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Illusion

Dream – Identity – Reality

Until 06.04.2025
Hanns Kunitzberger (*1955) ABBILD 2002–2005 Komposition, Sätze I, II, III, IV – jeweils mit 4 Gemälden 1 bis 16, 2002–2005, © Hanns Kunitzberger

Hanns Kunitzberger

Likeness 2002-2005

Until 04.05.2025
Henrik Olesen (*1967) A.T., 2019, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Schenkung Alexander Schröder, 2024 © Courtesy Galerie Buchholz

IN.SIGHT

The Donation Schröder

Until 06.04.2025
Manon de Boer *1966 / Latifa Laâbissi (*1964), Ghost Party (2), 2022, (Still) © Courtesy Jan Mot gallery and the artists

untranquil now

a constellation of narratives and resonances

Until 19.01.2025
Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968) Isa Mona Lisa, 1999, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Dauerleihgabe der Sammlung Schmitz-Morkramer Courtesy Galerie Buchholz © Wolfgang Tillmans

Isa Mona Lisa

Until 18.10.2026
Odoardo Fialetti, Radierer (1573–1638) Schüler beim Zeichnen, 1608, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk

Nudes, Antiquity, Anatomy

Exploring the world through drawing

Until 23.02.2025
Albert Oehlen (*1954) Ohne Titel / Untitled, 1992 Siebdruck, Acryl und Öl auf Leinwand, 200 x 200 cm Privatsammlung © Albert Oehlen / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 Foto: Lothar Schnepf

Albert Oehlen

Computer Paintings

Until 02.03.2025
Raumansicht Makart-Saal mit dem Werk Der Einzug Karls V. in Antwerpen, 1878, von Hans Makart (1840–1884), Mitte links © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk Foto: Fred Dott

Making History

Hans Makart and the Salon Painting of the 19th Century

Until 31.12.2026
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) Lampionkorso auf der Außenalster, 1913 Öl auf Leinwand, 37,5 x 47,5 cm © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk Foto: Elke Walford

Impressionism

Franco-German Encounters

Until 20.07.2025

Preview

Fedele Maura Friede (*1997) eigentlich räumt niemand gerne auf (Installationsansicht HGB Galerie 2024), 2024 © Fedele Maura Friede Foto: Viktoria Conzelman
28.03.2025

FEDELE MAURA FRIEDE

the hem comes undone

Bas Jan Ader (1942–1975) In Search of the Miraculous (One Night in Los Angeles), 1973 © The Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Mary Sue Ader Andersen, 2024 / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 Courtesy of Meliksetian | Briggs, Dallas
11.04.2025

Bas Jan Ader

I’m searching…

Edi Hila (*1944), House Surrounded by Wall (aus der Serie Transitional Landscapes), 2000 © Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Mitterrand
25.04.2025

Edi Hila | Thea Djordjadze

13.06.2025

RENDEZVOUS OF DREAMS

Surrealism and German Romanticism

Anders Zorn (1860–1920), Die lesende Emma Zorn, 1887, Zornmuseet, Mora © Zornmuseet, Mora
26.09.2025

ANDERS ZORN

Swedish Superstar

Gerhard Richter (*1932) Schweizer Alpen 1, 1969, Hamburger Kunsthalle, erworben 1971 von der Griffelkunst- Vereinigung Hamburg e. V. © Gerhard Richter Foto: Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg e. V.
07.11.2025

And so on to infinity

100 Years of Griffelkunst

Ho Tzu Nyen (*1976), Hotel Aporia, 2019
21.11.2025

HO TZU NYEN

Time & the Tiger

Auguste Desperet (1804–1865) Dritter Ausbruch des Vulkans von 1789, 1833, Privatsammlung, Hamburg
05.12.2025

ART AROUND 1800

An Exhibition about Exhibitions

Edvard Munch, Mädchen auf der Brücke, 1901, © Hamburger Kunsthalle Foto: Elke Walford
27.03.2026

Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch

Flow of Paint = Flow of Life

Exhibition archive

2024

William Blake (1757–1827) Europe a Prophecy, 1794 Relief- und Weißlinienradierung, koloriert, 30,3 x 23,1 cm © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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William Blake's Universe

Kathleen Ryan, Bad Cherries, 2021, 250,19 x 254 x 280,67 cm Private Collection of Timothy C. Headington © Kathleen Ryan. Courtesy the artist and Karma, Foto: Lance Brewer

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Kathleen Ryan

Jakob Kudsk Steensen (*1987), The Ephemeral Lake, 2024, Live-Simulation (Still), Commissioned by Hamburger Kunsthalle © Courtesy the artist

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THE EPHEMERAL LAKE

A digital installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen

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OUTSTANDING!

