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From April 16–19, 2026, Art Düsseldorf returns to the Areal Böhler—and so do we. The Kunstverein will be at Booth A02, p...
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/

We’re pleased to share some impressions from our recent members’ events. This month, we traveled to Cologne to visit th...
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/

Yesterday marked the end of ‘bravo.’ We’d like to thank all of you for coming by and spending time in and with the insta...
16/03/2026

Yesterday marked the end of ‘bravo.’ We’d like to thank all of you for coming by and spending time in and with the installation over the past weeks! Special thanks goes to artist Solomon Garçon, as well as to Paride Maria Calvia, Taylor Thoroski, and Precious Renee Tucker for their contributions.

The Kunstverein will remain closed for reinstallation. Our next exhibition opens on Friday, May 22, 2026. Further information will follow shortly. In the meantime, please save the date for the opening in May!

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Photos: Oskar Lee

This is the last week to see ‘bravo’, which is on view at the Kunstverein through March 15, 2026. Within ‘bravo,’ artis...
10/03/2026

This is the last week to see ‘bravo’, which is on view at the Kunstverein through March 15, 2026.

Within ‘bravo,’ artist Solomon Garçon approaches the exhibition space as a site of anticipation and activation; formats unfold across different temporalities, while the focus drifts between bodies, objects, and (moving) images. The project extends beyond the spatial conventions of an exhibition, opening up toward forms of staging more readily associated with entertainment television. It does so by probing what might emerge when familiar modes of display give way to rehearsal and delay, and when expectation and projection begin to take shape.

‘bravo’ included further contributions by artist Paride Maria Calvia, experimental pianist Precious Renee Tucker, and stylist Taylor Thoroski. A live set by Calvia scored the situation on the opening night. Tucker’s contribution appeared via a specially made video recording, mobilizing the short-form performance idiom that propelled her into viral circulation on social media and folding it into the visual and sonic economy of the evening. Thoroski conceived a costume drawing on the looks of the women who take center stage across reality television franchises for the performative interlude that took place twice a week during the runtime of ‘bravo’.



Photos: Oskar Lee (1–5), Ayse Tasci (6)

We warmly invite you to the concluding event of ‘bravo’ which will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 4 pm. Solo...
05/03/2026

We warmly invite you to the concluding event of ‘bravo’ which will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 4 pm. Solomon Garçon and Gloria Hasnay, director, will lead a dialogical walkthrough of the artist’s installation, discussing the conceptual and thematic premises of ‘bravo.’ The conversation will be held in English.

Solomon Garçon explores digital, subterranean, and otherwise invisible infrastructures as experimental spaces. Questions of visibility, narration, and exposure (of information) recur throughout his practice. In ‘bravo,’ they appear through a spatial choreography that treats the exhibition space as a set.



Photos: Oskar Lee

Across the five-week run of the installative setting ‘bravo,’ a performative interlude takes place twice a week – on Tue...
27/02/2026

Across the five-week run of the installative setting ‘bravo,’ a performative interlude takes place twice a week – on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Solomon Garçon has cast a member of the Kunstverein’s staff for this durational performance, subtly bringing the institution’s internal workings onto the stage. For these moments, stylist Taylor Thoroski has conceived a costume drawing on the looks of the women who take center stage across reality television franchises.

Other elements taken from entertainment television also feature in the space, among them a “shoe camera,” borrowed from a recurring gag on a popular 2000’s talk show, which traces visitors’ feet as they pass through the corridor, transmitting live footage to a monitor elsewhere in the room.



Photos: Oskar Lee (1–3), Solomon Garçon (4)

An installative setting, which was activated during the opening night on February 6, 2026, forms the framework of ‘bravo...
23/02/2026

An installative setting, which was activated during the opening night on February 6, 2026, forms the framework of ‘bravo.’ Solomon Garçon has conceived a compressed viewing situation articulated by a suite of precisely placed walls that organize the space and host three markings, each corresponding to an imagined domestic site. Some walls remain deliberately short, just high enough to frustrate easy sightlines – looking over them requires viewers to stretch, stand on tiptoes, or make a small jump. Another wall crops passing bodies into a sequence of moving heads. A narrow corridor holds an array of projectors that cast bright shapes onto its glossy surface. Barricaded at one end, the passage channels the audience into a tight frame of view that subtly scripts their position. Together with the stage lighting that creates pronounced shadows across the Kunstverein’s interior, the installation inevitably renders visitors as both spectators and performers.

The spatial setting of ‘bravo’ will be on view at the Kunstverein through March 15, 2026.



Photos: Oskar Lee

Thank you all for coming to the opening of ‘bravo’ last Friday!Alongside a performance by Solomon Garçon together with a...
12/02/2026

Thank you all for coming to the opening of ‘bravo’ last Friday!

Alongside a performance by Solomon Garçon together with artist Adam Gallagher, the opening featured audio and visual contributions by artist Paride Maria Calvia and experimental pianist Precious Renee Tucker. Calvia’s live set scored the situation. Tucker’s contribution appeared via a specially made video recording, mobilizing the short-form performance idiom that propelled her into viral circulation on social media and folding it into the visual and sonic economy of the evening.

We warmly congratulate Antonia Hermes, the Class of Josephine Pryde, and Tayyib Sen who have each been awarded a travel ...
05/02/2026

We warmly congratulate Antonia Hermes, the Class of Josephine Pryde, and Tayyib Sen who have each been awarded a travel grant by Kunstverein Düsseldorf together with Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf during the Winterrundgang 2025/2026.

Since 1992, the travel grants have been given to art students during the Rundgang presentations of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The grants, providing emerging artists with the opportunity to travel and research, are conceived to support the development of their artistic practice.

Images:
1, 2 – Antonia Hermes, ‘All aaf’ (detail), photo: Yoong Jang
3 – Klasse Josephine Pryde, ‘Bulletin Board II,’ photo: Justus Lietzke and Lea Babel
4 – Klasse Josephine Pryde, ‘Bulletin Board,’ photo: Justus Lietzke and Lea Babel
5, 6 – Tayyib Sen, ‘Legato’ (detail), photo: Mathis Ratschinski and Camille Batteux

Solomon Garçon’s project ‘bravo’ draws on US reality television as a cultural and formal reservoir. The title’s referenc...
04/02/2026

Solomon Garçon’s project ‘bravo’ draws on US reality television as a cultural and formal reservoir. The title’s reference to the American TV network Bravo signals this affinity. Garçon is attentive to the particular logics of these formats: the constant slippage between stage and “real” space, and the episodic organization through which time, attention, and drama are choreographed. Questions of visibility, narration, and exposure (of information) recur throughout Garçon’s practice; in ‘bravo,’ they appear through a spatial choreography that treats the exhibition space as a set. Cameras, stage lights, sound cues, costumes, and props operate here as structuring elements rather than accessories. The installation will be additionally activated on the opening night. The evening will take on the atmosphere of a watch party of sorts, gathering visitors into a shared state of waiting, listening, looking, and being looked at.

Join us this Friday, February 2026, from 6 to 10 pm! Performances will begin after 7 pm.
‘bravo’ will be on view until March 15, 2026.

Image: Solomon Garçon, ‘Roaming sketch; dog barks, Jamie enters, (first encounter)' (2024–2025), installation view ‘Fake Barn County,’ Raven Row, 2025.

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