Flowers Forever Flowers in Art and Culture February 3–August 27, 2023 About the exhibition February 3–August 27, 2023 With their splendor and diversity flowers have always captivated us. They possess great symbolic power – whether in mythology, religion, art or politics. In earlier centuries, flowers were coveted status symbols, today they are traded globally as a mass product. Currently, the flower is coming into focus as a fragile yet indispensable component of our global eco-system. With objects from art, design, fashion and natural science, Flowers Forever offers a fascinating, elaborately staged tour through the cultural history of flowers from antiquity to the present day. The presentation comprises around one hundred and seventy works from international collections as well as installations created especially for the exhibition. Important examples from the histories of art and design enter into a fruitful dialog with new artistic approaches. The exhibition features works by Jan Brueghel the Younger, Abraham Mignon, Barbara Regina Dietzsch, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hannah Höch, Andreas Gursky, Miguel Chevalier, Ann Carrington, Patricia Kaersenhout, Kehinde Wiley, DRIFT, and many other artists. They all bring the multifaceted cultural history of flowers to life in impressive ways. More Less Dante Gabriel Rossetti Venus Verticordia, 1864–1868 Oil on canvas, 81,3 x 68 cm Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Kehinde Wiley Portrait of a Florentine Nobleman III, 2019 Oil on canvas, 144 x 114 cm Collection Vilsmeier – Linhares, Munich © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888 Oil on Canvas 132,7 x 214,4 cm Colección Pérez Simón, Mexiko © Studio Sébert Photographes Jan Brueghel t. Y. Satire of Tulipomania, 1640 Oil on panel, 31 x 49 cm Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, purchased with the support of the Rembrandt Society Photo: Tom Haartsen Abraham Mignon Vase of Flower, ca. 1665 Oil on canvas, 87,7 x 68,3 cm Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Photo: Studio Tromp Kristian Zahrtmann Adam in Paradise, 1914 Oil on canvas, 125 x 106 cm Private collection Photo: Den Hirschsprungske Samling Unknown (Egypt) Stele of Nena, c. 1300 B.C. Limestone, 77 x 51 x 9 cm Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich, ÄS 51, Photo: Roy Hessing Ru Xiao Fan Ode to meditation, Jingdezhen (Jiangxi province), 2012 Celadon porcelain, 35 x 38 x 38 cm Loan of the artist © Ru Xiao Fan, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Hannah Höch Holland, 1942 Oil on canvas, 65,5 x 71,2 cm On Loan from the Federal Republic of Germany – Contemporary Art Collection, Photo: Jürgen Seidel © Hannah Höch, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Sir Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris The Pilgrim in the Garden or The Heart of the Rose, design before 1896, production 1901 Wool, cotton warp, silk, 155 x 201 cm Badisches Landesmuseum, Photo: Thomas Goldschmidt Dante Gabriel Rossetti Venus Verticordia, 1864–1868 Oil on canvas, 81,3 x 68 cm Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Kehinde Wiley Portrait of a Florentine Nobleman III, 2019 Oil on canvas, 144 x 114 cm Collection Vilsmeier – Linhares, Munich © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Lawrence Alma-Tadema The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888 Oil on Canvas 132,7 x 214,4 cm Colección Pérez Simón, Mexiko © Studio Sébert Photographes Jan Brueghel t. Y. Satire of Tulipomania, 1640 Oil on panel, 31 x 49 cm Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, purchased with the support of the Rembrandt Society Photo: Tom Haartsen Abraham Mignon Vase of Flower, ca. 1665 Oil on canvas, 87,7 x 68,3 cm Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Photo: Studio Tromp Kristian Zahrtmann Adam in Paradise, 1914 Oil on canvas, 125 x 106 cm Private collection Photo: Den Hirschsprungske Samling Unknown (Egypt) Stele of Nena, c. 1300 B.C. Limestone, 77 x 51 x 9 cm Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich, ÄS 51, Photo: Roy Hessing Ru Xiao Fan Ode to meditation, Jingdezhen (Jiangxi province), 2012 Celadon porcelain, 35 x 38 x 38 cm Loan of the artist © Ru Xiao Fan, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Hannah Höch Holland, 1942 Oil on canvas, 65,5 x 71,2 cm On Loan from the Federal Republic of Germany – Contemporary Art Collection, Photo: Jürgen Seidel © Hannah Höch, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Sir Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris The Pilgrim in the Garden or The Heart of the Rose, design before 1896, production 1901 Wool, cotton warp, silk, 155 x 201 cm Badisches Landesmuseum, Photo: Thomas Goldschmidt Audio Tour A free audio tour (EN/DE) is available for the exhibition. It can be accessed from home and in the exhibition with your own mobile device. Please bring your own headphones when you visit the exhibition. Start the Audio Tour Program Fri 9.6. 10am–8pm Photo Exhibition: Bluntly We present the new photographs by Mike Kraus as part of the CSD-PrideWeeks 2023 9.6.