Sabine Brantl: History of the air-raid shelter in Haus der Kunst

Haus der Kunst, Munich. A Place and Its History in National Socialism

Allitera Verlag Munich, 2007. In German. MORE

Histories in Conflict

Exhibition 10.06.12 – 13.01.13

In 2012, Haus der Kunst opened its doors for its 75th year. At the same time, it looked back upon its 20-year existence as Stiftung Haus der Kunst München GmbH. MORE

Booklet „Histories in Conflict“

Booklet

The illustrated online tour guides you through the six stations of the exhibition "Histories in Conflict", which takes a critical look at Haus der Kunst's historical heritage. MORE

Histories in Conflict

In the press

Read a selection of the latest press reports, radio features, and reviews of the exhibition. MORE

Renovation of Haus der Kunst

On July 3, 2012, the renovation of Haus der Kunst was approved. MORE

Art in the "Third Reich": Hitler's 'Brush Worker'

SPIEGEL ONLINE article on Adolf Ziegler, painter and president of the Reich's Chamber of Visual Arts, whose painting "The Four Elements" was on view in the exhibition "Histories in Conflict" MORE

The Confiscation of "Degenerate Art" 1937–38

Database on all works of “degenerate art” confiscated from German museums in 1937/38. Project by the Freie Universität Berlin MORE

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Withholding Images

Essay

Withholding Images MORE

Sculptural Acts - Essay by Patrizia Dander and Julienne Lorz

Pdf, Essay

Sculptural Acts brings together two seemingly disparate elements: sculpture and the act. While sculpture is ordinarily associated with a state of stasis, the act suggests movement or an action of some sort. MORE

Mel Bochner on his early works

Essay

Read Mel Bochner's short texts "Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art" (1997) and "Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography 1967-70)" (2000). MORE

Ends of the Earth and Back

Essay

Essay by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon "Ends of the Earth and Back" MORE

Ulrich Wilmes: "Between Reading and Seeing"

Essay

Curator Ulrich Wilmes on the art of American artist Mel Bochner, who is considered one of the founders of conceptual art. MORE

Okwui Enwezor: Rise and Fall of Apartheid

Essay

The essay offers a comprehensive overview of the pictorial response to apartheid in South Africa. MORE

ECM — A Cultural Archaeology: Essay by Okwui Enwezor

Essay

Essay "Great Big Ears" by Okwui Enwezor, Director und Curator of the exhibition "ECM — A Cultural Archaeology" MORE

The Conditions of Spectrality and Spectatorship in Thomas Ruff's Photographs

Essay

Essay by Okwui Enwezor MORE

Clive Kellner: Kendell Geers 1988 — 2012

Essay

Clive Kellner, curator of the exhibition, gives an overview of Kendell Geers' work from 1988 to 2012. MORE

Nic Hess

Exhibition 26.03 – 06.06.04

Installation drawing is what Nic Hess calls the result of his artistic endeavors. Whereas trademarks were easily recognizable in Nic Hess’s earlier works, in his installation for Haus der Kunst they serve as a kind of foil on which he makes his own individual marks. Here he deals with these "models" more freely than in the past and uses their wide range of meaning to his fullest advantage. MORE

Christoph Schlingensief

Exhibition 25.05 – 16.09.07

The film, theater director and artist Christoph Schlingensief presents his installation "18 Images a Second", a work created especially for the central Middle Hall of the museum. Two filmic work complexes are embedded in the Haus der Kunst installation, which is dominated by an over-sized scene of the Lord's Supper with Mohammed. MORE