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Welcome to the press pages of the Pinakothek der Moderne. Here we provide you with text and image material for current reporting.
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Gerhard Richter
02.05.2025 – 08.06.2025 | The artist’s studio was left open, his painting oeuvre was closed. In the remoteness of his studio, Gerhard Richter now created drawings that he subjected to his self-imposed maxim: “The most fundamental, the hardest thing is to make something that is good.” This is especially true for drawings because every pentimento, […]
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4 Museums– 1 Modernism
The upheaval that culminated in Modernism and the beginnings of Die Neue Sammlung, Germany’s first state design museum, are closely connected. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of its foundation, a joint exhibition by the four museums that form the Pinakothek der Moderne will showcase a selection of highlights of Modernism from the museum […]
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OPEN4 | BEGEGNEN – ERLEBEN - MACHEN
Sehr geehrte Medienvertreterin, sehr geehrter Medienvertreter, liebe Freunde und Förderer der Bildung und Vermittlung, liebe Mitarbeitenden, Im Namen der Direktorin und der Direktoren der Pinakothek der Moderne, laden wir Sie herzlich zum Start des neuen Markenauftritts der Bildung und Vermittlung ein. Die Kick-off-Informationsveranstaltung findet am Donnerstag, den 27.03.2025, 11 Uhr, im Raum der Bildung und Vermittlung […]
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Könnt Ihr noch? – Kunst & Demokratie
PRESSEKONFERENZ | 09.05.25 | In der Sommerausstellung der Sammlung Moderne Kunst auf Schloss Herrenchiemsee werden über 50 Arbeiten von Künstler:innen präsentiert, die in ihren Werken demokratische Grundwerte wie Freiheit, Selbstbestimmung oder die Würde des Menschen verhandeln. Meisterwerke der Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen von der Klassischen Moderne bis zur Gegenwart treffen auf ortsspezifische Arbeiten. Künstler:innen setzen sich in ihren […]
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FLUX
The Pinakothek der Moderne is to gain another attraction – Flux! Together with the Stiftung Pinakothek der Moderne, the four museums at the Pinakothek der Moderne will be creating an exceptional common space offering gastronomic facilities and cultural events. It will operate for the next five years from the end of June 2025 onwards and […]
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Trees, Time Architecture
13 MARCH 2025–14 SEPTEMBER 2025 | MEDIA CONFERENCE: 12 MARCH 2025, 11.00 A.M. OPENING: 12 MARCH 2025, 7.00 P.M.| Trees are among the largest, oldest, and most complex living organisms on Earth, and they also grow exceptionally slowly – often taking decades or even centuries to reach their full size. This means they exceed human […]
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MINDFUL MINING
15.03.2025 – 21.04.2025 | The exhibition title „Mindful Mining“ is a metaphor for the creation of a world of its own. Designing artistically means discovering something in nature or in the everyday environment that you usually pay little attention to and then give it a new meaning. The young artists at Kookmin University do nothing […]
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WARWICK FREEMAN
15.03.2025 – 15.06.2025 | Warwick Freeman’s emblematic jewelry pursues meaning. Across five decades the New Zealand jeweller has built a lexicon of signs: from the cultural symbolism of the hook and the star to the heart redrawn in the volcanic scoria of Rangitoto island. When worn, his jewelry communicates something of who we are and […]
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Ausstellungsvorschau 2025
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Ngozi-Omeje Ezema – BOUNDLESS VASES
04.12.2024 – 11.05.2025 | Die Neue Sammlung is proud to present an installation by Ngozi-Omeje Ezema (born 1979), the first of its kind in Germany. The Nigerian ceramic artist represents a new generation of African artists who are transposing an ancient traditional art form into the present and thus questioning long-standing notions that confine ceramics […]
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