–3.7.2023 at the café area of the Kunsthalle, free entrance Mike Kraus (*1973) artistically unites Munich’s current festivities – the Flower Power Festival, the 40th Film Festival and the PrideWeeks – in a photographic ensemble. Together, the portraits of six German film stars, adorned with opulent floral arrangements, recall the colors of the rainbow. Powerfully and bluntly, the balanced staging shines at us: seductively beautiful but with a humorous touch. Tue 13.6. 6:30pm Reading from the novel »Adam in Paradise« with author Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild and translator Andreas Donat Tickets: € 7, bookable at the cashier desk and online. The event is sponsored by the Danish Arts Foundation and is part of the CSD-PrideWeeks 2023 and the Flower Power Festival Munich 2023. Frederiksberg, 1913: At the peak of his fame, 70-year-old painter Kristian Zahrtmann paints his masterpiece “Adam in Paradise”. A story about beauty and desire told in poetic and highly sensual language. Currently, the titular painting “Adam in Paradise” can be seen in the exhibition Flowers Forever. The reading is in German, the subsequent conversation with the author will be in English. Tickets Mon 19.6. 5:15pm Guided tour focusing on diversity During CSD PrideWeeks 2023, we will offer tours through the exhibition Flowers Forever that focus on aspects of diversity like gender, origin and race. Max. 20 persons per tour Duration ca. 60 minutes Tours are offered IN GERMAN ONLY. Get tickets here Calender CSD 2023 For the CSD-PrideWeeks (10.–25.6.2023) we invite you to a diverse program around the topics of diversity and equality. Diversity Program Fri 9.6. 10am–8pm Photo Exhibition: Bluntly We present the new photographs by Mike Kraus as part of the CSD-PrideWeeks 2023 9.6.–3.7.2023 at the café area of the Kunsthalle, free entrance Mike Kraus (*1973) artistically unites Munich’s current festivities – the Flower Power Festival, the 40th Film Festival and the PrideWeeks – in a photographic ensemble. Together, the portraits of six German film stars, adorned with opulent floral arrangements, recall the colors of the rainbow. Powerfully and bluntly, the balanced staging shines at us: seductively beautiful but with a humorous touch. Tue 13.6. 6:30pm Reading from the novel »Adam in Paradise« with author Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild and translator Andreas Donat Tickets: € 7, bookable at the cashier desk and online. The event is sponsored by the Danish Arts Foundation and is part of the CSD-PrideWeeks 2023 and the Flower Power Festival Munich 2023. Frederiksberg, 1913: At the peak of his fame, 70-year-old painter Kristian Zahrtmann paints his masterpiece “Adam in Paradise”. A story about beauty and desire told in poetic and highly sensual language. Currently, the titular painting “Adam in Paradise” can be seen in the exhibition Flowers Forever. The reading is in German, the subsequent conversation with the author will be in English. Tickets Mon 19.6. 5:15pm Guided tour focusing on diversity During CSD PrideWeeks 2023, we will offer tours through the exhibition Flowers Forever that focus on aspects of diversity like gender, origin and race. Max. 20 persons per tour Duration ca. 60 minutes Tours are offered IN GERMAN ONLY. Get tickets here Tue 20.6. 5:15pm Guided tour focusing on diversity During CSD PrideWeeks 2023, we will offer tours through the exhibition Flowers Forever that focus on aspects of diversity like gender, origin and race. Max. 20 persons per tour Duration ca. 60 minutes Tours are offered IN GERMAN ONLY. Get tickets here Wed 21.6. 5:15pm Guided tour focusing on diversity During CSD PrideWeeks 2023, we will offer tours through the exhibition Flowers Forever that focus on aspects of diversity like gender, origin and race. Max. 20 persons per tour Duration ca. 60 minutes Tours are offered IN GERMAN ONLY. Get tickets here Wed 21.6. starting 6:30pm Pride-Afterwork Enjoy the exhibition until 10pm and linger on in our café & restaurant Theatiner 8 with music by DJ Alkalino. This time with gin tasting and big raffle. This afterwork event is part of the CSD-PrideWeeks 2023. The new photo series of Mike Kraus can is presented in the foyer of the Kunsthalle: Unfolding Messages from German Movie stars The artis will be present. The photo exhibition can be visited from June 9 to July 7, 2023, daily from 10am to 8pm in the foyer of the Kunsthalle. Free of entry. No registration is necessary: the regular exhibition tickets apply. Tickets are available in our online shop an at the ticket desk. We offer special Afterwork guided tours. Tour tickets are available at the ticket desk and online. If you don’t want to visit the exhibition that evening, just stop by for a drink. Entry to the café is free (self-service). Thu 22.6. 5:15pm Guided tour focusing on diversity During CSD PrideWeeks 2023, we will offer tours through the exhibition Flowers Forever that focus on aspects of diversity like gender, origin and race. Max. 20 persons per tour Duration ca. 60 minutes Tours are offered IN GERMAN ONLY. Get tickets here Fri 23.6. 