100 YEARS CLADDERS
I just followed what artists did; that’s where I saw my part in it. Johannes Cladders, 2004 Johannes Cladders would … more >
ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS
KUNSTHALLE FOR MUSIC in Mönchengladbach, Act III
January 19 – February 23, 2025
Act III is a composition project for Mönchengladbach, described by Meyers as a “new song for the city”.It specifically centers … more >
Reduced and free admission
Reduced admission is available for Visitors attending school, university students and vocational trainees age 25Members of the military and those … more >
2024/05 COMMISSION Rory Pilgrim
Museum Abteiberg is pleased to announce the introduction of the third new commission for KUNSTHALLE FOR MUSIC in Mönchengladbach. The … more >
2024/05 COMMISSION Melika Ngombe Kolongo
Museum Abteiberg is pleased to announce the introduction of the second new commission for KUNSTHALLE FOR MUSIC in Mönchengladbach. The … more >
2024_03 EXPRESSIONISM WORKSHOP Atelier Strichstärke at the Museum Abteiberg
10 March – 12 May 2024 Atelier Strichstärke of the Evangelische Stiftung Hephata has been working together with art mediators … more >
2024/05 Opening ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS: KUNSTHALLE FOR MUSIC in Mönchengladbach, Act II
Day-long opening: Sunday, May 5 3 p.m. Greeting: Ina Brandes, Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia Speeches: Felix … more >
ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE
Field Test #4: Køpcke – Roth
November 21, 2024 – 5 October 2025
Opening: Thursday, November 21, 2024 Field Test #4: Køpcke – Roth looks at the artworks and documents of Arthur Køpcke … more >
ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS
KUNSTHALLE FOR MUSIC in Mönchengladbach
Act II
May 5 — June 23, 2024
Performance timesThursday and Friday: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.Thursday, 20 June: 1 – 7 p.m.Saturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – … more >
2024/02 ART HISTORY IN THE AGE OF AI Copyright, Technological, and Social Scientific Perspectives on the Digital Archive Project
Sunday, February 18, 3 – 6 pm On the occasion of the completion of the digital archive project www.museum-moenchengladbach-1967-1978.de, Museum … more >
OPEN CALL
Looking for performers for KUNSTHALLE FOR MUSIC at Museum Abteiberg
American artist and composer Ari Benjamin Meyers, in collaboration with Museum Abteiberg, is looking for performers with a strong musical … more >
2023/10 Opening ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE Field Test #3: Fine – Knowles
Fluxus is conceptual. Fluxus is intermedial. Fluxus is humorous. Fluxus is ironic and critical of tradition and art history. But … more >
ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE
Field Test #3: Fine – Knowles
October 19, 2023 – October 6, 2024
Fluxus is conceptual. Fluxus is intermedial. Fluxus is humorous. Fluxus is ironic and critical of tradition and art history. But … more >
2023/08 JULIA SCHER: R.S.I. Book presentation at the closing event of JULIA SCHER: Maximum Security Society
Sunday, August 20, 2023, 3 pm with Julia Scher, Nadia Ismail, Matthias Kliefoth, and Gloria Sutton On the occasion of … more >
2023/06 POWER OF DATA The Cyber Management Campus Mönchengladbach visits Museum Abteiberg
Julia Scher, The Ecology of Visibility (Trumpet), 2020, Courtesy Drei, Cologne, Photo: Detlef Ilgner Tuesday, June 6, 20236 pm: Exhibition … more >
2023/06 BLENDING Q AT THE ABTEIBERG MUSEUM as part of Ensemblia 2023
Saturday, June 17, 2023, 7 p.m.With Konrad Bohley, Almut Elhardt, Florian Egermann, Hend Elbalouty, Stephan Ganoff, Felipe González, Theresa Samimizad, … more >
2023/05 THE NEW PATRONS OF MÖNCHENGLADBACH RUTH BUCHANAN A garden with bridges (spine, stomach, throat, ear)
Sunday, 7. May, 12 am OPENING of the sculpture ensembleGreeting: Thomas Hollkott, Karl Sasserath, Auftraggeber / Felix Heinrichs, Mayor of … more >
