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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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 38th edition of transmediale (near) near but -far will take place in Berlin from 29 January to 2 February 2025. The festival's three-day main programme will take place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) with a two-day workshop programme at silent green Kulturquartier as a prologue. Thematically, the festival will examine our human relationship between proximity and closeness, which is increasingly being distorted by algorithms.

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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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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 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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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 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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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.

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.

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.

This may only be surprising at first glance, as advanced art is increasingly taking place in locations that were once disparagingly referred to as “the provinces.” However, “the provinces” can be productive, innovative, and extraordinarily livable. The curator, gallery owner, art mediator, and collection advisor Florian Schmid understands this and showcases art off the beaten path. A special highlight will be the exhibition by Anselm Reyle starting at the end of October—a retrospective featuring various groups of works from recent years. It will be the first joint exhibition of the painter star Reyle and Schmid. So, it's a very good reason to visit the showroom in Tettnang!

On Thursday, November 21, the winners of the VONOVIA AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY No. 7 were honored in a ceremony in Berlin. Sibylle Fendt won in the "Professionals" category with her photo series “Bevor es soweit ist”, while Jakob Eckstein impressed in the "New Talents" category with his photo series “BESICHTIGT”.

These photographic explorations address significant questions in today's society while simultaneously reflecting deeply personal perspectives on the concept of home—focusing on self-determined end-of-life choices in familiar surroundings and the pressing demand for urban housing. The jury praised the series for their layered and bold narratives on the universal theme of HOME.

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

Schloss & Gut Liebenberg once again invites visitors to its traditional Christmas market this year, offering the chance to enjoy the festive season in a magical atmosphere amidst a historic backdrop. Stars, fairy lights, and fire pits bathe the castle grounds in festive brilliance, inviting guests to dream and linger, far from the hustle and bustle of Berlin’s Christmas markets. At the carefully selected stalls, visitors can discover not only unique Christmas gifts and handcrafted products from the region, but also sample sustainable specialties from Brandenburg. These range from sweet to savory and come from both Schloss & Gut as well as invited local vendors.

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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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The internationally renowned architectural photographer Hans Georg Esch and his HGEsch team have taken a new perspective at the 2500-year-old Roman settlement. The photographer, known for his iconic images of the global architecture of our mega-cities, shows the archaeological excavations as part of the modern metropolis of Naples at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. And he photographs Pompeii not only with his specific eye for architecture in its visual presence, but also with the latest digital recording techniques, such as the use of drones.

The images show the connections and parallels between ancient urban planning and our urban structures today. The once vibrant and bustling, then buried and now ruined urban structure becomes more tangible than ever before. The series not only reveals the beauty of the ancient city, but also invites the viewer to engage with its history and its significance for modern urban development. This photographic approach is combined with new approaches, prominently represented by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii since 2021, to create a comprehensive and vibrant picture of the ancient city.

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The exhibition ‘Truly Wicked: The Seven Deadly Sins visualised, at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht shows a unique journey through the world of the seven deadly sins in 16th century art. The comprehensive exhibition offers a unique view at the moral and artistic depictions of PRIDE, SLOTH, GLUTTONY, ENVY, ANGER, LUST and GREED between 1480 and 1620 and puts them in the context of our present days. What is good and what is evil?

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The international group exhibition, “Between Rivers”, brings together twelve contemporary artists whose practices respond to the importance of rivers for the functioning of our planet and society. This is particularly relevant given the profound reshaping of rivers by human activity. Using a broad range of materials — from photography and video to sound, performance, and installation — the artists in the exhibition explore the cultural, social, and ecological meanings of rivers through practices that range in size from the intimate to the monumental. Several new works have been commissioned.

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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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The exhibition Joan Fontcuberta: What Darwin Missed presents a new series of around sixty works specially conceived for the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung by internationally recognized Catalan photographer, curator, essayist, and lecturer Joan Fontcuberta (b. 1955). His works reflect on the role of photography in representing reality and frequently deal critically—but always humorously and provocatively—with the image in scientific disciplines such as botany or zoology. For the current exhibition, Fontcuberta engaged intensively with the foundation’s archiveand resumed a research project Alfred Ehrhardt had started in 1938 for the Natural History Museum in Hamburg.

Museum Schloss Moyland pays tribute to the work of the photographer Alice Springs by showing works that are being exhibited for the first time in this major retrospective. They are in stimulating dialogue with works by the french-german photographer Willy Maywald, part of the museum's collection, some of which have never been shown before.

In cooperation with the Helmut Newton Foundation and the Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Museum Schloss Moyland is showing around 200 vintage prints and exhibition prints. From intimate portraits to style-defining fashion shots - the exhibition offers a deep insight into the work of a woman who has had a decisive influence on photography.

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The major photography exhibition Grow It, Show It! A look at hair from Diane Arbusto TikTok at Museum Folkwang highlights the role of hairstyles through a wide selectionof historical and contemporary photographs, videos and film clips from art, fashion and social media. From iconic works such as J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere‘s documentation of Nigerian hairstyles to thework of artist and fashion photographer Suffo Moncloa for Gucci,the overview exhibition shows that hair is far more than just afashion accessory. It is an expression of identity, a means of communication and a social statement.

The human being is at the centre of the work of artist Sylvia Hagen, whose works are now being shown by the Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg foundation in a comprehensive retrospective.

In her studio in Altlangsow, on the edge of Germany and with a view of the expanse of the Oderbruch, Sylvia Hagen captures the essence of man, his body and his psyche in expressive sculptures and drawings. The artist, who sees herself primarily as a sculptor, initially worked in stone for many years before turning to clay in the early 1990s. The clay sculptures also form the starting point for her bronzes, and the exhibition is not organised chronologically, but according to the materials bronze - clay - paper. This reveals Hagen's special approach to these working materials: the raw material does not conceal the creative process, the sculptures and drawings are a revelation of her creative process.

This is not the end of the road is the first solo museum presentation of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (Zakopane, 1978) in the Netherlands, in which new works will also be on display. The internationally recognised Polish artist and activist belongs to the Roma - the largest and probably most discriminated against and misunderstood ethnic minority in Europe. The exhibition includes numerous textile works from various periods of her artistic career, including the spectacular series Re-enchanting the World, which caused an international sensation at the Venice Biennale in 2022.

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Throughout the year, the Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg offers a top-class programme of concerts, readings, talks, performances and exhibitions. The Prussian classicist castle, surrounded by outbuildings, a landscaped park and Schinkel's church, invites you to discover it on a tour of the countryside.