MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst is changing fast. The Programme 2025 continues the focus of working with living artists, on generating new lines in art history, and on questioning canons and stereotypes. The themes for 2025 extend to “language” and “play” in the arts. Following Philippe Parreno’s radical exhibition shaped by AI and machine learning, and conducted by human and non-human voices, Haus der Kunst invites all to participate in different forms of learning.
Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director: “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.”
PROGRAMME PREVIEW 2025
ECHOES. Plot Twist
30.1. – 2.2.25
The annual live exhibition ECHOES 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$$ KI$$
14.2. – 3.8.25
The first institutional survey of Shu Lea Cheang, 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 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
8.5.25 – 22.2.26
The yearly commission for the Staff Entrance proposes a speculative future where technology and identity coexist in more fluid, interconnected forms. The spatial installation unfolds as an investigation into techo-orientalism, a critical take on the appropriation of imagery in contemporary culture.
ars viva 2025. Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Vincent Scheers, Helena Uambembe
27.6. – 21.9.25
Haus der Kunst welcomes Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Vincent Scheers, and Helena Uambembe, the 2025 winners of the well-known art prize for young artists. In this series of new works, the three artists develop central concerns of their practice, while exploring new techniques. The exhibition is a cooperation with Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft.
For Children. Art Stories since 1968
18.7.25 – 1.2.26
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
3.10.25 – 8.3.26
The solo show centres around the artist’s latest film that was partially shot in Munich. Cyprien Gaillard’s work is concerned with the the intersections between human artefacts, urban geography, and psychology. 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.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra. Soy Energía
14.11.25 – 7.6.26
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 Sandra Vásquez de la Horra's upbringing in Chile as well as in her many years of living in Germany.
TUNE
All year
Haus der Kunst's fourth-year TUNE sound residencies continue on the intersections of sound, music, and visual arts. The spirit of play is the main thread running through TUNE 2025, and it takes place across venues of our building. 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.
Alongside these exhibitions, Haus der Kunst maintains its commitment to formats reinforcing participation (Open Haus, MMMHaus, Super BOOKS), to new memories (LSK-Galerie, Archiv Galerie), and to cooperative projects (DANCE Festival München, SPIELART Theaterfestival).
