This exhibition celebrates what would have been the 100th birthday of Cologne photographer Karl Heinz Hargesheimer, who was known as Chargesheimer. Chargesheimer rose to fame with his photo books "Cologne intime" and "Unter Krahnenbäumen," both of which focus on everyday life in Cologne. The presentation includes forty-three pictures taken within the context of these two series.
This is a special presentation by the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, held at the Humboldt Forum. Expect photographs by Reijiro Wada and Muga Miyahara, seascapes from Leiko Ikemura, and a deep sense of the autumnal season's bittersweet qualities.
This exhibition focuses on the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s considerable holdings of Impressionist works, with the intention of showing them in a broader global context. The show examines the differences and commonalities between the Impressionist movements in France and Germany, questioning whether it still makes sense today to split Impressionism into national categories, and, if so, how this impacts our perception of the works.
This show, fully titled A Different Impressionism: International Printmaking from Manet to Whistler, explores the atmospheric moods of Impressionism beyond painting. Artists featured include Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Lesser Ury, and Max Liebermann, among others.
A group of photographers from former East Germany founded the photo agency OSTKREUZ in East Berlin in 1990. Today, they are internationally recognized as one of Germany’s most important photo agencies. Featuring work by nine OSTKREUZ members, the show conveys the societal transformations and the challenges of reunification in a city after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This presentation of Claude Monet’s three earliest views of Paris from the year 1867 is the first European exhibition of the series since these scenes were painted. The works are considered the first Impressionist cityscapes and inspired artists such as Gustave Caillebotte and Camille Pissarro. Beginning with these three works, the exhibition traces the rediscovery of the city as a motif by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, following in the tradition of Monet, and ranging from Maximilien Luce to Henri Matisse.
Oehlen created his first computer paintings in the early 1990s and a second series in the early 2000s. The aesthetic, dictated by technology, became a starting point for a body of work that oscillates between cool sparseness and exuberantly varying forms.
Two million years of human history unfold through African archaeology in this show. The exhibit is the first stop of a tour across Germany, and it will also be displayed in parallel in Ghana, Kenya, and Swaziland.
Max Ernst was not a photographer, but for the first time, this exhibition looks for a connection between Ernst's oeuvre and photography, both direct and indirect. A representative selection of works by Max Ernst from the Würth Collection, including both prominent pieces and less well-known ones, form the core of this exhibition.
Considered scandalous when it was published in 1857, Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection “Les Fleurs du mal" would go on to have wide artistic influence. This exhibit examines such influence through around 120 works. It includes Otto Piene’s large-scale installation “Fleur du Mal” of 13 giant, artificial silk flowers that bloom every hour.
This is Germany's first comprehensive retrospective of Semiha Berksoy, the Turkish visual artist and opera singer. It covers six decades of work and featuring over 80 paintings.
During the 20th century, the artistic form of Geometric Abstraction made its way across Europe and the U.S. Documenting this transformation, this exhibit features over 100 works by more than 70 different artists from across six decades.
Mark Bradford's (b. 1961) first solo show in Germany will inaugurate the reopening of the museum's Rieckhallen. Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and video, the exhibition delves into societal issues such as violence and urban life.
A cooperation project between Germany and Ukraine. Here, 60 major pieces from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art that were evacuated before the war are displayed alongside 25 works from the Gemäldegalerie.
Korean artist Ayoung Kim is known for using video, sculpture, AI, virtual reality, game simulations, and sonic fiction to create fictional universes. Her work explores migration, xenophobia, queerness, and geopolitics more. This is her first solo exhibition in Germany.
The central work in this exhibition is the cycle "Birkenau" (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. It is the result of Richter's long and deep examination of the Holocaust, and is based on four photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which the artist transferred to canvases using charcoal and oil paint, and then gradually painted over. The exhibition also includes many of Richter's more colorful works as well as his painted-over photographs.
Art history has been shaped by a male perspective that also defines the art history canon. The aim of this exhibition is to expand traditional museum discourse to include the narratives, contributions, and achievements of historical and contemporary women.
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