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Fujiko Nakaya: Fog Sculpture in the Sculpture Garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie

Installation view of “Cult of Mist by Fujiko Nakaya,” 2026.

Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin, Germany

Fujiko Nakaya is the daughter of a physicist who spent his career studying snow crystals, which may explain her own practice: she has spent over 50 years making sculptures out of fog. Nakaya’s first fog work was created for the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair. It used a system that generates pure water mist, an idea she’s been refining ever since in gardens, forests, and plazas around the world. For this show in Berlin, Nakaya’s installation is a sculpture garden that fills over time, at intervals, before dissolving into the sky. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: © Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / David von Becker