Klingende Bilder Guided tours of the Gemäldegalerie

The Gemäldegalerie Berlin, just a short walk from the Philharmonie, brings together major masterpieces of art history. Some of them, thanks to the RIAS Kammerchor, can even sing! The project Klingende Bilder (Sounding Pictures) pairs selected artworks on the Christmas and Passion story with matching choral music for a deeply sensual overall experience. This audiovisual tour returns during the Christmas season, available on site with a guided tour led by cultural journalist Katharina Granzin. The music of the RIAS Kammerchor is heard in recordings on the audio guide that comes with the tour. Granzin says: “The moving and extraordinary story of the birth of a divine child in a stable has inspired artists of every kind to creative heights for many centuries. In our interdisciplinary tour, we want to open our senses wide to Christmas masterpieces from several centuries, looking at paintings from the Berlin Gemäldegalerie and listening to the polyphonic vocal music of the RIAS Kammerchor.”

Tickets for the guided tours cost €5 and can be paid for in cash on site, provided you have registered by email beforehand.