Maria VMier: I Follow the Wind Through the Stone

At the staff entrance, the weathered metal letters that spelled the building's name on its façade until 2020 now read "Bauch der Kunst", the belly of art. They face cleaners and delivery drivers instead of the street, and you can only see them during Open Haus, the last Friday of the month from 4pm to 10pm.

The rest is spread through the building. In the Passage beside the auditorium, two large drawings start as rubbings of the red stone corridor floors, worked over in ink and acrylic. In the Mittelhalle, small aluminium forms sit in holes in the marble pillars the Nazis installed. The museum calls the fossils in that marble water lilies; Monopol notes they are sea lilies, which are animals.

Monopol called the aluminium pieces "parasitic rather than symbiotic" and saw that as the show's strength. You will be hunting in corners and crevices. The Passage and Mittelhalle are open Wednesday to Monday, 10am to 8pm; the next Open Haus dates are 30 October and 27 November.