Press Releases

From October 10, 2025, to January 11, 2026, the SCHIRN is dedicating the world’s first comprehensive solo exhibition to Suzanne Duchamp (1889–1963), a pioneer of the Dada movement.

With “Thomas Bayrle: Something Positive Must Come!”, the SCHIRN will present a major solo exhibition of the Frankfurt-based artist from February 12 to May 10, 2026.

From January 29 to April 26, 2026, the SCHIRN will present the first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany by the artist duo Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, featuring a newly developed production created specifically for the occasion.

From September 25, 2025, to January 4, 2026, the SCHIRN will present, for the first time in Germany, a comprehensive insight into the work of the Filipino-Canadian artist and filmmaker Stephanie Comilang.

Read the press release about the project “Sasha Waltz & Guests. In C – Community,” which will take place on September 7, 2025.

Read the texts of the exhibition “Body and Building. 2 Evenings, 2 Days (of Performances)” here.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Troika: Buenavista”.

Lesen Sie hier die Presseinformation zur Ausstellung „Troika. Buenavista“.

This performative exhibition is a physical appropriation of the SCHIRN. On two evenings and two days, from March 28 to March 30, 2025, the windows of the empty museum gallery, which are normally kept shut, will be opened. Flooded with light, the room will be brought to life, invigorated, structured, confronted, and encountered through the unique atmosphere of live performances.

For the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the German-French collective Troika is developing a new immersive installation that explores different kinds of intelligence. From March 7 to April 21, 2025, the German-French artist group explores with “Buenavista” how new technologies affect our relationship with the world.

Renovation, relocation, exhibition program, and the new website SCHIRN.DE/EN: Read the press release about the SCHIRN in 2025 here.

Here you can read the wall panels as well as the text of the audio spots in the exhibition.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting in a wide-ranging retrospective from November 8, 2024 to February 9, 2025 Haacke’s influential oeuvre from 1959 to the present day.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Carol Rama: A Rebel of Modernity”.

From October 11, 2024, to February 2, 2025, the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT is presenting a large-scale survey of the Turin-based artist Carol Rama for the first time in Germany, featuring some 120 exhibits from all phases of her remarkable body of work.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Casablanca Art School: A postcolonial Avant-Garde 1962–1987”.

From July 12 to October 13, 2024, the SCHIRN presents the unique and influential work of the Casablanca Art School in a first major, long-overdue exhibition.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Selma Selman: Flowers of Life”.

The SCHIRN presents a major solo exhibition by the artist Selma Selman (*1991) from June 20 to September 15, 2024.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Cosima von Bonin: feelings”.

Cosima von Bonin (b. 1962) creates transformations of the everyday. The SCHIRN is showing a unique presentation of her oeuvre from March 21 to June 9, 2024, for which the artist has combined recent works that have never been shown in Germany with well-known pieces.

Here you can read the information of the additional locations of the exhibition “THE CULTURE: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century” in Frankfurt.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “THE CULTURE: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century”.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop, the SCHIRN dedicates a major interdisciplinary exhibition to hip hop’s profound influence on our current artistic and cultural landscape, from February 29 until May 26, 2024.

From February 15 to May 12, 2024, the SCHIRN is presenting “shallow lakes”, an extensive, location-specific work by Melike Kara in the exterior as well as interior space of its publicly accessible Rotunda.

With a total of 502,961 visitors in 2023, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt recorded its most successful year since its opening in 1986.

Here you can read the exhibition program of the SCHIRN in 2024.

Read the SCHIRN exhibition program for 2024 here.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “John Akomfrah. A Space of Empathy”.

From November 9, 2023 to January 28, 2024, the SCHIRN is dedicating the first comprehensive exhibition to John Akomfrah’s (*1957) impressive work, which has been little known in Germany to date, with a selection of three important, expansive multi-screen installations from recent years.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Lyonel Feininger: Retrospective”.

The German-American artist Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) is a classic of modern art. From October 27, 2023, to February 18, 2024, the SCHIRN is dedicating the first major retrospective in Germany in over 25 years to this important painter and graphic artist and is presenting a comprehensive and surprising overall picture of his oeuvre.

Influenced by the history of architecture, Maruša Sagadin’s (*1978) artistic exploration revolves around the social aspects associated with a building or place. On the occasion of Slovenia’s Guest of Honour appearance at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023, the SCHIRN is presenting a site-specific installation by the artist in its rotunda from September 21, 2023 to January 14, 2024.

Read here the wall panels of the exhibition “Martha Rosler: In one way or another”.

With the radical nature of her artistic position, Martha Rosler has influenced many contemporary artists for decades. The SCHIRN is dedicating a focused solo exhibition to the American conceptual artist and pioneer of critical feminism from July 6 to September 24, 2023.

On the occasion of the exhibition “Plastic World”, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the new digital educational format SCHIRN 3D PARCOURS for the first time.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Plastic World“.

