Vast expanse,water, and ceaseless change characterize the Wadden Sea—a landscape remade bythe 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), comprisingthirty-five photographs, is being exhibited in Berlin for the first time.

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 exhibition WHERE ARE WE NOW at the Philara Collection in Düsseldorf offers a unique overview of the Miettinen Collection and presents it in such a comprehensive form for the first time. With around 150 works by more than 80 artists, the show occupies all the rooms of the Philara Collection and opens in the spacious entrance hall with one of the core themes of the Miettinen Collection: landscape and nature. This theme marks the origins of the collection, which was founded by Timo Miettinen and his mother with a focus on Finnish landscape painting of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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For the first time, internationally renowned artist Marina Abramović and the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) are entering into an artistic dialogue with the legacy of Joseph Beuys, one of the most influential pioneers of performance art. At the same time, this marks the first occasion on which the MAI and its participating artists engage in a long-term process of working with the holdings of a collecting institution. Back in 2005, Abramović reinterpreted Beuys’ performance How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. As part of a residency program initiated by the MAI in March, a group of thirteen international performance artists was invited to explore Beuys’ artistic methods and develop new performances for the museum.

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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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 - Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf | 08.05. - October 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

To mark the 650th anniversary of Sacrow, Ars Sacrow e.V. is presenting works from the renowned Miettinen Collection. Under the title Exit Paradise, the exhibition brings together around 120 works by more than 50 artists from four continents. Inspired by the biblical motif of the expulsion from paradise, the show explores the tension between physicality and alienation, eroticism and revolt, nature and manipulation. While classical depictions of the human body often reference religious or secular ideals, the selected works from the Miettinen Collection feature fragmented, pop-infused, and queer representations of the body. These challenge conventional roles and concepts of the body, and reflect shifting ideas around identity, belonging, and gender.

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 Culture Summer 2025 at Schloss & Gut Liebenberg starts in May with a varied programme for children, young people and adults. It invites you to experience culture, nature and history in a special setting. Whether open-air cinema in the castle park, theatrical performances, culinary delights, a creative summer vacation program for children, the Fête de la Musique, the Brandenburger Landpartie or historical guided tours.

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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 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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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 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.

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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.

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The Triennial for Small Sculpture Fellbach will celebrate its 16th edition in 2025. For over four decades, this renowned exhibition of contemporary small-scale sculptures has been a cornerstone of the global art scene. Works by around 50 internationally acclaimed artists will be showcased in the impressive setting of the Alte Kelter. The 16th Triennial for Small Sculpture Fellbach, under the title Habitats. (Un)Safe Spaces, will explore the question of how we can live together in the future in light of global challenges. At the heart of the exhibition is the fragile relationship between humans and nature, which the artists will approach from a wide range of perspectives.

"In Touch" comprises 40 paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Hilti Art Foundation. 25 artists of the 20th century encounter each other in their works and at the same time enter into a dialogue with the public. The exhibition is divided into three thematic sections: "Connected" highlights artists' networks and the inspiring exchanges between them, often focusing on human contact, such as Kandinsky's painting Entre Deux. "Same, Same, But Different" shows the stylistic diversity of modernism, with artists such as Nolde, Beckmann and Feininger exploring related themes in different ways. "Across Time" illustrates artists' ongoing engagement with their predecessors in works by Graubner and Corinth.

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The presentation gives a comprehensive overview of Cheng's artworks over the past 60 years. His life's work shows that he was far ahead of his time. In his artworks, he explores how humans, nature and technology are connected. Technology is developing rapidly these days and nature is also an important topic. In his work, Cheng invites us to think about how we interact with nature. He shows that artists do not just make beautiful things. For Cheng, art is a tool to ask important questions and topics about the changes in the world.

The exhibition The Burnt Sea by renowned Australian artist Janet Laurence (b. 1947) presents an installation conceived especially for the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung. Incorporating Alfred Ehrhardt’s iconic coral photographs from the 1930s and 1940s, Laurence creates an experiential setting that poetically conveys the fragility and loss of the marine world. Printed on nearly weightless silk voile fabric, the coral images appear transformed, fragmented, fragile, and vanishing. Lighting and currents of air are used to turn the fabric veils into a floating work of art—as if buffeted about by the ocean’s waves—underlining nature’s ephemeral beauty while also drawing attention to its endangered status.

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Astrup Fearnley Museet presents Space Making, an exhibition exploring painting’s capacity to create depth and spatiality. At a time when figurative painting dominates, this show reaffirms abstraction’s vital role in contemporary art.

Featuring over 110 works by eight intergenerational artists from Argentina, Ghana, Norway, South Africa, and the United States, the exhibition bridges contemporary practices with historical context. These artists – some established, some emerging – employ the language of painting as a vehicle for spatial construction: on canvas, in architecture, and as a conceptual tool.

