This spring, the Kunsthalle Giessen is presenting an exciting exhibition featuring the artists Céline Ducrot and Cathrin Hoffmann. Their works reflect a multifaceted examination of contemporary themes and lend the exhibition a special depth. Céline Ducrot (*1992 in Fribourg, Switzerland) lives and works in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. She is a graduate of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig [...]

Sexuality, delusion, illness, death - these are the great human themes and elementary experiences to which Carol Rama dedicated her art. With her depictions of female pleasure in the 1930s, she paved the way for today's feminist art. Independent of schools and artistic groups, the self-taught artist created an unconventional and very personal oeuvre over the course of around 70 years. Rama's work [...]

The Städel Museum is presenting a total of 27 works in a solo exhibition, including 23 pictures from the "Beach Portraits" series, with which Rineke Dijkstra (*1959) became internationally renowned and established herself as one of the most important female photographers in contemporary art. The exhibition is complemented by works from the "Streets" series and a self-portrait. In the series of works created mainly in the 1990s, the [...]

To mark the 60th anniversary of the competition, the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt is part of a select group of international museums that are allowed to present these unique photographs. With the world-famous "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" exhibition, a selection of the best animal and nature photographs of the year will be on display at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt from December 5, 2024. The exhibition shows [...]

"In the Face of Death" is the first cultural-historical exhibition on Jewish ideas and practices relating to dying, death and mourning. It presents ritual objects, audio and video installations as well as artistic works and focuses on life itself. "No one here gets out alive" Death has many faces. And it faces us all, as [...]