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1829 gegründet, zählt der Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen zu den ältesten Kunstvere

27/10/2026

Danae Io works across moving image, sculpture, and text, often focusing on how histories are narrated and on the systems through which they are recorded, classified, and made legible. For “I, etcetera”, she developed three new works drawing on a family member’s recovery from a brain injury
and her own related experiences as a temporary caretaker navigating hospitals and their bureaucracies. Central to the works are language and images, and their role in constructing memory as something coming “in and out of focus” between recollection and representation. Io brings cinema’s participation in this movement into contact with the medical context, where memory is likewise framed, sequenced, repeated, and interpreted.

A guided tour of the group exhibition will take place this Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 5 pm, and will be held in German by Gloria Hasnay, director. Participation is free and doesn’t require registration. “I, etcetera” is on view until January 17, 2027 and includes works by Julie Becker, Chan Hau Chun, Oto Gillen, Robert Glück, and Danae Io.

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Photos: Oskar Lee / Oskar Lee

19/10/2026

The exhibition „I, etcetera“ takes some of its cues from Alex Kitnick’s 2018 essay of the same name. In it, he describes the growing presence of the first-person singular in contemporary art, criticism, and literature as an impulse that signals a new conception of the author: an „I“ that is less an origin than a continuously produced and contingent position. The „etcetera“ points to all that travels with it, from language and history to influences drawn from countless pockets of life.

This understanding of the self also opens up questions of storytelling. Autobiographical references often remain fragmentary throughout the exhibition; instead, memoir, autofiction, and other forms of self-narration prevail. Transposed to the context of the Kunstverein, these methods raise a different question: How might an institution tell a story about itself when it is composed of multiple voices and perspectives? What is made visible, what is carried forward, and by whom?

„I, etcetera“, with works by Julie Becker, Chan Hau Chun, Oto Gillen, Robert Glück, and Danae lo, continues through January 17, 2027.

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14/10/2026

“I, etcetera”, our current group exhibition with works by Julie Becker, Chan Hau Chun, Oto Gillen, Robert Glück, and Danae Io, continues through January 17, 2027. This Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 5 pm, Gloria Hasnay, director, will lead a guided tour of the exhibition in German. Everyone is welcome to join; participation is free and no registration is required.

The work of Julie Becker (1972–2016) is embedded in the psychological, cinematic, and material fabric of her hometown of Los Angeles. Working in installation, drawing, video, and photography, Becker drew on the city as a place where life could hardly be separated from the images made of it. Her work considers the fantasies of twentieth-century American popular culture against the social and economic inequities of late capitalism. In doing so, Becker’s practice grounded strategies associated with Conceptualism in a material investigation of social class. Her sensitivity to unstable architectures and displacement can be traced to an itinerant upbringing with her artist parents as much as to her adult life in Echo Park—at the time a historically underserved neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. Becker didn’t comment on these conditions directly; instead, the realities of single-room occupancy housing, dilapidated rentals, and provisional interiors seeped into her work, while retaining an often-tongue-in-cheek sensibility.

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Photos: Oskar Lee / Oskar Lee

28/09/2026

Throughout the practices of Julie Becker, Chan Hau Chun, Oto Gillen, Robert Glück, and Danae Io, interiors, facades, and landscapes recur in both actual and metaphorical forms: as buildings and psychic states, imaginaries and projections, bodies and social spaces. The works on view consider how a sense of self takes form through material and social realities, shifting between inner states and external circumstances and through the dependencies and contradictions that bind them.

The first guided tour through the group exhibition “I, etcetera” happens on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 5 pm, and will be held in German by Louisa Wombacher, assistant curator. Participation is free and doesn’t require registration.

Image: Oto Gillen, “Cornice, October 15, 2024”, 2026, detail; Julie Becker, “Postersize Copy Machine”, 1996; Julie Becker, “Interior Corner #4, 8, 10”, 1993. Installation view “I, etcetera”, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2026. Photo: Oskar Lee / Oskar Lee

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23/09/2026

Thank you all for coming to the opening of “I, etcetera” last Friday!

