Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hamburg
Tuesday–Sunday, 10 am – 6pm
Thursday, 10 am – 9 pm
Closed on Mondays
Glockengießerwall 5
20095 Hamburg
As part of the Constellation programme, which will unfold throughout the renovation of its Beaubourg building, the Centre Pompidou is joining forces with the Hamburger Kunsthalle, one of Germany’s leading museums, to present an exhibition co-curated from its collection, following an initial collaboration with the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Exploring the aesthetic questions raised by emerging technologies, the exhibition establishes a fruitful dialogue with the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s collection of over 600 new media works, likewise established in 1977.
© C.B. Evans, Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn
Coming soon
Unstable Media in the 21st Century
Highlights from the Centre Pompidou New Media Collection
20 November 2026 – 2 May 2027
How do artists appropriate the media of their time and continually reinvent the narratives of image and sound, particularly through emerging technologies whose futures remain uncertain, such as computer programming and networked traffic? Bringing together some of the most radical artistic voices of the past three decades, this exhibition features some forty landmark works from Centre Pompidou’s New Media collection that engage with these questions through eight themes:
the representation of time and the exploration of digital material; the dilution of narrative and the mise en abyme of the archive; the confrontation with colonial history and the potential of an artwork as a site of doubt and utterance; and the examination of the body as image and the image as body.
The Hamburger Kunsthalle’s collection spans from the Old Masters to the present day.
Highlights include North German medieval painting, featuring the altarpiece by Meister Francke; the European Renaissance, with works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Holbein, and Paris Bordone; and 17th-century Dutch painting, featuring works by Rembrandt, Pieter de Hooch, and Rachel Ruysch.
German Romanticism is represented by the most important works of Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich. Realists such as Adolph Menzel and Max Liebermann are featured alongside the French Impressionists (Manet, Monet, Renoir) and international Salon painting, with works by Hans Makart, Anselm Feuerbach, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. In the early 20th century, the Hamburger Kunsthalle became one of the leading centers of the European avant-garde, exhibiting and collecting works by painters such as Edvard Munch, Ferdinand Hodler, and female artists Anita Rée, Dorothea Metzel-Johannsen, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, and Paula Moderson-Becker. You’ll also find outstanding paintings by the Brücke artists, as well as by Lovis Corinth and Max Beckmann.
With key works by Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Holzer, Edith Dekyndt, Francis Alÿs, and Nan Goldin, the Hamburger Kunsthalle has become a significant voice in the contemporary art scene.
In the new sculpture exhibition, delicate miniature sculptures—coins and medals—meet sculptural masterpieces ranging from antiquity to the present. Not only can the highlights of the more than 140,000 drawings and prints be discovered via the online collection at www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
