What's on in Hamburg

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.

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.

Kunsthaus Hamburg

Final exhibition of the Hamburg Working Grants for Visual Arts, showing work by the ten 2026 grant holders in photography, sculpture, performance and video.

Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg

Ten PLAYMOBIL dioramas by Oliver Schaffer, from Nile sailing to container shipping, with audio stations and play areas for families.

Kunsthaus Hamburg

Solo show bringing the films JARRAMPLAS, PAN and HEAT together for the first time, on ritual practices in Spain, Bulgaria and Taiwan.

MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt

The cultural history of cats, from the goddess Bastet to pets, memes and videos, with objects from around the world and contemporary art.

Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg

People and organisations worldwide who protect the oceans, with photographs by platform founder York Hovest, on Deck 7.

Hamburger Kunsthalle

First solo show in Germany of the New York artist Carrie Yamaoka, winner of the Maria Lassnig Prize, in the Galerie der Gegenwart atrium.

MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Photography exhibition by Sara Sallam in the museum's Reconsidering Photography series.

Museum der Arbeit

An exhibition for ages 14 and up on identity, discrimination and equality, with games, self-reflection modules and spaces for debate.

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

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.

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.

Bucerius Kunst Forum

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

Kultur Kontor HamburgFree

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.

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.

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

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.