Just Start – Dare to Create
Beyond Lines – Lamy creative sessions in Palast Studio with Susie Bumms
1-4 pm, ages 16+
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“Your first stroke counts more than perfection” – under this motto, artist Susi Bumms invites you on a creative journey that puts the joy of experimenting front and center. With paper and pen, we explore ideas that arise both in our minds and around us. We try, experiment, and let spontaneous ideas guide us – without pressure, without right or wrong. Sketching, conceptual thinking, visual ideas: everything is allowed, everything counts.
This workshop is an invitation to explore your own creative expression, enjoy the act of making, and perhaps take home a truly personal piece. Just start, draw, create – and let yourself be surprised!
The artist, a freelance illustrator based in Cologne after studying in the arts, combines conceptual approaches with keen observation, humor, and surprising perspectives. Her work plays with design and language, depicting objects with character, situations with a twist, and people with “living fingers.”
Ages 16+
Meeting Place: Museum
Programme for Young Adult and Adult Refugees
The fifth Element
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Please Note: This tour will be given in German!
What is the world and what is it made of? Is there something that connects everything? The exhibition shows the four elements – fire, water, earth and air – and adds a fifth element. Get to know the artists’ unusual materials and techniques. The artworks invite us to develop new ideas about nature, art and science. Get creative and share your thoughts.
Meeting Point Museum takes place once a month. Refugees and migrants are very welcome and admission is free!
Registration – Meeting Place – 20.2.2026
Watercolour-Workshop for adults
Sunsets
2-5pm
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In this beginner-friendly workshop, you will learn how to capture the magic of a glowing sky with watercolors. We will experiment with color gradients, wet-on-wet blending, and layering techniques to create vibrant colors and expressive cloud shapes. Discover the joy of painting with loose, free, and bold brushstrokes.
Artist-quality materials are provided.
Nima Dibazar is an architect and watercolour painter who has been recording his own memories of people, places and travels in his sketchbooks. He will introduce you to painting with watercolours and show you how to work free and loose with them.
Instagram: @nimadibazar
Mit allen Sinnen – Führung für blinde und sehbeeinträchtigte Personen
The secret power of scents
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What does a certain smell evoke in me? How does it influence my perception and behaviour? What memories and emotions does it bring to life?
In this guided tour for blind and visually impaired people, we invite you to experience the history of scent through your sense of smell: embark on a sensory journey through our collection rooms and discover a wide variety of smells from over a thousand years of art and cultural history at 27 scent stations and rooms.
Registration – With all senses – 7.2.2026
Zeichnen im Kunstpalast
Frauenbilder
Workshop für Erwachsene
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Künstlerinnen und Modelle – Welche Rollen nehmen Frauen in der Kunst ein? Mit Papier und Stift gehen wir den weiblichen Positionen in der Sammlung des Kunstpalastes nach. Dabei entdecken wir die Vielfalt an Werken und halten Kompositionen, Darstellungen sowie Inspirationen zeichnerisch fest.
Sie haben Lust mit anderen zu Zeichnen? Ganz gleich, ob Sie neu anfangen oder schon Erfahrungen haben – Sie sind herzlich eingeladen mitzumachen!
Vivaldi – Die vier Jahreszeiten
Kammerorchester der Neuen Philharmonie Hamburg
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Date
Fri 27 Nov 2026, 20:00
Location
» Robert-Schumann-SaalTicket prices
51,19/45,19/39,19/33,19 € (ermäßigt 46,19/40,19/34,19/28,19 €) zzgl. Servicegebühren