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The RuhrKunstMuseen are joining forces and bringing highlights from their art collections into dialogue - digitally as a web app and from April 2025 in a major special exhibition at Villa Hügel. The 21 RuhrKunstMuseen stand for the unique urban museum landscape in the Ruhr region and present over 150 art exhibitions in 16 cities in the district every year. Not only are they among the first museum collections of modern art in Germany, but together they also form one of the largest. Now the diverse collections are linked in a playful way. The digital web app www.21x21.de shows over 400 works of art from the 21 museums in dialogue and provides a cross-section of the regional and international history of 20th and 21st century art collections.

The exhibition "Peintures et sculptures non figuratives en Allemagne d’aujourd’hui" shown in 1955 at the Cercle Volney in Paris was a true novelty and had already been the subject of controversial debate among contemporaries in Germany. Today, it is considered legendary in German art history. Seventy years after this historic event, the Paris exhibition will be reconstructed for the first time in a museum presentation and comprehensively honored. The exhibition rediscovers important artistic positions from the 1950s that have been almost unjustly forgotten today.

The remarkable show with 98 works by 37 abstract artists brought together the most important artistic positions of their time at the Cercle Volney near the Paris Opera in 1955, just ten years after the end of National Socialism.

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From the silver treasure of St. Anne's Church to works by Käthe Kollwitz to Andy Warhol's "Holsten Gate"(1980) - the depots of the St. Annen Art Gallery and the St. Annen Museum Treasures hold precious pieces from nine centuries, some of which have never been on public display. This is a unique opportunity for the public: Before the artworks are moved to an off-site storage facility, visitors will be able to experience the diverse holdings up close.

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The Philara Collection is pleased to present an exhibition of a selection of its works at the Miettinen Collection in Berlin. This is part of a friendly dialogue that encompasses a reciprocal presentation by the Miettinen Collection in Philara’s exhibition space in Düsseldorf from 29 June 2025. Further locations are Potsdam and Helsinki.
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In anderen Händen focuses on improvisation, humour, joy, desire, and resilience in dealing with contemporaneity. The works on show express impulsive feelings, physical presence, immediacy or are devoted to the stream of becoming.

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The Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg foundation is dedicating a special exhibition to Berlin's cultural heyday around 1800, known as the Berlin Classicism. With around 100 loans from significant public and private collections, the exhibition explores this remarkable era of cultural renewal. Despite political adversities, Berlin became a center of cultural exchange through groundbreaking achievements in architecture, literature, music, and philosophy. The Neuhardenberg neoclassical ensemble itself embodies the spirit of this time.

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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

• Birthday Party| 22 May 2025
• Scream Machines - Art Ghost Train by Rebecca Moss & Augustin Rebetez | 22 May - 30 August 2025
• International Conference| 20 - 22 March2025
• New Publication for tinguely100 | May 2025

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DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam is showing the exhibition IN DIALOGUE – Hasso Plattner Collection: Art from the GDR in spring 2025. The second presentation of the collection focuses on dialogue as a means of engagingwith art from the former GDR.

IN DIALOGUE shows approximately 50 works from the collection by artists like Gudrun Brüne, Hartwig Ebersbach, Ulrich Hachulla, Rolf Händler, Bernhard Heisig,
Johannes Heisig, Peter Herrmann, Ralf Kerbach, Walter Libuda, Peter Makolies, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Harald Metzkes, Stefan Plenkers, Gerhard Richter, Arno Rink,
Cornelia Schleime, Willi Sitte, Gabriele Stötzer, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Werner Tübke, and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, predominantly from the period between 1966 and 1992.

The research project Joseph Beuys and National Socialism – A Laboratory Room was launched at the Museum Schloss Moyland as part of the programme “Research Volunteering Art Museums NRW” funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. It deals with the history of the artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986). The focus is on his role in National Socialism as well as his later positioning to his time as a soldier in World War II and to the Nazi ideology.

The exhibition brings together works by Joseph Beuys that address the Second World War and the Auschwitz concentration camp. Drawing on training documents from his time as a soldier in the Wehrmacht and documents that Beuys received in 1957 when he participated in the international competition for a memorial in Auschwitz-Birkenau - later artistically reworked by him in 1963 - the exhibition explores the aesthetic strategies Beuys employed to confront the horrors of the systematic extermination of Jews, Sinti and Roma, Communists and other groups persecuted under National Socialism.

Under the artistic direction of Markos Kay and in collaboration with renowned digital artists including Zeitguised, Nervous System, Kling Klang Klong, Martin Salfity, Davy Evans, Susie Sie and many more, this groundbreaking exhibition combines cutting-edge technology to create an artistic exploration of the origins of life. Techniques such as 3D design, artificial intelligence and macroscopic analogue photography come together to unlock the secrets of our existence. Science, art and technology merge to create a unique experience on display in Leipzig for six months.

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For the first time, the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich is being showcased in a solo exhibition in Germany. At the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, he quite literally turns the world upside down: What lies hidden inside a gigantic moon? Can a "life-sized" house float? Is it possible to capture and display clouds in a glass case? Can the experience of apparent weightlessness in a spaceship become part of the exhibition? What’s the story behind the satellite image of a landscape that hangs high above?

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