See You

Encounters with the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

The Museum is closed for extensive renovation work.
During this time, exhibitions at ZKM | Center for Art and Media and at Junge Kunsthalle take place.

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While the main Building is being renovated, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe has relocated to the ZKM, offering a space for discovery and encounter.

Around 300 key works from the museum’s collection are on display under the glass roof of the ZKM’s second inner courtyard, including masterpieces by Matthias Grünewald, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Henri Matisse, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The exhibition See You. Exploring the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe invites visitors on a journey through art history – from the Middle Ages to the late 1940s – encouraging reflection on questions such as: How do images communicate? What can art works tell us about social, cultural and art history in western Europe? And what do they have to do with our lives today ? A series of studio exhibitions also showcases particular aspects of the chronological presentation, offering some surprising encounters.

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The prologue is formed by a cinematic “threshold space” by Anna Henckel Donnersmarck. The multi-channel projection visualises the actual location of the art, the abandoned building of the Kunsthalle. After this media art work, a chronological tour develops with the popular major works. Familiar images meet rarely shown works; the contribution of women artists is particularly highlighted and the canon of art history is expanded by new voices.

Besucherinnen in der Ausstellung der Kunsthalle umgeben von expressionistischen und abstrakten Gemälden

New accents in the tour are given by the Röchling Collection, which adds new highlights to the Kunsthalle collection. A selection of the more than 50 high-ranking works from the Fontana Foundation established by Dr. Hermann Röchling will be shown for the first time.

Foto eines Ausstellungsbereiches. An der Wand hängen verschiedene Gemälde. Im Vordergrund steht eine Skulptur.

With a digital guide, visitors can be accompanied through the exhibition by multimedia and discover other major works, such as a newly restored painting by Matthias Grünewald. Several thematic tours open up new perspectives on the presentation.

The exhibition is intended as a flexible discussion programme that will be supplemented by exhibitions in the Junge Kunsthalle and further presentations in the Orangerie from September 2025.