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jürgen klauke
28.11.2026 – 07.03.2027

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>Image 1
Jürgen Klauke, Schlachtfelder (Detail), 2009 – 2010. Courtesy of Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, VG Bildkunst.

>Image 2
Jürgen Klauke, Toter Fotograf, 1988 – 1993
C-Print, 280 x 125 cm (160 x 125 and 120 x 125 cm). VG Bild.

>Image 3
Jürgen Klauke, Formalisierung der Langeweile, from the series Formalisierung der Langeweile, 1980 – 1981, C-Print, 3 parts, each 60 x50cm. Courtesy Zander Galerie Paris. VG Bild.

Mukenge/Schellhammer
14.08. – 01.11.2026

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>Image 1
Mukenge/Schellhammer, Receive, My Love, acrylic on canvas, 50 × 60 cm, 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin..

>Image 2
Mukenge/Schellhammer, Be careful what you wish for, acrylic on paper, A3, 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin. Photo: Jens Gerber.

>Image 3
Mukenge/Schellhammer, Fighting Demons, acrylic, oil pastel and pencil on canvas, 180 × 280 cm, 2026.
Courtesy the artists and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

>Image 4
Mukenge/Schellhammer, Auf deinem Bauche sollst du kriechen und Staub fressen dein Leben lang II, VR Painting, (film still) 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

>Image 5
Mukenge/Schellhammer, Elima – NoBody, Installation View, KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN, 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin. Photo: Jens Gerber.

Pierre Molinier
Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard
24.04. – 12.07.2026

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>Image 1
Pierre Molinier, La poupée, 1956-57. Copyright the artist, Courtesy of Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris.

>Image 2
Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard, Une solitude vraiment terrible (Clod), 2025. Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Wouters, Brussels.

>Image 3
Pierre Molinier, Autoportrait au loup, Copyright the artist, Courtesy of Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris.

>Image 4
Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard, une solitude vraiment terrible, installation view, 2024, MeetFactory, Prague, Czech Republic. Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Wouters, Brussels.

Sophia süßmilch
28.03.2026

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>Image 1
Sophia Süßmilch, Rhythm 6-7, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and MARTINETZ, Cologne.

>Image 2
Sophia Süßmilch, Orgy and Ecstasy, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and MARTINETZ, Cologne.

Annual Programme
2026

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>Image 1
Roméo Mivekannin, La scène du régime nazi : Hitler en visite à la Maison de l‘art allemand, temple de l’art officiel nazi à Munich (Scene from the Nazi regime: Hitler visiting the House of German Art, the center of official Nazi art in Munich), acrylic paint and elixir bath on canvas, 1939, 2025, 207 x 258 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

>Image 2
Pierre Molinier, La poupée (The Doll), 1956–57, 12 x 9 cm, silver gelatin print. Copyright the artist, Courtesy of Galerie Christophe Gaillard.

>Image 3
Mukenge Schellhammer, Beyond Pity, 2021, Video collage, Film still. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm.

>Image 4
Jürgen Klauke, Schlachtfelder (Battlefields), 2009 – 2010, 144 pieces, each 49 x 68 cm, total 2940 x 1630 cm, C-Print. Courtesy of the artist.

>Image 5
Sophia Süßmilch, Grüße aus dem Jenseits (Greetings from the beyond), 2022. Courtesy of the artist und MARTINETZ

Roméo Mivekannin
29.11.2025 – 01.03.2026

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>Image 1
Roméo Mivekannin, La femme à la pancarte : femme allemande confrontée à une humiliation publique à cause d’une liaison amoureuse avec un Polonais (The Woman with the Sign: German woman publicly humiliated for a romantic relationship with a Polish man), 1942, 2025, acrylics and elixir bath on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

>Image 2
Roméo Mivekannin, La scène des Monuments Men: After Rembrandt‘s Self-Portrait (Scene of the Monuments Men: After Rembrandt‘s Self-Portrait), 1946, 2025, acrylics and elixir bath on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

>Image 3
Roméo Mivekannin, La scène du régime nazi : Hitler en visite à la Maison de l‘art allemand, temple de l’art officiel nazi à Munich (Scene of the Nazi-Regime: Hitler visiting the Haus der Deutschen Kunst, the center of official Nazi art in Munich), 1942, 2025, acrylics and elixir bath on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

(In)visibility of violence
22.08.- 02.11.2025

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>Image 1
Kresiah Mukwazhi, the high priests, 2024, Bra straps on canvas, 120×140 cm, Photo: Simon Vogel.

