Annual preview 2025

I think that I identify with children who take refuge in games, in order to understand both external conflicts and internal feeling of ambiguity.
—Rivane Neuenschwander

Haus der Kunst is changing fast. The focus is on working with living artists, on generating new lines in art history, and on questioning canons and stereotypes. With a view to the future, we have conceived intertwined exhibitions, live events, and participation-oriented projects. As we push for innovative forms of engagement and challenging artistic practices, we invite you to join us on this journey.
—Andrea Lissoni and Xue Tan

ECHOES: Plot Twist
January 30–February 2, 2025
Our annual live exhibition this year blends ancient myth and contemporary technology. Plot Twist is an invitation to reflect together on eco-fictions, human-machine relationships, and other demons. With Anansi’s Web (Curtly Thomas & Nelta Kasparian), Hanne Lippard & Laurel Halo, Invernomuto, Layton Lachman, Lucy Liyou, Pavel Milyakov & Martyna Basta, Pussy Riot, Rully Shabara, and Sarah Friend.

Shu Lea Cheang: KI$ KI$
February 14–August 3, 2025
The first institutional survey of the artist, the exhibition updates her works and artefacts of the past three decades into new landscape formations. Each gallery is its own world in which internet-based installation, software interaction, and multiplayer performance invite visitors to explore and participate. KI$ KI$ presents the artist’s world-building practices and imagines itself as a “machine of experience”.

Gülbin Ünlü: (n)orient
May 8, 2025–February 22, 2026
The yearly commission for the staff entrance proposes a speculative future where technology and identity converge in a spatial installation, using woven images to critique the appropriation of imagery in contemporary culture.

ars viva
June 27–September 21, 2025
We welcome Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Vincent Scheers, and Helena Uambembe, the 2025 winners of the well-known art prize for young artists. The exhibition is a cooperation with Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft.

For Children: Art Stories since 1968
July 18, 2025–February 1, 2026
The group exhibition, the outcome of transnational research, presents artists who have turned to young people, creating artworks specifically for children and adolescents from 1968 to the present. It explores universal themes—such as humanity, society, politics, economics, ecology, technology, and the future—that we first encounter as children and that continue to resonate in adulthood. While the works primarily address children, these fundamental subjects invite visitors of all ages to engage in an intergenerational dialogue. The exhibition follows this mindset and raises questions such as, “Can play be a form of learning?”

Artists include, amongst others, Koo Jeong A, Agus Nur Amal PMTOH, Ei Arakawa-Nash, Tarek Atoui, Yto Barrada, Antoine Catala, dis, Olafur Eliasson, Harun Farocki, Emily Floyd, Jan Peter Hammer, Eva Koťátková, Basim Magdy, Meredith Monk, Rivane Neuenschwander, Palle Nielsen, Lygia Pape, Rachel Rose, Afrah Shafiq, and Tromarama.

Cyprien Gaillard: Retinal Rivalry
October 3, 2025–March 8, 2026
The solo show centres around the artist’s latest film that was partially shot in Munich. From there we question how the building of Haus der Kunst serves as a monument to its troubled history and revitalises incessantly through the programme.

nora chipaumire: DAMBUDZO
October 30–31, 2025
The live anti-genre work will transform the Westgalerie into a large installation combining dance, music, play, painting, sculpture, and performance — continuing chipaumire’s exploration of the dissonance between knowledge and language in colonised territories. DAMBUDZO is a cooperation with SPIELART.

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: Soy Energía 
November 14, 2025–June 7, 2026
The artist’s first European survey is dedicated to her experimental practice and focuses on her spatial, energetic, and global thinking. The exhibition presents drawings, paintings, films, and performance, and encompasses complex events, stories, rituals, and beliefs rooted in her upbringing in Chile as well as in her many years of living in Germany.

TUNE
All year
Our fourth-year sound residencies continue on the intersections of sound, music, and visual arts. The spirit of play is the main thread running through TUNE 2025. Artists include Valentina Magaletti, Nídia, Moin, life is beautiful, Limpe Fuchs, Hanne Lippard, Laurel Halo, Youmna Saba, Benjamin Brachtel, Laraaji, Nicolas Becker, Tarek Atoui, and Quentin Sirjacq.


For their annual support of our programme we thank our shareholders, the Free State of Bavaria and the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Stiftung Haus der Kunst München e. V. We further thank our major supporter, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung for their generous commitment to our work, as well as the Ulli und Uwe Kai-Stiftung.