From June 22 to October 1, 2023, the SCHIRN is dedicating a major themed exhibition to the eventful history of sculpture in the visual arts for the first time. It opens up a broad panorama of the artistic use and evaluation of the material from the 1960s to the present day.

Here you can read the booklet texts of the exhibition “Elizabeth Price: SOUND OF THE BREAK”.

From March 23 to May 29, 2023, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a major solo exhibition by the Turner Prize
winner, including both new and recent works that are being shown for the first time in Germany.

The exhibition “Chagall: World in Turmoil” at the SCHIRN ended on February 19, 2023, with a record number of 243,582 visitors.

Monster Chetwynd’s (*1973) art interacts directly with the public. From March 3 to May 29, 2023, the SCHIRN is presenting a site-specific installation by the artist in its public rotunda.

Read the wall texts of the exhibition “Niki de Saint Phalle” here.

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) is one of the most famous women artists of her generation and is deemed a main representative of European Pop Art and a cocreator of the Happening. From February 3 to May 21, 2023, the SCHIRN is presenting the wide-ranging oeuvre of the French-American visionary in a comprehensive exhibition that, through around one hundred works, offers an overview of all of her practice’s phases.

Read here the SCHIRN exhibition program for 2023.

Here you can read the wall texts of the exhibition “Amna Elhassan: Deconstructed Bodies – In Search of Home”.

In the exhibition “Amna Elhassan: Deconstructed Bodies – In Search of Home,” the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the artist’s first large-format wall painting December (2022) in its publicly accessible Rotunda from November 4, 2022, to February 12, 2023.

Here you can read the wall texts of the exhibition “Chagall: World in turmoil”.

From November 4, 2022, to February 19, 2023, “Chagall: World in Turmoil“ sheds light on a facet of his oeuvre that is less well known: Chagall’s artwork from the 1930s and 1940s, when his colorful palette became increasingly darker.

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “Gauri Gill: Acts of Resistance and Repair”.

From October 13, 2022, to January 8, 2023, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first extensive survey exhibition of the artist’s multifaceted photographic oeuvre, bringing together around 240 works from major series.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting from July 7 to October 3, 2022 Aernout Mik’s video installation Double Bind (2018), as well as the work Threshold Barriers (2022), which was conceived specially for the exhibition.

Dr. Sebastian Baden will begin his work as director of the renowned institution in Frankfurt on July 1, 2022. With the art historian, curator, and art educator, the SCHIRN once again has its own separate management thanks to the initiative of the City of Frankfurt.

From June 24 to September 18, 2022, the SCHIRN is dedicating the first major survey exhibition in Germany to Ugo Rondinone (*1964).

Here you can read the wall panels of the exhibition “ART FOR NO ONE: 1933–1945”.

From March 4 to June 6, 2022, the SCHIRN is presenting “ART FOR NO ONE: 1933–1945”. This extensive survey exhibition shows the different strategies and scopes of action that were employed by artists in Germany who did not seek or find any affiliation to the National Socialist regime.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “WALK!”.

From February 18 to May 22, 2022, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a large international group exhibition to the hitherto rarely considered facets of walking in contemporary art.

From February 18 to May 22, 2022, the SCHIRN presents the site-specific work I always tried to imagine my home by Carlos Bunga (*1976) in her Rotunda.

Read here the SCHIRN exhibition program for 2022.

At the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt she is presenting some 650 works from the past twenty-eight years, along with a selection of her films, from October 15, 2021 to January 16, 2022.

Read here the Wall panels nof the exhibition “Paula Modersohn-Becker”.

From October 8, 2021 to February 6, 2022, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is providing an overview of the complete works of Paula Modersohn-Becker, demonstrating in a comprehensive retrospective how resolutely she defied the social and artistic conventions of her time and anticipated key trends of modernism.

From July 9 to 11, 2021, the SCHIRN is dedicating itself to the music video as an artistic genre and is combining the viewing of art with the best sounds on the local club scene.

Read the exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for 2021 here.

To honor the visually striking and at times rather provocative universe of these celebrated artists, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating the comprehensive retrospective GILBERT & GEORGE: THE GREAT EXHIBITION from February 12, to September 5, 2021, to which the artists have selected around 45 of their large-format pictures created between 1972 and 2019.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting from February 5, to September 5, 2021, in its publicly accessible Rotunda, the immersive video work Transatlantic (2018, 15 min.) by Caroline Monnet, which documents the artist’s twenty-two-day journey by cargo ship from Europe to Canada.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition ”Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in painting 1910–1940“.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, in its exhibition “Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910–40,” is presenting from February 5, to August 29, 2021, Canadian modernist painting from a current perspective.

From September 24, 2020 to January 10, 2021, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating an international group exhibition to the fascination of espionage, highlighting this theme as a current source of artistic inspiration.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition „Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh und Hesam Rahmanian: Either he’s dead, or my watch has stopped. Groucho Marx (while getting the patient’s pulse)“.

