Name: Resonance Spaces – New Gallery Kassel 2026
Start: 2026-03-06T01:00:00+01:00
End: 2027-01-24T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Neue Galerie

Resonance Spaces: When Memory Becomes an Exhibition

With Resonance Spaces, the New Gallery Kassel celebrates its 50th anniversary and showcases a concentrated selection of significant acquisitions from recent years. The exhibition guides visitors through a dense dramaturgy of images and spaces comprising installation, film, and object art, making visible how personally and collectively shaped memories are renegotiated in contemporary art.

A Path Through History(ies) and Media

The curation does not display the individual work in isolation but unfolds a web of relationships between artistic positions, materiality, and memory. Pinar Ögrenci opens a space for collaborative remembering with Aşît, Jürgen O. Olbrich works with discarded photographs as poetic archives of chance, Michal Heiman interrogates psychological test structures, and Ute Lindner reflects on the temporality of seeing in her Exposure Times. Thus, an art experience is created where the boundary between document, fragment, and artistic intention remains deliberately blurred.

Spatial Impact, Light, and Aesthetic Experience

The New Gallery, with its generous exhibition space, provides the works with the breathing room that large-scale installations and media works require. Light, distance, and visual guidance become part of the artwork observation. Those who walk through the exhibition do not experience a linear sequence but rather a interplay of proximity and distance, memory and presence, surface and depth. This strength of the anniversary exhibition lies precisely here: it connects art history with an immediate aesthetic experience.

Connection to Documenta and Collection History

Since its opening in 1976, the New Gallery has been closely associated with documenta and has continuously expanded its collection through international positions and new media. This origin also shapes Resonance Spaces: the exhibition makes the collection history experienceable as a living process and demonstrates how strongly Kassel as an art venue is influenced by the idea of an open, discursive museum. For art enthusiasts, this results in a particularly enlightening perspective on the interaction between museum, city, and global contemporary art.

Education for Different Target Groups

Accompanying tours and educational formats deepen the exhibition and also open access for families, school classes, and adults interested in art education. Those seeking dialogue about the work, context, and material will find a lively offering of cultural education here. The resonance spaces can thus be not only seen but also thought about and discussed.

Conclusion: Resonance Spaces is an exhibition for all who want to experience contemporary art as a space for thought and experience. The presentation combines documenta history, memory culture, and strong artistic positions into an impressive museum visit. Definitely discover on-site and experience the special exhibition atmosphere live.