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Exhibitions in 2026 at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld

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Acaye Kerunen  
YOOLENG - Luo for "The path:road is good:clear", 2023  
© Acaye Kerunen, courtesy Lisa Kandlhofer, Wien
Acaye Kerunen
YOOLENG - Luo for "The path:road is good:clear", 2023
© Acaye Kerunen, courtesy Lisa Kandlhofer, Wien
Acaye Kerunen preparing works for the Radiance – They Dream in Time exhibition during a workshop and performance at UNCC, Kampala, 2022  
© Acaye Kerunen, Galerie Kandlhofer
Acaye Kerunen preparing works for the Radiance – They Dream in Time exhibition during a workshop and performance at UNCC, Kampala, 2022
© Acaye Kerunen, Galerie Kandlhofer
Bernhard Fuchs  
Hayloft, Geierschlag (from Heustock, 2018–2024), Photography  
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Bernhard Fuchs
Hayloft, Geierschlag (from Heustock, 2018–2024), Photography
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Bernhard Fuchs  
Hayloft, Geierschlag (from Heustock, 2018–2024), Photography  
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Bernhard Fuchs
Hayloft, Geierschlag (from Heustock, 2018–2024), Photography
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Johan Thorn Prikker  
Heuschrecken, 1904  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Johan Thorn Prikker
Heuschrecken, 1904
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Johan Thorn Prikker  
Ages of Life (The Life), 1923  
4-part mural  
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
Photo: Dirk Rose
Johan Thorn Prikker
Ages of Life (The Life), 1923
4-part mural
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Photo: Dirk Rose
Emma Talbot  
Everything is Energy, 2025  
Installation view Arnolfini (Bristol), 2025-2026  
Photo: Lisa Whiting, Courtesy Photography Lisa Whiting and Arnolfini, UK
Emma Talbot
Everything is Energy, 2025
Installation view Arnolfini (Bristol), 2025-2026
Photo: Lisa Whiting, Courtesy Photography Lisa Whiting and Arnolfini, UK
Emma Talbot  
The Human Experience (Your Birth), 2023 (Detail)  
Installation view How We Learn to Love, Compton Verney (UK), 2025
  
Photo: Jamie Woodley, Courtesy Photography Jamie Woodley and Compton Verney, UK
Emma Talbot
The Human Experience (Your Birth), 2023 (Detail)
Installation view How We Learn to Love, Compton Verney (UK), 2025

Photo: Jamie Woodley, Courtesy Photography Jamie Woodley and Compton Verney, UK
Lise Gujer  
Black Spring, after 1954–1965  
Tapestry based on an oil painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Brücke Museum, Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation  
© Gujer Estate
Lise Gujer
Black Spring, after 1954–1965
Tapestry based on an oil painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Brücke Museum, Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation
© Gujer Estate
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner  
Chair II, with seated woman and standing couple as backrest, 1920  
Collection Brücke-Museum
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Chair II, with seated woman and standing couple as backrest, 1920
Collection Brücke-Museum
Slavs and Tatars  
Soft Power, 2019  
Woven wool yarn, Textile wallpaper, Installation view at Haus Esters 2019  
Collection of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
Photo: Dirk Rose
Slavs and Tatars
Soft Power, 2019
Woven wool yarn, Textile wallpaper, Installation view at Haus Esters 2019
Collection of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Photo: Dirk Rose
Slavs and Tatars  
Soft Power, 2019  
Woven wool yarn, Textile wallpaper, Installation view at Haus Esters 2019  
Collection of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
Photo: Dirk Rose
Slavs and Tatars
Soft Power, 2019
Woven wool yarn, Textile wallpaper, Installation view at Haus Esters 2019
Collection of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Photo: Dirk Rose

