Exhibitions in Munich

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.

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.

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.

Kunstfoyer · Free · Past

A retrospective of Lisette Model (1901–1983), whose uncompromising street photography from high society to the city's margins shaped documentary photography.

Alte Pinakothek · Past

A collection exhibition on narrative technique in Early German, Netherlandish and Flemish painting of the 16th–17th centuries.

Museum Villa Stuck · Past

A newly rediscovered Stuck painting, returned to the villa where it was made, shown with related studio photographs exploring his Japonisme.

Museum Villa Stuck · Past

Sculptures in chalk, marble, aluminium and magnetic material by Philipp Messner form a surreal, walk-through landscape responding to the studio's architecture.

Museum Brandhorst

Works from the collection are paired to create dialogues and tensions between artists.

Lenbachhaus

Portrays the Weimar Republic through tangible details of daily life, from technological change and shifting gender roles to fashion, entertainment and political upheaval.

Deutsches Museum

Interactive special exhibition on how human and planetary health are intertwined, exploring air, water, biosphere and landscape through everyday objects and possible solutions.

Kunsthalle München

A journey through three millennia of hair in art and culture, with some 200 works from antiquity to today — paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry and haute couture exploring hair as identity, status and rebellion.

Alte Pinakothek

19th-century bronze animal sculpture, from pioneering Animaliers Barye and Mêne to later masters August Gaul and Fritz Behn.

Pinakothek der Moderne

Architekturmuseum show on global food production, from high-tech greenhouses to industrial farming, and the environmental strain it puts on the planet.

Museum Villa Stuck

Israeli artist Ilit Azoulay's two-channel installation traces the people connected to Villa Stuck, continuing research begun during the museum's renovation.

MUCA – Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art

A career survey of British painter Antony Micallef, spanning over 50 works, new paintings from an artist residency, sculpture and animation, shown across the main museum and the MUCA Bunker.

Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum

Dutch photographer Martin Roemers' global portrait series pairs people with their vehicles, exploring how mobility shapes identity and lifestyle across cultures.

Alpine Museum · Free

A foyer exhibition marking Friederike Kaiser's 25 years leading the Alpine Museum, tracing how she shaped it through exhibitions, events and research on mountain culture.

Museum Brandhorst

A thematic show exploring ideas of burden, transport and support in contemporary art.

Museum Villa Stuck

Paintings, photographs and text pieces by two artists confronting migration, flight and trauma, including Khorschid's own escape from Iraq as a Kurd.

Museum Five Continents

Over 100 objects trace Krishna from religious tradition and classical sculpture and painting to modern pop culture, including five large-format Pichwai wall hangings.

Alpine Museum

Explores how rising temperatures are reshaping the Alps — biodiversity, natural hazards and tourism — through the perspectives of scientists and mountain-sport practitioners.

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.

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.

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.

Museum Brandhorst

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

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.

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.