Please note: Accessibility will be limited until Wednesday. – The museum is open from 11 am to 6 pm, Wednesday to Monday. Closed on Tuesdays.
Artist Leonor Antunes and curator Dr Elisa Tamaschke engage in a dialogue, providing insights into Antunes‘ artistic research and discussing her contribution to the exhibition.
In the series From the Margins, Rediscovered Lives from Archives, Matt Retallick will talk about Sturmflöten: Karl Weschke, a German in Cornwall.
In conversation with curator Dr Lucy Howarth, European artist Tacita Dean will provide insight into her artistic work and her collection of boats in bottles, which is being presented for the first time in this exhibition.
The Georg Kolbe Museum invites you to a online-panel discussion on queer art histories beyond urban centres. The discussion will explore issues of visibility and working conditions for queer artists in rural areas.
In the series From the Margins: Rediscovered Lives from the Archives, Kiran Desai, one of India’s most prominent literary voices, talks about her grandparents’ friendship with Georg Kolbe.
We cordially invite you to join us in celebrating the Georg Kolbe Museum’s award as Museum of the Year 2025.
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Since 2024, as part of the “Der Brunnen/The Fountain” project, the museum has been conducting interdisciplinary research into the history and contextualization of Georg Kolbe’s “Dancers Fountain” (1922). In this context, it proactively initiated discussions with the descendants of the original owner, Heinrich Stahl. The goal was to clarify the restitution issue and, building on that, to develop new forms of remembrance. Scholarly research revealed that the fountain is a cultural asset resulting from Nazi persecution. The museum restituted the fountain to the community of heirs in the spring of 2026.
On Saturday, 1 February 2026, the German section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) presented the awards “Special Exhibition of the Year,” “Exhibition of the Year,” and “Museum of the Year” at its annual general meeting at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
This year’s Museum of the Year 2025 award was bestowed on the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin.
The Georg Kolbe Museum has completely modernized its lighting system: an energy-efficient lighting concept, a solar power system, and sustainable outdoor lighting showcase the artworks and architecture to their best advantage—while significantly reducing the museum’s ecological footprint.