The group exhibition is on view until January 17, 2027 and includes works by Julie Becker, Chan Hau Chun, Oto Gillen, Robert Glück, and Danae Io. The project will be further expanded through a series of events featuring art historian and critic Alex Kitnick, theorist and curator Doreen Mende, and curator and author Fiona Vilmer. More information and dates will follow soon.

Ahead of the opening, we also had the pleasure of welcoming Ina Brandes, Minister of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, for a tour of the exhibition.

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Photos: Ygor Bahia ygor

18/08/2026

This is the last week to see our current exhibition ‘Proxy – Der Bürger als Pflanze’ by Maximiliane Baumgartner. The show ends on Sunday, August 23, 2026. If you haven’t yet seen it, or would like to visit again, we’d be happy to welcome you at the Kunstverein in the upcoming days!

The last guided tour through the exhibition takes place on Thursday, August 20, at 5 pm with Louisa Wombacher, assistant curator.

Maxi Baumgartner

Image: Oskar Lee

24/06/2026

As part of her solo exhibition ‘Proxy – Der Bürger als Pflanze,’ Maximiliane Baumgartner brings together archival materials that are directly linked to her artistic reflections and investigations in a mapping of the Nordpark area.

The mapping is accessible online, you can find it through our website and via QR codes at the Kunstverein.

Maxi Baumgartner

Images: Excerpts from Maximiliane Baumgartner’s artistic mapping with archival materials related to the Nordpark-area, 2026.

03/06/2026

We are happy to share a first look at the Kunstverein’s new visual identity, developed by the Cologne-based graphic design studio CTMS (Christopher Tröster and Max Schropp) together with Gloria Hasnay, director of the Kunstverein, which will be introduced this fall.
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1: Opening, Christian Boltanski, ‘Le Lycée Chases,’ Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1987. Photo: Heinz Jokisch.
2: Detail, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1993. Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn.
3: Installation detail, Solomon Garçon, ‘bravo,’ Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2026. Photo: Oskar Lee .

13/04/2026

From April 16–19, 2026, Art Düsseldorf returns to the Areal Böhler—and so do we. The Kunstverein will be at Booth A02, presenting a selection of recent and not-so-recent Jahresgaben by Alexandra Bircken, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Jason Dodge, Monica Majoli, Max Sandfort, Paloma Varga Weisz, among others.

The VIP preview takes place on Thursday, April 16, from 12 to 4 pm, followed by the official opening from 4 to 8 pm. Regular opening hours are: Friday, April 17, 12 to 7 pm; Saturday, April 18, 11 am to 7 pm; Sunday, April 19, 11 am to 6 pm.

We look forward to seeing you at the fair!

For more infos on our Jahresgaben, please visit our website at: https://kunstverein-duesseldorf.de/en/editions/

24/03/2026

We’re pleased to share some impressions from our recent members’ events.

This month, we traveled to Cologne to visit the exhibition ‘“make the secrets productive” – art in times of unreason’ at the Kolumba (1). In February, we were guided through Mika Rottenberg’s solo exhibition ‘Queer Ecology’ at the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, by curator Nina Hülsmeier (2). We also visited the Winterrundgang 2025/2026 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (3). The first members’ event of 2026 took us to the K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, where curator Kolja Reichert led us through the exhibition ‘Land and soil – How We Live Together’ (4). At the end of last year, we visited the association About Repetition in their spaces and gained insights into their work (5). And in November, we met at the Kunstpalast with curator Felicity Korn to visit the retrospective by Hans-Peter Feldmann (6).

Our members’ program consisting of visits to different institutions, project spaces, and artist studios takes place on a monthly basis. If you’re interested in joining future events, or participating in other special activities, we’d be delighted to welcome you as a new member. Please visit our website for more information: https://kunstverein-duesseldorf.de/en/membership/

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Mittwoch	11:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	11:00 - 18:00
Freitag	11:00 - 18:00
Samstag	11:00 - 18:00
Sonntag	11:00 - 18:00

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