Exhibitions

Installationsansicht Prometheus Bound

Installationsansicht Prometheus Bound
Werke: Barnett Newman, Auguste Rodin, Max Beckmann

Foto: Jens Nober, Museum Folkwang

21. Jun 2019
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30. Jun 2026

NEW WORLDS

DIALOGUE OF THE ARTS
29 rooms – 29 stories of new beginnings and rediscoveries, of similarities and contrasts, of humankind and art. The Museum Folkwang collection offers new insights into developments and connections within art history, with altering displays spanning different eras and media. Recent acquisitions and rarely exhibited works engage in exciting dialogues with the collection’s masterpieces. Painting, photography, poster art …
Autor:in unbekannt: Germaine Krull mit Contax, um 1932 © Nachlass Germaine Krull, Museum Folkwang, Essen

Unknown photographer
Germaine Krull with Contax, ca 1932
Gelatin silver print, 11.5 × 14.5 cm 
© Estate Germaine Krull, Museum Folkwang, Essen 

28. Nov 2025
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15. Mar 2026

Germaine Krull: Chien Fou

Writer and Photographer
Museum Folkwang has housed the photographer Germaine Krull’s estate since 1995. In addition to prints, negatives and publications, it also includes an extensive journalistic oeuvre. This includes (auto) biographical and (auto)fictional texts, (photo)books and maquettes, letters and political reports or reportages. As an extended approach to Germaine Krull’s artistic legacy, this journalistic oeuvre is now becoming visible in …
Ferdinand Waas, An Apple a Day, the Border Is Still There (Videostill), 2025

Ferdinand Waas
An Apple a Day, the Border Is Still There (Videostill), 2025
© Ferdinand Waas

13. Feb 2026
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29. Mar 2026

6 ½ Weeks – Ferdinand Waas

Eurotrip Energy
The exhibition brings together video works by Ferdinand Waas from 2025 and 2026 to form a trilogy: Ode to Joy , An Apple a Day, The Border Is Still There and One Night in Ibiza . The works are being shown together for the first time; for Ode to Joy and One Night in Ibiza , this is their first presentation in an exhibition. The three works are linked by the fact that they are manifestations of found realities that challenge the …
William Wegman, Dress Up Batty, Gestaltung: Empire Design Studio © Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 2004

William Wegman 
Dress Up Batty 
Gestaltung: Empire Design Studio 
© Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 2004

27. Feb 2026
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07. Jun 2026

L IS FOR LOOK

Photo books for children and young people
L is for Look invites visitors on an interactive journey of discovery through the history of children’s and young adults’ photo books – from their industrial boom in the 1930s to the present day. Although this genre continues to occupy a niche in the publishing landscape, the exhibition impressively illustrates how educational concepts and the social status of children in the Western world have changed over the past 100 years …

Upcoming

SAÂDANE AFIF_2026

Saâdane Afif
Blue Time (Sunburst), 2004
© Saâdane Afif, Foto: Archiv Museum Folkwang

13. Mar 2026
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04. Oct 2026

SAÂDANE AFIF

Affiches / Plakate
100 Beste Plakate 25_2026

Daniel Peter
Hilfe, ich erbe!, 2024
© Studio Daniel Peter, Ill.: Alice Kolb / 100 Beste Plakate e. V.

03. Jul 2026
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02. Aug 2026

100 BEST POSTERS 25

Germany Austria Switzerland
LOCATION: UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein, SANAA building, 1st floor
Ich, Gustave Courbet_2026

Gustave Courbet
Der vor Angst Wahnsinnige, around1844 
Photo: Børre Høstland/Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

17. Jul 2026
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08. Nov 2026

I, GUSTAVE COURBET

Painter and Rebel

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