Annual programme 2023

“There it is!” chirped the bird excitedly. “Go for it! It may vanish any moment!” Running as fast as I could, I ran into the rainbow. The colours splashed my face, and I stopped. Seeing me puzzled, the bird explained, “You must enter the unknown not by accident, but fully aware that you are taking a decisive step. Only then you will know why you are where you are. Don’t fret, you won’t be alone.” —Aleksandra Kašuba, 2005

This coming year we carry on the path of interconnecting and weaving together all that we propose. We continue to build on the programmatic strands set forth in 2022: interdisciplinary approaches, transnational outlooks, collaborative making, historic re-evaluations, and presenting emerging artists and trailblazers of the recent past whose practices illuminate the present and offer glimpses of the future. Sound is central to the year, and runs as a backbone through the 2023 programme—presenting voice, sound, music and time. As a whole, the programme stands to re-examine the stories we are told, highlight that which is missing from historic narratives and presents the urgency of acting locally while keeping the world in our minds. As an institution, we are also transforming. A new approach and mission to Learning and Engagement is at the core of this process, and becomes the glue that melds all we do together. And a new visual identity for the Haus will highlight the intention of our intertwined programme, and sits in dialogue with the site of Haus der Kunst itself—its form, colours, and tones. —Andrea Lissoni and Emma Enderby

Karrabing Film Collective: Wonderland
A major survey of Karrabing Film Collective, an Indigenous media group based in Australia’s Northern Territory. Karrabing uses filmmaking as a form of grassroots resistance and self-organisation.

Katalin Ladik: Ooooooooo-pus
The exhibition focuses on Katalin Ladik’s foundational work in poetry, performance, and sound. The work of the trailblazing artist has its spiritual and conceptual roots in the multi-ethnic and feminist avant-gardes of former Yugoslavia.

Hamid Zénati: All-Over
The first institutional exhibition dedicated to the work of the artist Hamid Zénati. Travelling between Munich and Algiers, Zénati’s artistic practice ranged from painting, textiles, interior and fashion design, to photography, always driven by an anarchic impetus to create.

Generously supported by The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Stiftung Kunstfonds and City of Munich, Department of Arts and Culture.

Trace—Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther Collection
This major exhibition is in collaboration with The Walther Collection, a New York/New-Ulm–based art foundation internationally recognised for their critical engagement with contemporary and historical photography, as well as lens-based media art. The more than 1000 works on display by a diverse group of artists, as well as archival, documentary and vernacular photography, offer a global context to reflect on representation and portraiture in non-dominant narratives.

Rirkrit Tiravanija
The work of Rirkrit Tiravanija will be presented throughout the month of May at various sites in the museum. The project coincides with Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Hanjo at Haus der Kunst in collaboration with the Bayerische Staatsoper, for which Tiravanija is creating the stage design.

The staging of Hanjo by Toshio Hosokawa is a cooperation of Haus der Kunst München and Bayerische Staatsoper.

ars viva 2023
The winners of ars viva 2023, Paul Kolling, Shaun Motsi, and Leyla Yenirce, will present new site-specific works on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the renowned award for emerging artists.

An exhibition by Haus der Kunst München in cooperation with Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V.

Martino Gamper: Sitzung
The designer will create a new series of chairs to be displayed and used. Never static, the configuration of the chairs will be changed for 100 times by the staff and the public during the run of the exhibition, turning the galleries into a social space—to gather, to rest, and to play.

Archives in Residence: Archiv 451 / Trikont Verlag
The exhibition series Archives in Residence in the Archiv Galerie focuses on independent local archives as alternative places of knowledge production. 2023 features Trikont Verlag, who published German-language publications and translations on the European and regional labour movement, on decolonisation and anti-fascism, on alternative ways of life and radical social changes.

WangShui: Certainty of the Flesh
WangShui develop sprawling socio-political narratives that integrate nature, technology and living beings. They work across video, sculpture and painting and often incorporate machine learning to create live installations.

Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists 1956—1976
This group exhibition focuses on the history of environments in the period from the late 1950s to the late 1970s, highlighting women's fundamental contributions to the field. It features the work of eleven female artists spanning three generations from Asia, Europe as well as North- and South America: Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Laura Grisi, Aleksandra Kašuba, Lea Lublin, Marta Minujín, Tania Mouraud, Maria Nordman, Nanda Vigo, Faith Wilding, and Tsuruko Yamazaki.

Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Meredith Monk: Calling
A comprehensive survey of the American artist Meredith Monk, presenting works from across the last six decades. Monk seamlessly works across disciplines—pushing the boundaries of music, theatre, dance, video, and installation—while at the core, continuously exploring the evocative power and dimensionality of the human voice.

This first survey on the oeuvre of Meredith Monk is a collaboration in two acts at Haus der Kunst München and Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, together with the Hartwig Art Foundation. The exhibition is developed in close collaboration with Meredith Monk and The House Foundation for the Arts.

TUNE
TUNE is a series of short sound residencies at Haus der Kunst, located between the realms of sound, music, and visual art. The invited artists move across genres, eras, and influences, and generate sonic responses and exchanges with the wider programming at Haus der Kunst. Artists invited in 2023 include: Ihor Okuniev, Alvin Curran, Standing on the Corner, Lifetones, Phew, Nina, Still House Plants, Exotic Sin, Dawuna, Katalin Ladik, KeiyaA and Duma.