20 Jahre Max Ernst Museum: Museumsfest | Kunstgespräche und Kino

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

Friday, September 5, 2025 | Art talks and cinema

5 pm: Artist talk with Farah Ossouli, Necmi Sönmez and Madeleine Frey
The artist Farah Ossouli, who lives and works in Tehran, Iran, and to whom the solo exhibition Merk' dir den Flug, der Vogel wird sterben is dedicated in the Leonora-Carrington-Saal, will be returning for another artist talk. Together with the curator of the exhibition Madeleine Frey and the editor of her monograph Farah Ossouli - Burning Wings: Last Four Decades Necmi Sönmez, they will talk about the artistic work of Farah Ossouli and present the catalog, which provides an overview of more than 40 years of the artist's work.

7 pm: Film screening: Leonora in the Morning Light and talk with the directors Lena Vurma and Thor Klein, moderated by Patrick Blümel
Feature film, 2025, OmU, 101 min.
Based on the novel Leonora by Elena Poniatowska, the biographical film Leonora in the Morning Light tells the life of the important surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, who met Max Ernst in 1937. In her art, she combines indigenous Mexican mythology and Celtic folklore to create fantastic worlds.
The exhibition is open on this day until 7 pm.