In the location's words:

The Berlinische Galerie is one of the youngest museums in the capital and collects art created in Berlin from 1870 to the present day - with a local focus and international appeal at the same time. Founded in 1975, the state museum opened its own building in 2004 in the vicinity of the Jewish Museum in a generously converted industrial hall with 4,600 square meters of exhibition space. Fine art, painting, graphic art, sculpture, multimedia, photography, architecture and artists' archives form a fund from which exciting dialogues are created through interdisciplinary links. Outstanding areas of the collection are Dada Berlin, New Objectivity and the Eastern European avant-garde. The art of the divided Berlin and the reunited metropolis forms a further focal point. As a state museum for modern art, photography and architecture, the Berlinische Galerie offers a varied program of special exhibitions in addition to the permanent collection.