9 novembre 2026
November opens Karen Kilimnik at the Kunstverein and brings the Centre Pompidou's media art to the Kunsthalle on the 20th. Hito Steyerl fills the Deichtorhallen, and the MARKK's cat show closes on the 29th. With Hamburg dark before five, the Kunsthalle, Kunstverein and Kultur Kontor stay open until nine on Thursdays.
Hamburger KunsthalleOpens 20 November
About 40 works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media Collection, the Paris museum's holdings of video and installation art, Phan Thao Nguyen's film Mute Grain among them. Mostly moving image, so leave time to sit through the films.
Kunstverein in HamburgOpens 7 November
Karen Kilimnik paints ballet dancers, fairy cottages and fashion models like old portraits, then dresses whole rooms around them. Her first institutional survey in Germany in over 25 years, with oils, works on paper and mises-en-scène.
Kultur Kontor HamburgFree
About 30 historical objects from several German states preview the national port museum Hamburg is building, alongside large projections on global logistics and port culture. Free, on the Kunstmeile between the Kunsthalle and the Deichtorhallen.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Halle für aktuelle KunstUntil 29 March
Hito Steyerl builds whole rooms for her videos, and the hall holds about eight of them, made between 1999 and 2025, on algorithmic control, war and climate. Her film The Island is shown in Germany for the first time.
Bucerius Kunst ForumUntil 29 March
About 100 modernist works, documents and letters reconstruct 15 art collections built by German Jews before 1945. Monet and Picasso are the names on the poster; the paper trail of what became of each collection is the real subject.
Sammlung Falckenberg (Deichtorhallen)Until 4 April
Batman, Mickey Mouse and The Simpsons, drawn and redrawn in black-and-white enamel until they drip and smear. The first major European solo show of the late New York painter, in a former Harburg factory hall open on Sundays.
MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der WeltCloses 29 November
From the goddess Bastet to memes and videos, the MARKK traces how people have worshipped, kept and filmed cats, with objects from around the world and contemporary art. Bring the friend who sends you cat videos.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg - PHOXXI (temporary Haus der Photographie)
Eight winners of the Expanded Horizons programme treat photography as a ghost machine, working with archives, family histories and AI-generated images.
Hamburger Kunsthalle
About 40 key works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media Collection on some of today's most radical voices in media art.
Kunsthaus Hamburg
Final exhibition of the Hamburg Working Grants for Visual Arts, showing work by the ten 2026 grant holders in photography, sculpture, performance and video.
MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt
The cultural history of cats, from the goddess Bastet to pets, memes and videos, with objects from around the world and contemporary art.
Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg
People and organisations worldwide who protect the oceans, with photographs by platform founder York Hovest, on Deck 7.
Hamburger Kunsthalle
First solo show in Germany of the New York artist Carrie Yamaoka, winner of the Maria Lassnig Prize, in the Galerie der Gegenwart atrium.
MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Photography exhibition by Sara Sallam in the museum's Reconsidering Photography series.
Museum der Arbeit
An exhibition for ages 14 and up on identity, discrimination and equality, with games, self-reflection modules and spaces for debate.
Ernst Barlach Haus
Joachim Ringelnatz as a painter: more than forty works blending New Objectivity, Magic Realism and Romanticism, from Cuxhaven, Bernried and private lenders.
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Retrospective of the Los Angeles-born painter David Novros: over 50 paintings, copper reliefs and works on paper across two floors of the Galerie der Gegenwart.
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Archive material, photographs and the 1980 slide show Kostbare Sekunden revisit the Hamburg artist Angelika Oehms (1949 to 1986).
Kunstverein in Hamburg
The first institutional survey of Karen Kilimnik in Germany in over 25 years, with oil paintings, works on paper and mises-en-scène.
Altonaer Museum
Life and cover art of illustrator Aiga Rasch (1941-2009), from Nancy Drew to Die drei ??? and Sherlock Holmes, with a link to Altona.
Bucerius Kunst Forum
Reconstructs 15 art collections assembled by German Jews before 1945, with about 100 modernist works, documents and letters.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Halle für aktuelle Kunst
About eight room-scale installations from 1999 to 2025 on algorithmic control, war and climate, including the film The Island, shown in Germany for the first time.
Kultur Kontor HamburgGratis
A preview of the planned German Port Museum: about 30 historical objects from several German states and large projections on global logistics and port culture.
Sammlung Falckenberg (Deichtorhallen)
First major European solo show of the late New York artist, from 1970s Batman drawings to 1990s black-and-white enamel paintings of Mickey and The Simpsons.
MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Fourth edition of the Drawer Discoveries series, drawing on the museum's collection around the theme of dance.
Museum der Arbeit
How news is made and received: news agencies, correspondents, a Hamburg module with local journalists, and how to judge reliability amid disinformation and AI.
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Nandi Loaf's first institutional solo show, an immersive evening of performance and social choreography in the Hanne Darboven Stiftung villa.
MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Solo presentation of work by Dutch designer Hella Jongerius.
MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt
Jewish objects in the MARKK collections and their histories, with provenance research on Nazi-looted art and the museum's role under the Nazis.
MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt
Photographs and sound recordings by Hans Heinrich Brüning from northern Peru, reinterpreted by local artists and scholars. Part of the Triennale der Photographie 2026.
MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt
An interactive family show on Carl Pettersson, a possible model for Pippi Longstocking's father, and German colonialism in the Pacific.
MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt
The museum's entire Benin collection, shown ahead of restitution, with the 1897 conquest, looting and Hamburg's trade ties.
MK&G - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Fashion show on recycled design by XULY.Bët.
Hamburger Kunsthalle
About 70 paintings and sculptures from the museum's own holdings, questioning whether Impressionism still fits national categories (Deutsch-Französische Begegnungen).
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hans Makart's monumental The Entry of Emperor Charles V into Antwerp (1878) with sixty other 19th-century paintings and sculptures in the Lichtwark Gallery.
Ogni tanto due righe, quando apre qualcosa che merita.
