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Exhibition highlights 2025 at Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Haus Lange Haus Esters

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Charlotte Perriand. L’art d’habiter
The Art of Living
KWM, Haus Lange Haus Esters
02.11.2025–15.03.2026

Press Images Charlotte Perriand

Charlotte Perriand, Bibliothèque Mexique, 1952
  
Bookshelf, 161 × 183 x 30,5 cm  

© Archives Charlotte Perriand (AChP) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025

Charlotte Perriand, Bibliothèque Mexique, 1952

Bookshelf, 161 × 183 x 30,5 cm

© Archives Charlotte Perriand (AChP) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025

Portrait Charlotte Perriand (r.) with Le Corbusier (l.) and Pierre Jeanneret, 1928  
© Archives Charlotte Perriand (AChP) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Portrait Charlotte Perriand (r.) with Le Corbusier (l.) and Pierre Jeanneret, 1928
© Archives Charlotte Perriand (AChP) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Charlotte Perriand, ARC 1600, Southern slope, Design 1968
Les Arcs, France  
© Archives Charlotte Perriand (AChP) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025  
Photo: Pernette Perriand-Barsac
Charlotte Perriand, ARC 1600, Southern slope, Design 1968
Les Arcs, France
© Archives Charlotte Perriand (AChP) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Photo: Pernette Perriand-Barsac
Photography of Charlotte Perriand, Synthèse des Arts, 
Japan Exhibition, 1955  
(left: Le Corbusier, Les „8“, 1951)  
© Archives Charlotte Perriand (AChP) © Fondation Le Corbusier (F.L.C.) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Photography of Charlotte Perriand, Synthèse des Arts, Japan Exhibition, 1955
(left: Le Corbusier, Les „8“, 1951)
© Archives Charlotte Perriand (AChP) © Fondation Le Corbusier (F.L.C.) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Paul Dresler, Vase, 1922  
Töpferei Grootenburg, Krefeld, Ausführung  
13,8 × 13,5 cm  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Volker Döhne
Paul Dresler, Vase, 1922
Töpferei Grootenburg, Krefeld, Ausführung
13,8 × 13,5 cm
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Volker Döhne
Martin Szekely, Domeau & Pérès, Domo, 2005  

Armchair,  75 × 93 x 76 cm
  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
© Domeau & Pérès, Martin Szekely  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Volker Döhne
Martin Szekely, Domeau & Pérès, Domo, 2005

Armchair, 75 × 93 x 76 cm

Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
© Domeau & Pérès, Martin Szekely
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Volker Döhne
Martin Szekely, 2003  
Sketch with notes  
29,7 × 21 cm  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
© Martin Szekely
Martin Szekely, 2003
Sketch with notes
29,7 × 21 cm
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
© Martin Szekely

HL HE DIALOG: The special site

Partly Furnished, Excellent View
Site-specific art for Haus Lange Haus Esters
Haus Lange

30.03.–21.09.2025

Gregor Schneider
Haus Esters
04.05. –21.09.2025

Press Images HL HE DIALOG

Jasmina Cibic, Nada: Act II, 2016-2017  
One channel – HD – Video, Color, Sound, 17 min, 12 sec  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
© Jasmina Cibic
Jasmina Cibic, Nada: Act II, 2016-2017
One channel – HD – Video, Color, Sound, 17 min, 12 sec
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
© Jasmina Cibic
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Haus Lange, 1927-30  

Krefeld  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Volker Döhne
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Haus Lange, 1927-30

Krefeld
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Volker Döhne
Christo, Wrapped Floors (Project for Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld), 1971  
Collage  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld   
© Christo & Jeanne-Claude  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Volker Döhne
Christo, Wrapped Floors (Project for Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld), 1971
Collage
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
© Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Volker Döhne
Elmgreen & Dragset, Die Zugezogenen, 2017  
Installationansicht Haus Lange  
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025 
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Volker Döhne
Elmgreen & Dragset, Die Zugezogenen, 2017
Installationansicht Haus Lange
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025 
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Volker Döhne
Gregor Schneider, ESSEN, 2014  
Life Action, Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014  
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Gregor Schneider, ESSEN, 2014
Life Action, Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Gregor Schneider, u r 10, (With inventory), KAFFEEZIMMER "Wir sitzen, trinken Kaffee und schauen einfach aus dem Fenster", Rheydt 1993  
Rotating room within a room, plaster boards and chipboards on a wooden construction with posts and wheels, 
1 engine, 2 doors, 1 window, 1 lamp, 1 cupboard, grey wooden floor, white walls and ceiling, detached, 
ca. 35 - 105 cm distance to the outer room, window looking south (246 × 289 x 234 cm (L x W x H), S 1,8 - 35cm), 
HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today  
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Gregor Schneider, u r 10, (With inventory), KAFFEEZIMMER "Wir sitzen, trinken Kaffee und schauen einfach aus dem Fenster", Rheydt 1993
Rotating room within a room, plaster boards and chipboards on a wooden construction with posts and wheels, 1 engine, 2 doors, 1 window, 1 lamp, 1 cupboard, grey wooden floor, white walls and ceiling, detached, ca. 35 - 105 cm distance to the outer room, window looking south (246 × 289 x 234 cm (L x W x H), S 1,8 - 35cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025

