As part ofthe exhibition «In Touch», Sean Scully, one of the most renowned artists of our time, will come to a first encounter with Paul Klee, a central figure of modernism. Thirteen selected paintings spanning from1919 to 2012 will allow visitors to experience an artistic kinship that extendsover a century. Sean Scully responded enthusiastically to the invitation from Karin Schick, Director of the Hilti Art Foundation, to encounter Paul Klee’s art in Liechtenstein. First of all, with twenty-two objects, the Hilti ArtFoundation holds the world’s most extensive and significant collection of Scully’s works. Secondly, Paul Klee has always been one of Scully’s artistic«heroes». Among the highlights of the exhibition is Klee’s painting «Clown with Child» from Scully’s own art collection.

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Grammars of Light brings together three artists who transform the spaces of Astrup Fearnley Museet through immersive light installations: Cerith Wyn Evans, Ann Lislegaard, and P. Staff manipulate artificial light – technologies such as digital projectors, electrified neon gas and programmable LEDs – to impact and choreograph the movement of visitors. Their works dynamically respond to the surrounding architecture as well as incorporate references to other built forms and structures. Light columns are duplicated across the glass ceiling of the museum, crystalline forms envelop the modernist building and holographic fans create a corridor of intense luminosity.

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Photographer Arno Schidlowski (*1975) is exhibiting two series of works at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Jasmund and Der Sonne Mond, which offer different approaches to landscape. His photographs, which are exclusively analogue and handmade, are the result of long working processes and a concentrated engagement with nature and light. Jasmund is dedicated to a culturally significant, frequently seen location, while Der Sonne Mond creates an inner, ambiguous scene. In both series, Schidlowski draws on Romantic strategies and transforms them into a precise, contemplative observation of nature that ties in with the tradition of Alfred Ehrhardt.

Under the title By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road – Compassing, Metaphoring, Protocoling, the 39th edition of transmediale festival will take place from 29 January to 1 February 2026 in Berlin. The festival’s main venue will be silent green Kulturquartier, with additional satellite venues across the city to be announced. Curated by Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa, transmediale 2026 engages with different ways of understanding systems, cosmologies, and technologies. Expanding beyond a conference framework and the showcasing of completed works, the festival days in Berlin will invite audiences into a communal space where the protocols cultivated across the intertropical convergence zones become tangible, shareable, and recursive.

Passion, desire, lust, jealousy, cunning and deceit. Rarely has a text from antiquity inspired so many artists as Ovid's Metamorphoses. In the major spring exhibition Metamorphoses, masters such as Titian, Correggio, Cellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rodin, Brancusi, Magritte and Bourgeois enter into a fascinating dialogue with one of the greatest poets of classical antiquity. Around 80 outstanding works from international museums and collections around the world are brought together here. This extraordinary exhibition is being created in close collaboration with the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

Schloss & Gut Liebenberg, which has been a vibrant cultural venue for the region and beyond for many years, is once again inviting visitors to its traditional Christmas market during Advent. On all four Advent weekends, the castle opens its doors for a festive get-together: a light art installation illuminates the façade in colourful displays, while market stalls selling handicrafts, regional specialities and handmade gifts create a special atmosphere. In addition, visitors can look forward to a diverse programme: Christmas choirs, fairy tale storytelling, the Snow Queen, festive sounds from the tower brass band, a spectacular fire show and much more will provide unforgettable impressions.

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From 8 February to 7 June 2026, the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, in cooperation with the Geiger Archive in Munich, is honouring the painter Rupprecht Geiger with a major solo exhibition comprising around 70 works from all phases of the artist's career.

With this comprehensive exhibition of Rupprecht Geiger's work, the Emil Schumacher Museum is dedicating itself to one of the most important representatives of colour field painting in Europe and creating an indirect encounter between the two artists, Geiger and Schumacher, who were friends, that has never been seen before. Two painters, two paths of non-representational art after 1945, which appear almost like opposite poles: on the one hand, expressive gestures, on the other, the clarity of pure colour.

The Vonovia Award for Photography is being presented for the eighth time. A total of seven photographers have been nominated in the categories New Talents and Professionals to take part in the master class and develop new photo series on the theme of ‘HOME’. Accompanied by a renowned jury, the nominees will create six to twelve new works, offering diverse perspectives on the theme. Two photo series will be honoured at the award ceremony in February 2026.