Kammerorchester der Neuen Philharmonie Hamburg
Tigran Mikaelyan Konzertmeister
Vivaldi – Die vier Jahreszeiten
Maestro Tigran Mikaelyan präsentiert mit dem Kammerorchester der Neuen Philharmonie
Hamburg „Die vier Jahreszeiten“ von Antonio Vivaldi und weitere bekannte Meisterwerke.
Antonio Vivaldi Die vier Jahreszeiten
– Pause –
Wolfgang A. Mozart Divertimento F-Dur KV 125c (Salzburger Sinfonie)
Antonín Dvořák Slawischer Tanz op. 72 Nr. 2 e-Moll
Komitas Armenische Miniaturen
Johannes Brahms Ungarischer Tanz Nr.1
Johannes Brahms Ungarischer Tanz Nr. 5
Erleben Sie in der ersten Konzerthälfte die eindrucksvollen Klangfarben der „Le quattro stagioni“ und genießen Sie in der zweiten Hälfte weitere bekannte Meisterwerke der vielfältigen europäischen klassischen Musik.
Die Neue Philharmonie Hamburg wurde 2001 von freischaffenden Berufsmusikern aus aller Welt gegründet. Seitdem hat sich das Orchester einen führenden Platz in der norddeutschen Musiklandschaft erarbeitet und behauptet. Es versteht sich als ein dynamisches Orchester, das von kleineren Besetzungen für Kammerorchester bis hin zu einem großen Symphonieorchester mit Chor ausbaubar ist. Das Herzstück blieb jedoch stets das Kammerorchester, das seit seiner Gründung kaum verändert wurde und sehr gut aufeinander eingespielt ist.
Mit zahlreichen Gastauftritten in Spanien, Frankreich, Italien und Südkorea hat es sich einen großen Freundeskreis bei den Zuhörern erworben. Die musikalische Leitung übernimmt der Konzertmeister des Orchesters, Tigran Mikaelyan.
Veranstalter: WELTKONZERTE (Berlin)
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Grumpy Guide
A Thoroughly Unpleasant Tour of the Collection
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Please note: This tour will be held in German!
The Grumpy Guide knows everything – and, above all, he knows it better than the visitors, which he is more than happy to make them feel. He is irritable, bored and arrogantly superior.
By his own account, Joseph Langelinck is a descendant of a former director of the Düsseldorf gallery of paintings. He harbours a particular resentment towards certain artists and works that would never have found their way into the collection under his rightful leadership – but above all towards the visitors and their woeful ignorance.

Langelinck worked as an art critic in Berlin, but could not endure the city for long, finding it simply far too pleasant. Back in his native Düsseldorf, he tried his hand as a Köbes in various breweries, yet the sunny dispositions of his colleagues drove him to the brink of despair. And so he ended up at the Kunstpalast, where he now unleashes his vast store of knowledge upon unsuspecting visitors as a museum guide.
He leads the group through the collection entirely as it suits him: sometimes racing through several centuries at breakneck speed, at other times lingering for minutes on the tiniest detail of a single work of art. From time to time, there may even be an unexpected quiz – so beware of the Grumpy Guide!
Please note: During the event, photographs and videos will be taken for promotional purposes and used on our website and social media channels.
Date
30 Apr – 7 June 2026
Location
» KunstpalastAdmission: free / concessions free
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free

DIE KLEINE (THE LITTLE ONE) is the final exhibition of the art competition for primary schools, which has been taking place since 2020. The competition is aimed at all elementary school in Düsseldorf and the surrounding area and aims to give young pupils the opportunity to get creative and experience the museum as an extracurricular place of learning.
The children are free to design their works of art and choose the medium – anything is possible, from pictures to collages, objects or photos to films. All submitted works will be presented in the final exhibition.
DIE KLEINE is under the patronage of Mayor Dr. Stephan Keller.

About DIE KLEINE
The DIE KLEINE art competition will take place for the seventh time in 2026, this time under the motto: ‘Kunstpalast Kunterbunt!’ (Colourful Art Palace!).Learn more & register
GYM. Fit With Art
October 2026 –
January 2027


The Kunstpalast collection is always in motion, and for the GeSoLei centenary we’re taking that literally – installing a sports circuit at the heart of the galleries.
In 1926, the Ehrenhof complex and its surroundings hosted the Great Exhibition for Public Health, Social Welfare and Physical Exercise (GeSoLei), the largest fair of the Weimar Republic, which attracted roughly 7.5 million visitors. Sport formed one of its key areas, a strand we pick up a century later and translate into a contemporary format. Rings, a rowing machine, a ping-pong table, a balance board and more will be placed throughout the collection galleries. Visitors are invited to use the equipment: a way to experience the exhibition differently and to set their own physical rhythm in dialogue with the art on view.
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