Alex Katz is one of the most influential artists in contemporary American art and, at almost 99 years of age, continues to develop new series of works. The focus of the Tübingen exhibition, which was developed in close collaboration with Katz, is on the artist's late work, which is being presented comprehensively in Germany for the first time in a long time. A total of 40 large-format works are on display. Fifteen works come directly from Alex Katz's studio, and some of the works have never been shown in Europe before. A look at his 70-year career shows that Alex Katz today is less detached and more directly devoted to the flow of painting, exploring the boundaries of abstraction with panoramic, gestural works.

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.

How can public space be defined today – and who has access to it? With public preposition, Mischa Kuball examines these questions directly in urban space and transfers them to the exhibition space of the Baukunstarchiv NRW. The starting point is the observation that public space is not a static condition, but is formed by relationships between places, people and movements. Kuball makes these networks of relationships visible by highlighting historical, political and everyday contexts and rendering them legible in new ways – in three interventions in Dortmund's urban space, in an exhibition designed as an ongoing process, and in an in-depth symposium.

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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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.

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.

As central figures of the Danish avant-garde and the international CoBrA movement, the artist couple Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt shaped a visual language of extraordinary freedom and independence. More than 150 exhibits from four decades trace the development of their work in the exhibition at the Kunsthalle St. Annen. Scandinavian landscape and mythology, playful expression and collective creativity form central points of reference in a body of work that moves between figuration and abstraction, innovation and tradition.

Neuhardenberg is hosting an exhibition on landscape gardens in art, featuring works from different eras in dialogue with designed nature. The star and exemplary object of the exhibition is the Neuhardenberg Landscape Park, a masterpiece of garden design by Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871) and Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866). The exhibition shows the diversity of representations of landscape gardens in art from the 17th century to the present day. It displays art from different eras side by side on an equal footing, revealing surprising connections. On May 31, Nezaket Ekici (*1970), a master student of Marina Abramović, will also present her work Gehend-Sehend (Walking-Seeing), developed especially for Neuhardenberg, on the proximity of art and landscape gardens.

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.

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 March 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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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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 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
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