iPinakothek der ModerneKunstareal, Maxvorstadt
Between and Beyond: Interspaces and Transitions in Art since 1960
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.
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It starts in acid green. Dan Flavin's three rows of fluorescent tubes, the ordinary hardware-store kind, split a huge white gallery in two. The piece is dedicated to the dealer Heiner Friedrich.
Rooms 21 to 26 hold works from the Pinakothek's own collection that treat the gallery itself as material. You walk into Fred Sandback's Mikado, fine black acrylic thread strung through a room he designed for this building in 2003, back for the first time since 2014. Its title is the pick-up-sticks game, played here at the scale of a room. Mary Miss's Knots, a grid of knotted hemp rope, lies on the floor, with Josef Albers and Lucio Fontana on the walls behind it.
The museum puts the visit at about an hour. It's on the standard ticket (€10, €7 reduced, €1 on Sundays, free under 18), open until 8pm on Thursdays. Curators lead hour-long tours from the Rotunda on 14 and 15 October and 5 November, included in the ticket; places are limited.
Look for
Dan Flavin, untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection), 1973
Look for three rows of off-the-shelf fluorescent tubes dividing a vast room and flooding it with acid-green light.
Fred Sandback, Mikado, 2003
Walk inside fine black acrylic threads stretched across a room, a piece made for this museum and not shown here since 2014.
Mary Miss, Knots, 1969
Look down at a large floor grid of knotted hemp rope, a recent acquisition by an artist the museum calls little noticed until now.
Imi Knoebel, Schattenraum, 1988
Look for a hardboard cube placed right up against six black panels, one of seven versions Knoebel made.
Donald Judd's stack
Look for stainless-steel boxes fronted with coloured Plexiglas, stacked one above another, near Carl Andre's floor of steel squares.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Evening Visits
- Rainy Days
About 60 min
Skip if
You want a loan blockbuster: every work here comes from the museum's own collection.
With kids
Under-18s get in free.
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Image credits
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- Between and Beyond: Interspaces and Transitions in Art since 1960Foto: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sibylle Forster © Estate of Dan Flavin / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
- Pinakothek der ModerneRufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum BrandhorstMartin Falbisoner, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Alte PinakothekChronox-A / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- State Museum of Egyptian ArtFred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National SocialismRaimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0