Museum Ulm
Past
What does a museum collect? What do we want to preserve, what is important for us and our history? What is art and what may vanish?
Up to ninety percent of all museum collections cannot be seen in exhibitions. They wait in the depots for… —› more
A new Bauhaus is founded in Ulm: after the Second World War, this news spread quickly among former Bauhaus residents and all those involved in architecture and product design. The initiative for this came from the HfG founders Inge Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill; Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius… —› more
FLUXUS was one of the most revolutionary art movements of the 20th century, which emerged simultaneously in Europe and the USA at the beginning of the 1960s. The initiative of visual artists and musicians radically broke with familiar notions of art and fundamentally changed the boundaries between art… —› more
FLUXUS was a revolutionary art movement of the 20th century. It originated at the beginning of the 1960s simultaneously in Europe and the USA. The initiative of visual artists and musicians radically broke with familiar notions of art and fundamentally changed the boundaries between art and everyday life.
Fluxus… —› more
A bench for breastfeeding in public spaces, a hijab for high performance sport, a prostate-relief bicycle seat, a swanky puffer and a smouldering femme-fatale, boys prefer… —› more
Video games are the most monetized and aesthetically bewildering artefacts of the present age. They have long since conquered children‘s and living rooms aswell as offices. And we don‘t want to miss them on our smartphones either. At least since the New York Museum of Modern Art… —› more
We haven’t just been collecting friends since Facebook came into existence: Already in the 16th century the “Album Amicorum”, also called friendship or family book, began its success story.
The small books were particularly popular with young men. During their studies, journeyman… —› more
On the occasion of the European Restoration Day on 14 October 2018, the Museum Ulm is opening the newly established studio exhibition Restoration. Current restoration projects will be presented in changing presentations. The exhibition series… —› more
In 1968, the year of the student movement, the Ulm School of Design (HfG) was closed. An ambitious educational project of the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany had come to its close.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s… —› more
Since its foundation in 1982, the Verein der Freunde des Ulmer Museums has supported the directorate in its work. One of its aims is to provide funds for the purchase of works of art for the museum. So far, the Museum Ulm has been able… —› more
One of the most spectacular discoveries in archaeology, the 40,000-years-old lion man, the largest sculpture of Ice Age art and the oldest depiction of a mythical creature, is on display at Museum Ulm. It was discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel in the Lonetal near Ulm, one of six… —› more
From July 07 to September 23, 2018 the BBK – Ulm e.V, the Kunstverein Ulm, the Künstlergilde Ulm e.V. and the Museum Ulm are organising the 22nd Art Triennial Ulm at the Museum Ulm. This platform for Ulm artists was created in 1955 by the then museum… —› more
East and west, tradition and modernity, discipline and free thinking: Chinese artist Zhuang Hong Yi (*1962 Sichuan/China I lives in Rotterdam and Peking) unites these seemingly disparate concepts almost effortlessly, condensing them into works that are more wall installations than paintings, due to their… —› more
Albert Einstein (1879 Ulm – 1955 Princeton/New Jersey) not only revolutionised physics and our view of the world. His statements regarding culture, politics and pacifism keep inspiring generation after generation all over the world. To honour one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th… —› more
A sculpture is floating in a digital environment, constantly changing its size or surface property. Such a work can’t exist in a reality bound by the laws of physics. The possibilities offered by the digital realm enhance the creation of art and the… —› more
Living in 9m²: ‘aVOID’ is the first mobile apartment that comes in the shape of a terraced house. Developed by young Italian architect Leonardo Di Chiara, this prototype can easily bear comparison with a Swiss army knife: All the comfort needed for sleeping,… —› more
41 minutes – will be the travel time of regional trains between Ulm and Stuttgart on the new ICE line crossing the Swabian Jura. The extensive excavations conducted at the same time as the railway construction provided unique insights… —› more
Summer 1965 in Ahmedabad, India. Hans Gugelot, lecturer at the (a successor institution of the Bauhaus) is a guest of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad (NID). Together with Indian designer Gajanan Upadhyay and students he designs the Indian Lounge, also known as 24/42 Chairs…. —› more
Kurt Deschler (1917—2003) was the descendant of a long-established entrepreneurial family from Söflingen (Steiger & Deschler GmbH). He was not only one of the passionate art collectors and patrons of his time; in his many… —› more
Paper avalanches rise up in the room, ceramic plants sprout on the walls and copper neoplasms interweave into razor thin threads. The works presented in this exhibition resemble imaginary plants and magnified microorganisms, now revealing themselves. A… —› more
On the occasion of Walter Zeischegg’s 100th birthday, the Studio HfG will present a selection of works by the product designer and sculptor.
Walter Zeischeg (1917–1983) was connected closely to the Ulm School of Design from its very beginnings. In 1951, Max Bill asked him… —› more
On the occasion of the 2017 Reformation Anniversary, Museum Ulm cooperates with the Protestant St. Paul’s Church, devoting a studio exhibition to the painter Adolf Hölzel from Stuttgart (1853—1934) and his creative work in Ulm. Built in 1908-1910, the… —› more
ARTPERIUM, founded by the artists Raoul Kaufer (*1957) and Peter Nowotny (*1953), transforms the art market into a real and virtual piece of art, offering the participation in a continuously growing network.
Renowned artworks from different eras are offered on the website ARTPERIUM for purchase and resale… —› more
The cabinets of art, wonders or curiosities of the 16th century are regarded as the nucleus of the museum concept as we know it today. They included not only art, but everything that was unique, exotic or valuable and… —› more
Walt Disney was one of the most creative minds of the 20th century. He invented not only Mickey Mouse, using animation to revolutionise the art of story telling through film, he also created an inimitable universe of imagination that is uniting generations and… —› more
For the first time since 1991, Museum Ulm is presenting almost the entire collection of journalist and publisher Kurt Fried (1906-1981), an impressive, almost encyclopedic spectrum of the art developments in the 20th century. As a patron of the arts, Fried… —› more
Part of the late Gothic features of the choir at Ulm Minster was a lavishly ornamented seat for the priest and his two deacons. This piece of furniture, also called vespertolium, is where the officiants would be seated… —› more
Every year since 1992, the wooden nativity scene by Martin Scheible is on display during Christmas time at Ulm Minster. The sculptor from Neu-Ulm carved this ensemble with 26 figures from lime-wood in 1923. Only the central figures, Mary, Joseph… —› more
In his works, painter Max Arthur Stremel, born in 1859 in Zittau, Saxony, influenced and absorbed the art of impressionism in Germany. During his summer stays in Belgium and Holland he engaged in plein air painting – painting outdoors – to study… —› more
40,000 years ago, hunters of the Ice Age travelled upstream along the river Danube to the Swabian Jura. They found shelter in the caves in the prehistoric Danube Valley, where, for the first time, they created small artworks, figures made… —› more
The multi-cultural society is not a novelty of the present age, but a reality we have been living in for a long time. The group exhibition ‘Glaubensfragen’ (questions of faith) by Museum Ulm and the Museum of the Bible, Washington… —› more
In 2015, Museum Ulm celebrated its 90th year of existence with a large special exhibition presenting the work of Heinz Mack. The internationally renowned artist had been in regular communication with Ulm. The exhibition ‘Mack. Das Licht meiner Farben’ (the light of my… —› more