From September 3 to December 13, 2020, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first solo exhibition in Germany by Ramin Haerizadeh (*1975), Rokni Haerizadeh (*1978), and Hesam Rahmanian (*1980).

Read here the Exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for the years 2020 and 2021.

Read the press information on the new design of the Schirn Mag.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo”.

From February 13 to July 5, 2020, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents “Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo,” a major survey devoted to the women artists of Surrealism.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Richard Jackson. Unexpected Unexplained Unaccepted“.

From February 6 to July 5, 2020, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is assembling for the first time five of Richard Jacksons altogether twelve characteristic Rooms—room installations based on the principle of automated painting.

From October 25, 2019, to January 19, 2020, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting new works by the Scottish artist Karla Black developed specifically for the Schirn Rotunda.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Karla Black“.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting from October 11, 2019 to January 10, 2020 paintings, collages, and drawings as well as films and photographs, and will tell the story of one of the most remarkable artists of the twentieth century.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Lee Krasner“.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Hannah Ryggen: Woven Manifestos”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a major exhibition to the Swedish-Norwegian artist Hannah Ryggen, running from September 26, 2019, to January 12, 2020.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Big Orchestra“.

From June 19 to September 8, 2019, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the international group exhibition “Big Orchestra” with artworks that also perform as musical instruments.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “John M Armleder: CA.CA.“.

From June 7 until September 1, 2019 the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting new, expansive installations that John M. Armleder develops specially for the exhibition and which are shown both in- and outside.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Bruno Gironcoli: Prototypes for a New Species”.

From February 14 to May 12, 2019, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a selection of monumental sculptures from the late work of the artist Bruno Gironcoli (1936–2010) in a thoughtprovoking exhibition.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: A Journey Through Mud and Confusion with Small Glimpses of
Air”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the Swedish artist duo’s oeuvre from February 28, to May 26, 2019 for the first time in Germany in an extensive survey exhibition.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt has launched a new moving-picture format for art education: the SCHIRN SHORTCUTS.

Read here the exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for 2019.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Maria Loboda: Idyl In An Electronics Factory”.

From November 16, 2018, to February 3, 2019, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the exhibition “Maria Loboda: Idyl In An Electronics Factory” including three works by Maria Loboda which she has developed specially for the freely accessible Rotunda.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Wilderness”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is now dedicating an extensive thematic exhibition to the recurring fascination with wilderness from November 1, 2018, to February 3, 2019.

From October 25, 2018 to January 27, 2019, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first major retrospective on the life and work of the artist with some 120 works

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “King of the Animals: Wilhelm Kuhnert and the Image of Africa“.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Neïl Beloufa: Global Agreement“.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a new work by the award-winning video and installation artist Neïl Beloufa from August 23 to October 28, 2018.

Read the here exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for 2018.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Power to the People: Political Art Now”.

From March 21 to May 27, 2018, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting an extensive exhibition on the political art of the present day.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Basquiat. Boom for Real“.

More than 30 years after his last solo exhibition in a public collection in Germany, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting from February 16, to May 27, 2018 a major survey devoted to this American artist.

Within the scope of the exhibition “Diorama. Inventing Illusion,” from November 9, 2017, to February 25, 2018, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a large-scale installation by Philipp Fürhofer.

Beginning October 27, 2017, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting German art from 1918 to 1933 in a major thematic exhibition.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Diorama: Inventing Illusion“.

From October 6, 2017 to January 21, 2018, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents a major exhibition dedicated to the cultural history of vision.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhbition “PEACE“.

From 1 July to 24 September 2017, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt takes a different approach with the discursive group exhibition PEACE addressing the question: How does peace actually work?

190,120 visitors came to see the exhibition “Magritte. The Treachery of Images” in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. This makes it one of the two most-visited shows in the thirty-one-year history of the Schirn.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Peter Saul“.

From June 2 to September 3, 2017 the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting an extensive survey exhibition of the work of the American painter Peter Saul (*1934 in San Francisco, California).

Read here the exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for 2017.

From April 28 to July 30, 2017, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a spatial sculpture by the artist Lena Henke.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Lena Henke. Schrei mich nicht an, Krieger! (Don’t Shout at Me, Warrior!)”.

From February 24 to May 14, 2017, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt will be presenting the first retrospective of Richard Gerstl’s work in Germany.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Richard Gerstl Retrospective“.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Magritte: The Treachery of Images”.

In a concentrated solo exhibition devoted to the great Belgian Surrealist, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt explores his relationship to the philosophical currents of his time from February 10 to June 5, 2017.

For Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, US American artists and programmers Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald developed an interactive performance project entitled How We Act Together (2016) that can be accessed starting today, November 29, 2016, online at www.schirn.de/hwat.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Giacometti-Nauman”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a major exhibition of works by Alberto Giacometti and Bruce Nauman from October 28, 2016 until January 22, 2017.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Ulay Life-Sized”.

