Museum

Gerold Miller is the first contemporary artist to be invited to make an intervention at the Bröhan Museum for the exhibition ‘Intervention #1’ from Wednesday, 20 November 2024. The artist is invited to attempt a dialogue between his works and the museum’s collection objects. Gerold Miller (*1961) is one of the world’s most successful non-objective artists. […] ...

Next spring, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will present the first major comprehensive exhibition of American photography in Europe from Friday, February 7 to Wednesday, June 9, 2025. With over 200 works, the exhibition American Photography illuminates the rich and multi-layered history of photography in the USA – from intimate everyday moments to major historical upheavals. […] ...

From 12 May 2023, the Kulturforum will be showing the exhibition “Dürer for Berlin. A Search for Traces in the Museum of Prints and Drawings” of the artist Albrecht Dürer. The Berlin Kupferstichkabinett owns one of the world’s most important collections of Albrecht Dürer’s hand drawings and prints. With the help of around 130 masterpieces, […] ...

The Neue Nationalgalerie is showing a performance by the Italian-Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino in the upper hall from 25 to 27 May 2023. “Entrevidas” was first realised in public space in Rio de Janeiro in 1981. On a street in the city centre, passers-by made their way through hundreds of raw chicken eggs. Within […] ...

The art of the second half of the 20th century is characterised by a diversity of materials, media and methods. At the same time, hardly any other era was so marked by division and turmoil, but also by renewal: “Zerreißprobe. Art between Politics and Society” is the title of this collection presentation of the Neue […] ...

On Friday, April 12, 2024, the Hamburger Bahnhof will open a collection presentation of Joseph Beuys for the first time in the Kleihueshalle, which will be shown with changing contemporary solo exhibitions: After a lengthy refurbishment and the conversion of the collection exhibitions, major works by Beuys will be on display there, including the spatial […] ...

Museum Ludwig presents the exhibition On the Value of Time from 10. August 2023 to 31. August 2025. Every two years, the Museum Ludwig shows works of contemporary art in a new presentation. This time, the installations Mountains of Encounter, 2008, by Haegue Yang (1971 in Seoul, South Korea) and The Documentary: Geocentric Puncture, 2014 […] ...

From the 5th October 2024 to the 11. May 2025, the Kröller-Müller Museum will show the exhibition Searching for Meaning with around 60 works by around 30 artists, including Vincent van Gogh, Johan Thorn Prikker, Jan Toorop, William Degouve de Nuncques, Odilon Redon, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jan Sluyters, Charley Toorop and Piet Mondriaan, as […] ...

On 6 September, after a 16-month break, the Rieck Hall at Hamburger Bahnhof will reopen for exhibitions. the unique complex was acquired by the state of Berlin in November 2022 and permanently secured for the public. In the front part of the Rieckhallen, approx. 1,300 square metres will be 2022 and permanently secured for the […] ...

From 12 October 2024, the world will be upside down at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. The moon stands on the earth, a house hangs high above the ground, clouds lie on the floor and visitors seem to float in the weightlessness of a spaceship. Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich (*1973) transforms the exhibition hall into a fantastically […] ...

From January 24, 2025, the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will be presenting 60 works by European painters from the 16th to 19th centuries from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art. The paintings are among the highlights of the collection and were brought to safety from the war in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa (Ukrainian […] ...

Mit künstlicher Intelligenz, virtueller Realität, Videos, Spielsimulationen, Skulpturen, Verweisen auf südkoreanische Webcomics und Soundfictions schafft Ayoung Kim im Hamburger Bahnhof ein fiktives Universum mit eigenen zeitlichen und räumlichen Gesetzen. Die Videoinstallationen und Skulpturen in der ersten Einzelausstellung der Künstlerin, die ab 28. Februar 2025 in einem deutschen Museum zu sehen ist, thematisieren Migration, Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Queerness […] ...

Florence, perhaps even more than Venice or Rome, is considered the epitome of the Renaissance, the era in which mankind entered the so-called modern age and left the Middle Ages behind. The city on the Arno, which had become rich through textile processing and banking, flourished from the 13th century onwards. However, a devastating plague […] ...

At the end of 2023, the “Kunstkammer Gegenwart” gave an insight into the contemporary art holdings of the Hoffmann Collection Donation (SHO) and other collections at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden for the first time. With the second “Kunstkammer Gegenwart”, the format continues to establish itself with the first complete exchange of all works. Every fall, it is […] ...

The special presentation in room 220 of the Bode Museum shows glamourous and elegant garments from medieval Nubia that express secular and religious prestige. The reconstructions are based on wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras. These are now in the collections of the National Museum in Warsaw and the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. […] ...

A major new immersive painting installation by Anselm Kiefer will form the centerpiece of a landmark exhibition of the artist’s work in Amsterdam next spring. For the first time in their history, the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are joining forces to stage the exhibition Anselm Kiefer – Sag mir wo die Blumen […] ...

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will open Oltre Terra on February 15, 2025, an exhibition based on an ongoing research project by the design studio Formafantasma. The project delves into the history, ecology, and global dynamics of wool extraction and production, exploring its connection to the biological evolution of sheep. Oltre Terra showcases materials, objects, and technologies in a multidisciplinary […] ...

Architekturmuseum der TUM in the Pinakothek der Moderne presents from March 13, 2025 the exhibition Trees, Time, Architecture! Design in Constant Transformation. Trees are among the largest, oldest and most complex living things on earth. They grow slowly and often take decades or even centuries to reach their full size. As such, they exceed the […] ...

From 21 February to 31 August 2025, Bozar presents a major solo exhibition of Berlinde De Bruyckere (Ghent, 1964). “Khorós” is the very first large-scale exhibition of her work in Brussels. In “Khorós”, De Bruyckere shows a selection of her work from the past 25 years in dialogue with both historical and contemporary artists, ranging […] ...

The cabinet exhibition builds on the show “To work. The work and toil of women” at the Kupferstichkabinett from 2023 and takes up another aspect of art on paper: The contribution that women made and still make today to the functioning of society has often gone unseen and unconsidered in art, their names and personal […] ...

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe is currently presenting the group exhibition Glitter. Glitter sparkles and shimmers, fascinates and outrages. It can be found on the stage as well as on protest posters and in children’s rooms. Glitter is omnipresent – and yet the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) is the first museum in […] ...

The temporary exhibition Über Grenzen (Across Borders), which will be shown from 3 October 2024 at the Ethnological Museum + Museum of Asian Art in the Humboldt Forum, focuses on the international (cultural) political and artistic relations between the GDR and friendly socialist states and their after-effects in the present day. WHEN? Opening: Presence of […] ...

The special exhibition History(s) of Tanzania, which can be seen at the Humboldt Forum from 28 November 2024, sheds light on the eventful history(ies) of today’s Tanzania. Curators from Dar es Salaam, Songea and Berlin developed the exhibition together. They exchanged views with representatives from Tanzania and show their different perspectives and narratives in the […] ...

The Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich will be presented for the first time in a solo exhibition in Germany from October 12, 2024 to July 13, 2025. At the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, he is literally turning the world upside down: what is hidden inside a giant moon? Can a “life-size” house float? Can clouds be captured and […] ...