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Textile Worlds
21. JULY 2023 TO 03. OCTOBER 2023 | Die Neue Sammlung takes a look at 180 textiles spanning some 200 years, most of which are part of the museum’s extensive holdings. Not only does the exhibition consider the different uses, designs, and developments in textiles, it also documents the history of the museum’s textiles collection […]
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Paula Scher – Type is image
23 JUNE 2023 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2025 MEDIA CONFERENCE ATTENDED BY PAULA SCHER: 22 JUNE 2023, 11.00 OPENING ATTENDED BY PAULA SCHER: 22 JUNE 2023, 19.00 LOCATION: PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE, PATERNOSTERHALLE With “Paula Scher – Type is Image” Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum is showing the first solo exhibition by the American graphic […]
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BEAUTIFUL AND VULNERABLE. THE HUMAN FIGURE IN THE GARNERUS COLLECTION
15. JUNE 2023 TO 03. OCTOBER 2023 | More than almost any other collector, the art historian Hartwig Garnerus (*1943) focuses on the depiction of people in the period from Expressionism to Neue Sachlichkeit. In works by Hermann Blumenthal, Lovis Corinth, Otto Freundlich, Karl Hofer, Helmut Kolle, Carl Lohse, Marg Moll, Walther Ophey, Emy Roeder […]
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REI NAITO. BREATH
MEDIA INFORMATION Munich, 31 May 2023 REI NAITO. BREATH MEDIA CONFERENCE: 07 JUNE 2023, 11.00 A.M. ATTENDED BY THE ARTIST OPENING: 07 JUNE 2023, 6.30 P.M. DURATION OF EXHIBITION: 07 JUNE 2023 – 13 AUGUST 2023 breath is at once the title and the subject of the present installation. While we rarely pay attention to […]
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FRIEDRICH SEIDENSTÜCKER.
26. MAY 2023 UNTIL 24. SEPTEMBER 2023 | More than 100 works by the photographer Friedrich Seidenstücker, together with numerous documents from the holdings of the collection of the Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation, are being shown in a special exhibition. Friedrich Seidenstücker (1882–1966) was one of the foremost chroniclers of everyday life in Berlin […]
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UNKEMPT PAINTINGS. GERMAN ART SINCE 1960 FROM THE COLLECTION OF DUKE FRANZ OF BAVARIA
MAY 12 to OCTOBER 3, 2023 |In 2023, Duke Franz of Bavaria celebrates his 90th birthday. For six decades, the head of the House of Wittelsbach – as an important advisor and patron—has been closely associated with Bavarian museums. Even as a young man, the then Prince Franz turned to contemporary art at a time […]
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Newspaper-Release „One Million German Passports“ von Alfredo Jaar
09 MAY 2023, 5 PM, PAVILLON 333, PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE On March 28, “One Million German Passports”, an installation by the artist Alfredo Jaar, opened in the Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne. One million German passports can be seen here, stacked close together in a cube measuring 6m x 6m x 80cm, behind a […]
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Hella Jongerius
06. May 2023 until 18. June 2023 | Hella Jongerius invites you to the table. With a narrative installation, the internationally award-winning designer and Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg invite you to rediscover the theme of re-use – in a creative, sustainable and forward-looking way. A cooperation project by Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum and […]
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Alfredo Jaar | Rotunda Project
MARCH 29 TO OCTOBER 8, 2023 Media conference: March 28, 11 am Opening: March 28, 7 pm (Rotunda) Lecture: March 29, 7 pm (Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium) Duration: March 29, 2023 – August 27, 2023 The Chilean-born and New York-based architect who makes art – as Alfredo Jaar refers to himself – illustrates why he is […]
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Sagsoget. Alloy. Legierung
12th March 2023 UNTIL 30th JULY 2023 | Exhibition from the Department of Jewelry and Fashion, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, invited by Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. The exhibition seeks to reflect the spirit ‒ the specific “Sagsoget” (engl. alloy) ‒ of the Bezalel jewelry […]
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