Update. Rescreen the collection

How can we think of the museum today? What will the art collection
of the future? How are concept and program
be reflected in the architecture of a museum? After its 40th anniversary
the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe is questioning its role as an institution, its history
its history, its collections, and its self-image.
self-image. Various thematic rooms, in which historical
positions and works of contemporary art meet,
invite visitors to rediscover the collection from a contemporary perspective and to
and to think ahead to the future. This includes
such as "Identity - Portrait, Mask, Staging," "17
"17% - Women Artists in the Collection," "A Handful of Homeland
Homeland," "Nature - Man, Myth, Medium," and "Rituals - The Sense of the Same
The Meaning of the Ever-Same", with which the selected works
open up dialogues across epochs and media. The new
collection also includes an artists' room with works by Olaf Nicolai.
works by Olaf Nicolai, as well as the Karl Hubbuch Archive and a
and a display depot, with which we are making an otherwise hidden part of our
of our everyday museum work to the public.