Kunsthalle Hamburg

Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch

Flow of Paint = Flow of Life

This major double exhibition brings together nearly 200 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, films, and photographs to trace parallels between Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch across biography, perception, and experimental painting.

BUT I WORLD I SEE YOU*

In the frame of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026

Part of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026, this group exhibition assembles works by more than 40 international artists across photography, sculpture, film, and video to examine how images, memory, and visibility shape perception.

Isa Mona Lisa

This large-scale contemporary-art presentation combines new acquisitions, collection highlights, and works from a private collection collaboration in specially staged artist rooms, offering a lively cross-section of recent international art.

Making History

Hans Makart and the Salon Painting of the 19th Century

Centered on Hans Makart's monumental Entry of Emperor Charles V into Antwerp, this installation reintroduces the museum's largest painting and surrounds it with around sixty 19th-century paintings and sculptures tied to the Kunsthalle's founding era.

SCULPTURAL

The New Galleries

The first large-scale presentation of the Kunsthalle's sculpture collection unfolds across 1,500 square metres with more than 500 works from 2,500 years, staging dialogues between antiquity and the present, relief and installation, miniature and monumental form.

Carrie Yamaoka

Maria Lassnig Prize

The first German solo exhibition devoted to Carrie Yamaoka fills the atrium of the Galerie der Gegenwart with mutable surfaces, reflective supports, photography, and text-based works created in dialogue with the Maria Lassnig Prize.

This is the Modern World

Breakthroughs in Art, 1900-1960

Reinterpreting the Kunsthalle's modern holdings, this exhibition brings together about 125 works to chart the breakthroughs, experiments, and ruptures that transformed art between 1900 and 1960.

David Novros

Painting

Planned as the most comprehensive retrospective of David Novros to date, the exhibition spans two levels of the Galerie der Gegenwart with around 40 monumental paintings, copper reliefs, and works on paper.

Unstable Media in the 21st Century

Highlights from the Centre Pompidou New Media Collection

Built around some 40 key works from the Centre Pompidou's New Media Collection, this exhibition surveys radical contemporary media-art positions and the unstable technologies that shape twenty-first-century perception.

Philipp Otto Runge

Romantic. Radical. Modern

This exhibition places Philipp Otto Runge's paintings, drawings, and writings in dialogue with contemporaries and later artists to show how his Romantic vision still resonates beyond its own era.