>Image 2
Lucinda Devlin, The Omega Suits, Virginia Electric Chair, 1991, Courtesy of Galerie m, Duisburg and the artist.

>Image 3
Lucinda Devlin, The Omega Suits, Mississippi Witness Room, 1998, Courtesy of Galerie m, Duisburg and the artist.

>Image 4
Thomson&Craighead, A Short Film About War, 2009/2010, Filmstill, Courtesy of the artists.

>Image 5
Johanna Maria Fritz, Butscha, Ukraine, 2022, Courtesy of ARTCO Berlin und the artist.

>Image 6
Johannah Herr, American War Rug XVII (Hawaii, 1893), 2022, Courtesy of the artist and Gaa, New York + Cologne

>Image 7
Jonas Höschl, 80 Portraits: 73 Männer, 7 Frauen, 2023, Courtesy of the Artist

Céline ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann
11.04.2025 – 20.07.2025

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>Image 1
Céline Ducrot, Walk a while, 2024, Acrylic on MDF board, 170 × 120 cm

>Image 2
Céline Ducrot, Filaments, 2024, Arcylic ink on MDF board, 280 x 190 cm

>Image 3
Céline Ducrot, Right through you, 2023, Arcylic ink on MDF board, 100 × 70 cm

>Imag 4
Céline Ducrot, No ordinary machine, 2024, Acrylic on MDF board, 190 × 280 cm

>Image 1
Cathrin Hoffmann, The Kneeling, 2022, Synthetic polymer, epoxy resin, lacquer, 170 × 100 × 175 cm

>Image 2
Cathrin Hoffmann, Soft Slide on Gravel Paths, 2025, oil and quartz sand on canvas, 160 x 120 cm

>Image 3
Cathrin Hoffmann, Our bodies know, 2025, oil on linen, 90 x 180 cm

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Raphaela Vogel
29.11.2024 – 02.03.2025

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> Image 1
Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024, Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 2
Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024, Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 3
Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 4
Raphaela Vogel, Die Geschichte vom Oberägypter und seinem fränkischen Weibe, 2023, Polyurethane elastomer, goat leather, oil lacquer. Courtesy of the artist.

Annual Programme
2025

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> Image 1
Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage pf Space: Ziggurat of Dead Zones, installation view kunsthalle Giessen, 2024, Photo: Jens Gerber.

> Image 2
Left: Cathrin Hoffmann, It’s Too Soon To Cry, 2022; Right: Céline Ducrot, Soft Spots, 2024. Courtesy of the artists.

> Image 3
Thomson&Craighead (2009/2010), A Short Film About War, Filmstill, Courtesy of the artists.

> Image 4
Sybille Ruppert, o.T., o.J, Collage. Courtesy Privatsammlung Giessen. Photo: Lena Fries.

>Image 5
Roméo Mivekannin, Young woman with peonies, after Frédéric Bazille, 2023, acrylic and elixir bath on canvas, 134x167cm. Courtesy of the Artist & Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

>Image 6
(Re)Spacing, Mama Made Me Do It, in cooperation with Stadttheater Giessen, dance performance by and with Emma Jane Howley, Gustavo de Oliveira Leite, Maja Mirek & Omar Torrico Real, 2024. Photo: Jacob Boll.