JULIA SCHER
Maximum Security Society
March 26 — August 20, 2023
PROGRAM Tuesday, June 6POWER OF DATAThe Cyber Management Campus Mönchengladbach as guest at Museum Abteiberg6 p.m. Tour of the exhibition … more >
RUTH BUCHANAN A Garden with Bridges (spine, stomach, throat, ear)
OPENING OF A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT IN THE NEW PATRONS INITIATIVE PROGRAM
Four years after preparations began, an unusual artwork is being realized in the garden of the Mönchengladbach job center. 2023 … more >
www.museum-moenchengladbach-1967-1978.de
www.museum-moenchengladbach-1967-1978.deThe Exhibitions and Box Catalogues of the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach 1967–1978 digital archive projectinitiated by Susanne Rennert & Susanne Titz … more >
PROVENANCES 1950 – 1980
The origin of works in the Museum Abteiberg collection Museum Abteiberg has a comparatively small collection of classical modernist art, … more >
WALTER KAESBACH DONATION
Locating Works from the Walter Kaesbach Donation Since the winter semester 2022/23, students from the Art History Department at Freie … more >
100 YEARS WALTER KAESBACH DONATION
EXPRESSIONISM AT MUSEUM ABTEIBERG
December 9, 2022 – January 7, 2024
Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach – the municipal museum later known as Museum Abteiberg – first became a contemporary art museum on … more >
2022/09 STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA: THE CAMERA OF DISASTER Finissage and catalogue presentation
Studio for Propositional Cinema, The Camera of Disaster, box catalogue design by Nerjus Rimkus Thursday, September 225 pm, onlineTHE END, … more >
2022/09 STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA: THE END AGAIN Reading & Discussion with Paulina Pobocha and Giampaolo Bianconi
Thursday, September 22, 20225 p.m. onlineTHE END, AGAINReading & discussion with Paulina Pobocha, author of the text The End, Again … more >
2022/06 POP PARADISO celebrates 40 Years Museum Abteiberg
POP PARADISO June 23 – 26, 2022 POP Paradiso, a festival in the sculpture garden at Museum Abteiberg, was created … more >
2022/06 KUNSTHALLE FOR MUSIC, Act I
Kunsthalle for MusicAct I: 7 Pieces in and around Museum Abteibergfrom the repertoire of Ari Benjamin Meyers Thursday, June 23, … more >
2022/06 BILDER OHNE GELD (Engl. PICTURES NO QUID)
POP Paradiso is celebrating 40 years of Museum Abteiberg from June 23 to 26. The festival invites Mönchengladbach residents to … more >
2022/04 ANNELIE POHLEN DONATION
Art historian, critic, and former director of the Bonner Kunstverein Annelie Pohlen has donated thirty works of contemporary art to … more >
2023/01 www.museum-moenchengladbach-1967-1978.de
www.museum-moenchengladbach-1967-1978.de*Sunday, January 29, 2023, 3 pmPUBLIC PRESENTATION AND OPEN DISCUSSION with production team membersSusanne Rennert & Susanne Titz, Lukas von … more >
THE COMMISSION
Nora Sternfeld
In her contribution “The Commission”, Nora Sternfeld considers the work of Heiner Müller in examining the significance of commissioning a … more >
STUDIO FOR PROPOSITIONAL CINEMA <br> The Camera of Disaster <br> April 3 – September 25, 2022
The exhibition “The Camera of Disaster” by Studio for Propositional Cinema positions photography as a medium on the brink of … more >
New Acquisitions
Jamie CrewePastoral Drama 2018 (film still) color, 30:00 min, loop; Courtesy of the artistAcquired 2021; Donation Outset Germany_Switzerland Beatrice GibsonI … more >
Mediation & Courses
Kids At the Museum Abteiberg, children have many opportunities to discover art, the special architecture and the sculpture garden. When … more >
Museum in the City
Hans Jonas Park A redesign of Hans Jonas Park will give new visibility to very different contemporary artworks. 2022 will … more >
ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE
Museum Abteiberg acquired one of the most extensive Fluxus collections in the world in 2017 with support from the Cultural … more >
