Kunstmuseum Bonn

The Kunstmuseum Bonn numbers among the large, nationally-esteemed museums dedicated to contemporary art. Its new building, designed by the Berlin architect Axel Schultes and opened in 1992, is considered throughout Germany to be one of the most important examples of museum architecture in recent decades.

The institution is centered around a collection of some 9,000 works, with an extensive group of works by August Macke and a focus on the art of the Rhenish Expressionists, as well as the important collection of art in Germany after 1945 with an emphasis on painting, photography and time-based media. A special feature of this profile, unique in the Federal Republic, is the concentration on a manageable number of outstanding artists whose works are displayed in large-scale artist’s rooms.

The internationally oriented, thematic and monographic exhibition projects are generally developed out of a close connection to the context of the collection.With the working area “Education and Outreach,” the Kunstmuseum Bonn attracts new circles of visitors and fulfills the sociopolitical responsibilities required of an up-to-date museum and art outreach program, through qualified and multifaceted pedagogical offerings which have a crucial role to play in the framework of recreational and educational opportunities in Bonn.

Moreover, wide-ranging collaborations with various institutions in a local and regional context firmly anchor the institution in the awareness of a broad public.