10 Must-Visit Contemporary Art Museums in Munich

There are a lot of artists in Munich who are getting more and more attention on the international scene. This means that there is more demand for exhibition spaces. We talk about the important galleries that show some of Germany’s best artists.

Galerie Sabine Knust

The Galerie Sabine Knust works with the publishing house Maximilian Verlag. This means that you can buy first editions of art books at the gallery. Famous foreign artists whose work has been shown at the gallery include Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, and Per Kirkeby. Sabine Knust has also worked with some of the most famous German contemporary artists, like Jorg Immendorf, who was part of the anti-establishment art movement Neue Wilde, which started in 1978. Younger, less well-known artists like Ben Cottrell, Philip Furhofer, and Olaf Holzapfel are also here.

Galerie Jo van de Loo

In 2011, Jo van de Loo opened a gallery that focuses on modern photography and one-person shows. Young German artists like Philip Gaisser, Arno Schidlowski, and Regine Petersen, who uses photography to study the effects of meteorites, are shown at the gallery. Van der Loo also works with foreign artists, like Tim Bennett, who was born in the UK and now lives in Munich.

Kunstraum München

Kunstraum is a group that started in 1973 as a private-funded art club that didn’t make money. This venue is paid for by about 300 people from all parts of the Munich art world. The gallery moved to the center of the city in 1996. Volunteer curators often pick talented artists to show their work in the space. As a result, Kunstraum helps a lot of local artists get funding.

Barbara Gross Galerie

Art Gallery

The Barbara Gross Galerie is in the Museum Quarter of Munich. It is in a building that used to be a bakery and then a graphic design studio. The gallery shows a wide range of works that look at social and political issues through the lens of art and ask questions about them. Barbara Gross has shown the work of well-known women artists like Louise Bourgeois and Nancy Spero. She has also shown the work of many new women artists in Munich.

Matthias Jahn

School

Matthias Jahn grew up surrounded by modern art. Fred Jahn, his father, is a well-known art dealer and gallery owner who focuses on art on paper. Matthias opened his gallery on Baaderstrasse in 1978. He had been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Matthias Jahn now works with a lot of the artists he met in school, like Michael Biber, Ioan Grosu, and Matthias Lehrberger. Every year, there are between six and eight shows, and many of them are collaborations between artists.

Karen Wimmer Contemporary Art

University

Dr. Wimmer is trained as an art historian, and she also works as a research assistant at the Ludvig Maximilian University of Munich. She opened this gallery in 2014. She is especially interested in getting people to know about local artists like Elisabeth Wieser and Anja Buchheister. Her Young Art Space program shows young artists who are just starting out every month. Wimmer is on the board of ARTMUC, which is Bavaria’s biggest fair for contemporary art. He also gives private collectors and businesses advice on how to buy art.

Galerie Klueser

Museum

In 1970, when Bernd Klueser was still in law school, he worked with Adolf Beuys. In 1978, he opened his first gallery. Andy Warhol and Mimmo Paladino were among the artists he showed there. The gallery has always worked closely with international museums and has also published books about art. Klueser put out Warhol’s Lenin series and co-wrote The Art of Exhibitions, which is a guide to 30 exhibitions that changed the world in the 20th century. In 2002, he opened a second gallery on Turkenstrasse to help young artists like Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Bernardi Roig, Conrad Shawcross, and Jorinde Voigt. Together with his daughter Julia, he runs both galleries.

Lothringer 13

Building, Museum

Since it opened in 1980, this gallery has become one of the most exciting places in Munich to see new art. Lothringer 13 stands out because it takes a multidisciplinary approach. It also gives the most creative artists from all over the world a chance to show off their skills. There are a lot of social and political themes. In changing group shows about social issues and discourses, works by both new and well-known artists are put in conversation with each other and built upon in a dense framework program. Lothringer13 Halle goes all the way to the room in the front building. It has a regular schedule of events and sells books that go with the current show.

Galerie Christine Mayer

The Mahlergruppe Collective and other young but high-quality German artists like Franka Kaßner are shown at Galerie Christine Mayer. This work by an up-and-coming artist is shown alongside works by well-known artists from around the world, like Dan Graham. This creates a mix of different artistic points of view. The gallery shows works by artists who use many different kinds of media. Artists who show their work or live here work closely with the gallery to make sure that their work fits with the space. This makes the relationship between the artist and curator fluid.

Weltraum

Art Gallery

This small, unpretentious gallery has one of the city’s highest rates of changing exhibitions. Almost every other week, there is a new show here, which starts with a talk or lecture on Friday evening. Weltraum is proud of giving young artists a place to grow without having to cater to the commercial market or beg for money from the government. Weltraum is a bit rough around the edges, but it’s still a charming place to visit if you’re looking for something a little bit different or off the beaten path. Join their Facebook group to find out about upcoming shows.

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