Frankfurter Kunstverein: Your Ticket to Art

About this experience

Check out contemporary art and culture at the Frankfurter Kunstverein Check out exciting exhibitions on current topics and the connection between art, science, and society.

Highlights

• Experience contemporary art: Discover innovative artistic positions.
• Not just art: current interdisciplinary topics that are on the pulse of the times
• Custom tours: We make complex knowledge easy to understand
• Central location: right in the heart of Frankfurt's old town

What's included

• Check out the exhibition 'Anatomy of Fragility - Body Images in Art and Science'
• Heads up: The exhibition also features the immersive installation Evolver by Marshmallow Laser Feast. You can book your spot in the interactive part of the installation by registering in advance. We've got dates every Thursday from 5 to 9 pm, every Saturd

How to use

1. Show Mobile Ticket
2. At Redemption Counter

What to expect

The Frankfurter Kunstverein, founded in 1829, is a major exhibition space for contemporary art and culture in Frankfurt am Main. With a focus on connecting art and science, the Frankfurter Kunstverein promotes interdisciplinary exchange and offers a network for creatives and new perspectives on current social issues for a wide audience. In its historic building in the center of Frankfurt, the Frankfurter Kunstverein is a central place for cultural encounters and innovations. Our current exhibition: 'Anatomy of Fragility - Body Images in Art and Science' The way people look at, perceive, and represent bodies is always changing. Art and science have always used body images to tell stories about being human. As the ages changed, new body images and interpretations kept popping up. The exhibition brings together objects from different fields and times: from the idealized body images of archaic Greek art to religious votive offerings as requests for healing and spectacular anatomical wax figures from the 18th century. to the latest medical research images, where we virtually travel through a beating heart. The show juxtaposes all this with the works of contemporary artists who express a changed sense of physicality, its reinterpretation, and the call for a new image of humanity. The exhibition reflects the programmatic orientation of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, where contemporary art and the sciences are explored as equal forms of expression for the human thirst for knowledge and the search for meaning. We invited the following to collaborate: Goethe University Frankfurt – represented by artifacts from the Classical Collection and the Sculpture Hall, as well as from the moulage collection of the Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Allergology; University Medicine –, the University of Bologna – represented by the anatomical wax figures from the “Luigi Cattaneo” collections and the Palazzo Poggi Museum –, Justus Liebig University Giessen – represented by anatomical votives from the Ludwig Stieda Collection from the Classical Collection of the Chair of Classical Archaeology – as well as the private collection of Hans and Benedikt Hipp, who also contributed anatomical votives. With: Agnes Questionmark Chiara Enzo Yein Lee The Alternative Limb Project Marshmallow Laser Feast Anatomical wax figures from the 'Luigi Cattaneo' collections and Museum Palazzo Poggi, University of Bologna The antique collection and sculpture hall at Goethe University Frankfurt The antique collection at Justus Liebig University in Giessen Clinic for Dermatology, Venereology, and Allergology; University Medicine, Goethe University Frankfurt Hans and Benedikt Hipp's collection

Terms & conditions

A visit to the exhibition takes about 1.5-2 hours. The exhibition has texts that explain all the exhibits. You can get a more detailed visitor brochure for just €3 if you want You can check out all the texts for current and past exhibitions for free on the Frankfurter Kunstverein's website. On the ground floor, you'll find video material to help you dive deeper into the exhibition's content.