Resonance Spaces in the New Gallery Kassel: Anniversary exhibition full of memory and contemporary art

Event: Resonance Spaces – New Gallery Kassel in Neue Galerie, Schöne Aussicht 1, 34117 Kassel on 23. June 2026

Date and Time

23. June 2026 10:00

Location

Neue Galerie
Schöne Aussicht 1, 34117 Kassel, Deutschland

Price

8,00

About this Event

Exhibitions & Museums

Mood

Relaxed

Venue Type

Inside

Resonance Spaces: An anniversary exhibition that makes memory visible

With Resonance Spaces, the New Gallery Kassel celebrates its 50th anniversary with an exhibition that brings collection history, documenta connection, and contemporary art into a dense dialogue. Large-scale installations, films, and objects open up an art experience that oscillates between personal memory and collective history.

A house with documenta DNA

Since 1976, the New Gallery has presented modern and contemporary art from state and municipal collections. The building at Schönen Aussicht is closely linked to documenta in Kassel and has incorporated international positions into its collection over decades. This is exactly where Resonance Spaces derives its tension: the exhibition shows how a museum not only preserves itself but constantly rewrites its narrative.

Works that set memory in motion

At the center are significant new acquisitions from recent years. Pinar Ögrenci opens perspectives on collaborative remembering with Aşît. Jürgen O. Olbrich works with discarded photographs and thus with the fragile remnants of visual culture. Michal Heiman interrogates psychological testing structures and their power over perception. Ute Lindner, on the other hand, thinks about time, image traditions, and exposure spaces in a form that demands quiet concentration.

Space, light, and aesthetic experience

The atmosphere of the exhibition thrives on contrasts: historical museum architecture meets media art, archival material meets installation, documentary traces meet open image spaces. Those who engage in viewing the works here do not experience a linear narrative but a network of references. This is precisely where the cultural educational power of the show lies: it demonstrates how memory remains stored in images, objects, and moving images and can always be read anew.

For art lovers seeking depth

Resonance Spaces is not a show of quick effects but an exhibition for attentive contemplation. It connects art history with the present, museum collection with critical reflection, and makes visible why the New Gallery has been one of the important addresses for modern and contemporary art in Kassel for decades.

Conclusion: Those who not only want to see art but experience it in the resonance space of history and the present should visit this exhibition live. Resonance Spaces promises a demanding, sensual, and content-rich encounter with contemporary art in the museum.

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