Exhibitions

14-02-2024

Celts for Kids – A journey into the Iron Age

30 November 2023 – 1st September 2024

Through the comic heroes Asterix and Obelix, the Celts are known as comical ruffians. But what were people really up to in the Iron Age? How did they live here in Breisgau? An interactive discovery tour shows that the Celts were not only courageous heroes, but also pioneers in arts and crafts. They travelled far and wide and traded. Unique finds, hands-on stations and illustrations invite children and young people on an exciting journey through time.

14-02-2024

listening differently

15 March to 8 September 2024

Worlds of sound. They are as diverse as our perception. You can hear them, see them or feel them. Participative and integrative, the exhibition opens up to all visitors - young and old, with handicap and without - different, active approaches to artworks dedicated to this theme. The electronic works of Peter Vogel, for example, react sometimes visually, sometimes acoustically to the actions of the audience. Others stimulate the imagination and create sounds in our heads.
Peter Ablinger | Nevin Aladağ | Laurie Anderson | Katja Aufleger | Ay-O | Sophia Bauer | Susan Hiller | Timo Kahlen | Christina Kubisch | Katalin Ladik | Matthias Mansen | Alison O’Daniel | Stefan Roszak | Michel Sauer | Liza Sylvestre | Steina Vasulka | Peter Vogel

The project is supported by the Innovation Fund Art and the Renate and Waltraut Sick foundation.

14-02-2024

From Egg to Chick

17 February to 7 April 2024

They are scurrying through the museum again and capturing hearts: yellow, brown, black, spotted and striped chicks. They are not only cute, they are also ambassadors for respectful treatment of animals. After more than 30 years, many fans of the family exhibition have known for a long time that if you are quiet as a mouse and prick up your ears at the show hatchery, you may already hear a soft beeping in the egg or the cracking of the shell. If you are very lucky, you will experience the magic moment when a chick hatches. Perhaps a Sundheimer or an Altsteirer? These and other regional and endangered chicken breeds are back.

10-10-2022

Creating Memories: Japanese Photographs

28 October 2023 to 14 April 2024

Fascinating landscapes, spectacular temples or people adopting romantically staged poses while wearing traditional costumes: early photographs such as these, hand-coloured in delicate shades, still influence the image of Japan abroad to this day. Countless ateliers offered the images for sale as souvenirs. Their dissemination throughout Europe led to Japan becoming a place of longing for many travellers towards the end of the 19th century.
 
Zurich-based East Asia specialist Hans Bjarne Thomsen has researched the photographs of the Ethnological Collection at the Museum Natur und Mensch (Museum of Nature and Man). We now present them as a cabinet exhibition in two successive hangings, placing them in their cultural-historical context.
 
Hanging I: 28 October 2023 to 7 January 2024
Hanging II: 13 January to 28 April 2024

10-10-2022

Wilhelm Hasemann and the Invention of the Black Forest

22 July 2023 to 24 March 2024

With the paintings, illustrations and postcards of Wilhelm Hasemann (1850–1913), the characteristic “Bollenhut” hat conquered the world and continues to shape the image of the Black Forest, even today. Born in Saxony, Hasemann’s enthusiasm for the region and its people was so great that he settled in Gutach and founded a painters’ colony. The artist used photos as templates and made countless sketches. From this rich pool of subjects, he created countless compositions afresh: elaborately decorated traditional costumes appear in many paintings; and imposing farms, interiors or particularly idyllic regions recur time and again. Glancing over Hasemann’s shoulder, we discover a great deal about projection and presentation, thereby unfolding astounding parallels to today’s social media with its filter functions, obsession with optimisation and the hunt for the perfect picture and plenty of likes.

Upcoming

14-02-2024

Making Music

5 June 2024 to 26 January 2025

Music brings people together all over the world, accompanies ceremonies and celebrations, transports emotions, information and history. It is an important source of identity and belonging. Musical instruments and their cultural significance are subject to constant change and are closely linked to social developments. The exhibition invites visitors to explore the diverse roles of music and sounds, which also shed light on local and global power relations.

14-02-2024

Hans Thoma - Between Poetry and Reality

14 December 2024 – 26 March 2025

100 years after his death, the Augustinermuseum dedicates a large exhibition to Hans Thoma. In addition to the famous, iconic Black Forest landscapes and genre paintings of the realist, lesser-known works that show clear influences of Art Nouveau and Symbolism, or impressive portraits surprise. Thomas's closeness to folk themes is put up for discussion, using the example of motifs that are Germanic in nature. The exhibition focuses on the artist's graphic work, complemented by selected paintings and handicraft objects.

14-02-2024

Bellissimo!

18 May to 3 November 2024

Magnificent golds and bright colors, elegant lines and refined artistic techniques - this is how precious Italian paintings by Fra Angelico, Guido da Siena or Sandro Botticelli inspire. They were created in famous art centers such as Florence or Siena. The exhibition shows the pictorial world of churches and private devotion, but also offers insights into the art of stately courts. The Lindenau Museum in Altenburg owns one of the most important collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the early 16th century abroad. On the occasion of its renovation, the treasures are guests in Freiburg. 

14-02-2024

Love and Betrayal - The Expressionist Fritz Ascher from New York Private Collections

8 November 2024 – 2nd March 2025

The late Expressionist artist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970) survived two world wars and persecution by the National Socialist regime. A close observer of the horrors of World War I and revolutionary unrest, he turned to Christian spiritual themes, which he radically reinterpreted. In intimate drawings, he dealt with the theme of love and betrayal from 1916 onward, both in his exploration of the crucifixion theme and with the figure of Bajazzo in the tragicomic opera "I Pagliacci."

Ascher's strong and unique artistic voice is evident not only in his paintings, but also in his poems. These were written when he was no longer allowed to work under National Socialism because of his Jewish roots and as a representative of modernism, and had to go into hiding for years to avoid deportation.

14-02-2024

Modern Times

27 September 2024 – 23 February 2025

Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller, George Grosz, Käthe Kollwitz or Hanna Nagel reflect in their works life between the world wars - especially with a view to those people who were socially at the bottom. War experience and trauma, poverty and wealth, political radicalization, strike and revolution, sexuality and intoxication essentially determined the 1920s and 1930s; almost 100 years later, these themes are just as current and are being discussed anew. The exhibition shows works from Expressionism to New Objectivity from the Lindenau Museum Altenburg, supplemented by works from the museum's own collection.

14-02-2024

Heaven and Earth

From 4 July 2024

Heaven, hell or paradise? The question of whether there is life after death and what it looks like has preoccupied people since time immemorial. The ideas that existed in the religious world of the early Middle Ages and how the deceased were treated at that time are shown in staged burial rituals and precious grave goods in the new treasure chamber of the Colombischlössle.

14-02-2024

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Vedute di Roma

22 June – 29 September 2024

The famous series of views of Rome by Giovanni Battista Piranesi shows historic buildings from antiquity to the Baroque. Impressively staged in terms of perspective and lighting, the monuments that still shape the face of the eternal city today convey much of its enduring grandeur. If you look closely, you will discover countless staffage figures in the foreground, capturing the bustling life on the streets. Because the prints were popular as souvenirs, the series continued to be added to over the years. Early prints from the Augustinian Museum's holdings complement two copper printing plates from the Calcografia Nazionale (Rome). They illustrate the work of the etcher and the technique.