2021 WORKSHOP REPORT ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE (BEUYS)
Museum Abteiberg acquired the ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE – one of the world’s most extensive collections of Fluxus work and related material … more >
2021 ONLINE DISCUSSION Ghislaine Leung
Onions, Ghislaine Leung 2021; Courtesy die Künstlerin und MAXWELL GRAHAM / ESSEX STREET New York; Fotos: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf Susanne … more >
2021/10 BOX CATALOG PRESENTATION Ghislaine Leung
PORTRAITS, Ghislaine Leung 2021; Courtesy die Künstlerin und MAXWELL GRAHAM / ESSEX STREET New York; Fotos: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf Ghislaine … more >
Kurse für Erwachsene
MALEREI-WORKSHOP 30.10. – 18.12. 2021 In diesem Workshop führt die Künstlerin Ora Avital in die Welt der Malerei ein. Es … more >
2021 ROUND TABLE with Bruce Hainley, Fatima Hellberg & Susanne Titz moderated by Haris Giannouras
In conversation with Bruce Hainley and Fatima Hellberg, Susanne Titz and Haris Giannouras discuss Ghislaine Leung’s exhibition at Museum Abteiberg. Bruce Hainley is a … more >
2021/08 FESTIVAL POP PARADISO
August 19 – 29, 2021 POP PARADISO is taking a step towards utopia with you: together we will open up … more >
2021/07 BOOK PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION Jutta Koether
Jutta Koether, Libertine, Museum Abteiberg 2019/2020, photo: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf On Sunday, July 4, Museum Abteiberg is hosting a special … more >
2021/05 WESTART VISITING MUSEUM ABTEIBERG
Westart moderator Siham El-Maimouni talks to Susanne Titz and Felicia Rappe about the societal relevance of art museums along with … more >
Kurse für Jugendliche
GALERIEIn der Bildergalerie finden sie eine Auswahl der letzten Kurse und Workshops. Art & Future16. Dezember 2021, 15.30 – 17.00 … more >
Kurse für Kinder
GALERIEIn der Bildergalerie finden sie eine Auswahl der letzten Kurse und Workshops. Art & Future16. Dezember 2021, 15.30 – 17.00 … more >
2021 ONYEKA IGWE, LIN+LAM, RACHEL O’REILLY – online
Museum Abteiberg is very pleased to receive the generous donation of OUTSET Germany_Switzerland, consisting of the six film productions of … more >
INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE: THE MUSEUM AS A SITE OF PERMANENT CONFERENCE (J.B.)
GHISLAINE LEUNG PORTRAITS
WORKSHOP REPORT ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE (BEUYS)
Opening: Thursday, June 3, 12 p.m.*Welcome: Felix Heinrichs, Lord Mayor of the City of MönchengladbachGreeting: Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister for Culture … more >
Lin & Lam
Three Missing Letters (2020)
Lin + Lam, a New York based duo consisting of artists and researchers Lana Lin und H. Lan Thao Lam, … more >
Rachel O’Reilly
INFRACTIONS (2019)
INFRACTIONS is an artistic documentary in dialogue with Indigenous cultural workers in the north of Australia resisting a shale gas (fracking) frontier. … more >
Onyeka Igwe
A So-Called Archive (2020)
Onyeka Igwe lives and works in London. Her works often incorporate video, sound, dance and voice-over narrations. A So-Called Archive consists of … more >
2020/10 CLOSING EVENT Andrea Bowers, Hans Haacke & Evelyn Taocheng Wang
We warmly invite you to join us at Museum Abteiberg on the last day of the exhibitions featuring ANDREA BOWERS, … more >
2020/10 BRAND III A FILM TRILOGY BY SUSANNE FASBENDER
A film trilogy about the fossil fuel economy, brown coal (lignite), climate policy and the resistance in the Rhineland. By … more >
2020/10 50 YEARS OF THE ETZOLD COLLECTION
“For me, a work of art is first and foremost a product of the spirit, of the mind. It reflects … more >
2020/10 RUNNING UP THAT HILL – Feminist free spaces #4
POETRY READING Kalima Vogt The poems and texts of Kalima Vogt document current events with a poetic voice and a … more >
