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
Marta! Puppets, Pop & Poetry
Museum für Neue Kunst
14 March – 2nd November 2025
Marta Kuhn-Weber (1903–1990) was an extravagant, self-confident and highly-individual crossover artist. She refused to accept boundaries, be they in her thinking or in her art. After periods in Berlin, Freiburg and Basel, she moved to Paris in the mid-1960s. Her mastery of self-staging is evident in her photographic and painterly self-portraits, as well as in her large dolls and puppets, which address gender attribution, sexuality and social roles. Literature, theatre, show business and the queer scene of the 1960s and 1970s inspired her. Today, Marta Kuhn-Weber represents a new type of artist: independent, keen to experiment and unpeturbed by the judgements of others. The Museum für Neue Kunst is also breaking new ground with Marta: an AI intervention by artist Boris Eldagsen and film animations by puppeteer Vanessa Valk bring the dolls in the exhibition to life.
