City Guide

Contemporary art: The Kunstverein presents 4-6 exhibitions a year; it is located in the historical Volkshochschule building < mehr >

Art at the warehouse of a former brewery: The collection focuses on art post-1960 as well as on German Expressionism < mehr >

Committed to photography: The Kunstverein is at home in a large hall, flooded with natural light from its skylights. The Verein is primarily dedicated to photography and presents the Sponsorship Award for Documentary Photography < mehr >

Classical modernity and constructively concrete art: The ceramic façade designed by Joan Miró in 1979 is the Museum’s trademark feature as the most important gallery of 20th-century art in the Rhineland Palatinate < mehr >

Images from psychiatric institutions: Physician and art historian Hans Prinzhorn was fascinated by pictures of psychiatric patients and so decided to collect them. This collection is now on display in a former lecture hall at the Neurological Clinic < mehr >

An ambitious exhibition program: Internationally up-and-coming artists such as Martin Creed, Armin Linke and Kitty Kraus have already had their works displayed in the Kunstverein. Every year, up to 12 exhibitions are held over the Kunstverein’s three floors, at times parallel to one another < mehr >

One of the oldest Kunstvereine in Germany: The Verein was founded in 1983 and promotes the work of emerging artists and hosts ten exhibitions a year in its generously sized pavilion < mehr >

Historic and contemporary photography: The Forum Internationale Photographie has a collection with travel photos from the Reiss siblings and the Robert Häusser Archive. In the ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie, one can view works by video artists and photographers < mehr >

Special exhibitions that bring in the crowds: The museum is part of the Reiss Engelhorn Museums and showcases exhibits from the 18th-century heyday of aristocracy, the 19th-century bourgeois world as well as ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan works < mehr >