Current exhibition
Hotspot Songzhuang: Fang Lijun & Ren Rong
30.08.2020 – 18.10.2020
In the artists’ village Songzhuang, located east of Beijing, numerous artists once settled in order to escape the narrowness and high cost of living of the capital. The then tranquil village has now become a hotspot for art. Originally, the artists here sought the simplicity and tranquillity of rural life and direct dialogue with one […]
Future exhibition
Torben Kuhlmann – Mouse Landing Koblenz “The flying adventures by Torben Kuhlmann”
31.10.2020 – 10.01.2021
Torben Kuhlmann was born in 1982 in Sulingen, Lower Saxony. He studied illustration and communication design at the HAW Hamburg with focus on book illustration. In June 2012 he completed his studies with the children’s book “Lindbergh – The adventurous story of a flying mouse”. His debut book has received numerous international awards and was […]
Past exhibition
Troubled Times – Works from the museums collection
21.06.2020 – 16.08.2020
Holdings from the museum’s own collection are presented, which thematically focus on the themes of flight, expulsion, torture, remembering and forgetting.
Past exhibition
Otto Fried – “Heaven can wait / Heaven can’t wait”
21.06.2020 – 16.08.2020
Otto Fried was born in 1922 in Horchheim, a district of Koblenz, Germany. Due to the emerging anti-Semitism in Germany, his family sends him to the United States, where he arrives in 1936 in Portland, Oregon. In 1943 he joins the US-Army Air Corps and is deployed at various theatres of war in India, China […]
Past exhibition
JuKuWe – Factor Home – yesterday, today, tomorrow
07.05.2020 – 07.06.2020
The associations with the theme of home are probably as contrary as they are emotional. For some time the term struggled in the younger generation with the dusty image of a nostalgic return to the “golden age” and was about as attractive as grandmother’s smock apron. On the other hand, it had long had a […]
Past exhibition
Franziskus Wendels – Lichtungen
26.01.2020 – 22.03.2020
Franziskus Wendels’ paintings and installation arrangements deal with the effects of nocturnal city scenarios and their relationship to artificial illumination. In this way, the night and the dark room, in which light can only experience objects, inevitably become the central theme of his works. At the same time, his works are designed in such a […]
Past exhibition
Georges Rousse – Le Temps retrouvé
26.01.2020 – 22.03.2020
The renowned Parisian installation and photo artist Georges Rousse (born 1947) is known for his visual transformations of disused rooms. He uses drawing, painting, collage and sculpture according to his calculations in such a way that a so-called anamorphosis arises: viewed from a certain point of view, all the elements unite to a completely new […]