02.03.–30.06.2024
at H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast
The exhibition " Training Images" by Philipp Goldbach at the H2 Center for Contemporary Art in the Glaspalast brings together more than half a million physical images. About ten years ago, the Cologne-based artist began recycling entire slide libraries with photographic reproductions of artworks from universities that had become obsolete as teaching aids due to digitization and are about to be destroyed worldwide.
Until further notice
at Maximilianmuseum
From June 1, 2024, the Maximilian Museum will present Augsburg's goldsmith art from the Renaissance to the Biedermeier period in the Silver Vault, including silver objects from the legacy of collector and patron Kurt Viermetz.
13.07.2024–03.11.2024
at Maximilianmuseum
Even in his old age, the renowned Augsburg sculptor and medallist Friedrich Brenner is still preoccupied with current issues such as environmentally friendly and resource-saving living. The Maximilian Museum presents Brenner's latest works on the subject of tiny houses.
19.09.–24.11.2024,
at Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus
Franziska Kastner's works are experimental and cross-media. Using elements of photography, video, drawing, text and objects, she creates artistic installations with a multidimensional visual language. In addition to aesthetic stimuli, her work in combination with sound consists of intuition, tension, speed, simultaneity, alienation and continuity.
22.09.2024–12.01.2025
at H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in the Glaspalast
From 1992 to 2002, Olaf Otto Becker exclusively shot Polaroids for a decade. A significant body of work in the oeuvre of the great German photographer is represented by this completely unknown part of his photographic oeuvre.
08.11.2024–09.02.2025
at Grafisches Kabinett
The exhibition shows almost 30 drawings, watercolors and oil paintings by Johann Moritz Rugendas on Brazil from the holdings of the Augsburg Art Collections, some loans from private collections and the original of the "Malerische Reise in Brasilien" published in 1835.
29.11.2024–04.05.2025
at Schaezlerpalais
By cropping the photographed painting palettes of renowned artists slightly diagonally at the bottom and then turning them 90 degrees, photographer Matthias Schaller first physically detaches the palettes from the artists and then presents them in a vertical position as an independent work of art. The exhibition “The Masterpiece” presents a selection of large-format photographs from this ongoing project.
29.11.2024-09.02.2025
at Maximilianmuseum
Every year at Christmas time, the Maximilian Museum invites visitors to enter the enchanting world of historical toys. This year there is a special edition with the legendary model railroads of the tinplate era by Märklin (1891-1936).
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13.12.2024-23.03.2025
at Café and Liebertzimmer of the Schaezlerpalais
Bodo Zapp has realised the songs of Franz Schubert's ‘Winterreise’ as a graphic cycle. This takes the form of collages, each of which is accompanied by the song text for better understanding. His own drawings are combined with quotations from art history, motifs from everyday life, frottages or alienated photographs.
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Römerlager im Zeughaus
After the Roman Museum was closed indefinitely, a new exhibition of known and unknown objects was put together. Under the title "Roman camp - the Roman Augsburg in boxes" we are showing great and impressive finds in seven subject areas.
Brechthaus
Bert Brecht's birthplace in Augsburg's Lechviertel has been a memorial site since 1985. Here you can immerse yourself in the life and work of the poet and playwright. The craftsman's house "Auf dem Rain 7" is sandwiched between two Lech canals. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was born on February 10, 1898 on the upper floor of the...
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Leopold-Mozart-Haus
Augsburg played an important role for Leopold Mozart throughout his life. He received his musical and humanistic education from the Jesuits. Later, he established intensive contacts with Protestant businessmen. Go in search of traces in the German city of Mozart! The "Leopold Mozart House" offers a Mozart experience of a special kind: A museum to listen, feel and participate together...
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