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German exhibition season 2026‑27 2026–27
Late May 2026 saw the The 2026–27 German exhibition season features a dense schedule of anniversaries and large-scale biennials. The Alte Pinakothek’s 200th anniversary and the Bayreuth Historisches Museum’s 30th anniversaries launch a dense anniversary launched the summer programme. In June, exhibitions opened across Upper Swabia, Brandenburg, Hanover and Göttingen – watercolours by Rupprecht Matthies at Kunstverein Jesteburg, Beate Ruberg’s mixed media at Werkstattgalerie Der Bogen, Albrecht Dürer works for the Albertina’s 250‑year celebration, and Albertina celebrated 250 years with a free‑entry Berlin weekend spanning medical artefacts to contemporary installations. From 21 June the 16th free exhibition of works including Albrecht Dürer’s “Feldhase”. Manifesta biennial 16, the 30th-anniversary edition of the nomadic biennial, transformed twelve former Ruhr churches in Duisburg, the Ruhr region (Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Gelsenkirchen, highlighting migrant artists Bochum, and post‑industrial themes. The biennale runs through 4 October 2026, featuring more than 100 Gelsenkirchen) into contemporary art spaces. The €9.8 million project, titled “This is not a church”, highlights migrant artists and collectives—including Mona Hatoum, Luc Tuymans, Alicja Kwade, Katharina Fritsch, Mirosław Bałka, Małgorzata Mirga‑Tas and Olaf Metzel. Installations address immigration and addresses the future repurposing of secularised Germany’s declining religious infrastructure. Notable installations include Abbas Zahedi’s ‘Ouranophobia 47051’ in Duisburg, which incorporates organ pipes from a fire-damaged church buildings; one venue is renamed in Kyiv. The biennial also includes community projects like Dortmund’s St. Martin Church exhibition and the “Tea Garden of Ferdane Satir” Satir”. Regional activity remains high, with exhibitions by Rupprecht Matthies in memory of the Turkish mother killed Jesteburg, Beate Ruberg in a xenophobic fire Arnsberg, and various shows in 1984. Organisers also use Upper Swabia and Brandenburg. In Munich, the project Valentin-Karlstadt Museum reopened after a two-year renovation with a new permanent exhibition, “Flug zum Mond”, dedicated to spotlight Liesl Karlstadt. Other notable events include the broader question of repurposing Germany’s roughly 40 000 churches, many of which may become libraries, co‑working spaces, housing or commercial venues. A community project launched on 27 June 48 Stunden Neukölln festival preview in Dortmund’s St Martin Church, “Nebenan – Quartiersgeschichten – auf dem Weg zur Ehrenamtskirche”, offered lectures Berlin and the exhibition “Ein Nachkriegsquartier und seine Kirche”, running to 4 October. Parallel festivals included Heidelberg Kunstsonntag, reopening of the reopened Armeemuseum Armeemuseum’s Kavaliers wing in Ingolstadt, and Berlin’s Neukölln Arcaden 48‑hour art preview. Regional venues kept momentum: Galerie Altes Rathaus Musberg presented “Im Fluss sein” (20 June–26 July) on Danube underground waterways, and Neunkirchen’s Städtische Galerie hosted the free‑entry “Stadt Land Fluss” Kunstschau (21 June–26 Ingolstadt. In July, finissage 2 August). the GLG Martin Gropius Hospital in Eberswalde announced an art-therapy exhibition featuring works by psychiatric patients.