From October 13, 2016, to January 8, 2017, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first-ever major survey exhibition of works by the exceptional artist Ulay.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Rosa Barba. Blind Volumes”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting Blind Volumes, an installation realized by Berlin based artist Rosa Barba (*1972), from September 23, 2016 until January 8, 2017.

From July 6 to October 3, 2016 the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a major, long overdue exhibition to this previously
largely neglected phenomenon.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Pioneers of the Comic Strip: A different avant-garde”.

From June 23 to September 18, 2016, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first extensive thematic exhibition on the “Pioneers of the Comic Strip”, who—progressive and eager to experiment—set the artistic and content-related standards of the early comic strips.

From May 12 to August 21, 2016 the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the installation The Schirn Ring by the American artist Peter Halley (*1953).

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Peter Halley. The Schirn Ring”.

The artist Florian Meisenberg (*1980) has generated a self-portrait from personal digital data that can be viewed online since May 26, 2016 at www.schirn.de.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibtion “ME”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting self-portraits by contemporary artists in the thematic exhibition “ME” from March 10 to May 29, 2016.

Read here the Press Release on “The Schirn turns thirty”.

From February 26 through to June 12, 2016 Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents an until now little discussed aspect of his
oeuvre in a focused solo exhibition: Miró’s preference for large-scale formats and his fascination with the wall.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition „Joan Miró: Painting Walls, Painting Worlds“.

Read here the exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for 2016.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Heather Phillipson. EAT HERE”.

Beginning November 20, 2015, the British artist Heather Phillipson will present her first solo show in Germany — an installation for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt’s Rotunda.

Starting today, November 11, 2015, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the Dutch artist Constant Dullaart’s online performance “The Possibility of an Army.”

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is devoting an extensive topical exhibition to the women of the STURM beginning on October 30, 2015.

Read here the Wall Panels of the exhibition “Daniel Richter. Hello, I love you”.

From October 9, 2015 the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is exhibiting a new series by the German painter Daniel Richter in a focused solo presentation.

From July 9, 2015, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt dedicates its entire exhibition space, inside and out, to the impressive work of American multimedia-artist Doug Aitken.

“Translantics”, the most recent art project produced exclusively for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt by Britta Thie, begins today, Tuesday, April 28, 2015.

Since December 2014, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt has a space of creative experience for children from the age of three to primary school age: the MINISCHIRN.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the Berlin artist Alicja Kwade’s installation “Die bewegte Leere des Moments” (The Void of the Moment in Motion) specifically developed for its Rotunda from March 26 until June 14, 2015.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibtion “Artists and Prophets. A Secret History of Modern Art 1872–1972”.

In the large-scale exhibition entitled “Artists and Prophets: A Secret History of Modern Art 1872–1972” the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents from March 6, to June 14, 2015 an in-depth appraisal of a long, yet largely unknown chapter in the history of European – and most notably German – art.

The comprehensive overview at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt highlights the Affichistes’ radical art from February 5 to May 25, 2015 for the first time in Germany after twenty years.

In a large-scale exhibition, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents from 6 November 2014 a broad panorama of Pop Art in its unique German
variation – an art-historical phenomenon that has been largely neglected to date.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “GERMAN POP“.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents from October 2, 2014 until January 11, 2015, a comprehensive solo exhibition on Finnish Modernism’s most important woman artist: Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946).

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Helene Schjerfbeck”.

Beginning on September 18, Schulze’s “Pea Roads” will span a total of 400 square meters on two floors.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung are launching a completely new digital education format with their digitorial: relying on an innovative form of storytelling, enlightening backgrounds, art-historical and historico-cultural contexts, as well as crucial exhibition contents are made easily accessible to all visitors interested in preparing their tour through the museum on a responsive website.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Paparazzi! Photographers, stars and artists”.

With “Paparazzi! Photographers, Stars and Artists”, beginning on June 27, 2014, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the most extensive exhibition in Germany on the global phenomenon and the aesthetic of paparazzi photography to date.

The exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt on display from June 5 until September 7, 2014 focuses on this phenomenon.

Read here the exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for 2014.

Read here the exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for 2014.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Daniele Buetti: It’s all in the mind”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Daniele Buetti. It’s all in the mind”.

Hypnosis as an artistic action: Daniele Buetti (*1955) invites visitors of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt to participate in collective meditative hypnosis.

Showing more than sixty works, the Schirn presents Rehberger’s first major exhibition in Frankfurt from February 21 to May 11, 2014.

Showing more than sixty works, the Schirn presents Rehberger’s first major exhibition in Frankfurt from February 21 to May 11, 2014.

From February 7, 2014, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the first group exhibition with more than 200 works, and focuses on the quarter of Montmartre with its stories and protagonists.

From February 7, 2014, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the first group exhibition with more than 200 works, and focuses on the quarter of Montmartre with its stories and protagonists.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Esprit Montmartre: Bohemian Life in Paris around 1900”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Esprit Montmartre. Bohemian Life in Paris around 1900”.

