Exhibitions in Hamburg

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.

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.

Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg

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

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.

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.

Kunstverein in Hamburg

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

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.