Ida Paulin
Glass art made in Augsburg

22.09.2023–05.05.2024
at Schaezlerpalais

This comprehensive exhibition is dedicated to the Augsburg glass painter Ida Paulin (1880-1955). As a master in the refinement of glass products, but also of products of the porcelain industry, she designed countless decorations and pictorial motifs in her Augsburg studio, which she produced in series with several female employees...

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Friends!
Acquisitions by Kunstfreunde for the museum's collection

02.03.–30.06.2024
at H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast

Art needs friends. This applies to artists and museums alike - and to the Augsburg art collections without their own acquisition budget in particular. That is why the support of the Friends of the Augsburg Art Collections e.V. is so essential and valuable. 'Friends' is a tribute to all supporters and an invitation to all those who are not yet friends to become friends of art themselves.

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For some time
Coco – Güthoff

15.03.–16.06.2024
at Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus

Looking at the dynamic chalk drawings of chimpanzee Coco, the gestural Coco portraits by Augsburg artist Anja Güthoff and their joint self-forgetful doodling game on glass is not only aesthetically moving. On display are captured moments of a trusting encounter.

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André Butzer
Studio exhibition of the Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V.

16.03.–14.07.2024
at H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast

Butzer has created a cycle of 27 works on paper especially for the GfG, supplemented by a retrospective bundle of 22 sheets, the oldest of which dates from the year 2000. In addition to the diverse drawings and watercolors, there are seven paintings of very different sizes. This compilation exemplifies Butzer's oeuvre. The entire thematic world and his typical figures become comprehensible in their individuality and development.

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Calendar week
Frank Mardaus

26.01.–07.04.2024
at Halle 1 – Raum für Kunst im Glaspalast

 

Frank Mardaus' actual material in his long-term project "Kalenderwoche" is time, depicted through photography, text and sound. He collected everything between 2001 and 2012, accurately organized by calendar week. These are the organizing principle, but also a kind of performative marker for numerous images.

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Fascination of the stage
Doris Schilffarth and Wolfgang Buchner in dialog

15.12.2023–12.05.2024
at Grafisches Kabinett

Theater has always been fascinating. At the heart of the theater is the stage, whose form has different effects on the audience. The graphic designer and painter Doris Schilffahrt and the long-standing stage and costume designer Wolfgang Buchner each have a very special relationship with the stage.

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Andrea Sandner
No Sense But Colour

20.12.2023–01.04.2024
at Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus

Andrea Sandner realizes a temporary painted work in the Neue Galerie in the Höhmannhaus. As a work in and with space, she creates a monumental, temporary painting that fundamentally reflects and at the same time expands her own previous work. Her subject is color, her painting surface the wall.

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Beauty on the Edge

12.04.-02.06.2024
at Neue Galerie in the Höhmannhaus

With the project 'Beauty on the Edge', the artists Martina Claussen (sound), Kerstin Skringer (painting), Lydia Daher (photo/text) and Stefanie Sixt (video) formulate their positions on social expectations and norms for women determined by clichés.

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Imperial power in copper
The Augsburg town clerks 1548-1806

12.06.–22.09.2024
at Grafischen Kabinett

Exactly 400 years ago, in time for the completion in 1624 of the furnishing of the town hall, which was finished by Elias Holl in 1620, the first series of pictures of Augsburg's town clerks was published in spring. In a thin booklet, published by and at the expense of the important Augsburg engraver Lukas Kilian, the city's aldermen in office since 1548 were presented with elaborate portraits and short biographies.

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The elder Holbein
Augsburg on the cusp of becoming a European art metropolis

26.07.-20.10.2024
at Schaezlerpalais

To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Hans Holbein the Elder (1465 - 1524), a special exhibition of the painter and draughtsman in his home town is being held in the rooms of the Schaezlerpalais. On display are masterpieces from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. A period in which Augsburg also became a leader in the field of fine art.

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Römerlager im Zeughaus
The roman Augsburg in boxes

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.

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Brechthaus
Exhibits and installations on childhood and adolescence, life course and works

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
Mozart up close

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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Manfred Barnickel
Twisted Views

27.6.-29.09.2024
at the Café and Liebertzimmer of the Schaezlerpalais

The Bavarian artist Manfred Barnickel sees the world from above. Viewing things from a higher vantage point widens the field of vision, opens up new perspectives and the world suddenly becomes a plaything for free, childlike thinking that frees itself from the confines of everyday life. "Twisted Views" takes a playful look at our perception and sharpens it.

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