From around 130,000 objects owned by the Kunstpalast, the display collection shows around 800 works in a chronological tour of over 5,000 square metres.

Famous paintings, such as Rubens’ Ascension or Cranach’s Unequal Couple, meet exhibits that make many a visitor wonder: Birkenstock sandals and an Aldi bag, for example. Is that art? Of course it is!

Whether miniature or monumental work, everyday object or piece of jewellery, sculpture or porcelain, drawing or interactive VR installation – this collection unites all genres. Thanks to regular new additions and rearrangements as well as temporary interventions and special presentations such as Kunstpalast in Bloom, the permanent collection, which now runs under the title It’s all Art?!, is always on the move and there is always something new to discover on the tour.

The museum’s collection is extensive, with around 130,000 objects from 11 centuries, various continents and all eras and genres. In addition to the historical holdings of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, other significant contributions to the main collection are the works from the Willi Kemp Foundation and those donated by Wolfgang Hanck.

The presentation of the collection is generously supported by the City of Düsseldorf and our sponsors and museum gallery sponsors.

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The new Kunstpalast

PalACE STUDIO

Being creative together

Rhino palast

Hidden rooms by Christoph Niemann

Meet Anna Maria

The Taste of kunstpalast

In unserer Halloween Lounge könnt ihr euch perfekt auf den schaurigsten Tag des Jahres einstimmen: Make-up-Artists schminken euch schaurige Looks und erschreckend echt aussehende Wunden, die Künstlerin SOFF erstellt im Gespräch mit euch ein Porträt eures spirituellen Wesens und Signature Drinks könnt ihr an der Kristallbar genießen. Die Ausstellung „Tod und Teufel. Faszination des Horrors“ ist den ganzen Abend geöffnet, um 19 Uhr gibt es im Modebereich außerdem eine Tanz-Perfomance mit Enting Zhang und Kollektiv. Führungen zu Tod, Teufel oder Vampirismus für alle die sich trauen beginnen um 18 Uhr und um 20 Uhr.
Ausstellungseintritt: 9 € / Tickets an der Abendskasse
 
Im Anschluss wird um 21.30 Uhr im nahegelegenen Programmkino Bambi Bram Stroker’s Dracula gezeigt. Tickets sind erhältlich über das Kino auf der Website oder an der Abendkasse.
Preis: 10 € / 8 € (Gildepass)

Kunstpalast Open-Air

Atemberaubende Bilder von Planeten, Sternen, Nebeln und fernen Galaxien lassen uns seit Jahrzehnten über die Weiten des Alls staunen. Zu verdanken haben wir dies leistungsstarken Geräten wie dem Hubble- oder dem James-Webb-Teleskop, die unser Verständnis vom Universum revolutionierten. Wie jedoch funktionieren sie, was ist deren Geschichte, was haben sie uns gezeigt und was haben wir daraus gelernt? Diese und andere Fragen klären wir in einem live moderierten Vortrag mit musikalisch untermalten Bildersequenzen in 360°.

Die Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperation mit der Sternwarte Neanderhöhe Hochdahl e.V. im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Refik Anadol. Machine Hallucinations“. Einer der in der Ausstellung gezeigten Arbeit liegen über zwei Millionen, von Weltraumteleskopen aufgenommene Bilder zu Grunde, die ein Algorithmus zu einem neuen, eigenständigen Kunstwerk verarbeitete.

Veranstaltungsort: snh-Planetarium „Stellarium Erkrath“, Bürgerhaus Hochdahl (Eingang West), Sedentaler Straße 105, Erkrath-Hochdahl, Tel. 02104-947666 (Mo–Fr, 9–15 Uhr)

Dauer: ca. 90 Minuten, Gebühr: 6/8 €
Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahren

Supermodel and global fashion icon, Claudia Schiffer, takes Kunstpalast visitors on a personal journey through the fashion industry of the 1990s. In her first curated exhibition, Schiffer brings together legendary fashion photographers, designers, editors and supermodels, whose energy and vision, like her own, captivated and shaped the decade.

Approximately 150 exhibits draw upon a diverse panorama of the various aspects, characters, and places that were important in the fashion world of the time and the broader cultural sphere. Schiffer balances major photographic works, which continue to inspire and influence today’s artists and designers, with unseen and intimate material. Moving image, music and memorabilia from her private archive will reflect the dynamism and change of the era, allowing visitors to catch a glimpse behind the scenes of legendary fashion shows and afterparties.

About Claudia Schiffer

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The exhibition comprising approximately 120 works illustrates the changes in taste occurring in the period between early Romanticism and the beginnings of the Realist movement. For the first time Saxonian landscape painting forms a dialogue with works of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Around 30 paintings and 20 drawings by Friedrich, as well as works by his Dresden colleagues Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869), Ludwig Richter (1803-1884) and Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797-1855) are juxtaposed with paintings by the Düsseldorf artists Andreas (1815-1910) and Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905), Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808-1880), Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863) and others.

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Hotel Cooperation

For the first time in Germany, an exhibition is dedicated to the oil study as one of the most pivotal revolutions in form in 19th-century art. Showing a wealth of works from private and museum collections that have never been shown to the public, the exhibition illuminates artists’ appreciative gaze on nature in the Romantic period.

An unusual aspect is that the oil studies were used by the artists for private purposes only and were never exhibited. It wasn’t until two hundred years later that, owing to new viewing habits, they came to be appreciated as works of art in their own right – and, at that, often to an even greater extent than the finished studio paintings for which the painters were renowned.

Nevertheless, the oil studies were not only revolutionary in terms of form, but also as regards their content. They offered a fresh perspective on nature. All of a sudden, the incidental became worthy of depiction: the play of light and shadow, wayside trees, grasses swaying in the wind, bubbling brooks. With the studies, the artists created a stockpile of motifs from which they drew inspiration throughout their artistic career. And this is precisely the power they reveal to the viewer today.

The exhibition comprises around 170 works by 75 artists.

Alongside works by Christo the exhibition presents paintings and objects by Arman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein and others. This contextualisation within the diverse field of reference of the avant-garde in 1950s Paris illuminates the specific ways in which the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude evolved and what characterises their artistic position.

The Museum of Art and Cultural History Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, will be presenting a modified version of the exhibition from 10 March to 3 September 2023.
Curator of the exhibition is Kay Heymer, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, alongside co-curator Sophie-Marie Sümmermann, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.

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Hotel Cooperations

Cornelius Völker (*1965) studied at the Academy of Art Düsseldorf from 1989 to 1995. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

In 2005 he was appointed Professor of Painting at the Academy of Art Münster.

Völker has developed a powerful style of figurative painting in which realism and a complex handling of colour combine to form a distinctive pictorial language. His paintings make familiar objects appear in a new light, bringing surprising facets to the fore with outstanding precision and inventiveness.

Once again, the largest and longest-standing art exhibition in Germany organised by artists will be taking place this summer.

By organising DIE GROSSE, the association “Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen e.V.” has provided a unique platform of exchange between artists and art enthusiasts since 1902.

Each year, participating artists are selected by a different jury. All works can be purchased directly on the premises. The exhibition presented at the Kunstpalast, NRW-Forum and Ehrenhof includes works from the fields of painting, photography, graphic art, sculpture, installation and video art.

More information can be found here.