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Strong positions and social tipping-points characterise the 2025 annual programme at Museum Folkwang.
Museum Folkwang has an exciting exhibition year 2025 ahead. The exhibition programme is dedicated to the major themes of our time across epochs and disciplines. Art becomes the starting point for dialogues between past and present, the local and the global. High-calibre exhibitions such as William Kentridge: Listen to the Echo, innovative collaborations and an increased involvement of urban society characterise the coming year.
From the dance performance Lunar Cycle by the internationally renowned choreographer Richard Siegal and the retrospective of the Portuguese-born British painter Paula Rego to the cosmopolitan pioneer of artistic photography Germaine Krull, an artistic arc spans more than a hundred years of sociopolitical transformations across all genres. In autumn, Museum Folkwang is presenting a retrospective of William Kentridge, who has devoted many years to poetically addressing social and political issues that are of great relevance, not only in his home country of South Africa.
“With the 2025 annual programme, Museum Folkwang is creating a space in which social tipping points in the past, present and future are negotiated in an artistic way—a place of reflection, empathy and imagination. Our exhibitions invite people to think together about key social issues and to imagine a different, better world,” says Peter Gorschlüter, Director, Museum Folkwang.
Exhibition programme
Walk This Way: Hip-Hop & Street Culture
January 24–April 27, 2025
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Photography Masters
Folkwang University of the Arts
January 24–April 27, 2025
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Richard Siegal: Lunar Cycle
March 15–April 13, 2025
Thursdays to Sundays
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Woman in Blue: Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler
March 20–June 22 2025
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21 x 21: RuhrKunstMuseen at Villa Hügel
April 11–July 27, 2025
Opening: Thursday, April 10, 2025, 7pm, Villa Hügel
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D’un Musée l’Autre
Commemorating the end of the Second World War in Germany and Europe 80 years ago
From April 2025
Paula Rego: The Personal and the Political
May 16–September 7, 2025
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William Kentridge: Listen to the Echo
September 4, 2025–January 18, 2026
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Stimmen der Zeit: An Oral-History
October 10, 2025–January 4, 2026
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Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreise 15 of Wüstenrot Stiftung
Nazanin Hafez, Alex Simon Klug & Kristina Lenz, Malte Uchtmann, Hannah Wolf
October 10, 2025–January 4, 2026
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Germaine Krull: Chien Fou
Writer and Photographer
November 28, 2025–March 15, 2026
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6 ½ Weeks
From February 2025
Press contact: Anna Rutten, T +49 (0)201 8845 160 / presse [at] museum-folkwang.essen.de
