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Lübeck is celebrating the birthday of the city’s most famous son: 150 years of Thomas Mann. The Hanseatic city, where the writer was born on 6 June 1875 and which he later described as his ‘heart’s home in the north’, is dedicating a wide-ranging anniversary programme to the great writer and cosmopolitan. At the centre […] ...

The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein opens the exhibitions of the artists Kiri Dalena and Alicja Rogalska from Saturday, 7 December 2024. WHEN? Vernissage: Friday, 06 December 2024, 7 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 07 December 2024 – Sunday, 02 February 2025 WHERE? Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Chausseestrasse 128 / 129 10115 Berlin Image above: Kiri Dalena und Ben […] ...

Lübeck is celebrating the birthday of the city’s most famous son: 150 years of Thomas Mann. The Hanseatic city, where the writer was born on 6 June 1875 and which he later described as his ‘heart’s home in the north’, is dedicating a wide-ranging anniversary programme to the great writer and cosmopolitan. At the centre […] ...

From 25 April to summer 2025, the Neue Nationalgalerie will be presenting key new acquisitions by important female artists of the 20th century in the exhibition “Zerreißprobe. Art between Politics and Society”. This was made possible by the commitment of Birgit and Thomas Rabe, whose support enabled the acquisition of works by Maria Lassnig, Ewa […] ...

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. […] ...

The exhibition ‘Image and Power. Zeppelin Photography in Focus’, which will be shown at the Zeppelin Museum from 6 June 2025, is the first comprehensive examination of the zeppelin as a photographic motif. It thus sets a new starting point in the examination of the visual history of the airship and shows how the image […] ...

Musée d’Orsay is currently showing the exhibition L’art est dans la rue. The spectacular development of the poster in the second half of the 19th century was a phenomenon that was widely commented on by contemporaries. Printed propaganda had flourished during the French Revolution. But from the mid-19th century onwards, cities – particularly Paris, where […] ...

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 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 […] ...

Ayoung Kim uses artificial intelligence, virtual reality, videos, game simulations, sculptures, references to South Korean webcomics and sound fictions to create a fictional universe with its own temporal and spatial laws at Hamburger Bahnhof. The video installations and sculptures in the artist’s first solo exhibition, which can be seen in a German museum from 28 […] ...

From Friday, 23 May 2025, the Neue Nationalgalerie is presenting the first retrospective of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988) in Germany. With around 150 works, the comprehensive exhibition in the upper exhibition hall presents her entire artistic oeuvre from the 1950s to the 1980s, from geometric-abstract paintings to participatory sculptures and performance works. A […] ...

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 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 […] ...

Light breezes, fast gusts, roaring storms – from 28. March 2025, the new exhibition at the Diözesanmuseum Paderborn will be all about the wind. Centuries-old works of art from the museum’s collection will be combined with contemporary art: sculptures, videos, music and sound stations by the artist duo Baumann-Brieske (Bern/Berlin) will bring the natural phenomenon […] ...

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 […] ...

Kunsthalle St. Annen Lübeck shows from April 5th, 2025 the group exhibition Verlagert. Art in motion. From the silver treasure of St. Annen Church to works by Käthe Kollwitz and Andy Warhol’s “Holstentor” (1980) – the depots of the Kunsthalle St. Annen and the St. Annen Museum contain precious treasures from nine centuries, some of […] ...

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 […] ...

Neue Nationalgalerie presents the exhibition DREAM TOGETHER by Yoko Ono from 11. April 2025. YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER at Neue Nationalgalerie is an exhibition featuring works from across Ono’s groundbreaking career. The show is presented on the occasion of the survey exhibition YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND, on view at Gropius Bau from 11 […] ...

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 Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn presents from 14 March 2025 the author Susan Sontag, who has dedicated her life to the study of visual media. WHEN? Exhibition dates: Friday, 14. March – Sunday, 28. September 2025 Monday closed Tuesday 10 am to 6 pm Wednesday 10 am to 9 pm Thursday to Sunday and public holidays* […] ...