Raphaela Vogel
29.11.2024 – 02.03.2025

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> Image 1
Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024, Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 2
Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024, Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 3
Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 4
Raphaela Vogel, Die Geschichte vom Oberägypter und seinem fränkischen Weibe, 2023, Polyurethane elastomer, goat leather, oil lacquer. Courtesy of the artist.

(Re)Spacing – Mama made me do it
Dance performance by and with Emma Jane Howley, Gustavo de Oliveira Leite, Maja Mirek & Omar Torrico Real

Wednesday, 23.10.24, 7 pm, Kunsthalle Giessen
A cooperation with the Stadttheater Gießen

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>Image 1
Gustavo de Oliveira Leite (c) Stadttheater Gießen

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Gustavo de Oliveira Leite (c) Stadttheater Gießen

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Maja Mirek (c) Stadttheater Gießen

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Maja Mirek (c) Stadttheater Gießen

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Omar Torrcico Real (c) Stadttheater Gießen

Depictions of Excessive Force – Between Destruction and Attraction
Dialogpanel
Wednesday, 30.10.2024, 6 pm

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> Image 1
Vincent Haiges, The corpse of a dead Russian soldier in the car of a search team. The collected bodies are
brought to the local morgue. Ukrainian officials estimate that around 100 Russian soldiers were killed in the attack. Voznesenk, 15 March 2022.

> Image 2
Kubra Khademi, Armor, 2015. Courtesy of the Artist& Galerie Eric Mouchet © Naim Karimi

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> Image 1
Caption:
Rachel Maclean, Goo Ga, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 2
Caption:
Rachel Maclean, Bye-bye, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 3
Caption:
Rachel Maclean, upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop, 2021, digital film still. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 4
Caption:
Rachel Maclean, upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop, 2021, digital film still. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 5
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Rachel Maclean, DUCK, 2023, digital film still. Courtesy of the artist.

> Image 6
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Rachel Maclean, DUCK, 2023, digital film still. Courtesy of the artist.

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> Image 1
Caption:
Photo: NVIDIA Earth-2


> Image 2
Caption:
Photo: Connor Cook, Work in progress image of Bioreactors and Biospheres,
Panel on Planetary Thinking (2024), Photo: Courtesy of the artist


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> Image 1
Caption:
Photo: left + center: Maja Mirek, right: Rolf K. Wegst



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> Image 1
Caption:
Photo: Maja Mirek

 
> Image 2
Caption:
Photo: Maja Mirek



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> Image 1
Caption:
Fig.: Rachel Maclean, DUCK, film still, 2023, © Rachel Maclean

 
> Image 2
Caption:
Fig.: Installation view Emma Talbot. Journey You Take Alone, Kunsthalle Giessen, 2023, Photo: Rolf K. Wegst


> Image 3
Caption:
Fig.: Rachel Maclean, DUCK, film still, 2023, © Rachel Maclean


> Image 4
Caption:
Fig.: Raphaela Vogel, Found Subject, 2023, installation view BQ, Berlin, Photo: Roman März, Berlin, Courtesy: BQ, Berlin + the artist


> Image 5
Caption:
Fig.: Photo: Paul Hess


> Image 6
Caption:
Fig.: (Re)Spacing, Performances and interventions at Kunsthalle Giessen, unearthing
concept, choreography, performance: Maja Mirek, Borys Jaźnicki, Stadttheater Giessen
Photo: Rolf K. Wegst


> Image 7
Caption:
Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Owly on Stone, Forced Amnesia, 2023 © Mary-Audrey Ramirez


> Image 8
Caption:
Fig.: Matthew Cowan, The Strawbear, 2019


> Image 9
Caption:
Fig.: Archive material estate Sibylle Ruppert, Courtesy
Paul Walter and Sigrid Seeger-Walter

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> Image 1
Caption:
Fig.: Emma Talbot, Rootless Plant, 2023, Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, 2023

 
> Image 2
Caption:
Fig.: Emma Talbot, The Universe, 2021, Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, 2023


