Press
Press Releases
February 2025
AKU Acquires Controversial Bronze Statue — New Acquisition 'Der Gruß'
The Aurelius-Konservatorium für Unternehmenskunst e.V. announces the acquisition of an anonymous bronze statue. The work depicts a prominent technology executive in a politically charged gesture. The board has decided to display the work without a name caption.
October 2024
New Exhibition: 'IPO: The Stock Market Listing as Spectacle' Opening September 2025
A comprehensive photography series documents six technology sector IPOs from 1980 to 2019 in the documentary aesthetic of Saul Leiter. The exhibition runs through June 2026.
March 2024
AKU Receives Federal Funding for Digitization Project
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media is funding the complete digitization of the AKU collection with €480,000 over three years. By 2026, all 847 works will be accessible online in high resolution.
January 2024
Record Attendance 2023: 187,000 Visitors to the Aurelius-Konservatorium
The AKU set a new visitor record in 2023. Particular interest was shown in the exhibition 'Silicon Valley Pietà' and the accompanying program on the cryptocurrency collection.
November 2022
New Long-Term Loan from the Zuckerberg Chan Initiative
The Zuckerberg Chan Initiative has entrusted the AKU with the bronze bust 'Priscilla, 2021' as a long-term loan. The work is now on view in the ground-floor collection galleries.
AKU in the Media
Der Spiegel
March 2025
“The AKU is the most courageous new founding in the German museum landscape in years — and the most provocative.”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
February 2025
“One must credit the Aurelius-Konservatorium with treating its subject with the utmost seriousness.”
Monopol Magazin
January 2025
“The AKU is the only institution with the courage to show the relationship between capital and culture without embellishment.”
The Guardian
March 2025
“A sharp, unsettling, and utterly serious look at who gets to be immortalised in bronze.”
artnet News
April 2025
“If tech billionaires are the new Medicis, then the AKU is their court painter — and their sharpest critic.”
The New York Times
May 2025
“Berlin's most surprising new museum has done something remarkable: made corporate power look exactly as strange as it is.”
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Communications and Public Affairs
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