The Relief from Rodin to Taeuber-Arp

Henri Joseph Harpignies (1819-1916) Frau auf einem Waldweg (Detail), 1880 Aquarell, 280 x 400 mm Sammlung Wormsbächer, Hamburg © Foto: Christoph Irrgang, Hamburg

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FIGURE AND LANDSCAPE

Nineteenth-Century Art from two Private Hamburg Collections

Georges Adéagbo (*1942), Vorbereitung des Werks in Benin, April 2024 © Foto: Stephan Köhler

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Georges Adéagbo

has created a new work for the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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something new, something old, something desired

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, um 1817

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Caspar David Friedrich

Art for a new Age

2023

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1923

The Faces of an Era

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On Hybrid Creatures

Sculpture in Modernism

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NO ILLUSIONS

Painting in Space

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»Paris Is My Library«

Drawings and Prints by Félicien Rops

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Femme Fatale

Gaze – Power – Gender

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Impressionism

Franco-German Encounters

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BREATHING

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Vija Celmins | Gerhard Richter

DOUBLE VISION

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PERISCOPIC!

Pop and Agitation in Werner Nöfer’s Graphic Art

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Walid Raad

Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter

2022

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»I USUALLY PRIME WITH CHALK…«

Emil Nolde’s Painting Technique

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Werner Büttner

Last Lecture Show

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TOYEN

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From Menzel to Monet

The Wolffson Collection in Hamburg

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Class Society

Everyday Life as Seen by Dutch Masters. With Lars Eidinger and Stefan Marx

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Viermalvier / Fourtimesfour

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Give and Take. Images upon Images

8th Triennial of Photography, 2022 – Currency

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Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Retrospective

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FUTURA

Measuring Time

2021

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UNFINISHED STORIES

Stories from the Collection

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Back then has always been now

Painting since 1947 reconsidered

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The Absurd Beauty of Space

Seven Artists vs. Ungers

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Walter Gramatté and Hamburg

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DE CHIRICO

Magical Reality

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Series

Prints from Warhol to Wool

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OUT OFSPACE

Erwin Speckter (1806–1835), zugeschrieben, nach Raffael, eigentlich Raffaello Santi oder Sanzio (1483–1520) Merkur schwebt vom Olymp herab, (Kopie nach der Figur in der Loggia der Villa Farnesina, Rom), 1830/35 Gouache, 580 x 442 mm (Blatt) © Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupfer-stichkabinett / bpk Foto: Christoph Irrgang

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Raphael

The Impact of a Genius

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SERENA FERRARIO

Where the Drawings Live

2020

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With-One-Another

at the Hamburger Kinderzimmer

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again and against

From the Collection of Contemporary Art

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Edith Dekyndt

They Shoot Horses

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Goya, Fragonard, Tiepolo

The Freedom of Imagination

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Rembrandt

Masterpieces from the Collection

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100 Years of the Hamburg Secession

Encounters with the Collection

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Mourning

On Loss and ChangeMourning

2019

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Honey, I Rearranged The Collection

#3 Bouncing in the Corner. Surveying Space

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[Out of] Balance

Sammlungspräsentation

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The Video is the Message

The Media Collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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Philippe Vandenberg

Kamikaze

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Heinrich Reinhold

Tracing the Landscape

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MY PERSPECTIVE

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Leonardo da Vinci

The Drawings in the Kupferstichkabinett

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Consistent. Controversial. New.

Insights into 150 Years

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In the Light of the North

Danish Painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection

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HAMBURG SCHOOL

The 19th Century Rediscovered

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KP Brehmer

Correction of National Colours

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Familiar Yet Unknown

Friedrich Einhoff in the Hamburger Kunsthalle Collection

2018

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Uncharted Territory: Jose Dávila

The Elephant and the Feather

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PLAY YOUR DREAMS

At the Hamburger Kinderzimmer

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Anita Rée

A Retrospective

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The Light of the Campagna

Drawings by Claude Lorrain from the British Museum in London

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Artist’s Books

The Collection

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Thomas Gainsborough

The Modern Landscape

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[CONTROL] NO CONTROL

Triennal of Photographie Hamburg

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Nature Unleashed

The Image of Catastrophe since 1600

2017

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Uncharted Territory: Haegue Yang

Quasi-Pagan Serial

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Looking for Traces

Drawings and Watercolours from Three Centuries. - extended until 08 Jan. 2017

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Seeing with the Inner Eye

Seeing with the Inner Eye

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Clemens von Wedemeyer

Affected Places

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Dalí, Ernst, Miró, Magritte ...

