Collections

The Kunstmuseum Bonn plays an important role in Germany’s museum landscape. For one thing, in the past it has been the location of groundbreaking exhibitions, and what is more, it fascinates us with its superb collection, which has received its fitting magnificent frame in the form of the new museum building, completed in 1992, by Axel Schultes. The comprehensive, multi-faceted collection, assembled in over six decades and now being shown in around 4000 square meters of space, has its own distinguished profile.

The Reloaded Collection

Since 2009, in the new presentation of its permanent collections – and supplemented with loans from three internationally renowned private collections – the Museum has been dynamically developing its collection profile further, with August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists as the starting point. For this undertaking, we follow the principle of presenting art in specific artists’ rooms, something that is unique in all of Germany. In the Beuys Room, only recently re-designed on the ground floor, key works of the artist from his production of Multiples are shown, supplemented with works by his students. With a special emphasis on painting, the Kunstmuseum is now more clearly directing its focus of activities towards the 1990s and the present.

Detailed Concept of the Reloaded Collection l PDF
The Works l PDF