Exhibitions

2024

Visionary Spaces
Walter Pichler Meets Frederick Kiesler in a Display by raumlaborberlin
Marion Baruch. Social Fabric
HLHE DIALOGUE
Anna K.E., For Our Parents
HLHE DIALOGUE
Collection Satellite #9
The Bar. Liora Epstein in Dialog with Jürgen Drescher and Reinhard Mucha
Museum Without Borders
Art–Design / Dunkirk–Krefeld
MEHR MIES
Zwei Wochen Architektur pur in Haus Lange Haus Esters

2023

The Grand Seduction
Karl Ernst Osthaus and the Beginnings of Consumer Culture
Sarah Morris
All Systems Fail
Friends of Art – 40 Years of Collecting
Productive Spaces. Art and Design from Krefeld

2022

ON AIR
The Sound of the Material in the Art of the 1950s to 1970s
Maison Sonia
Sonia Delaunay and the Atelier Simultané
Andrea Zittel
Personal Patterns
Collection Satellite #8
Shannon Bool meets Otto Eckmann. Everything Created Now is the Style of Our Times
Andrea Zittel
Planar Composition for Esters Garden House
Adolf Luther
Julio Le Parc
Robert Stadler
K+ Café im KWM

2021

Beuys & Duchamp
Artists of the Future
Humans Nature Politics
Joseph Beuys in the Context of the Collection
Lehmbruck – Kolbe – Mies van der Rohe
Artificial Biotopes
Art = Human
Joseph Beuys in Krefeld

2020

Marcel Odenbach
suddenly, one could be just like the other
Collection Satellite #6
Ignacio Uriarte
Structuring Chance
Collection Satellite #5
Sharon Ya'ari
The Romantic Trail and the Concrete House
The Memory of Images

2019

Folklore & Avant-garde
The Reception of Popular Traditions in the Age of Modernism
Anders Wohnen Akt 3: Dystopie
Entwürfe für Haus Lange Haus Esters 15. Sep 2019 - 26. Jan. 2020
Anders Wohnen Akt 2: Mobilität
Entwürfe für Haus Lange Haus Esters 7. Jul. 2019 – 26. Jan. 2020
Von Albers bis Zukunft
Auf den Spuren des Bauhauses
Alternatives for Living Act 1: Utopia
Blueprints for Haus Lange Haus Esters 5 May 2019 - 26. Jan. 2020
Collection Satellite #3
Ola Vasiljeva // The Werkbund. Haus der F.
Alternatives for Living
Blueprints for Haus Lange Haus Esters

2018

Volker Döhne
Seeker and Finder
Collection Satellite #2
Bik Van der Pol: Mom, What Is Nature Really?
Tailored For Freedom
The Artistic Dress Around 1900 in Fashion, Art and Society
Christian Falsnaes
Force

Current News

2025

Exhibition highlights 2025 at Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Haus Lange Haus Esters

2024

Restaurierung des Tafelbildfragments Die heilige Sippe
UtopiaLab im Studio 2/Kreativlabor und das Vermittlungsprogramm zur Ausstellung Visionäre Räume
Kunst auf den Schulhof
Die Arbeit Play for Today der Künstlerin Céline Condorelli wurde auf dem Pausenhof der Marienschule in Krefeld realisiert
Schenkung Flickering Lights von Philippe Parreno
Vermittlungsprogramm 2024, Studio 2

2023

Preview 2024
Museum of the Year 2022: Official awards ceremony on September 10
Leihgaben der Kunsthalle Bremen in Krefeld
The Kunstmuseen Krefeld have been named Museum of the Year 2022

2022

Herbst-, Winterprogramm Kunstmuseen Krefeld 2022/2023
Acquisition Helmuth Macke: The Blue Room

2021

Preview 2022
K+ Café im KWM
Das zukünftige Café hat einen Namen gefunden

2020

The Mondrian Case

Collection shows

2023

Sammlung in Bewegung – 15 Räume 15 Geschichten
Erich Heckel und das Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 100 Vasen
Sammlung in Bewegung - 15 Räume 15 Geschichten
Schenkungen von Krefelder Künstler:innen

2020

Collection in Motion
15 Rooms 15 Stories
Highlights of the 21st Century Collection