Exhibitions in Munich

Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National SocialismFree

A 1937 photo of 48 Jewish third-graders in Munich anchors a search into their fates: survival, flight, displacement, and loss under the Nazi regime.

Haus der Kunst

The first major German retrospective of Icelandic video-art pioneer Steina, spanning early documentaries to multichannel installations exploring machine vision and sound-image interplay.

Alte Pinakothek

Masterpieces from the closed Neue Pinakothek on display at the Alte Pinakothek, spanning Romanticism to early Modernism: Friedrich, Manet, Monet, Cézanne and van Gogh.

Haus der Kunst

A walk-in chronicle on the southeast staircase documenting over 300 exhibitions Haus der Kunst has staged since the 1990s, charting its evolution as a contemporary art center.

Museum Man and Nature

An interactive exhibition on the circular economy, showing how waste becomes a resource through repair, reuse and redesign, including a virtual sneaker-design station.

State Collections of Antiquities

Marking 200 years since Ludwig I bought Caroline Murat's antiquities, this show reunites her "Lipona" collection for the first time, recreating an early-19th-century collector's cabinet.

Bavarian National Museum

38 reverse-glass paintings by Fride Wirtl-Walser (b. 1932), from a 2025 donation, depicting empty, timeless spaces suspended between past and future.

Alte Pinakothek

Around fifty 19th-century Italian portrait and genre photographs, from carte-de-visite portraits to colorized regional scenes.

Museum Brandhorst

A survey drawing on six decades of the Brandhorst Collection, from the 1960s to today.

Lenbachhaus

Inspired by Etel Adnan's last book, 83 works by over 40 international artists probe how visual art can reach beyond the limits of language.

Haus der Kunst

Over a decade of objects recovered from Munich's Eisbach River by river-surfing champion Tao Schirrmacher, forming a hidden archive of urban life and untold city stories.

Haus der Kunst

Air-fueled sculptures and multispecies habitats exploring eco-social futures, including a new commission made with Indigenous communities in Argentina fighting lithium extraction.

Haus der Kunst

A site-specific commission on institutional memory: reassembled façade letters, large drawings from architectural rubbings, and cast-aluminum sculptures echoing fossils in the building's marble.

Bavarian National Museum

Four centuries of graphic art depicting cities and landscapes: watercolours, prints and drawings of Munich, Augsburg, Nuremberg and Bavarian castles from the museum's graphic collection.

Kunsthalle München

Germany's first exhibition on Catalan Modernisme, with some 160 works by Gaudí, a young Picasso and other Catalan artists, tracing Barcelona's rise as a European cultural hub between 1880 and 1914.

Jewish Museum Munich

Seven contemporary Jewish artists with roots in Arab-influenced regions explore identity, memory and belonging, tracing shared culture alongside histories of exclusion and violence.

Alte Pinakothek

The Alte Pinakothek's French collection from Claude Lorrain to Boucher, tracing the acquisitions and Wittelsbach-French artistic ties behind it.

State Museum of Egyptian Art

About 100 photographs by Alfred Seiland exploring how 5,000 years of Egyptian history intersect with everyday life today, from Nile monuments to modern cities and villages.

Lenbachhaus

A monographic show on Polish artist Maria Jarema (1908-1958), co-founder of the Krakow Group, spanning her sculpture, painting and experimental theatre work.

Haus der Kunst

Vietnamese-American artist Diane Severin Nguyen explores the politics of victimhood and how perceptions of violence shape identity, in a commissioned film with photography, sculpture and a kinetic installation.

Museum Brandhorst

Spot On focus exhibition on New Zealand artist Kate Newby's material-based practice.

Museum Brandhorst

An upcoming group show surveying diverse contemporary artistic positions.

Pinakothek der Moderne

Explores how space shapes perception through paintings, objects and installations from the 1960s to today, with works by Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana and Mary Miss.

Bavarian State Archaeological Collection

Around 600 originals and replicas from the Salisbury Museum and Wiltshire Museum, with video installations and life-size dioramas exploring who built Stonehenge, and how.

Lenbachhaus

Over 240 works trace the Blue Rider's pioneering visual languages and transnational networks, highlighting the movement's women artists alongside Kandinsky and Franz Marc.

Pinakothek der Moderne

Tenth Paternoster Hall show: the Dutch duo's 3D-printed mycelium and algae-based objects, pioneering biodegradable, climate-friendly design.

Museum Man and Nature

An expedition into Bavaria's subtropical past 10 million years ago, with four-metre tusked elephants, saber-toothed cats and "Udo," a newly identified upright-walking ape species.

Pinakothek der Moderne

Design Museum survey of robots from the 1970s to today, from toy figures to functional machines in the home, industry, emergency services and research.

Lenbachhaus

19th- and 20th-century landscape works from the Lenbachhaus collection and partner institutions examine how art captures nature amid climate change and environmental transformation.