Haus der Kunst

Recent exhibitions by Bea Schlingelhoff and Michaela Melián demonstrate that the city’s institutions are sensitively reckoning with their fascist pasts

Amidst a global pandemic during his first year as Haus der Kunst's artistic director, Lissoni speaks about how the museum communicates with the world at large and what it means to be in dialogue with the past and present 

With a new show, ‘Paradise Edict’ at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Jane Ure-Smith chats to the artist about his influences and the power parallels between modern politics and historic Christian art

This year’s Marcel Duchamp Prize winner looks at knowledge that has fallen through the cracks

As the third edition of ‘Various Others’ kicks off, Carina Bukuts selects the exhibitions not to miss

The artist’s exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Munich, examines empirical uncertainty and political disillusionment 

In further news: artists call for cultural boycott of Turkey; secret of the Bayeux Tapestry revealed

In further news: Daniel Buren painting slashed at Paris’s Centre Pompidou; Ai Weiwei protests Haus der Kunst’s layoffs

In further news: British Museum director defends BP sponsorship; David Zwirner to open in Paris

An epochal exhibition of the Ghanaian artist – the last curated by Okwui Enwezor – gives the Munich institution a new face

A tribute to the Nigeria-born poet, critic and ‘most important curator of his generation’, who persistently bid us to open our eyes

‘The wide range of artists presented in this astonishing show was a provocation that will fuel many young curators and scholars in the coming years’

In further news: Lehmann Maupin gallery sues former employee for stealing ‘trade secrets’; was Robert Indiana in control of his final artworks?

In further news: a conspicuous absence in Munich’s Haus Der Kunst’s 2019 programming; US government shutdown forces Smithsonian museums to close

The most heralded artists from the last four decades share one thing in common, according to a new study

The brainchild of a cohort of next-gen galleries, the Various Others initiative is an attempt to rejuvenate the city’s image

In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation

In further news: artists for Planned Parenthood; US court rules on Nazi-looted Cranachs; Munich’s Haus der Kunst cancels Joan Jonas show

In further news: declining UK museum visitors sees country fall in world rankings; first winner of Turner Prize, Malcolm Morley, dies at 86

On the Spanish artist’s magmatic morphologies, currently on view at Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Matadero, Madrid