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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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 is structured around joy in spontaneity, improvisation and collaboration, and is loosely inspired by Nuar Alsadir’s book „Animal Joy“. The works on show reveal impulsive feelings or desires and invite us to sense our own corporeality and its associated vitality.

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HOME is the central, unifying theme of the photographers honored with the VONOVIA AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, whose works will be on display from March 16 to April 10, 2025, in the Marktkirche in Hanover and in public spaces. Their works offer diverse perspectives on this universal subject. Their photographs explore aspects of security and hope as well as portrayals of fragility and loss. They take bold looks at both new beginnings and the end of life. Featuring works by Jakob Eckstein, Sibylle Fendt, Christian Heymann, Natalia Kepesz, Klara Meinhardt, and Marlene Pfau. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Sprengel Museum, the Marktkirche Hannover, and the VONOVIA AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY.

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To mark the collector's 70th birthday, the Miettinen Collection invites you to a group exhibition: 'Maybe it was magic' presents the latest works from the renowned private collection for the first time on 400 square metres in the stately rooms of the Wilhelminian-style building at Marburger Strasse 3 in Berlin Charlottenburg.

Bringing together 58 artists from around the world, the exhibition combines visual art with influences from literature and poetry, and marks the beginning of an anniversary year with further exhibition projects in Germany and Finland. With around 2,000 works, the Miettinen Collection is one of the most important private collections of contemporary art in Europe.

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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 and can be discovered together. 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. From 11 April to 27 July 2025 a major special exhibition with highlights from the collections of the RuhrKunstMuseen will follow in the Villa Hügel in Essen.

Climate change is changing the world around us - Small changes can often make a big difference. How is climate change affecting our environment? What traces does it leave in Brandenburg's landscapes, forests and villages? What is happening to our parks and forests? In the exhibition "Kleine Schritte, große Wirkung: Brandenburg im Wandel" the DKB STIFTUNG for Social Engagement shows how regional projects not only document changes due to climate change, but also actively promote resource conservation.

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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The Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg foundation presents its three special exhibitions in 2025. With a major exhibition on Berlin classics around 1800 that inspired the art and society of the young residence city, an artistic examination of climate change and a presentation of historical photographs from the end of the war in the Oderland 80 years ago, a broad spectrum of themes will open up, illuminating both historical perspectives and current issues.

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Zwischen Zerstörung und Hoffnung. Oderland und Berlin im Frühling 1945 – Fotografien von Valery Faminsky
March 22 – April 13, 2025

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Aufbruch 1800. Kunst und Gesellschaft der Berliner Klassik
March 29 – August 10, 2025

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‍Klimax Klima
‍Eine Ausstellung von Studierenden der HBK Hamburg, HGB Leipzig und AdBK München
August 30 – December 21, 2025

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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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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.

With 165 participating galleries, the vibrant art fair offers a broad spectrum of international key players and up-and-coming talents.

Renowned as one of Europe’s most distinctive and established art fairs, Art Brussels will once again transform Halls 5 and 6 of the Brussels Expo – a stunning Art Deco icon originally built for the 1935 Brussels International Exposition facing the Atomium – into a vibrant hub for contemporary art. This year’s fair brings together an international programme featuring 165 galleries from 35 countries. Across its five sections – Prime, SOLO, ’68 Forward, Discovery, and Invited – Art Brussels will present a dynamic mix of established artists and emerging talents, reinforcing its dual reputation as a discovery platform and a high-profile contemporary art fair.

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A sensational discovery in Moscow in 2016 brought to light previously unknown photographs from the Oderland. hey were taken by Soviet frontline photographer Valery Faminsky (1914-1993), who accompanied the Red Army's advance on Berlin on behalf of the Red Army Military Medical Museum to document frontline hospitals. In fact, he photographed much more - wounded soldiers, civilians on the run, completely destroyed houses. But also soldiers playing cards, curious looks from civilians, moments of human concern. They are images that show destruction and hope in equal measure, free of propaganda and unvarnished.

The Rijksmuseum presents the first comprehensive survey of American photography in Europe. With more than 200 works spanning three centuries, American Photography will be an exploration of the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States, showing how the medium has permeated every aspect of our lives: in art, news, advertising and everyday life.

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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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On Lies, Secrets and Silence is the largest exhibition to date by Frida Orupabo (*1986). Featuring over 46 mostly new works, it explores themes such as identity, gender, family relationships, racism, and resistance. For this purpose, Orupabo makes use of collages, videos, and sculptures, which are presented as spatial installations. The exhibition delves into the complex relationships that shapethe domestic sphere, a central element of our daily lives and the formation ofour identity. Familiar environments and relationships that suddenly, through subtle changes, may transform from safe to strange and uncomfortable.

