SUMMER PARTY 2026 – THE PROGRAMME

Official opening at 7.15 pm (Museum meadow): Words of welcome: Thomas Kufen (Lord Mayor of the City of Essen), Peter Gorschlüter (Director Museum Folkwang) and Stephan Muschick (Vice President E.ON SE) 

INTERVENTIONS
6.00 – 12.00 pm | Interventions by Hakan Balloon (Collection)
6.00 –11.00 pm | Art Wheel of Fortune (Foyer)
6.00 – 8.30 pm | Rendez-vous with the Archive (Reading Room)
6.00 – 10.00 pm | Divine Bar x Junger Kunstring Folkwang: Take Over (Salon)
8.00 – 10.00 pm | Musical performance by Melody Blessing in the exhibition I, Gustave Courbet
10.00 – 10.20 pm | Rave Aerobic (Foyer)
11.15 – 11.35 pm | Rave Aerobic (Foyer)

ARTIST TALKS
7.30 – 8.00 pm | Artist Talk Gabriela Oberkofler (Collection)
8.00 – 8.15 pm | Opening 6 ½ Weeks Kiriakos Tompolidis. The Quiet Hour (Foyer)
9.00 – 9.30 pm | Artist Talk Kiriakos Tompolidis (Reading room)

MUSIC
6.30 – 7.00 pm | Melody Blessing (Museum meadow)
7.30 – 8.15 pm | Elsa (Museum meadow)
8.45 – 9.45 pm | Lézard (Museum meadow)
10.00 – 12.00 pm | DJ Set (Salon)

GUIDED TOURS (Meeting Point Foyer)
7.00 |  8.00 pm | Thematic Tours Collection: Landscape, Portraiture, Plants and animals
8.30 – 9.00 pm | Curator-led tour with Malte Radtki
9.00 – 9.30 pm | Thematic Tours Collection: Landscape, Portraiture
9.30 – 10.00 pm | Curator-led tour with Matthias Gründig
9.30 – 10.30 pm | Family tour with torches Au clair de la lune
10.00 – 10.30 pm | Thematic Tour Collection: Portraiture
10.30 – 11.00 pm | Curator-led tour with Thomas Seelig

WORKSHOPS
6.00 – 9.45 pm | Flower Power (Museum meadow)
6.00 – 9.45 pm | Temporary Tattoos (Museum meadow)
6.00 – 9.45 pm | Tape it, till you make it. Tape workshop (in front of Exhibition hall 1)
6.00 – 9.45 pm | B(u)ild your own Stillleben (Glass Gallery, in front of exhibion space I, Gustave Courbet)
6.30 | 7.30 | 8.30 | 9.30 pm | Hakan Balloon (Garden Hall, 30 mins each)

CHILDREN
6.30 – 7.30 | Theater Rosenfisch: ich mach dich gesund, sagte der bär (Karl Ernst Osthaus-Saal)

DRINKS, FOOD & MORE
6.00 – 10.00 pm | Drinks and Food on the museum meadow, Stalls: Junger Kunstring Folkwang, Neue Insel, Bonnekamp Stiftung, Edda; Special Sale Book shop Walther König in the foyer 
6.00 – 12.00 pm | Drinks and Food on the museum terrace: Edda 

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