In collaboration with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the American artist Roni Horn (*1955) is presenting from December 12, 2013 to January 26, 2014 an extended form of a photographic work she developed in 2005, “Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert)”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Philip Guston: Late works”.

On the occasion of the artist’s 100th birthday, from November 6, 2013, to February 2, 2014, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt isu003cbru003epresenting late works by Philip Guston as a milestone of American painting.

From October 18, 2013, to January 26, 2014, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the first solo exhibition on Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) in Germany.

Eight large-scale works will transform the Schirn from 2 October 2013 to 5 January 2014 into a series of spaces that can be experienced intensely by the senses and installations into which viewers are directly integrated as participants.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Géricault: Images of Life and Death”.

In conjunction with Brazil’s appearance as guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting from September 5 to October 27 the multifaceted world of Brazilian graffiti art for the first time ever in Germany.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Brasiliana: Installations from 1960 to the Present“.

After its major exhibition projects “Summer of Love” (2005) and “Op Art” (2007), which focused on cross-genre developments in the art and culture of the 1960s, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt now highlights another, very dynamic era of art history with the show “Glam! The Performance of Style,” on display from June 14 until September 22, 2013.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Photographs 1975-2012“.

Beginning June 20 to September 8, 2013, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is hosting the first European survey of the oeuvre of US photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Glam! The Performance of Style”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Last Work: From Manet to Kippenberger”.

From February 28 to June 2, 2013, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents a lavish thematic show titled “Last Work: From Manet to Kippenberger” which comprises about one hundred exhibits.

From February 15 to May 12, 2013, the Frankfurt exhibition will feature a comprehensive survey of the multifaceted universe of this extraordinary artist, who is regarded as a pioneer of early conceptual, film and performance art as well as a key figure in the world of music, the peace movement and feminism, who continues to play an influential role in current developments in art.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Yoko Ono: Half-A-Wind Show. A Retrospective”.

The exhibition year 2012 has drawn to a close with an impressive public response manifested in a total of more than one million visitors for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Städel Museum, and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung.

Read here the exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for the year 2013.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Privacy”.

From November 1, 2012 to February 3, 2013 the Schirn will be presenting numerous contemporary artworks with a view to exploring the topic of the disappearing private sphere and the “public nature of the intimate”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Gustave Caillebotte: An Impressionist and Photography”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents a comprehensive exhibition featuring about fifty paintings and drawings by the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte from October 18, 2012 to January 20, 2013.

This summer, the Schirn Kunsthalle and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will be devoting themselves from June 20 to September 23, 2012 to the work of the U.S. American artist Jeff Koons (born in 1955), who has played a pioneering role in the contemporary art world since the 1980s.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Michael Riedel: Kunste zur Text”.

With “Kunste zur Text,” the Schirn Kunsthalle presents from June 16 to September 9, 2012 a first retrospective of Michael Riedel’s work.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Bettina Posttchi: Framework”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle is showcasing from April 19 to June 17, 2012 a new work by German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi specifically designed for the exterior of the Schirn.

In partnership with the Hayward Gallery in London and curated by Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff, the Schirn is pleased to present from February 22 to May 28, 2012 a comprehensive retrospective of Condo’s art.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “George Condo: Mental States”.

The exhibition in the Schirn, which has been prepared together with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, offers from February 9 to May 13, 2012 a new view of his work: Edvard Munch was a modern artist to his core – thus the hypothesis of the show that comprises about one hundred and thirty works.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye”.

Read here the exhibition program of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt for the year 2011.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Kienholz: The Signs of the Times”.

On show from October 22, 2011, until January 29, 2012, the exhibition at the Schirn, spanning from the first three-dimensional smaller works to the conceptual pieces and room-filling tableaux, offers a complex survey highlighting the essence of Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz’s achievements.

On the occasion of Iceland’s presentation as a guest of honor at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn Kunsthalle will dedicate a solo exhibition to this country’s artist Gabríela Friðriksdóttir from September 29, 2011 to January 8, 2012.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Gabríela Friðriksdóttir: Crepusculum”.

On the occasion of Iceland’s presentation as a guest of honor at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn Kunsthalle will dedicate a solo exhibition to this country’s artist Erró from October 6, 2011 to January 8, 2012.

From August 11 to August 25, 2011, more than fifteen international artists will occupy the inner city of Frankfurt with their actions, performances, and installations.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Secret Societies: To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence”.

The exhibition “Secret Societies: To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence” which will be on display at the Schirn from June 23 until September 25, 2011 is dealing with the question how to present the invisible, in how far secret societies mirror certain facets of contemporary art, and how artists reflect the overall theme in different ways.

The exhibition, which will be on view from June 8 until September 4, 2011, brings together some forty works made between 1978 and 2011.

The Schirn presents from May 13 to July 31, 2011 a solo exhibition of the young Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda.

