Contact
Marienstraße 10a
79098 Freiburg im Breisgau
+49 761 201-2583
mnk@freiburg.de
Museum für Neue Kunst
Contact
Marienstraße 10a
79098 Freiburg im Breisgau
+49 761 201-2583
mnk@freiburg.de
The name says it all! The Museum für Neue Kunst serves as a forum for discourse on contemporary artistic and social issues, with evolving exhibitions that encourage reflection on a range of perspectives and modes of thought. In presenting its collection, the museum prioritises the exploration of 20th and 21st century works from constantly new perspectives.
In 1985, the year it was founded, the museum moved into the premises of a former girls' high school built by the Adelhausenstiftung in 1902. It has opened part of its grounds to the public: the museum garden functions as a meeting place where people can plant, cultivate and harvest together.
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Temporary Exhibitions
TAKING TURNS
Museum für Neue Kunst
22nd November 2025 – 1st March 2026
Two artists, one subject matter, a number of similarities and divergencies – at times juxtaposed in a kind of dialogue with one another, otherwise presented individually, the artworks reveal different ideas about painting that nevertheless share a common ground. Forty years lie between the student days of the Freiburg painter Artur Stoll (1947–2003) and those of the Cologne artist Olga Jakob (b. 1985) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Both share an obsession with the materials and colour fundamental to painting. While Stoll’s layered, dense paintings appear weighty and massive, Jakob’s works made of fabric and tissue paper seem diaphanous and fragile by contrast. How do form and size influence perception? What constitutes proximity and distance? At what point does figuration morph into abstraction? Visitors are guided through the exhibition by a range of such questions that leaves scope for them to contribute their own thoughts about what is on display.
All of Artur Stoll’s works presented here hail from the Morat Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft in Freiburg. With a profound eye and inestimable passion, Franz Armin Morat compiled important artworks by a variety of selected artists and established a renowned institution with a reputation that extends far beyond Freiburg.
