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Are we still up to it? – Art and Democracy
PRESS CONFERENCE | 09.05.25, 12 am | Over 50 works by artists with a focus on fundamental democratic values such as freedom, self-determination and human dignity will be shown at the Sammlung Moderne Kunst Summer Exhibition at Herrenchiemsee Palace. Masterpieces from Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen from classical modernism to the present day will be juxtaposed with site-specific […]
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2. HERZOG FRANZ LECTURE | Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska: Können Museen Träumen?
Stellen wir uns Museen als wandlungsfähige Gebilde vor, die gleichzeitig die Vergangenheit bewahren und die Zukunft erträumen. Welche Vorstellungen von Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft kommen hierbei ins Spiel? Angesichts zahlreicher Gefahren politischer Indienstnahme untersucht Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska den Traum eines Museums, das der Bürgerschaft gehört und zu neuen Formen freier Mitwirkung und ästhetischer Erfahrung einlädt. Türen öffnen […]
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FLUX
The Pinakothek der Moderne is to gain another attraction – Flux! Together with the Stiftung Pinakothek der Moderne, the four museums at the Pinakothek der Moderne will be creating an exceptional common space offering gastronomic facilities and cultural events. It will operate for the next five years from the end of June 2025 onwards and […]
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Trees, Time Architecture
13 MARCH 2025–14 SEPTEMBER 2025 | MEDIA CONFERENCE: 12 MARCH 2025, 11.00 A.M. OPENING: 12 MARCH 2025, 7.00 P.M.| Trees are among the largest, oldest, and most complex living organisms on Earth, and they also grow exceptionally slowly – often taking decades or even centuries to reach their full size. This means they exceed human […]
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Ausstellungsvorschau 2025
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„DESIGN INKLUSIV ERLEBEN“
Mit einem barrierefreien Programm, das analoge und digitale Vermittlungsebenen miteinander verzahnt, öffnet sich Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum einem erweiterten Besucher:innenkreis und aktualisiert damit ihren gesellschaftlichen Auftrag: Gute Gestaltung allen Menschen zugänglich machen. Wir freuen uns über Ihre Berichterstattung. | We look forward to your coverage. Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an PRESSE@PINAKOTHEK.DE.
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Gerhard Richter
02.05.2025 – 22.06.2025 | The artist’s studio was left open, his painting oeuvre was closed. In the remoteness of his studio, Gerhard Richter now created drawings that he subjected to his self-imposed maxim: “The most fundamental, the hardest thing is to make something that is good.” This is especially true for drawings because every pentimento, […]
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MINDFUL MINING
15.03.2025 – 21.04.2025 | The exhibition title „Mindful Mining“ is a metaphor for the creation of a world of its own. Designing artistically means discovering something in nature or in the everyday environment that you usually pay little attention to and then give it a new meaning. The young artists at Kookmin University do nothing […]
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WARWICK FREEMAN
15.03.2025 – 15.06.2025 | Warwick Freeman’s emblematic jewelry pursues meaning. Across five decades the New Zealand jeweller has built a lexicon of signs: from the cultural symbolism of the hook and the star to the heart redrawn in the volcanic scoria of Rangitoto island. When worn, his jewelry communicates something of who we are and […]
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THE HUMAN BEING IN VIEW
23.01.2025 – 13.04.2025 | One of the greatest achievements of the early modern era in art, alongside the perceptual concept of central perspective, was undoubtedly the rediscovery of the human being as a self-determined individual made of flesh and blood. This rediscovery was not an isolated event, but a process of constant and intense observation […]
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