The human head is a mirror, stage and projection surface all in one. It is the place where the inner world and outer appearance interpenetrate.
faces of mind (January 17 to April 11, 2026) brings together over 200 works on the theme from 50 years: Painting, sculpture, drawing and photography. The focus is not on portraits, but on a field of experimentation between form, emotion and identity. Reduction, fragmentation and alienation open up new perspectives on the human. Views are questioned, masks become symbols of vulnerability, role and self-determination. The exhibition illustrates how artists express their inner selves and how viewers react to them. It also combines artistic expressiveness with findings from neuroscience and asks how emotion, memory and perception arise in the brain and why faces move us so directly.
Many artists transform inner processes into visible forms and make feelings tangible that can often hardly be put into words. In this way, art becomes a resonance space between inner reality and outer form.
With works (complete list of artists) by: Heinz Ackermans, Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, Gerhard Altenbourg, Kensise Anders, Alexander Basil, Radu Belcin, Amoako Boafo, El Bocho, Emmanuel Bornstein, Elisa Breyer, Roberto Fabelo, Rainer Fetting, Moisés Finalé, Karsten Fuge, Jose Girl, Max Grote, Maxim Gunga, Margo Guttmann, Roxana Halls, Martin Heinig, Anton Henning, Benedikt Hipp, Veronika Holcová, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Shunxiang Hu, Horst Hussel, Leiko Ikemura, Beza von Jacobs, Weston Jandacka, Aneta Kajzer, Max Kaus, Nam Kim, Dietrich Klinge, Georg Kolbe, Uwe Kowski, Clemens Krauss, Katinka Lampe, Brandon Lipchik, Stefan Ludes, Markus Lüpertz, Victor Man, Niels Shoe Meulman, Nanne Meyer, Christoph Niemann, Sarah Neumann, Idowu Oluwaseun, Mari Otberg, Justine Otto, Wolfgang Petrick, Pablo Picasso, Dario Riccardo Puggioni, Barbara Quandt, Janne Räisänen, Neo Rauch, Shanee Roe, Juno Rothaug, Christoph Ruckhäberle, Heike Ruschmeyer, Nicola Samori, Serkan Sarier, Torsten Schlüter, Michael Schmeichel, Thomas Schütte, Tamim Sibai, Tabitha Wa Thuku, Rosemarie Trockel, Max Uhlig, Ivana de Vivanco, Vincent Wenzel, Lars Wild, ZhaYang6
Opening: January 16, 2026, from 6 p.m.
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