Visit
28. January - 04. June 2023
29. September 2022 - 04. June 2023
Permanent Presentation
Permanent Presentation
Permanent Presentation
Permanent Presentation
In the presentation “Elementary Parts: From the Collections”
Permanent Presentation
29. June - 16. July 2023
08. October 2022 - 15. January 2023
24. September 2022 - 01. January 2023
14. May - 27. November 2022
25. November 2021 - 18. September 2022
29. April - 11. September 2022
07. May - 28. August 2022
26. May - 24. July 2022
03. June 2021 - 24. April 2022
06. November 2021 - 27. March 2022
16. April 2021 - 16. January 2022
11. September 2020 - 07. November 2021
24. April - 29. August 2021
02. July 2020 - 16. May 2021
03. April 2020 - 03. January 2021
24. October 2019 - 30. August 2020
11. October 2019 - 26. January 2020
23. May - 22. September 2019
14. June 2018 - 15. September 2019
11. May - 15. September 2019
05. April - 01. September 2019
19. January - 14. April 2019
It was part of a cooperative project being carried out by three Frankfurt museums (Museum Angewandte Kunst, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Historisches Museum Frankfurt), the Forum Neues Frankfurt and the city of Frankfurt am Main. The joint initiative represented the Main metropolis’s contribution to the hundredth anniversary of the Bauhaus.
25. October 2018 - 24. February 2019
In 2016/17, in a joint research project, the entire the collection of Asian objects by the entrepreneur Werner Reimers was the subject of thorough scholarly examination. To coincide with the publication of the complete collection catalogue, the Museum Angewandte Kunst was showing a selection of some sixty works from the Reimer holdings.
21. September 2018 - 20. January 2019
As part of Georgia’s Guest of Honour programme at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the Museum Angewandte Kunst presents the exhibition around a mysterious message that the curator Dr. Mahret Kupka found on her travels in Georgia.
07. June - 09. December 2018
As part of a joint project undertaken by a number of Frankfurt museums, this exhibition at the Museum Angewandte Kunst did present the story of the Pinkus/Ehrlich Collection as a case study.
09. June - 04. November 2018
The exhibition Michael Riedel: Graphic Art as Event was devoted to the œuvre of Michael Riedel, which operates on the borderline between applied and visual arts.
24. May - 09. September 2018
The international triennial RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain presented works under the heading “Extreme” by outstanding exponents of contemporary photography at more than ten venues in Frankfurt and the surrounding region.
31. May - 26. August 2018
The Museum Angewandte Kunst was showing some 300 works of ceramic in different techniques as well as a large number of Lore Kramer’s drawings. Glaze samples and other material from her workshop provided further insight into her working methods.
04. November 2017 - 06. May 2018
Jil Sander’s first solo exhibition ever to take place in a museum consisted of large-scale, multi-media installations and tableaus devoted to the impact of her design approach on the aesthetics, material and form of fashion and product design, architecture and garden art.
10. - 18. February 2018
as a guest in the Museum Angewandte Kunst Design Space, Neue Mainzer Straße 57
03. June - 15. October 2017
The exhibition introduced visitors to the œuvre of comic artist Marc-Antoine Mathieu’s and translated the reading experience of his disconcertingly surreal and labyrinthine comic-book realms into the museum interior.
24. June - 01. October 2017
The exhibition SUR/FACE: Mirrors focused on the phenomenon of the mirrored surface in art, design and architecture of the present.
06. May - 17. September 2017
Picnic Time was the first major exhibition ever devoted to the phenomenon of the picnic. The show was retracing the fascination of dining out of doors through a wide range of different periods and cultures.
08. October 2016 - 28. May 2017
Yokohama is, symbolically speaking, where Japanese modernism began and the country first opened up to the world. When the Europeans arrived around 1860, they brought an art form with them that was still in a fledgling stage at the time – photography.
26. April - 14. May 2017
The conception of collecting as one of the focuses of Book Art and Graphics at the Frankfurt Museum Angewandte Kunst has undergone many changes since the department’s collecting activities began in 1921.
10. September 2016 - 26. March 2017
There are weapons everywhere: they exert an ambivalent fascination because they embody power, violence and superiority while also reminding us of pain and death.
