Exhibitions in Munich

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.

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.

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.