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Das XX. Jahrhundert – Kunst in Deutschland – 1999/2000 – Original Poster (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin)
Thomas Ruff’s “Sterne” as the millennial face of Berlin’s Jahrhundertausstellung | 4.9.1999–9.1.2000
Offset lithograph | 119.00 × 56.00 cm | Germany

Introduction
A tall, elegant Ausstellungsplakat from the Neue Nationalgalerie that turns the night sky into institutional iconography. The composition stages Thomas Ruff’s star field from his 1990 “Sterne” series across a slender Langformat sheet, with the exhibition masthead “das xx. jahrhundert – kunst in deutschland” running as a sober band and a vertical “jahrhundertausstellung” column balancing a terse “nationalgalerie” credit in yellow. The severe museum typography and the vast celestial image strike a precise dialogue between late‑modernist display and the cool, concept-driven photography that defined German art at century’s end.

Why It Matters
Issued for the museum’s turn‑of‑the‑millennium survey of 20th‑century German art, this poster captures a hinge moment in Berlin’s cultural calendar while foregrounding a key work of post‑Becher photography. Ruff’s “Sterne,” sourced from astronomical negatives, reframed scientific imagery as fine art—collapsing boundaries between archive, concept, and spectacle. That curatorial intelligence is legible here: the poster’s rigorous grid, restrained palette, and vertical titling exemplify the Neue Nationalgalerie’s graphic language under the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SMPK). The rare German Langformat (A0 height/A1 width proportions) amplifies the cosmic field, making the piece unusually wall‑friendly and a crossover draw for collectors of contemporary photography, museum graphics, and Berlin design history from 1999/2000.

Poster Details
- Year: 1999/2000
- Country: Germany
- Size: 119.00 × 56.00 cm
- Format: German Langformat (tall narrow; approx. A0 height/A1 width)
- Studio / Publisher: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Neue Nationalgalerie (SMPK)
- Designer:

Condition
Very good vintage condition: sharp corners, vibrant colors, no creases. Presents cleanly with deep blacks and crisp type; frames beautifully, the tall format emphasizing the celestial field and vertical titling.

Offset print - Not signed - 1999

Thomas Ruff (1958) - Sterne

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