The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is dedicating the last exhibition before the renovation to a joint look into the future: the future of the Kunsthalle, but also the future of cities, urban spaces, societies and living together.
The exhibition Where to? Kunsthalle / City / Society of the Future takes the threshold at which the institution finds itself as its starting point and opens it up to a collective examination of questions of urban and institutional coexistence. The Kunsthalle becomes a space for thought and experience, a laboratory of possibilities. It invites visitors to engage with questions of architecture, urban planning, cultural participation and the design of public and communal spaces in a city - especially in times of profound ecological, social and economic upheaval.
Artists and cultural practitioners, architecture firms, design and urban planning studios as well as scientific researchers who deal with topics such as green cities, urban mobility, sustainable construction, practiced democracy, cultural participation and the role and responsibility of culture in this complex structure will share their innovative ideas, projects and visions with the public. The exhibition is not intended as a closed presentation, but as an open, evolving project space. It brings together ideas, experiments and proposals and invites visitors to think and develop together.
Where to? asks for perspectives for the city of the future and focuses on the central challenges of social coexistence. The focus is not only on problems, but above all on creative proposals for solutions and forward-looking impulses from a wide range of players.
The central questions are:
How can we live in the future?
And above all: How can we live in the future?
The aim of the exhibition is to create space for encounters and exchange in order to search for answers to these questions together. Visitors are invited to get actively involved - with questions, thoughts, criticism and imagination for shaping a common future. Numerous projects and formats encourage people to think, shape and experience.
Where to? is a joint farewell project of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf team and at the same time a collective departure into an open future.
October 11, 2025 to January 4, 2026