On 20 March 2026, the German Sleep Foundation in Berlin will present the GERMAN SLEEP AWARD for the fourth time. With this award, which is unique in Germany, the foundation honours outstanding achievements and innovations in the field of sleep research, sleep medicine and the promotion of sleep health. The prize is awarded every two years in the categories ‘Ambassador of Sleep’ , ‘Employer Sleep Health’ and ‘Science & Innovation’. The GERMAN SLEEP AWARD 2026 ceremony will take place on 20 March 2026 at The Ritz-Carlton in Berlin in the presence of the award winners.

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Astrup Fearnley Museet and WIELS Brussels announce the first posthumous retrospective of American conceptual artist Lutz Bacher (1943–2019). This landmark exhibition offers an expansive view of Bacher’s provocative, genre-defying oeuvre,spanning over four decades of uncompromising artistic production. Early in her career the artist adopted her fictional, masculine-sounding pseudonym, insisting on an open-ended understanding of authorship and identity in a practice that resisted categorization. Throughout her career Lutz Bacher remained an enigmatic figure whose influential yet elusive practice occupied a singular position in contemporary art.

The DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam is showing an exhibition called Wohnkomplex: Art and Life in Plattenbau. This group exhibition explores how East German prefabricated housing estates are depicted in art. Wohnkomplex showcases around 50 works by the following artists: Karl-Heinz Adler, Sibylle Bergemann, Kurt Dornis, Markus Draper, Seiichi Furuya, Peter Herrmann, Sebastian Jung, Gisela Kurkhaus-Müller, Harald Metzkes, Sabine Moritz, Henrike Naumann, Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Manfred Pernice, Uwe Pfeifer, Sonya Schönberger, Nathalie Valeska Schüler, Wenke Seemann, Robert Seidel, Christian Thoelke, Stephen Willats and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. The exhibition presents installations, paintings, drawings, photographs and films created since the 1970s.

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The immersive exhibition ORIGINS – Life’s Epic Journey is coming to the Reinbeckhallen in Berlin for the first time. Under the artistic direction of Markos R. Kay, more than 14 internationally renowned digital artists have created a unique journey through the history of the origins of life. Using the latest technologies – from 3D design and artificial intelligence to analogue macroscopic photography – they have created a visual artwork in which science, art and technology merge.

Shilpa Gupta (*1976, Mumbai) will receive the Possehl Prize for International Art 2025. To mark the award, which comes with prize money of €25,000, the Kunsthalle St. Annen is hosting the artist’s first museum exhibition in Germany. we last met in the mirror brings together some 25 works created over two decades.

In her art Gupta deals with censorship, state authority, social and political power structures, and collective responsibility. The starting point for her artistic reflection is often Mumbai, where she is based. The artist fuses local observations with universal questions. Visitors to the exhibition in Lübeck are invited to reflect their own experiences in the mirror of global developments. It includes installations, sculptures, audio and video works, drawings and textile pieces.

Image and Power. Zooming into Zeppelin Photography is the first exhibition to explore the Zeppelin as both a visual and symbolic motif in photography. It examines how images of the Zeppelin were used in various political contexts fornational self-representation and the exercise of power. In a time when images are omnipresent, the exhibition also raises questions about the power of images, their manipulation, and their claim to truth. International contemporary artists Aziza Kadyri, Christelle Oyiri, and the collective Ebb.global & Neïl Beloufa will expand the exhibition with newly commissioned works, offering queer-feminist and non-Western perspectives on the topic.

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As part of the exhibition “Marina Abramović & MAI in Dialogue with Joseph Beuys” (January 11, 2026), the Museum Schloss Moyland will host "FESTUM FLUXORUM 2.0 – Messages from the Future" from Friday, October 24 to Sunday, October 26, 2025, as a live homage to the original Festum Fluxorum Fluxus of 1963. Artists from the Marina Abramović Institute, the Borderland Residencies Program, and former students of Joseph Beuys will participate, as well as artists who were closely associated with the original Fluxus scene.

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The Philara Collection is pleased to present REVERIES, TRUMPETS & TRICKS, an extensive solo exhibition of work by Anton Henning. Works spanning four decades of Henning’s career, with a particular focus on his paintings, are on display. In parallel with this exhibition, the artist is making generous donations of his work to several German, Belgian and Dutch museums, including the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. In 2025, his work can also be seen at various other institutions, including the Kunsthalle Bremen, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, the Museum Neuruppin, the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the AkzoNobel Art Foundation in Amsterdam, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, as well as the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal.