Sammlung in Bewegung

Wilhelm Wagenfeld
Helmut Dorner
Außereuropäisches Kunsthandwerk

Press Images Sammlung in Bewegung

Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Salzgestell, 1963  

Salt and Pepper Shaker, Mustardpot, Tray, 26,5 × 8 cm
  Wagenfeld Collection Kroll  
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025  

Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Salzgestell, 1963

Salt and Pepper Shaker, Mustardpot, Tray, 26,5 × 8 cm
 Wagenfeld Collection Kroll
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025

Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, „Zisterne“, 1936  
Liqueur Service, 19,4 × 4,4 cm
  
Wagenfeld Collection Kroll  
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, „Zisterne“, 1936
Liqueur Service, 19,4 × 4,4 cm

Wagenfeld Collection Kroll
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025

Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus-Geschirr, 1938  
Storage System,  90 × 224 cm
  
Wagenfeld Collection Kroll  
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Kubus-Geschirr, 1938
Storage System, 90 × 224 cm

Wagenfeld Collection Kroll
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Helmut Dorner, Mucha, 1986  
Painting, 25,5 × 33,4 × 4,7 cm
  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
© Helmut Dorner  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Helmut Dorner, Mucha, 1986
Painting, 25,5 × 33,4 × 4,7 cm

Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
© Helmut Dorner
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Helmut Dorner, Kopf, 1983  
Painting, 52,3 × 42,6 cm  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
© Helmut Dorner  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Helmut Dorner, Kopf, 1983
Painting, 52,3 × 42,6 cm
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
© Helmut Dorner
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Helmut Dorner, Löffel liegend, 1982  
bw Photograph, 28,3 × 19,3 cm  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
© Helmut Dorner  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Helmut Dorner, Löffel liegend, 1982
bw Photograph, 28,3 × 19,3 cm
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
© Helmut Dorner
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Behälter in Kürbisform  
Sudan, 21 × 20 cm  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Behälter in Kürbisform
Sudan, 21 × 20 cm
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Tanzmaske
Englisch-Neuguinea, 34 × 26 cm  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Tanzmaske
Englisch-Neuguinea, 34 × 26 cm
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Bastmatte
  
Tansania, 103 × 197 cm  
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld  
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose
Bastmatte

Tansania, 103 × 197 cm
Collection Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Photo: Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Dirk Rose

Exhibitions

2023

Friends of Art – 40 Years of Collecting
Productive Spaces. Art and Design from Krefeld

2022

ON AIR
The Sound of the Material in the Art of the 1950s to 1970s
Maison Sonia
Sonia Delaunay and the Atelier Simultané
Andrea Zittel
Personal Patterns
Collection Satellite #8
Shannon Bool meets Otto Eckmann. Everything Created Now is the Style of Our Times
Andrea Zittel
Planar Composition for Esters Garden House
Adolf Luther
Julio Le Parc
Robert Stadler
K+ Café im KWM

2021

Beuys & Duchamp
Artists of the Future
Humans Nature Politics
Joseph Beuys in the Context of the Collection
Lehmbruck – Kolbe – Mies van der Rohe
Artificial Biotopes
Art = Human
Joseph Beuys in Krefeld

2020

Marcel Odenbach
suddenly, one could be just like the other
Collection Satellite #6
Ignacio Uriarte
Structuring Chance
Collection Satellite #5
Sharon Ya'ari
The Romantic Trail and the Concrete House
The Memory of Images

2019

Folklore & Avant-garde
The Reception of Popular Traditions in the Age of Modernism
Anders Wohnen Akt 3: Dystopie
Entwürfe für Haus Lange Haus Esters 15. Sep 2019 - 26. Jan. 2020
Anders Wohnen Akt 2: Mobilität
Entwürfe für Haus Lange Haus Esters 7. Jul. 2019 – 26. Jan. 2020
Von Albers bis Zukunft
Auf den Spuren des Bauhauses
Alternatives for Living Act 1: Utopia
Blueprints for Haus Lange Haus Esters 5 May 2019 - 26. Jan. 2020
Collection Satellite #3
Ola Vasiljeva // The Werkbund. Haus der F.
Alternatives for Living
Blueprints for Haus Lange Haus Esters

2018

Volker Döhne
Seeker and Finder
Collection Satellite #2
Bik Van der Pol: Mom, What Is Nature Really?
Tailored For Freedom
The Artistic Dress Around 1900 in Fashion, Art and Society
Christian Falsnaes
Force

Current News

2024

Vermittlungsprogramm 2024, Studio 2

2023

Preview 2024
Museum of the Year 2022: Official awards ceremony on September 10
Leihgaben der Kunsthalle Bremen in Krefeld
The Kunstmuseen Krefeld have been named Museum of the Year 2022

2022

Herbst-, Winterprogramm Kunstmuseen Krefeld 2022/2023
Acquisition Helmuth Macke: The Blue Room

2021

Preview 2022
K+ Café im KWM
Das zukünftige Café hat einen Namen gefunden

2020

The Mondrian Case

Collection shows

2020

Highlights of the 21st Century Collection