5:15pm Guided tour focusing on diversity During CSD PrideWeeks 2023, we will offer tours through the exhibition Flowers Forever that focus on aspects of diversity like gender, origin and race. Max. 20 persons per tour Duration ca. 60 minutes Tours are offered IN GERMAN ONLY. Get tickets here Sat 24.6. starting 12pm Truck on the PrideParade 2023 Together with the UniCorns, the LGBTQ+ network of the HypoVereinsbank Music on the truck by DJ Alkalino Start at Mariahilfplatz The Munich pride parade is the biggest demonstration of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans*, inter* and queer people (LGBTIQ*) for equal rights and social acceptance in the southern German area. This year’s motto is: »A Queer Action Plan for Bavaria now!« CSD-Politparade München 2023 Mon 3.7. 10am–8pm Photo Exhibition: Bluntly We present the new photographs by Mike Kraus as part of the CSD-PrideWeeks 2023 9.6.–3.7.2023 at the café area of the Kunsthalle, free entrance Mike Kraus (*1973) artistically unites Munich’s current festivities – the Flower Power Festival, the 40th Film Festival and the PrideWeeks – in a photographic ensemble. Together, the portraits of six German film stars, adorned with opulent floral arrangements, recall the colors of the rainbow. Powerfully and bluntly, the balanced staging shines at us: seductively beautiful but with a humorous touch. Catalog Flowers Forever Flowers Forever (German edition) is the first exhibition catalog to deal with the art and cultural history of flowers from antiquity to the present day on this scale and in an interdisciplinary manner. Three large-scale interdisciplinary dialogues open inspiring and differentiated insights into the cultural history of flowers on the topics of flowers as symbol, flowers as motif, and flowers as commodity. Short texts also accompany selected objects to explain their context and relevance to the theme. Take home price at the Kunsthalle: € 35 Edited by Roger Diederen and Franziska Stöhr. With contributions by Andreas Beyer, Michael John Gorman, Gudrun Kadereit, Isabel Kranz, Inger Leemans, Randy Malamud, Silke Peters, and D. Fairchild Ruggles. 288 pages, 24 x 29 cm, 275 color images, hardcover, available in German, published by Prestel Verlag. More Less Order online View into the exhibition by BR Capriccio Flower Power Festival Munich 2023 Celebrating nature in the city Based on the Flowers Forever exhibition at the Flower Power Festival Munich 2023 everything revolves around blossoms. After the nationally sensational Faust Festival 2018, this is the second major event in the Bavarian capital in which everyone can participate. Science, sustainability, plant diversity, garden art, climate change, biodiversity, aesthetics, quality of life – these and many more are conceivable topics that will be staged, be it with exhibitions, workshops, walks, theatre performances, installations and more. Indoors, outdoors and digitally are the festival’s playgrounds. The Kunsthalle München, the Gasteig, Europe’s largest cultural centre, the Munich-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden and the BIOTOPIA – Bavaria’s Natural History Museum are the impetus behind the festival. Many actors can identify with the themes of nature, culture, city and blossom, which describe the core idea of the festival. There are hardly any limits to creativity. Anyone and everyone can participate. In addition to participation, inclusion will play an important role this time. The festival offers the chance to sensitise many people to the topic and at the same time to enable as many people as possible to participate in cultural life. Ideally, this could result in sustainable impulses that move something in our society in the long term. More Less More about the festival Program All events available here. Magazine Interesting people and projects and a look behind the scenes. The Munich Flower Extravaganza We needed over 100,000 dried flowers for a major installation by artist Rebecca Louise Law. Everyone was invited to collect flowers – whether purchased bouquets or flowers from their own gardens – and bring them dried to the Kunsthalle by fall 2022. In addition, many local volunteers helped us prepare the flowers for installation. To have enough space for this, a disused swimming pool in Munich was specially hijacked. Portrait of Rebecca Louise Law by ttt – titel thesen temperamente Children & Young People Booklet for Children available free of charge at the ticket desk, 8–12 years (in German) Guided tours for children during school vacations (in German) Workshops at the Kinderkunsthaus during school vacations, 6–15 years Partner Newsletter The latest information about the exhibitions of the Kunsthalle München. You can unsubscribe any time. More information in our privacy policy. Newsletter Subscribe Ausstellung Exhibition Gallery Audio Tour Program CSD 2023 Catalog Video Festival Munich Flower Extravaganza Children Partner
