Exhibitions-Overview – Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln

Coming soon

Our planned exhibition after the reopening of the museum

Hanna Nagel

Rediscovery of a pioneer of feminist art

Louise Stomps

Sculptures and Drawings
1928—1988

2023

While the exhibition rooms of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln are closed for renovation work after almost 40 years of existence, we look forward to welcoming you to our pop-up space RAUM FÜR NEUES:

RAUM FÜR NEUES — Open due to construction

2.2.2023 - 16.3.2024

RAUM FÜR NEUES —
Discover our Pop-up Space

We are also presenting selected works by the artist in the series »Encounters — Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest ...« in various museums and exhibition venues in Cologne:

ENCOUNTERS — Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Stomps. Sculptures and Drawings 1928—1988

18.8.- 16.11.2023
Prolonged until 18.2.2024

ENCOUNTERS —
Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest
at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

18.5.– 10.9.2023

ENCOUNTERS —
Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest
in the Cologne Cathedral Treasury

28.2.– 4.6.2023

ENCOUNTERS —
Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest
in the Museum Ludwig

6.6.2023 - 31.1.2024
Prolonged until 23.3.2024

TRANSIT —
Chorweiler x Kollwitz

2022

24 November - 11 December 2022

Transit

Chorweiler x Kollwitz

1 July - 13 November 2022

The new Simplicissimus

Satire for the Bonn Republic

11 March - 19 June 2022

Kollwitz Context –
The Oeuvre Behind the Masterpieces

The exhibition on the occasion of the publication of the new Kollwitz monograph

1 October 2021 – 30 January 2022

Maria Lassnig

The Klewan Collection

2021

19 August - 26 September 2021

»The expression in his eyes –
a brooding glance into the distance«

Käthe Kollwitz - Portraits in Focus
The Cologne Kollwitz Collection

19 - 29 August 2021

Earth and Fire
Jan Kollwitz – Japanese ceramics

The great-grandson of Käthe Kollwitz
as a guest at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln

21 May – 15 August 2021

Friedrich Seidenstücker –
Life in the City

Photographs from the 1920s to the 1940s
Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation,
Bavarian State Painting Collections,
Munich

25 September 2020 - 10 January 2021
Prolonged until 16 May 2021

Art Déco

Graphic Design from Paris

2020

4 February - 13 March 2020
9 June - 20 September 2020

»Loving and letting go...«

Personal Moments in the Work of Käthe Kollwitz

11 October 2019 - 26 January 2020

Berlin Realism

From Käthe Kollwitz to Otto Dix

2019

11 October 2019 - 26 January 2020

Berlin Realism

From Käthe Kollwitz to Otto Dix

4 July – 29 September 2019

Kollwitz in the Dining Room –
Not an “easy meal” to digest

Insights into private Kollwitz collections

29 March - 30 June 2019

Anja Niedringhaus

What remains....

10 January – 24 March 2019

Turning points

Changes and new departures in the work of Käthe Kollwitz.

If you are interested in exhibitions in the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln that go back further in time, please have a look at the German version here.

Kollwitz on Tour

Works from the Cologne Kollwitz Collection on loan in special exhibitions all around the world 2024 / 2025

7 November 2024 – 23 February 2025

Käthe Kollwitz – MENSCH
Meet one of the 20th century’s seminal artists

With 78 loans from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Statens Museum for Kunst,
Kopenhagen

Käthe Kollwitz, Charge (Losbruch), sheet 5 of the cycle Peasant War, 1902-1903, line etching, drypoint, reservage, and soft ground with imprint of two fabrics and Ziegler’s transfer paper, 515 x 592 mm (plate), Kn 70 VII, Inv. 70300/94007

6 November 2024 – 17 March 2025

»In the troubled air…«

With one loan from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid / Spain

Käthe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child, 1903, line etching, drypoint, sandpaper and soft ground 42,4 x 48,6 cm, Kn 81 IX, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Inv. Nr. 70300/85013

27 October 2024 – 16 February 2025

ATTRAVERSO I DILUVI
Through the Floods

With one loan from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia / Italien

11 Oktober 2024 – 9 February 2025

A MUSEUM OF MUSEUMS
Time Travel through the Art of Exhibiting and SeeingWomen Artists and Modernisms
1910–1950

With three loans from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Köln

18 September 2024 - 26 January 2026

AFTER HITLER
Germany’s Reckoning with the Nazi Past

With one loan from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Haus der Geschichte der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn

Käthe Kollwitz, Plakat gegen den Paragraphen 218, 1923, Kreidelithographie (Umdruck von einer Zeichnung auf Transparentpapier), Kn 198 II, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln

7 September 2024 – 5 January 2025

RADICAL
Women Artists and Modernisms
1910–1950

With nine loans from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Museum Arnheim / Netherlands

31 March – 20 July 2024

KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

With seven loans from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
MoMA, New York

23 March – 16 June 2024

TAKING A STAND –
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ
With interventions
by Mona Hatoum

With 34 loans from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Kunsthalle Bielefeld

20 March – 9 June 2024

KOLLWITZ

With 13 loans from the
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. M.

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Hanna Nagel

Louise Stomps

RAUM FÜR NEUES — Discover our Pop-up Space

ENCOUNTERS — Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

ENCOUNTERS — Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest in the Cologne Cathedral Treasury

ENCOUNTERS — Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest in the Museum Ludwig

TRANSIT — Chorweiler x Kollwitz

Transit

The new Simplicissimus

Kollwitz Context – The Oeuvre Behind the Masterpieces

Maria Lassnig

»The expression in his eyes – a brooding glance into the distance«

Earth and FireJan Kollwitz – Japanese ceramics

Friedrich Seidenstücker –Life in the City

Art Déco

»Loving and letting go...«

Berlin Realism

Berlin Realism

Kollwitz in the Dining Room – Not an “easy meal” to digest

Anja Niedringhaus

Turning points

Käthe Kollwitz – MENSCH Meet one of the 20th century’s seminal artists

»In the troubled air…«

ATTRAVERSO I DILUVI Through the Floods

A MUSEUM OF MUSEUMSTime Travel through the Art of Exhibiting and SeeingWomen Artists and Modernisms 1910–1950

AFTER HITLERGermany’s Reckoning with the Nazi Past

RADICAL Women Artists and Modernisms 1910–1950

KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

TAKING A STAND – KÄTHE KOLLWITZWith interventions by Mona Hatoum

KOLLWITZ

RAUM FÜR NEUES —
Discover our Pop-up Space

ENCOUNTERS —
Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest
at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum

ENCOUNTERS —
Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest
in the Cologne Cathedral Treasury

ENCOUNTERS —
Käthe Kollwitz as a Guest
in the Museum Ludwig

TRANSIT —
Chorweiler x Kollwitz

Kollwitz Context –
The Oeuvre Behind the Masterpieces

»The expression in his eyes –
a brooding glance into the distance«

Earth and Fire
Jan Kollwitz – Japanese ceramics

Friedrich Seidenstücker –
Life in the City

Kollwitz in the Dining Room –
Not an “easy meal” to digest

Käthe Kollwitz – MENSCH
Meet one of the 20th century’s seminal artists

ATTRAVERSO I DILUVI
Through the Floods

A MUSEUM OF MUSEUMS
Time Travel through the Art of Exhibiting and SeeingWomen Artists and Modernisms
1910–1950

AFTER HITLER
Germany’s Reckoning with the Nazi Past

RADICAL
Women Artists and Modernisms
1910–1950

TAKING A STAND –
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ
With interventions
by Mona Hatoum