Surreal Encounters from the Collections Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller, Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch

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Drawing Rooms II

Trends in Contemporary Graphic Art

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WAITING.

Between Power and Possibility

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Art and Alphabet

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Art is Public

From Kunstverein to Kunsthalle

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Collecting for Hamburg

New Acquisitions and Donations forThe Department of Prints and Drawings, 2001–2016

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Woodcuts from the Age of Titian

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Open Access

13 Views into the Collection

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The Poetry of Venetian Painting

Paris Bordone, Palma il Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian

2016

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SPOT ON

Masterpieces from the Hamburger Kunsthalle collection

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Nolde in Hamburg

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Franz Ludwig Catel

Images of Italy in the Romantic period

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Eckersberg — Fascination with Reality

The Golden Age of Danish Painting

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Piranesi

Carceri

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Drawing Rooms

Trends in Contemporary Graphic Art

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Manet

Painting the Gaze

2015

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ars viva 2014/15

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Enchanted Time

Cézanne, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Manguin Masterpieces from the Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler Collection

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The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s

Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna

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When there is hope

Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2015

2014

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Lichtwark revisited

Artists' views of Hamburg

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C’EST LA VIE

The Paris of Daumier and Toulouse-Lautrec

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Transformation of the World

The Romantic Arabesque

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Feuerbach’s Muses – Lagerfeld’s Models

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Eva Hesse

One More than One

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Gego

Line as Object

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Drawn on Stone

French Lithographs from the Hegewisch Collection and Department of Prints and Drawings

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Serial Attitudes

Repetition as an artistic method since the 1960s

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The Beauty of the Line

Stefano della Bella as a Draughtsman

alfredflechtcom

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Alfred Flechtheim.com

Art Dealer of the Avant-Garde

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Denmark's Breakthrough to Modernism

Denmark's Breakthrough to Modernism

2013

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Captivated by Darkness

Charles Meryon and the French Etching Revival

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Annette Wehrmann

Brain and Money

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Johann Christian Reinhart

A German Landscape Painter in Rome

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15 years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art

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Paul Klee

Engel

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Art from the 1950s

Collection Display

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A Life for Hamburg

Oscar Troplowitz

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Giacometti

The Playing Fields

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Fail Better

Moving Images

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Franz Erhard Walther

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Monika Grzymala

Mono Meros

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Jean Leppien

From the Bauhaus to the Mediterranean

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Jochen Lempert

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Richard Long

Prints 1970 - 2013

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R.B. Kitaj

The Retrospective

2012

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Paul Wunderlich

The Early Lithographs

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minimal and beyond

Collection display

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The Collection of Groundkeeper Wilhelm Werner

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Red, Yellow, Blue

At the Hamburger Kinderzimmer

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Max Liebermann

Pioneer of Modern Art

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Georg Ernst Harzen

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Louise Bourgeois

Passage dangereux

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EXHAUSTED HEROES

Ferdinand Hodler – Aleksandr Dejneka – Neo Rauch

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Alice in the Wonderland of Art

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An ear alone is not a being

John Cage zum 100. Geburtstag

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BALTIC RAW

Open Museum

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LOST PLACES

Sites of Photography

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Georg Jappe

Ornithopoetry “Birds are the landscape’s memory”

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Transit

Collection display

2011

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Noble Guests

Impressionist Masterpieces from the Kunsthalle Bremen

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David Tremlett. Drawing Rooms

Wall Drawings for the Gallery of Contemporary Art

Selbstbildnis mit Modell

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Kirchner

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Cut

Scherenschnitte 1970-2010

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Runge’s Cosmos

The Morning of the Romantic Era

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Painted over. Smudged. Erased.

Painted over. Smudged. Erased.