From February 23 to May 15, 2011, the Schirn presents a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the German painter Eugen Schönebeck, which will feature almost all of his surviving paintings and his most important drawings.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Eugen Schönebeck: 1957–1967”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of its foundation with the exhibition “Surreal Objects – Three-Dimensional Works from Dalí to Man Ray,” which will open on February 10, 2011.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Surreal Objects: Sculptures and Objects from Dalí to Man Ray”.

Comprising about 180 works by 51 artists, the show with its international loans, on exhibit from February 11 until May 29, 2011, will include items by both very popular artists like Duchamp, Magritte, Dalí, Picasso, and Man Ray, and many others whose astounding and fascinating achievements still wait to be discovered by a wider public.

“I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t,” says Kruger, whose show will be presented in the Schirn from December 15, 2010 until January 30, 2011.

One hundred works from eleven countries – among them loans from Stockholm, Paris, Montpellier, Los Angeles, New York, and Oslo – will present this “other”
Courbet for the first time in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt from October 15, 2010 to January 30, 2011.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Courbet: a Dream of Modern Art”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “World Transformers: The Art of the Outsiders”.

With its exhibition “World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders,” on show from September 24, 2010 to January 9, 2011, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt focuses on a form of art unjustly neglected in recent decades.

From 8 to 26 September 2010, central Frankfurt will see new actions taking place daily, from performances to installations to “guerrilla actions”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Mike Bouchet: New Living”.

After Mike Bouchet’s participation in the 53rd Biennale di Venezia (2009), the Schirn is the first institution in Germany to present new works by the artist in a solo exhibition from July 1 to September 12, 2010.

With his impressive 360-degree multi-projection on show at the Schirn from July 1 to September 12, 2010, the artist, whose work was included in two documenta programs, creates a space of illusion that completely captivates the observer.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Peter Kogler: Projection”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Celluloid: Cameraless Film”.

In its exhibition “Celluloid. Cameraless Film”, on show from June 2 to August 29, 2010, the SCHIRN focuses on a particular art film genre in which footage is produced by creating images directly on film stock.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Uwe Lausen: All’s Fine That Ends Fine”.

On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of his death in 2010, the Schirn devotes from March 4 to June 13, 2010 a major retrospective to the self-taught artist who took his own life.

Read here the Exhibition program for the year 2010.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Georges Seurat: Figure in Space”.

With about sixty paintings, oil studies, and drawings from public and private collections in London, Paris, Zurich, New York, San Francisco, a.o., the exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle offers from February 4 to May 9, 2010 a representative survey and, at the same time, focuses on a crucial aspect of Seurat’s oeuvre: the figure in space.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is devoting from January 15 to March 14, 2010 a solo exhibition to the Dresden painter Eberhard Havekost.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Eberhard Havekost: Retina”.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “László Moholy-Nagy: Retrospective”.

Presenting from October 8 to February 7, 2010 about 170 works – paintings, photographs and photograms, sculptures and films, as well as stage set designs and typographical projects – the retrospective encompasses all phases of his oeuvre.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “Art for the Millions: 100 Sculptures from the Mao Era”.

In conjunction with China’s appearance as Guest of Honour at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn will be showing from September 24, 2009 to January 3, 2010, for the first time ever in the West, the spectacular Chinese sculptural group Rent Collection Courtyard (Chin.: Shouzuyuan).

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “The Making of Art”.

The exhibition “The Making of Art” offers from May 29 to August 30, 2009 a look at the web of relationships of contemporary art, where the triangle of the artwork, the artist, and the viewer has long since been expanded in many ways.

The exhibition continues from May 14 to July 26, 2009 a programmatic focus at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt dedicated to solo exhibitions of current positions in contemporary art, for which ‘Triumph’ was specially developed.

From 20 April to 6 May 2009, twenty-three international artists, such as Ulf Aminde, Dara Friedman, Dora García, Cezary Bodzianowski, and Sharon Hayes, will turn central Frankfurt into the site of countless activities and situations, ranging from performances by way of installations to “guerrilla actions” that involve the audience in a wide variety of ways.

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809 and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work “On the Origin of Species” (1859), the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt will present from February 5 to May 3, 2009 the exhibition “Darwin: Art and the Search for Origins”.

Presenting approximately 30 large-size paintings and 86 works on paper, the exhibition in the Schirn will focus on this late work for the first time, introducing an artist who, with his dynamically two-dimensional forms and clear colors transcending the pictorial space, makes an impression that is not historical at all but surprisingly up-to-date.

While only sporadically included in most retrospectives of Magritte’s oeuvre, his works from the Période vache will be assembled from October 30, 2008 to January 4, 2009 in the exhibition at the Schirn outside France and Belgium for the first time.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “René Magritte 1948: La Période vache.”.

Presenting some 50 paintings, a group of works on paper, and about 130 painted film posters, the Schirn offers from October 9, 2008 to January 4, 2009 a comprehensive overview of the artist’s achievements from the past twenty years.