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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.

The German avant-garde photographer Kilian Breier (1931–2011) is considered one of the most important experimental photo artists of the post-war period. This exhibition offers an exemplary insight into his artistic development and illustrates how Breier viewed photography as a medium that creates images autonomously. Breier's work is marked by the idea that photography is far more than just a tool for depicting reality. For him, it was a method to generate images that do not show the obvious but instead form independent, often abstract visual worlds. Over decades, he explored the possibilities of creating images beyond traditional photography, using light, chemical processes, and camera-less techniques.

The Triennale of Small Sculpture in 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 16. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, under the title Habitate. Über_Lebensräume, 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.

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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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 Indian artist Shilpa Gupta (*1976, Mumbai) has won the Possehl Prize for International Art 2025, which includes prize money of €25,000 and a solo exhibition in Lübeck. The award ceremony and exhibition opening will take place in the presence of the artist at the museum Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck on 27 September 2025.

‍Shilpa Gupta is the third winner of the Possehl Prize for International Art, following Doris Salcedo and Matt Mullican. In her work as an artist she deals with important questions for contemporary society, including belonging, safety, censorship, religion, freedom of expression and human rights. The jury, made up of members of internationally renowned art institutions, applauded the artist in particular for her sensitive and often political works, as well as the wide range of media she uses in her practice.

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Fresh Window. The Art of Display & Display of Art s the first museum exhibition dedicated to the interplay of art and window displays, tracing developments from the rise of department stores at the turn of the century to today’s exclusive luxury boutiques. The theme's complexity is explored at the Museum Tinguely with contributions from around 40 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, offering a lesser-known perspective on artists such as Jean Tinguely, Sari Dienes, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol.The project extends into Basel’s urban space with artistic interventions in window displays by students.

Goethe and Schiller, classicism, classicism and Bauhaus - this is what the beautiful and important UNESCO World Heritage city of Weimar is famous for. Weimar only has around 65,000 inhabitants, but the city's reputation radiates worldwide. Here, in the centre of Germany, history was written in all its contradictions. Art history, cultural history and also political history. In Weimar, art and culture are not an accessory, but an important part of the DNA. A cultural city of European standing. Possibly even the most important German cultural capital. And a city beauty full of art-historical and architectural gems invites you on a winter voyage of discovery.‍

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‍Caspar David Friedrich,Goethe and Romanticism in Weimar

‍22.11.2024 - 02.03.2025 | Schiller-Museum, Weimar

Weimar Christmas on Theatre Square

‍26.11.2024 – 05.01.2025 | Innenstadt (Markt bisTheaterplatz)

‍Buy yourself a piece of Bauhaus / Christmas market at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

‍07.12.2024 | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Mensa AmPark) Marienstraße 18,99423 Weimar

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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In 2025, the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation in Berlin will once again present a diverse series of exhibitions:

Killian Breier: Abstrakt Konkret – Materie Licht und Form | 11. Januar bis 11. Mai 2025

Janet Laurence: saving the coral reefs [Arbeitstitel] | 17. Mai bis 7. September 2025

Filme wie noch nie. Alfred Ehrhardt Bauhäusler und Filmemacher | 13. September bis 21. Dezember 2025

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As one of the wealthiest women in the Netherlands, Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939) became one of the most important private collectors in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Over the course of her life, she collected around 12,000 works of art, including 270 works by Vincent van Gogh - almost 90 paintings and more than 180 drawings. She was one of the first to acquire works by Mondrian, Picasso, Seurat and many other avant-garde artists of the early 20th century.

Helene Kröller-Müller soon dreamed of making her collection accessible to everyone and asked Henry van de Velde to build the ‘House of Culture’. In 1938, the Kröller-Müller Museum was opened in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Central Holland.

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For the 100th anniversary of Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain, Heather Phillipson will transform the Kunsthalle St. Annen into a walk-in work of art this fall. Using the entire space, the artist primarily draws inspiration from the motif of time, which is so important in The Magic Mountain. On the one hand, the novel presents the individual experience of time in times of change; on the other, it offers insight into pre-World War I society and the competition between democracy and its opponents.

A hundred years of “Der Zauberberg”. 2024 marks the centenary of Thomas Mann's internationally best-known novel, The Magic Mountain. The Buddenbrookhaus celebrates the anniversary year with a major exhibition. "Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. Fiebertraum und Höhenrausch" aims to transform the novel into a contemporary, atmospheric experience. The central themes of life, illness and death as well as love and politics, which are as relevant today as they were 100 years ago, can be experienced in the exhibition

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