentheatersammlung

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Schattentriptychon von Thulani Chauke (Entwicklung für die Jahresausstellung der Puppentheatersammlung)

Special Exhibition

29/03/2025 —26/07/2026

"All that glisters is not gold". Friedrich the Wise

Residenzschloss — Münzkabinett

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Ulrich Ursenthaler, Medaille auf die Generalstatthalterwürde Friedrichs des Weisen nach Lucas Cranach d. Ä. (Avers), 1512

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Masks and Crowns. Court festival culture and representations of power