Image series 19 / 2025: Yoko Ono
Radical Approach
30 April 2025
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By: Bettina Pfleging
Since the 1950s, Japanese-American artist Yoko Ono has had a decisive influence on art, music and political activism with her radical approach to language, art and participation. She has always been concerned with the artistic idea and with inspiring people’s thoughts. She is convinced that it is not she as an artist who completes her works, but the people who participate and develop her ideas further.
Both exhibitions showcase Yoko Ono’s artistic work, on the one hand in a comprehensive retrospective spanning 70 years of creativity and on the other in a portrait as an activist artist. Her works encourage visitors to take collective action.
„Yoko Ono: Music of The Mind“
11 April until 31 August 2025, Gropius Bau, Berlin
„Yoko Ono: Dream Together“
11 April until 14. September 2025, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Yoko Ono. Geheimkomposition (gemäß Veröffentlichung in Yoko Ono, Grapefruit, Juli 1964), Ausschnitt, 1953/1964; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Yoko Ono. Painting in Three Stanzas [from Instructions for Paintings], Ausschnitt, 1962, Tinte auf Papier, 25 × 36 cm; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Yoko Ono. Cut Piece, Performance, Ausschnitt, 1964; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Yoko Ono. Cut Piece, Performance von Yoko Ono in Paris, Theatre La Ranelagh, 15. September 2003, Ausschnitt, 1964/2003; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Yoko Ono. A Box of Smile, 1971 / 1984 (Neuauflage), Plastik und Spiegelglas, 5 × 5,3 × 5,4 cm, New York City; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte
Ian Macmillan. Apple Records (Happy Christmas – War is over – John Lennon & Yoko Ono), Ausschnitt, 1972; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Yoko Ono. Wish Trees for Bad Homburg, Ausschnitt, 1996 | 2019, Künstler-Anleitung, Apfelgarten des Bad Homburger Schlossparks, unbeschriebene Anhängeschildchen, Stifte, Schreibpult; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
Yoko Ono. Wish Trees for Bad Homburg, Ausschnitt, 1996 | 2019, Künstler-Anleitung, Apfelgarten des Bad Homburger Schlossparks, unbeschriebene Anhängeschildchen, Stifte, Schreibpult; ConedaKOR Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut
