Temporary exhibitions

Grace kneels in Duisburg, forged in 1911 in a Parisian studio. For its creator Wilhelm Lehmbruck, the Kneeling Woman becomes a completely personal mark of creation. Affecting the art of the modern era like an impulse, with its graceful yet peculiar pose and a gesture that until that time was unique the piece has exercised an immense influence on sculpture and painting in the past hundred years. In 2011 the Kneeling Woman celebrates its anniversary, and the LehmbruckMuseum in Duisburg thus dedicates one of the most complex and extensive exhibitions in their history to the piece, curated by an international team managed by Marion Bornscheuer, curator of the Lehmbruck Collection and painting and graphics. mehr...

The exhibition JUNCTION by Lehmbruck fellow Leunora Salihu, born in Prishtina in 1977, will be opened in the street gallery of the museum in October. mehr...

In February 2012, the LehmbruckMuseum showcases the works of the internationally renowned jewellery artist Georg Hornemann for the first time. mehr...

“I want to permanently forget what I know“, says Nicola Schrudde. Forgetting in order to open up oneself to the allures of things, to natural phenomena and their structures, to colours and to light. mehr...

Created in the 1st century AD in Rome, the Laocoon Group in the Vatican Museums is one of the most important antique sculptures. Already Pliny the Elder highly praised the stirring depiction of the death struggle of Laocoön and his sons, and it once again aroused enthusiasm among artists and men of letters when it was excavated in Rome in 1506. mehr...

The artist Martina Klein, born in Trier in 1962, lives and works in Düsseldorf. At a first glance her works are comprised of monochrome paintings, but Klein relates these to a room. Martina Klein does not hang her images on the wall, as it is typical in museums or galleries – she positions them in the middle of a room, leans them against pillars or walls or forms right angles with them. mehr...

Fabián Marcaccio, born in Rosario de Santa Fe in Argentina in 1963, has been living and working in New York for more than twenty years. He became known in Germany, first and foremost, for his solo exhibitions at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2000), the Kunstverein Köln (2001) and for his participation in the Documenta XI (2002). mehr...

In the winter of 1973, the painter and object artist Paul Thek (1933-1988), who was born in Brooklyn, has been a guest in the LehmbruckMuseum: Along with his installation “Ark, Pyramid – Christmas” (“Die Krippe”), a further development of his room which he realized at the documenta 5 in Kassel (1972), Thek, for the first time, also directed a theatrical work in the form of a nativity play with orphans. mehr...

The motto – simple, individual, unique - of this retrospective expresses in compressed form what is known and verifiable about Otto Mueller and his work according to the latest findings in art history. mehr...