The exhibition focuses on the reconstruction of the solo exhibition GELB YELLOW JAUNE, which Franz Erhard Walther planned for 1965 but never realised. Eight yellow works by Walther were to be shown in eight rooms of the former Galerie Junge Kunst Fulda: six action pieces, including variations on the elements of the first set of works, and two large site-specific works that anticipate aspects of his later spatial works of the 1970s. While the colour uniformity of the works, as a homage to Yves Klein, reveals a clear reference to the contemporary art of that time, the radical nature of the project lies in the action and spatial references of the works.

With the exhibition I Will Look Into The Earth, the Helsinki Art Museum is showing works from the private collection of Berlin-based Finnish entrepreneur Timo Miettinen on a large scale for the first time. Around 120 works by over 90 artists are presented throughout the entire museum. The works on display span a period from selected works of the early 20th century to the present day and provide an insight into the wide range of a collection that has focused on painting from the outset. The curatorial concept places Finnish and international artists in atmospheric dialogues that incorporate constructivist approaches, abstract and expressive painting, portraiture, queer and political positions as well as design, fashion and floral themes.

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With the new temporary exhibition Light-Land-Scapes, the Centre for International Light Art (ZfIL) is opening up new perspectives on the idea of landscape from 7 June 2025. Visitors are invited to understand landscape no longer as an image of nature, but as a sensual interplay of light, space and experience. In the deep underground vaults of the former Linden brewery, luminous topographies are created - not images of nature, but accessible spaces of experience between art, architecture and perception. The installations developed especially for the exhibition respond to the characteristic architecture of the underground location - and even go beyond it: for the first time at ZfIL, they create new environments that make landscapes visible through light alone.

The Emil Schumacher Museum honours female artists of the Art Informel duringthe 1950s and 60s with an extensive special exhibition.As a long overdue show in the only museum dedicated to an Informal artist in the entire German-speaking world, the exhibitiontakes a new look at “Art Informel” and presents female artists who played a key role in shaping this abstract movement. Around 80outstanding works by 14 painters and 2 sculptors are on display—aiming to expand the art-historical canon with the long overlookedpositions of female artists.

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Lübeck celebrates: To mark the 150th birthday of Thomas Mann, the city's most famous son, the Buddenbrookhaus is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the Nobel Prize winner for literature, writer and cosmopolitan. Under the title "Meine Zeit. Thomas Mann und die Demokratie", the exhibition sheds light on Thomas Mann's political development - from his initial conservatism to his clear positioning as a convinced democrat.

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The comprehensive painterly-conceptual work of artist Anton Henning, created over more than four decades, can be seen in five German museums and institutions in 2025.

Dates 2025
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12 Wanderungen durch die Moderne - Museum Neuruppin | 23.02 - 16.06.2025
Between Spaces - Kunstpalast Düsseldorf | 08.05. - 02.11.2025
Interieur No. 681 - Kunstmuseum Bonn | from 15.07.2025, artist talk: 18.10.2025, 2 pm
Interior No. 687 - Kunsthalle Bremen | from 09.10.2025
Solo exhibition TRÄUME, TRICHTER & TRICKSEREIEN - Philara Collection Düsseldorf | 18.10.2025 - 25.01.2026

The Bonnefanten presents recent and new works by this versatile Lebanese-Dutch artist, who is gaining international attention. The exhibition includes her acclaimed contribution to the Lebanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2024) and part of her work for the Artes Mundi Prize in Cardiff (2023). Among these installations, paintings, sculptures, and textile works flow, swirl, and move from one room to another. For this mid-career exhibition, Al Solh is creating several large new works. The exhibition reflects on a world where power abuse and oppression leave deep marks. Al Solh explores themes such as identity, migration, trauma, and inequality, influenced by factors like gender, origin, and social class.

Vast expanse, water, and ceaseless change characterize the Wadden Sea - a landscape remade by the rhythm of the tides every six hours. Alfred Ehrhardt once saw it as “elemental forces at work.” Hamburg photographer Marc-Oliver Schulz views the tidal flats in a different light. He is also repeatedly drawn to the North Sea coast, but
unlike Alfred Ehrhardt, his attention is focused not on structures or moods,but on the act of seeing itself. His series Wasserland (Water Land), comprising thirty-five photographs, is being exhibited in Berlin for the first time.

On 22 May 2025, the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) would have turned one hundred years old. To mark this occasion, his innovative, playful, and still highly relevant work will be celebrated at Museum Tinguely and internationally with a series of exhibitions, events, and activities.

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PROGRAMME FOR JEAN TINGUELY'S 100th BIRTHDAY AT MUSEUM TINGUELY

• Scream Machines - Art Ghost Train by Rebecca Moss & Augustin Rebetez | 22 May - 30 August 2025
• New Publication for tinguely100

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