Hans-Peter Feldmann

The works of Hans-Peter Feldmann (1941–2023), to whom the Kunstpalast is dedicating its first retrospective in autumn 2025, revolve around the questions ‘What is art? Where does it begin, where does it end? Who determines what art is? What makes an artist?’

Even in his early works, recurring central themes can be discerned: everyday life, social clichés, voyeurism, private and public spheres, taste formation, humour and satire, dreams and projections. From the outset, Feldmann consistently pursued strategies of artistic appropriation, alienation and recontextualisation.

Around 80 works are on display in ten rooms, representing the entire spectrum of his oeuvre: early photographs from the 1970s, sculptures made from everyday objects, painted-over paintings and large-scale installations. This provides an overview of a body of work that focused on the seemingly incidental and banal, creating new meanings through alienation and recontextualisation.