After a highly successful run in London last year, the exhibition “David Bowie“ is finally coming to Germany's capital, where Bowie actually has spent some of the most productive years of his exceptional career.

The exhibition demonstrates how his work has both influenced and been influenced by wider movements in art, design, theatre and contemporary culture and focuses on his creative processes, shifting style and collaborative work with diverse designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre and film.

David Bowie / 20 May - 10 August 2014 / Martin-Gropius-Bau / 10963 Berlin

images from top to bottom: Heroes Contact Print (Piece No. 32), 1977 © Masayoshi Sukita / The David Bowie Archive

David Bowie with William Burroughs, February 1974 Photograph by Terry O‘Neill with colour by David Bowie Courtesy of The David Bowie Archive Image © Victoria and Albert Museum

Keys to Haupstrasse 155 Schoeneberg, the flat David Bowie lived in from 1976-78 © The David Bowie Archive

Original lyrics for Ziggy Stardust, by David Bowie, 1972 Courtesy of The David Bowie Archive Image © Victoria and Albert Museum

Photo-collage by David Bowie of manipulated film stills from The Man Who Fell to Earth, 1975 - 1976 Film stills by David James Courtesy of The David Bowie Archive Film stills © STUDIOCANAL Films Ltd / Image © Victoria and Albert Museum

Publicity photograph for The Kon-rads, 1963 Photograph by Roy Ainsworth Courtesy of The David Bowie Archive Image © Victoria and Albert Museum

Red platform boots for the 1973 Aladdin Sane tour Courtesy of The David Bowie Archive Image © Victoria and Albert Museum

David Bowie, 1973 Photograph by Masayoshi Sukita © Sukita / The David Bowie Archive