With our 2026 programme, we move beyond exhibition-focused dialogue to reaffirm our belief that everything is programme. Exhibitions, sound, and live strands intertwine ever more closely with formats such as MMMHaus, Study Days, Super BOOKS, and Open Haus — a sandbox for inventive engagement formats and experimental presentations. Haus der Kunst continues its transformation into an open innovative space that facilitates encounters, learning, and long-term collaborative practices.
The exhibitions deepen our commitment to groundbreaking women artists working with technology and media, placing them in dialogue with younger generations. Water flows through the year both as theme and metaphor, connecting projects through ideas of monuments, ecology, interdependence, as well as our relation to the environment, technology, and embodied experience. Music remains a vital current, linking practices and geographies, while new forms of learning and engagement emerge in response to a world in transformation.
Steina. Playback presents the first major retrospective in Germany of the Icelandic trailblazer of video and media art. From early experiments to large-scale installations, her works explore perception beyond the human — voices loop, images stretch, and landscapes resonate in polyphonic motion. Tomás Saraceno bridges art, architecture, and science to imagine eco-social futures. The exhibition introduces his long-term research strands Aerocene and Arachnophilia, alongside a new commission created with Indigenous communities in Salta, Argentina, where lithium extraction threatens vital water cycles. Diane Severin Nguyen premieres a new body of work tracing the psychological and cultural imprints of war and migration. Expanding from her photographic practice into cinematic form, the exhibition asks how ways of seeing shaped by war come to define our realities.
Our live and sound projects remain the heartbeat of Haus der Kunst. The live exhibition ECHOES. Skin Contact invites audiences into sensorial spaces where desire meets doubt and sound becomes a medium for intimacy and play. Our TUNE sound residencies brim with energy and immediacy, creating new connections between pleasure and pain, emotion and sound — giving voice to the tensions, desires, and rhythms of our time.
Everything is programme — a living web of exhibitions and encounters that vibrate and amplify one another, shaping a shared experience of art, ecology, and exploration within an ever-more-interconnected world. We look forward to welcoming you on this journey of imagination, learning, play, and joyful experimentation.
Andrea Lissoni and Xue Tan
Programme Overview 2026
Open Haus
Every last Friday of the month | Various locations
Next dates: 27.2. | 27.3. | 24.4. | 29.5. | 26.6.26
TUNE. Sound and Beyond
Monthly | Various locations
Next dates: 27. & 28.2. | 27. & 28.3. | 17. & 18.4. | 14. & 16.5. | 26. & 27.6.26
ECHOES. Skin Contact
30.1.–8.2.26 | Westgalerie
For Children. Study Days
20. & 21.3.26 | Terrassensaal
MMMHaus. Meet Make Move
30.4.–2.5.26 | Various locations
Steina: Playback
12.6.–7.12.26 | Nordgalerie
Tao Schirrmacher’s Collection. Eisbach Treasures
26.6.26–7.2.27 | Archiv Galerie
Maria VMier
26.6.26–7.2.27 | Various locations
Tomás Saraceno
17.7.26–7.2.27 | Ostgalerie & Mittelhalle
Super BOOKS 7
30. & 31.10.26 | Mittelhalle & Terrassensaal
Diane Severin Nguyen
20.11.26–16.5.27 | Südgalerie & Mittelhalle
Still Running
Gülbin Ünlü. Nostralgia
until 22.2.26 | Staff Entrance
Cyprien Gaillard. Wassermusik
until 22.3.26 | Südgalerie
TUNE Installation
Beni Brachtel. ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN
until 10.5.26 | Terrassensaal
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. Soy Energía
until 17.5.26 | Nordgalerie
KEKS
until 31.5.26 | Archiv Galerie
For Children. Art Stories since 1968
until 31.5.26 | Ostgalerie, Mittelhalle, Terrassensaal
Haus der Kunst on tour
Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now
until 18.1.26 | M+ Hong Kong
Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956–1976
5.5.–29.11.26 | Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
Shu Lea Cheang. KI$$ KI$$
until 15.3.26 | Ludwig Forum Aachen
For Children. Art Stories since 1968
30.5.–18.10.26 | Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo