• Admission: 13 € / concessions 10 €

  • Children / young people under 18 : free

  • Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free

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Hans-Peter Feldmann

Art exhibition

18 September 2025 – 11 January 2026

Date

18 September 2025 – 11 January 2026

Location

» Kunstpalast

  • Admission: 13 € / concessions 10 €

  • Children / young people under 18: free

  • Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free

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?’

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Hans-Peter Feldmann, Family with Red Noses, 2015
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Family with Red Noses, 2015

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.

Hans-Peter Feldmann, The Bust of Nefertiti, 2012
Hans-Peter Feldmann, The Bust of Nefertiti, 2012

The exhibition highlights how Feldmann questions viewing habits, the role of art in a social context, and the mechanisms of taste formation. His works oscillate between the private and public spheres, between humour and seriousness, between cliché and reality.

It is the first comprehensive exhibition since Feldmann’s death in May 2023 and also the last presentation in which he was actively involved. The retrospective illustrates the development of his work over five decades and shows the consistency of his artistic approach, which continues to have an impact today in all its diversity and radicalism.

Curator: Felicity Korn, Head of the 20th and 21st Century Art Collection, Kunstpalast

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KunstpalastPhoto : Andreas Endermann
KunstpalastPhoto : Andreas Endermann

Bring Me, Take Yours


As part of the exhibition Hans-Peter Feldmann. Art exhibition there is a shelf on the gallery on the first floor that invites visitors to participate. Here, items can be brought, exchanged or simply taken away. Works created in the temporary workshop room can also become part of the shelf.

Whether teapots, thimbles, tin toys or other small treasures – the Feldmann shelf thrives on diversity and constant change. Contribute to this, tell your friends and acquaintances about the campaign and help keep this place of surprises alive.

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