Press Release
Welcome to Haus der Kunst in 2026
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
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Haus der Kunst Visual 2026
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Haus der Kunst Visual 2026
Design: Bureau Borsche
Open Haus
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Open Haus
with Public Possession
Haus der Kunst München, 2023
Photo: Priscilla Grubo
ECHOES. Skin Contact
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Gabriel Abrantes
Arguments in Favor of Love, 2025
© Artificial Humors 2025.
ECHOES. Skin Contact
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ECHOES. Skin Contact
Damsel Elysium
Performance, Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Milena Wojhan
ECHOES. Skin Contact
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ECHOES. Skin Contact
PILLBERT with Simon Popp
Concert, Haus der Kunst München, 2026
Photo: Milena Wojhan
TUNE. NEW YORK
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NEW YORK
Photo: Lengua
TUNE: Angel Bat Dawid
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Angel Bat Dawid
Photo: Pascal Gambarte
Studientage. Für Kinder. Kunstgeschichten seit 1968
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For Children. Art Stories since 1968
Yto Barrada
Lyautey Unit Blocks (Play), 2010
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2025
Photo: Agostino Osio
Für Kinder. Studientage
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For Children. Art Stories since 1968
Ei Arakawa-Nash
Mega Please Draw Freely, 2025
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst München, 2025
Photo: Agostino Osio
MMMHaus
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MMMHaus. Meet Make Move
with Public Possession
Haus der Kunst München, 2025
Photo: Constanza Meléndez
MMMHaus. Meet Make Move
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MMMHaus. Meet Make Move
with Public Possession
Haus der Kunst München, 2025
Photo: Marius Heimburger
Maria VMier
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Maria VMier,
linking one to the other,
holding their difference [∞], 2024-25,
Pigmented calligraphy ink, India ink, pigments, graphite, vinyl and acrylic on butcher paper,
500 × 355 cm
Photo: Maria VMier
Steina. Playback
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Steina
Summer Salt, 1982 (still)
Single-channel video, with sound; 19:10 min.
Courtesy the artist and BERG Contemporary, Reykjavík
Steina. Playback
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Steina in her studio in New York, 1975
Photo: Kevin Noble
Courtesy of the Vasulka Archive
Tao Schirrmacher
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Tao Schirrmachers Sammlung.
Eisbach Treasures
Photo: Tao Schirrmacher
Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
The Sanctuary of Water,
in collaboration with and for the Indigenous communities of Salinas Grandes, Argentina.
A work by Tomás Saraceno with the Aerocene Foundation and the support of Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2025-ongoing.
© Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2025.
Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
The Sanctuary of Water,
in collaboration with and for the Indigenous communities of Salinas Grandes, Argentina.
A work by Tomás Saraceno with the Aerocene Foundation and the support of Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2025-ongoing.
© Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2025.
Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno
Andean Cosmovisions: Pachamama's Divine Trilogy. Courtesy the Indigenous communities of Salinas Grandes, Argentina, The Aerocene Foundation and Tomás Saraceno.
© Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2025.
Super BOOKS 7
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Super BOOKS 6
Haus der Kunst München, 2025
Photo: Constanza Meléndez
Diane Severin Nguyen
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Diane Severin Nguyen
In Her Time, 2023
Video installation, 4k video: color and sound, 62:37 minutes.
Commissioned and produced by the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, with support from the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Installation view at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023.
Photo: Rockbund Art Museum.
Diane Severin Nguyen
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Diane Severin Nguyen
Are you young? It doesn’t matter, 2023
Light installation, with sound; 22 minutes.
Installation view at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2023.
Photo: Rockbund Art Museum.
HausCode
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HausCode. Open Call Visual
Design: Bureau Borsche
