WILD AT HEART
25 May 2024 until 12 January 2025
After six years of technical refurbishment, the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr reopened on 25 May 2024. With the major collection presentation IM HERZEN WILD, the museum's treasures return to the public in new, exciting constellations. For the first time, the works of classical modernism from the Municipal Collection will enter into a direct dialogue with the works of the Ziegler Collection in the exhibition ‘Brücke - Bauhaus - Blauer Reiter’ in order to shed light on art at the beginning of the 20th century in various motivic facets. ‘Collection +’ continues the exploration of the collection from 1945 onwards with thematic rooms and at the same time opens up the museum to collaborations with artists and (private) collections. Recent acquisitions by the museum and the Förderkreis für das Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr e.V. add historical and contemporary positions by artists to the museum's collection.
Here you will find numerous insights into the renovation of the Alte Post building.
ONE BUILDING - THREE COLLECTIONS
Together with expressionist paintings from the city collection, the collection of Karl Ziegler, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and his wife Maria in particular forms a cheerful riot of color. Franz Marc's abstracted animal portraits, Emil Nolde's bold floral motifs, and August Macke's landscape watercolors are particularly pleasing to the eye. An open-hearted portrait of an infant by Otto Dix and a simple composition with sailboats by Lyonel Feininger are expressions of an undisguised joy in beauty, which formed the Ziegler couple's intuitive motive for collecting instead of art historical considerations. Thanks to the commitment of the Mülheim collector Dr. Karl G. Themel, the museum houses one of the most extensive collections of the socially critical Berlin artist Heinrich Zille.
Guided tours, workshops, school cooperations - education and mediation for diverse target groups are important tasks of the art museum. In addition to regular public tours, differentiated mediation formats such as dialogical tours, workshops or playful holistic concepts offer insights into the collection areas and temporary exhibitions. Children and young people in particular can learn artistic and creative techniques in regular courses at the painting school.
Over two hundred sculptures, reliefs and wall designs extend the art collection into urban, public space. These works can also be explored on routes on various themes, the StadtKunstTouren.