Press Release
Welcome to Haus der Kunst in 2025
Haus der Kunst is changing fast. The focus is on working with living artists, on generating new lines in art history, and on questioning canons and stereotypes. With a view to the future, we have conceived intertwined exhibitions, live events, and engagement-oriented formats, to include all visitors. This shared experience is key to our dialogue with an open, diverse, and growing community.
Following Philippe Parreno’s radical exhibition shaped by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, and conducted by human and non-human voices, our themes for 2025 extend to “language” and “play” in the arts, inviting all to participate in forms of learning. Through the yearly live exhibition ECHOES, we dive into digital worlds as interpreted by the emerging generations of experimental artists we support. The end of borders between real and digital worlds is further stressed in the interactive landscape of digital compost daringly imagined by Shu Lea Cheang. The group show “For Children. Art Stories since 1968” presents art explicitly made for children, highlighting their role in today’s societies and opening up our building to its surroundings. Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition questions the geological time of monuments, their often contradictory references, and our own perceptions, focusing on both Haus der Kunst and the city of Munich. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra brings decades of multidisciplinary artistic practice rooted in polyphonic Indigenous cosmology to her multilayered displays.
Alongside these exhibitions, we maintain our commitment to formats reinforcing participation (Open Haus, MMMHaus, Super BOOKS), to new memories (LSK-Galerie, Archiv Galerie), and to cooperative projects (DANCE Festival München, ars viva, SPIELART Theaterfestival). Last but not least, we continue to offer new and unexpected sonic encounters through the monthly series TUNE, echoing themes from the exhibition programme and opening new horizons in sound and music.
As we push for innovative forms of engagement and challenging artistic practices, we invite you to join us on this journey.
Andrea Lissoni and Xue Tan.
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ECHOES. Plot Twist
Anasis's Web
Dimanche
Platform Roskilde, 2024
Foto: Joakim Züger
Shu Lea Cheang. KI$$ KI$$
Shu Lea Cheang
Fresh Kill, 1994
Design: Wassily Erlenbusch
MMMHaus. Meet Make Move
with Public Possession
Haus der Kunst München, 2024
Photo: Nicolai Rusu
Gülbin Ünlü. (n)orient
Gülbin Ünlü
I nature your believe, 2022
(detail, mixed media)
Courtesy the artist
ars viva 2025. Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Vincent Scheers, Helena Uambembe
Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino
Privacy, 2023
Galerie Molitor, Berlin
A set of curtains loaned from the artist's family members
Photo: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
For Children. Art Stories since 1968
Ei Arakawa-Nash
Mega Please Draw Freely, 2021 Photo: Brotherton-Lock
Cyprien Gaillard. Retinal Rivalry
Retinal Rivalry, 2024 (film still)
3D motion picture, DCI DCP, dual 4k Projektion | projection bei | at 120fps
2 Channel Audio
29:03 min
© Cyprien Gaillard
Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery
Super BOOKS 6
Super BOOKS 5
Haus der Kunst München, 2024
Photo: Milena Wojhan
nora chipaumire. DAMBUDZO
nora chipaumire
Dambudzo
Photo: Nurith Wagner-Strauss
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. Soy Energía
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Soy Energía, 2021
Pencil, watercolour on paper, wax
65 x 50 cm
Photo: Gunter Lepkowski