23. May 2026 –
16. Aug 2026
Nanne Meyer
Purposeful wandering
The main building of the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe is closed for the coming years due to renovation work.
In the meantime, exhibitions are taking place at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, the Orangerie, and the Junge Kunsthalle.
Kurz zusammengefasst
The exhibition is dedicated to the extensive body of drawings by artist Nanne Meyer (*1953), who was born in Hamburg and now lives and works in Berlin. Under the playfully poetic title Gezieltes Umherirren, her works open up unexpected ways of seeing, losing oneself, and rediscovering within the historic setting of the Karlsruhe Orangerie.
The exhibition brings together more than 300 works by the artist, including numerous series and individual pieces, many of which were created recently for the Karlsruhe project. For over four decades, Nanne Meyer has devoted herself exclusively to drawing. Working with both found materials and a wide range of techniques, she understands drawing as a means of seeing and reflecting — of both lived experience and the imagined.
Through her drawings, the artist engages with fundamental questions of existence: our being, our becoming and passing, and our place within an apparently infinite cosmos. In response to the Orangerie as the exhibition site, many of her newly created works revolve around the motif of the orange: explored as fruit, as a cultural symbol, and as a luminous metaphor suspended between myth and cosmos.