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Out of focus

After Gerhard Richter

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Attila Csörgő

The Archimedean Point

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Antiquity Unleashed

Aby Warburg and the Birth of the Pathos Formula in Hamburg

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Marc Brandenburg

Drawing

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Bruegel, Rembrandt & Co

Dutch Drawings 1450-1850

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Roni Horn

Photographic Works

2010

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Views of Hamburg

The city in the painter's gaze

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Spiegelei im Hamburger Kinderzimmer

At the Hamburger Kinderzimmer

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Pop Life

Warhol, Haring, Koons, Hirst, …

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»A Temporary Heaven«

Art in Hamburg in the 1920s

Mindmap_Aus_Getty_Talk_Text_Tones_1991

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The Song of the Line

Stephan von Huene. Drawings from five decades

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The Jesus Scandal

A Liebermann painting in the crossfire of critics

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Whiteout by Geert Goiris

Presentation of the 11th Baloise Art Prize

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Sailing Under Full Canvas

Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age

2009

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Max Ernst. Une semaine de bonté

The original colllages

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Eduard Bargheer in Hamburg

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From Leonardo to Piranesi

Italian Drawings from 1450 to 1800c

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Jakob Philipp Hackert

European Landscape Painters in the Age of Goethe

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MAN SON 1969

The Horror of the Situation

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Dance of Colours

Nijinsky's Eye and Abstraction

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The Arena of Ridicule

The Arena of Ridicule

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Marcel van Eeden

The Zurich Trial, Part 1: Witness for the Prosecution

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Roman Signer

Projections. Films and Videos 1975–2008

2008

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World Receiver

Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Gallery of Contemporary Art

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Sigmar Polke. Cultural Template

Cultural Template. Prints from 1963 to 2000

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David Hockney

Myself and my Heroes

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Horst Janssen und die Niederländer

Leporello: Don Juan’s Lovers

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A Love

Max Klingers impact on modern art

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A Vision of Italy

Netherlandish Landscape Drawings Between Reality and Fantasy

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Félix Vallotton

Idyll on the Edge

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Therese Halle

Therese Halle

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Wild!

Depictions of Animals from Four Centuries

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Thomas Demand

Camera

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Mark Rothko

The Retrospective

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The Mirror of Secret Desires

Still Lifes from Five Centuries

2007

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Mahjong

Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

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Helene Schjerfbeck

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Sea Pieces - from Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richter

Of beautiful women, container ships and monster waves

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Daniel Richter

A major survey

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Black Square

Hommage an Malewitsch

2006

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Exploring hidden worlds

German drawings from Dürer to Chodowiecki

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In the Light of the South

Marseilles visits Hamburg

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Parcours.

Images of the Orient From Meister Francke to Shirin Neshat

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Welcome Guests from Denmark

The Statens Museum for Kunst in the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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Edvard Munch

»…from the modern life of the soul«

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Return to Space

In Cooperation with Hamburger Kunsthalle and Siemens Arts Program

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Francis Bacon

The Portraits

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Die »Brücke« in Hamburg

2005

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Inga Svala Thorsdottir

Borg

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I, Lovis Corinth

The self-portraits

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Pieter de Hooch

The messenger of love

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present:

storytellers

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Albert Renger-Patzsch

Park Landscapes in Hamburg

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Standpunkt: André Lützen

Hole in the head

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Horst Janssen

Totentanz

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Sea-pieces

From Caspar David Friedrich to Emil Nolde

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Fritz Fenzl

Encounters with ‘Guernica’ Re-discovered photographs by Fritz Fenzl of the 1956 Picasso exhibition in Hamburg

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Segregated

Art in Hamburg 1933-1945

2004

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Lyonel Feininger

Human portraits. An unfamiliar world

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Art of the 1920s in Hamburg

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gegenwärtig:Field Research

Lothar Baumgarten, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Nikolaus Lang, Annette Messager and Peter Piller

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Ice Hot

Recent Painting from the Scharpff Collection

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Pleasurable Life – Hidden Desires

Dutch Genre Scenes from Frans Hals to Jan Steen

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From Delacroix to Gauguin

French 19th-Century Prints from the Hamburger Kunsthalle’sDepartment of Prints, Drawings and Photography

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Johann Georg von Dillis

Drawings and Watercolours

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In Max Liebermann’s Garden

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Mona Hatoum

A major survey including new work

2003

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ART IS WORK IS ART

Arthur Köpcke on his 75th birthday

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STANDPUNKT: Christian Hahn

"Hotbed"

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Dreamwalker

Odilon Redon and Rodolphe Bresdin

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Gregor Schneider

Hannelore Reuen

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Vilhelm Hammershøi

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From Runge to Menzel

100 Master Drawingsfrom the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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Stephan von Huene

Tune the World

1996

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Georg Hinz

Das Kunstkammerregal (the art cabinet shelf)

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Drawing is Seeing

French Drawings from Ingres to Cézanne