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2020/08 RUNNING UP THAT HILL – Feminist Free Spaces #2
RESISTANCE AS THE CONSEQUENCE Drawing reference to Andrea Bowers’s artistic exploration of ecology, ecofeminism, climate activism, and civil resistance, event … more >
2020 HANS HAACKE
Hans Haacke (b. 1936 in Cologne) is known for his institutional critique that exposes sociopolitical interdependencies in the art (market) … more >
2020/08 OPEN AIR KONZERT #1 BYGGESETT ORCHESTRA
7 pm (admission 6 pm)TALK “The Punitive Machine God – Critiquing a Technocratic Ideology”Max Franz Johann SchnetkerScientific and technological perspectives … more >
Protected: HANS HAACKE
ART NATURE POLITICS
Juni 21 – October 25, 2020
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ANDREA BOWERS
texts
Political Ribbons for Abteiberg,2020 This piece was first made for an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in 2017. The shared … more >
New Acquisitions
Steve McQueen Charlotte 2004 (film still) 16mm color-film, 5:42 min, loop, Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman GalleryAcquired in … more >
ANDREA BOWERS grief and hope slide show Andrea Bowers has been recording social activists in her artistic work for over … more >
Museum Abteiberg
reopening on May 7
Museum Abteiberg is looking forward to the reopening on Thursday May 7. The permanent collection and the current exhibition grief … more >
2021 HIWA K
Hiwa K (b. 1975 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) has been reflecting on his personal position as a Kurdish-Iraqi exile and intellectual … more >
Chronology
Museum History 1887 – 2016 1887Mayor Viktor Kaifer proposes establishing a collection devoted to city and abbey history. 1894Foundation of … more >
Protected: 2019 GIFT FROM THE HOFFMANN COLLECTION
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Protected: 2019 DIE ZUKUNFT DER ZEICHNUNG: KONZEPT – Folge 3
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Protected: 2018 DIE ZUKUNFT DER ZEICHNUNG: ALGORITHMUS
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Datenschutzerklärung
1. Datenschutz auf einen BlickAllgemeine HinweiseDie folgenden Hinweise geben einen einfachen Überblick darüber, was mit Ihren personenbezogenen Datenpassiert, wenn Sie … more >
2000 MARKUS OEHLEN, ALBERT OEHLEN
Translation in progress. Beide Künstler haben die deutsche Kunstszene der 1980er- und 1990er-Jahre nachhaltig geprägt. Jetzt treten die in Krefeld … more >
2000 WOUNDED TIME
David W.Griffith, Deutscher Expressionismus, Rudolf Steiner, Filmstills aus Hollywood, Leoncillo, Dieter Roth, Jonathan Meese Translation in progress. Die Ausstellung zeigte … more >
2000 WECHSELKURS Fünf Jahre Neuerwerbungen des Museums Abteiberg (95–00)
Translation in progress. Ankäufe der Stadt Mönchengladbach und der Mönchengladbacher Sparkassenstiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft mit Unterstützung des Landes NRW, … more >
1999 WOLFGANG MALLY
Translation in progress. Kein Zweifel, es sind die langen sehnigen Hände des Künstlers, die die Hauptrolle in KRHYZOMORIA spielen, die … more >
1999 SUCHAN KINOSHITA
Translation in progress. Eine Ausstellung des deutsch-niederländischen Kunstprojekts „ROTATION“ im Rahmen des „Niederheinischen Herbstes“. Gastkuratorin: Leontine Coelewij, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam … more >
1999 JORGE PARDO
Translation in progress. Spätestens, seit Jorge Pardo 1998 in Münster zur Skulpturenausstellung sein Pier, einen kioskartigen Pavillon am Aasee errichtete, … more >
1999 SIMON BEER
Translation in progress. Simon Beer versteht sich auf Verführungskünste. Aus ironischer Distanz heraus jongliert er spielerisch mit Mechanismen, die Sehnsüchte … more >
1999 ALICIA FRAMIS
Translation in progress. Ein Kunstprojekt von Alicia Framis im Zelt auf der Plattenebene des Museums AbteibergEine Veranstaltung der Sozial-Holding Mönchengladbach … more >