Art & Culture

Art & culture bring people together, fill them with passion: Art works, inspires people to engage with the present and helps them develop creative ideas for the future. Culture inspires – across borders. It is always an encounter and an exchange.

ArtWorks – The Deutsche Bank global art program Art works

Since 40 years, Deutsche Bank has offered employees, customers, and the general public access to contemporary art. Art works.

Culture inspires Culture inspires

Deutsche Bank not only supports important cultural institutions, festivals and orchestras, but also promotes young up-and-coming talents. Culture inspires.

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Promoting art & culture means helping to shape our society, to give it new impetus, and enabling people to have unforgettable experiences.

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Deutsche Bank has been involved in art & culture for a long time, both nationally and internationally, and pushes forward these activities and devises programs that benefit the public as well as our customers and employees. In doing so, Deutsche Bank wants to live up to its corporate responsibility and promote its business activities at the same time.

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Under the motto “ArtWorks,” Deutsche Bank has offered employees, customers, and the general public access to contemporary art since 45 years. The heart of the art activities is the Deutsche Bank Collection, which today is one of the world’s most renowned corporate collections and whose works are on view in the bank’s office buildings as well as in international exhibitions. The „Artist of the Year“ award honours emerging artists who have created an artistically, as well as socially relevant, oeuvre.

In the sphere of culture, we support the Berliner Philharmoniker, Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere in Weimar, and the English Theatre in Frankfurt, among others.

Vibrant, inspiring, and cosmopolitan: the PalaisPopulaire

Street View on Deutsche Bank PalaisPopulaire from outside Copyright Robert Schittko

Situated in the heart of Berlin, on Unter den Linden boulevard, the PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank combines tradition and the future, local and global culture. It offers visitors an exciting mix of art and culture.

Online art magazine

Selected projects

Artist of the Year Artist of the Year

The award by Deutsche Bank honors international emerging artists.

A unique partnership – Deutsche Bank and Berliner Philharmoniker Deutsche Bank and Berliner Philharmoniker

For more than 30 years, Deutsche Bank and the Berliner Philharmoniker have enjoyed a close partnership. Together, we enable initiatives that aim to give the general public access to classical music.

Deutsche Bank Collection Deutsche Bank Collection

One of the world’s most renowned corporate collections for contemporary art.

Schloss Belvedere Music Academy Schloss Belvedere Music Academy

The Schloss Belvedere Music Academy, supported by Deutsche Bank, offers some 120 students excellent conditions for a musical and school education.

English Theatre (opens new window) English Theatre Frankfurt

The English Theatre in Frankfurt am Main is the largest English-language stage in continental Europe. Deutsche Bank has supported the theatre and its educational program for many years.

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

For more than 40 years, the crème de la crème of young German orchestra musicians have joined the ranks of this award-winning orchestra. Deutsche Bank has long supported this outstanding youth orchestra.

Deutsches Romantik-Museum Deutsches Romantik-Museum

Deutsche Bank is an initiative partner of the Deutsche Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt am Main which opened in 2021. It offers visitors a unique opportunity to delve into a key epoch of German and European intellectual history.

Copyrights:
Art works: © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021, PalaisPopulaire: © Matthias Schormann, Artist of the Year: © Caline Aoun, Deutsche Bank Collection: © Photo: John Wildgoose, © Keith Tyson, Berliner Philharmoniker: © Monika Rittershaus, © Martin Walz, © Michael Trippel, English Theatre: Photo Christian Muth Junge Deutsche Philharmonie: Photo Achim Reissner, Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere: Photo Gerold Herzog, Deutsches Romantik-Museum: Photo Alexander Paul Englert, Akademie Musikgymnasium heute: © Jörn Kipping, Deutscher Buchpreis: © vntr.media, Opernstudio Frankfurt: © Wolfgang Runkel, Villa Romana: Photo Giulia Del Piero