20 Jahre Max Ernst Museum: Museumsfest | Eröffnungen

In the organizer's words:

September 2025: The Max Ernst Museum turns 20!
To celebrate this milestone birthday, we are holding a lavish museum festival full of art, memories and ideas for the future. A multifaceted program invites you to get to know all areas of the museum and actively participate.

PROGRAM

Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Openings

3-6 p.m.: Vernissage with champagne reception in the Fantasie Labor
The Saturday printers have been meeting for a regular workshop for over 20 years. In a two-day presentation of their work, they will showcase their many years of creativity. Works by Apollonia Harwarth, Lu Hüls, Berthold Merz, Renate Susen and Nicole Traut will be exhibited. The five artists work with different techniques, including etchings, mixed media and material and nature prints. For example, an etching gains a whole new dimension by "sewing over" it, or a combination of etching and watercolor is transformed into a collage by cutting out elements.

7 p.m.: Grand opening in the Dorothea Tanning Hall
Loplop and Sedona Vogel
Marion Verboom and Christoph Westermeier
Contemporary art meets Max Ernst in the Max Ernst Museum's collection presentation
5.9.2025-5.7.2026
On Thursday, the Max Ernst Museum celebrates its anniversary with the opening of two interventions in the collection presentation and invites the public to attend.
The artist Marion Verboom, who lives and works in Paris, will be showing sculptures created especially for the Max Ernst Museum, in which she breaks with traditional notions of sculpture and materiality. Her surrealist objects are reminiscent of Max Ernst's assemblages. Düsseldorf-based artist Christoph Westermeier presents his artistic research on Max Ernst, surrealism and colonialism in a photo collage. He will also give a lecture performance on Saturday, 6.9.2025.

All interested parties are invited to enjoy music, drinks and food on the terrace as well as a DJ set and ambient music with Alisa Berger.