Ausstellungen in Hamburg

Ernst Barlach Haus

Marks 100 years of Barlach's woodcuts to Schiller's ode An die Freude, with about 50 Hamburg-based international artists on shared visions of happiness.

Ernst Barlach Haus

Joachim Ringelnatz as a painter: more than forty works blending New Objectivity, Magic Realism and Romanticism, from Cuxhaven, Bernried and private lenders.

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Retrospective of the Los Angeles-born painter David Novros: over 50 paintings, copper reliefs and works on paper across two floors of the Galerie der Gegenwart.

Kunstverein in Hamburg

Annual editions show: works by artists from the recent programme, including Karen Kilimnik, Nandi Loaf, Janice Kerbel and Tobias Zielony.

Kunstverein in Hamburg

Archive material, photographs and the 1980 slide show Kostbare Sekunden revisit the Hamburg artist Angelika Oehms (1949 to 1986).

Kunstverein in Hamburg

The first institutional survey of Karen Kilimnik in Germany in over 25 years, with oil paintings, works on paper and mises-en-scène.

Altonaer Museum

Life and cover art of illustrator Aiga Rasch (1941-2009), from Nancy Drew to Die drei ??? and Sherlock Holmes, with a link to Altona.

Bucerius Kunst Forum

Reconstructs 15 art collections assembled by German Jews before 1945, with about 100 modernist works, documents and letters.

Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Halle für aktuelle Kunst

About eight room-scale installations from 1999 to 2025 on algorithmic control, war and climate, including the film The Island, shown in Germany for the first time.

Kultur Kontor HamburgEintritt frei

A preview of the planned German Port Museum: about 30 historical objects from several German states and large projections on global logistics and port culture.

Deichtorhallen Hamburg - PHOXXI (temporary Haus der Photographie)

Eight winners of the Expanded Horizons programme treat photography as a ghost machine, working with archives, family histories and AI-generated images.

Sammlung Falckenberg (Deichtorhallen)

First major European solo show of the late New York artist, from 1970s Batman drawings to 1990s black-and-white enamel paintings of Mickey and The Simpsons.

MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Fourth edition of the Drawer Discoveries series, drawing on the museum's collection around the theme of dance.

MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Contemporary craft exhibition featuring work by Kobina Adusah.

Hamburger Kunsthalle

About 40 key works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media Collection on some of today's most radical voices in media art.

Museum der Arbeit

How news is made and received: news agencies, correspondents, a Hamburg module with local journalists, and how to judge reliability amid disinformation and AI.

Kunstverein in Hamburg

Nandi Loaf's first institutional solo show, an immersive evening of performance and social choreography in the Hanne Darboven Stiftung villa.

MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Solo presentation of work by Dutch designer Hella Jongerius.

MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt

A last look behind the scenes before the renovation: architectural plans, ideas for the new permanent exhibition and an interactive staff installation.

MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt

Jewish objects in the MARKK collections and their histories, with provenance research on Nazi-looted art and the museum's role under the Nazis.

MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt

Photographs and sound recordings by Hans Heinrich Brüning from northern Peru, reinterpreted by local artists and scholars. Part of the Triennale der Photographie 2026.

MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt

An interactive family show on Carl Pettersson, a possible model for Pippi Longstocking's father, and German colonialism in the Pacific.

MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt

The museum's entire Benin collection, shown ahead of restitution, with the 1897 conquest, looting and Hamburg's trade ties.

MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Fashion show on recycled design by XULY.Bët.

Hamburger Kunsthalle

About 70 paintings and sculptures from the museum's own holdings, questioning whether Impressionism still fits national categories (Deutsch-Französische Begegnungen).

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hans Makart's monumental The Entry of Emperor Charles V into Antwerp (1878) with sixty other 19th-century paintings and sculptures in the Lichtwark Gallery.