Calendar

Opening of the presentation of Jahresgaben 2025 (13.11.–23.11.2025) with works by Jakob Buchner, Edith Deyerling, Alfred d’Ursel, Ellen Gronemeyer, Olga Holzschuh, Thomas Huber, Tobias Kaspar, Nuri Koerfer, Jonas Lipps, Birgit Megerle, Michaela Melián, Bernadette Mittrup, Cecilie Norgaard, Vaclav Pozarek, Markus Saile and Wolfgang Thesen.

Admission free, no registration required.

Ilka Becker: Mykoästhetik. Pilze, Kunst und Kino.
Book launch and talk with Clemens Krümmel

Mushrooms are a widespread phenomenon in contemporary art. Their modes of emergence and genealogies can be traced across various cultural contexts back to the mid-19th century. How did this come about? Is there a structural kinship between the decomposing, networking and symbiotic qualities attributed to fungi, and the shifting conceptions and practices of art in modernity and the present? And what ecologies, powers and agencies become visible in popular and scientific imagery, in artworks and in texts?

Under the term mycoaesthetics, Ilka Becker’s new book brings together critical studies of historical and current sites of art and cinema where mushrooms proliferate and multiply. These range from 19th-century book illustration, comics, anime and film, to Surrealism and the artistic neo-avant-gardes, all the way to contemporary art. In the process, material realities, metaphors, allegories and figures of interconnectedness meet postcolonial, (queer-)feminist, (world-)ecological, post-anthropocentric and agentic readings of the present.

Admission to the event is free, registration is not required.

Guided tour of the exhibition Amelie von Wulffen, Jonas Lipps with Anna Heldmann, curatorial assistant.
Admission to the exhibitions, events, and guided tours is free, registration is not required.

In the summer of 1927, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – dadaist poet, nude model, and proto-punk – writes a letter to the patron Peggy Guggenheim. In prophetic euphoria and apocalyptic urgency, she outlines her latest project: a studio for experimental modelling in Paris, which she hopes will mark her artistic comeback and provide an escape route out of her existential misery. Peggy Guggenheim expresses interest, but does not pay. Shortly afterward, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven takes her own life. Now, almost a century later, ,Bruch‘- is taking up this forgotten episode in the history of performance art and re-stages it as a space of resonance for contemporary dilemmas of artistic labour and self-fashionings. Together with dancer Frances Chiaverini, composer Stanislav Iordanov and author Théo Casciani amongst others, and drawing on the artist’s late autofictional texts, they model multi-layered choreographic worlds and explore the act of calling oneself an ‘artist’ in an economically, politically and spiritually precarious present.

28. & 29. November, 8 pm

Admission €10
Tickets can be purchased online here.

Funded by:
Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW

Photo: Robert Hamacher

In the summer of 1927, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – dadaist poet, nude model, and proto-punk – writes a letter to the patron Peggy Guggenheim. In prophetic euphoria and apocalyptic urgency, she outlines her latest project: a studio for experimental modelling in Paris, which she hopes will mark her artistic comeback and provide an escape route out of her existential misery. Peggy Guggenheim expresses interest, but does not pay. Shortly afterward, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven takes her own life. Now, almost a century later, ,Bruch‘- is taking up this forgotten episode in the history of performance art and re-stages it as a space of resonance for contemporary dilemmas of artistic labour and self-fashionings. Together with dancer Frances Chiaverini, composer Stanislav Iordanov and author Théo Casciani amongst others, and drawing on the artist’s late autofictional texts, they model multi-layered choreographic worlds and explore the act of calling oneself an ‘artist’ in an economically, politically and spiritually precarious present.

28. & 29. November, 8 pm

Admission €10
Tickets can be purchased online here.

Funded by:
Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW

Photo: Robert Hamacher

Guided tour of the exhibition Amelie von Wulffen, Jonas Lipps with Valérie Knoll, Director.
Admission to the exhibitions, events, and guided tours is free, registration is not required.