Due to a considerable delay in the completion of both the Turkish author Orhan Pamuk’s novel “The Museum of Innocence” and the exhibits in Istanbul, it has
become impossible to meet the opening date of the show of the same name based on the novel in the Schirn Kunsthalle.

This exhibition presents from June 21 to September 14, 2008 about 130 works by 30 artists, including Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid, Alexander Kosolapov, Igor Makarevich, Elena Elagina, Andrei Monastyrski, Boris Mikhailov, Dmitri Prigov, Leonid Sokov and Vadim Zakharov.

Under the title “Captain Buddha”, visitors who set foot in the luminously flooded room are invited from May 28 to August 31, 2008 to accompany the artist on a journey that will take them on a search for themselves through the entire world – India, China, Burma, Belgium, Africa, Mexico and Canada are just some stations along the way – one that aims to reach nirvana and ends in nothingness.

The exhibition in the Schirn presents from May 28 to August 31, 2008 five works that impressively showcase the artist’s poetic, political and ironic vocabulary.

The exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt includes 150 works from numerous international museums, such as the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and from private collections and uses the example of these four women painters to present from February 22 to June 1, 2008 women artists’ contribution to the Impressionist movement.

Read here the Wall panels of the exhibition “All-Inclusive: A Tourist World”.

The exhibition “All-Inclusive: A Tourist World” on show at the Schirn from 30 January to 4 May 2008, presents numerous works depicting and critically questioning various tourist phenomena.

With its exhibition “Eva Grubinger: Spartacus”, the Schirn continues from November 29, 2007 to February 17, 2008 its programmatic focus on current contemporary positions.

The exhibition “Art Machines Machine Art”, on view from October 18, 2007, to January 27, 2008 begins in the twentieth century with Jean Tinguely’s oeuvre, which manifests in an extremely original way his effort to come to terms with the machine as an autonomous apparatus of creativity.

The exhibition “Turner – Hugo – Moreau” represents from October 6, 2007 to January 6, 2008 the first endeavour to compare these three nineteenth-century authors of abstract imagery by juxtaposing some 130 of their watercolours, oil paintings, sketches and drawings, many of them unpublished to date.

The first large survey in Germany in twenty years presents from June 15 to September 16, 2007 Penck’s work against the backdrop of changed social and art-immanent contexts and forms of reception.

The exhibition concentrates from June 7 to September 23, 2007 on John Bock’s genuinely cinematic works for the first time and presents six films and videos from 2001 to 2006 as well as a film produced especially for the Schirn: Palms, a mixture of road movie and gangster film shot in Los Angeles.

The exhibition “Op Art” at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt offers from February 17 to May 20, 2007 a major survey of its most important positions without distinguishing between two-dimensional pictures and threedimensional objects.

Under the programmatic title “Anonymous: In the Future No One Will Be Famous”, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents an exhibition with works by 11 international artists who – like the curator – will remain unnamed.

The exhibition explores from September 28, 2006 to January 7, 2007 for the first time how the German fascination with the Wild West manifested itself in the visual arts there between 1825 and 1950.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the exhibition “Nothing” from July 12 to October 1, 2006.

The show pursues from June 15 to September 3, 2006 the urban traces from Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s (1809–1891) sustained interventions in Paris to the comprehensive redevelopment of Berlin under James Hobrecht (1825–1902) and highlights their impact on the fine arts.

This exhibition shows from April 7 to June 25, 2006 how contemporary art confronts the various life worlds of teens, twens, and postadolescent thirtysomethings whose experience of youth culture often extends into their family lives and careers.

Read there the Wall panels of the exhibition “The Youth of Today”.

The Schirn presents from March 3 to May 28, 2006 more than a hundred watercolors and pastels, some of which are large formats, that offer the first opportunity to view together essential aspects of works that have been dispersed throughout the world.

The exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle centers on the period between 1900 and 1926, the crucial years of Picasso’s lifelong love for the world of the stage,
and, presenting more than 140 works, photographs, and documents from October 21, 2006 to January 21, 2007, demonstrates how passionately Picasso was attached to the theater.

With eighty masterpieces on canvas and the same numbers of works on paper from international museums and private collections, the exhibition presents from December 17, 2005 to March 19, 2006 key works from each of his creative periods.

“Summer of Love” is a ground-breaking exhibition about psychedelic art which illustrates from November 2, 2005 to February 12, 2006 the unique connections between contemporary art, popular culture, and political protest during the 1960s and early 1970s.

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents from September 26 to October 2, 2005 “In Concert”, a musical project consisting exclusively of visual artists.

The exhibition “Rodin Beuys”, on view from September 9 to November 27, 2005 is the first time the artistic work of Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) and Joseph Beuys (1921–86) has been brought together.

Jan De Cock has created his first monumental work in Germany for the exterior and interior of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, which is being presented from May 26 to September 11, 2005.

