Opening hours

 

Daily 10 am–8 pm
(also on bank holidays)

 

EXCEPTIONS
Each 3rd wednesday of the month
during AfterworkKH the exhibition
remains open until 10 pm: 15.3., 19.4., 17.5., 21.6., 19.7.2023

How to find us

 

Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung
Theatinerstrasse 8
(in the Fünf Höfe)
80333 München
T +49 (0)89 / 22 44 12
kontakt@kunsthalle-muc.de

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

CSD 2023

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!«

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.

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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.

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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

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