Upcoming Exhibitions
Preview 2024 – 2025
Barkenhoff
Mar 23, 2025 – Jun 15, 2025
Painting with Threads. Woven Images by Ursula Jaeger
Ursula Jaeger is one of the most extraordinary tapestry weavers of the 20th and 21st centuries in Germany. The artist’s multifaceted oeuvre encompasses socially relevant, literary, musical, and religious themes. "For me, tapestry weaving is painting with threads, without imitating painting," Jaeger describes her work.
Her tapestries are crafted in traditional Gobelin technique using linen threads but also incorporate non-textile materials such as paper, papyrus, or veneer, often combined with painting at the loom. Her tapestries can be found in museums, public buildings, and churches. They are now on display—especially in celebration of her 90th birthday—in the spring special exhibition at the Remise in the Barkenhoff.
Große Kunstschau
Mar 23, 2025 – Jun 15, 2025
Margaret Kelley
Tapestries from the cycle ›A Leap of Faith‹
Since her first stay in Worpswede, the artist Margaret Kelley, who was born in Los Angeles, USA, has been deeply inspired by the light of the Worpswede landscape.
She first came to Worpswede in 1991 through a scholarship at the artist houses founded by Martin Kausche. After a few more stays, she returned to settle there, continuing and developing her artistic work at this place that became so special to her. Over the years, her work has gained depth and scale—both literally and materially, as well as in terms of conceptual understanding. Many of her motifs originate from the experience of a landscape impression, such as the pearling of the waves on the Isar. The emotions and excitations triggered by these experiences are integrated into her monumental paintings, where she addresses questions of reality and truth, of presence and transience.
Haus im Schluh
Mar 23, 2025 – Jun 15, 2025
Color Harmony in Wood
100 Years Hans Georg Müller
Intarsias and Furniture, Design Drawings and Photos from the Life’s Work of Hans Georg Müller – the grandson of Martha and Heinrich Vogeler.
Timeless furniture design and large-scale wood inlays showcase Hans Georg Müller’s special sensitivity for this vibrant material. In 1958, he received the Bavarian Gold Medal for his leather-covered seating furniture and the Lower Saxony State Prize for his intarsia art. As an interior designer for a discerning clientele and as a winner of numerous competitions for art in architecture, he continually expanded his workshop and workforce, becoming a sought-after trainer in carpentry.
Worpsweder Kunsthalle
Mar 23, 2025 – Jun 15, 2025
Rediscovered: Hanna Ahrens
Through a flea market find, the forgotten artist Hanna Ahrens (1903–1985), who lived in Worpswede from 1931 to 1956, was rediscovered. In the context of the Gaukulturwoche Ost Hannover, she was represented in the 1938 exhibition for the Lower German Painters' Day with her vegetable still life. However, in later Worpswede art history, she was hardly mentioned.
At that time, the work of the Worpswede artists was to be represented at three locations: while the first generation of Worpswede artists was shown in the Große Kunstschau, the subsequent generations were displayed in the Philine-Vogeler-Haus and the Worpsweder Kunsthalle. Hanna Ahrens was part of the exhibition at the Philine-Vogeler-Haus, alongside artists such as Bernhard Hoetger, Sophie Bötjer, and Paula Modersohn-Becker.
With the exhibition, the Worpswede Art Hall aims to shed light on the previously unknown works of Hanna Ahrens and her dramatic life story. At that time, she was officially declared mentally incompetent due to alcoholism and was banned from her profession by the Nazis. Her works are presented in the context of her contemporaries.
Paula Modersohn-Becker and Her Companions
The Indivisible Sky
Mar 23, 2025 – Jan 18, 2025
Barkenhoff
Große
Kunstschau
Haus im Schluh
Worpsweder
Kunsthalle
In all four museums, Worpswede will honor its most renowned artist to date, Paula Modersohn-Becker, during 2025/26. She was born on February 8, 1876, in Dresden and died on November 20, 1907, at the age of just 31 in Worpswede from an embolism.
During her lifetime, she was barely recognized as an independent artist. Largely unacknowledged by her male colleagues in the Worpswede artist colony, Paula Modersohn-Becker was compelled to carve out her identity as a painter beyond the established art world. Her struggle for an independent existence as an artist reflects the experiences of many other talented women of her time, each navigating the societal constraints of the era in their own way.
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