From May 12 to August 28, 2005, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the exhibition “Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art”.

The exhibition attempts to shine a new light from April 15 to July 24, 2005 on this artists’ group, which has been thought of as retrograde, because its formal language looked back to Raphael and Dürer and its lifestyle was monastically oriented, in order to reassess it as the earliest movement of aesthetic modernism.

Comprising more than 180 masterpieces of painting and drawing, the exhibition in the Schirn offers from January 28 to April 24, 2005 a picture of Austrian art at the beginning of the 20th century beyond all fin-de-siècle romanticism in its uncompromising modernity and with an explosive social power that it has preserved until today.

From January 20 to March 28, 2005, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the exhibition “Carsten Nicolai: Anti Reflex”.

The Schirn presents from October 15 to October 31, 2004 “durchnässt” (“soaked”), a new work by Ayşe Erkmen, which the artist has developed specifically for the Schirn Rotunda.

On the occasion of the Arab world’s appearance as guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Schirn realizes from October 5 to October 30, 2004 a project titled “NEARER THE NEAR EAST”.

The Schirn Kunsthalle presents the exhibition “3’” from September 30, 2004 to January 2, 2005.

This retrospective shows the major works of each phase: the first color monochrome paintings in orange, yellow, green, red, black or white; the famous blue monochromes and the sponge reliefs and sculptures; the much debated anthropometries, in which he employed female models as ”living brushes;” the ”monogolds;” and his final experiments with fire and elements of nature.

As part of its program SCHIRN RE:SET, which already saw the presentation of Thomas Hirschhorn’s installation ”Double Garage” and Jonathan Meese’s ”Képi Blanc,” the Schirn now shows the Swiss artist Costa Vece’s work “La fin du monde”.

The Schirn dedicates from May 13 to July 18, 2004 a comprehensive retrospective to the great “magician of silence” James Lee Byars (1932–1997).

The comprehensive retrospective at the Schirn comprising more than 50 monumental works focuses on Julian Schnabel’s oeuvre as a painter, presented from January 29 to April 25, 2004 in Germany on such a large scale for the first time since 1987.

From January 16 to April 12, 2004, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents the exhibition “Jonathan Meese: KÉPI BLANC, NACKT”.

Thomas Hirschhorn’s work, which will be presented from December 10, 2003 until January 11, 2004, will be followed by Jonathan Meese’s installation ”DR. NO’S DIAMOND PLANTATION …,” to be visited as of 16 January.

The comprehensive exhibition “Dream Factory Communism” presented in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt from September 24, 2003 to January 4, 2004 is dedicated to the universe of Soviet art in the Stalin Era, which is still only little known in the West.

The exhibition “Paul Klee: 1933”, on view from September 18, to November 30, 2003 is dedicated to Paul Klee’s (1879–1940) creative achievements in 1933, a year that was extremely difficult for the artist both professionally and personally.

Against the backdrop of this risk culture, the exhibition “At Your Own Risk”, prepared by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in cooperation with the Siemens Arts Program, highlights from June 27 to September 7, 2003 a particular form of art which, having emerged in the 1990s, turns the viewer into a user.

The exhibition “Visions and Utopias” outlines from April 29 to August 3, 2003 the art of architectural drawing in the 20th century by presenting a number of outstanding works from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The exhibition focuses from March 27 to June 9, 2003 on 20th-century art rooted in the tradition of the grotesquely comical.

“Dear Painter, Paint Me …” shows from January 15 to April 6, 2003 how today’s realistic painting presents itself: provocative, critical, ironic, and emotive.

The SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT presents from December 20, 2002 to March 2, 2003 a comprehensive survey of Henri Matisse’s late landmark works.

The exhibition ”SHOPPING”, presented at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt from 28 September to 1 December 2002, documents 100 years of mutual fascination, interaction, and reconciliation in the relationship between visual art and the consumer culture’s aesthetics, strategies, and techniques of seduction.

With 900 items from 60 European museums, the exhibition ”The Mystery of the Celts of Glauberg ” presented at the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT from
May 24 to September 1, 2002 offers a comprehensive survey of the fascinating world of Celtic culture.

From February 15 to April 28, 2002, the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT will present 150 selected paintings representing the Expressionist oeuvre of this great innovator.

The exhibition (February 9 to April 28, 2002) explores the entire bandwidth of perceptual experience, taking visitors on a quest for new dimensions in hearing and listening in a presentation of works conceived especially for the SCHIRN by a number of leading artists in the field of ”sound art”.

A unique and challenging exhibition is being staged in Frankfurt and opens to the public from 11 November 2001 to 27 January 2002 at mak.frankfurt (the Museum für Angewandte Kunst) and Schirn Kunsthalle.

The SCHIRN Kunsthalle will present the first SCHIRN FORUMOO1 from September 21 to October 31, 2001.

Five years after his death, this exhibition, on view from September 15, 2001 to January 6, 2002 is a tribute to Hanson’s stature.