> Image 3
Caption:
Fig.: Emma-Talbot, The Human Experience – Your Death, 2023, Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, 2023


> Image 4
Caption:
Fig.: Emma-Talbot, The Human Experience – Your Birth, 2023, Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, 2023


> Image 5
Caption:
Fig.: Emma-Talbot, The Human Experience – Your Birth, 2023, Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, 2023


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Caption:
Fig.: Emma-Talbot, The Human Experience – Your Birth, 2023, Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, 2023


> Image 7
Caption:
Fig.: Emma-Talbot, The Human Experience – Your Birth, 2023, Photo: Erik Sæter Jørgensen, 2023

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> Image 1
Caption:
Fig.: Water as an Engineered Planetary Space

 
> Image 2
Caption:
Fig.: Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner

 
> Image 3
Caption:
Fig.: Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano

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> Image 1
Caption:
Fig.: Sibylle Ruppert, Ohne Titel, 1981, Photo: Matthias Belz

 
> Image 2
Caption:
Fig.: Sibylle Ruppert, Ohne Titel, 1984, Photo: Matthias Belz

 
> Image 3
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Fig.: Sibylle Ruppert, Ohne Titel, 1979, Photo: Matthias Belz

 
> Image 4
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Fig.: Sibylle Ruppert, Ohne Titel (Diptychon), 1979, Photo: Matthias Belz

 
> Image 5
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Fig.: Sibylle Ruppert, Ohne Titel, 1986, Photo: Matthias Belz

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> Logo Planetary Thinking
 
> Image 1
Caption:
Fig.: Don’t Follow the Wind
 
> Image 2
Caption:
Fig.: Adenike Titilope Oladosu I Lead Climate Action Initiative
 
> Image 3
Caption:
Fig.: Adenike Titilope Oladosu, Foto: HKstudio
 
> Image 4
Caption:
Fig.: Jason Waite, Foto: Sohin Hwang
 

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> Description of Works
 
> Generative AI – Lecture by Max Kreis
 
> Image 1
Caption:
Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Herpes is annoying, 2022, digital image, Courtesy of the artist + Martinetz Cologne
 
> Image 2
Caption:
Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Critter trapped inside a snowflake, 2022, digital image, Courtesy of the artist + Martinetz Cologne
 
> Image 3
Caption:
Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Cryonics Nr2, 2022, digital image, Courtesy of the artist + Martinetz Cologne
 
> Image 4
Caption:
Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, PVC birth, digital image, Courtesy of the artist + Martinetz Cologne
 
> Image 5
Caption:
Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Snow and PVC Birth, digital image, Courtesy of the artist + Martinetz Cologne
 
> Image 6
Caption:
Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Amnesia Universe Melting, 2023, digital image, Courtesy of the artist + Martinetz Cologne
 
> Image 7
Caption:
Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Amnesia Universe Owly, 2023, digital image, Courtesy of the artist + Martinetz Cologne
 
> Image 8
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Fig.: Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Amnesia Universe Rotting, 2023, digital image, Courtesy of the artist + Martinetz Cologne
 

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> Image 1: Portrait Moises Sanabria
© Moises Sanabria
 
> Image 2: Mary-Audrey Ramirez
Snow and PVC birth, © Mary-Audrey Ramirez
 
> Image 3: Mary-Audrey Ramirez
PVC birth, © Mary-Audrey Ramirez
 
> Image 4: Sybille Ruppert
Detail, © Sybille Ruppert
 
> Image 5: Emma Talbot
The Human Experience, © Emma Talbot
 

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> Image 1
Caption:
Fig.: Portrait Moises Sanabria
 
> Image 2
Caption:
Fig.: Portrait Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Photo: Eva Vuillemin
 
> Image 3
Caption:
Fig.: Portrait Max Kreis
 
> Image 4
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Fig.: Portrait Minne Atairu
 
> Image 5
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Fig.: Portrait Hohloh (Photo: Laura Spes)
 
> Image 6
Caption:
Fig.: Portrait Fabiola Larios