11. - 26. February 2017
The German Design Award is the international premium prize of the German Design Council.
24. September 2016 - 29. January 2017
What are the requisites for convincing design? And why is simplicity often so difficult to achieve in design?
23. April - 25. September 2016
Stefan Sagmeister is a graphic design superstar who lives in the U.S. In The Happy Show he presented the results of his ten-year investigation of happiness. Following venues in North America, Paris and Vienna, his successful show was on view in Germany for the first and only time at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.
30. January - 11. September 2016
What if it were possible to jump forward and backward in time to find out what happened at a certain place in the past or what will happen there in the future? Where are the boundaries of the unity of time, place and action, and what do images, objects and dates – and what do we – have to do with them?
25. March - 14. August 2016
After World War I, a unique modernization and design project that would go down in architectural history as Das Neue Frankfurt (“New Frankfurt”) got underway in the metropolis on the Main.
17. February - 10. April 2016
99 Pieces from the Collections and a Short Film Programme.
Happiness – what a big word. But what exactly is happiness? A feeling, a goal in life, a utopian idea, or mere coincidence after all?
13. February - 13. March 2016
The German Design Award is the international premium prize of the German Design Council. Its goal: discovering, presenting and awarding unique design trends.
23. July 2015 - 06. March 2016
A chest, a pill box, a folding screen ‒ what these so very disparate objects have in common is that they all define a space. They offer an in-front-of or a behind, an on-top-of or an underneath, and they are distinguished by the ability to reveal or conceal, depending on the perspective of the beholder.
02. October 2015 - 31. January 2016
Fashion is an expression of the times in which it emerges. In view of the fact that there’s nothing at all unusual about shooting a film clip with one’s smartphone these days, it’s hardly surprising that designers and fashion companies have also discovered the medium of the internet clip for their own purposes.
10. October 2015 - 03. January 2016
Guest Exhibition
Brian Eno is considered an icon of international contemporary culture. Over the last forty years the British artist not only fundamentally influenced the pop and rock music scene, but has also attracted attention as an experimental artist and multimedia innovator.
11. September - 11. October 2015
It takes a well-developed sense of doubt to counter the narratives of power. To awaken and sharpen this sense is the aim of the scholarly-artistic project Sense of Doubt: Resisting Oblivion taking place within the context of The Formation of Normative Orders, a Cluster of Excellence of Frankfurt’s Goethe-Universität.
20. June - 20. September 2015
In a follow-up to the success story of the RAY 2012 Photography Projects Frankfurt/RheinMain, RAY 2015 likewise presented works by outstanding exponents of international contemporary photography and video art of Frankfurt and the region.
27. April 2013 - 13. September 2015
Frankfurt looks back on a distinguished design tradition which has consistently focussed on functionality and tended towards a rigorous aesthetic.
25. April - 05. July 2015
Under the Spellbound of the Mobile Phone
Many people can no longer imagine everyday life without a mobile phone, or “Handy”, as it is fondly called in the German-speaking world.
26. February - 07. June 2015
Only few persons in history have had an impact comparable to that of the Gautama Buddha.
08. November 2014 - 25. January 2015
Ukiyo-e from the Collections of J. G. Geyger and Otto Riese
Sublime landscapes along Japan’s major trade routes, a young courtesan with a lascivious air, a kabuki theatre actor striking a dramatic pose – the woodblock prints of the ukiyo-e present a fascinating image of life in seventeenth to nineteenth-century Japan.
27. September 2014 - 25. January 2015
Books are spaces for our imagination. But what happens when these spaces really become three-dimensional?
13. September 2014 - 11. January 2015
“Give Love Back” is a quotation from the book cover of Come On in My Kitchen – The Robert Johnson Book. It epitomizes what the curators Eva Linhart and Mahret Kupka call the “Ata principle”:
22. March - 21. September 2014
In 2014, Frankfurt am Main followed in the footsteps Reykjavik and Seattle as host to the 3rd Nordic Fashion Biennale introducing young-generation fashion-makers and established designers from Greenland, Iceland and the Faröe Islands.
06. February - 07. September 2014
Ferdinand Kramer (1898–1985) is considered one of the most important architects and designers of the modern age in Germany. With new conceptions about the use of objects – he took the term “Mobil-iar” (German for furniture) literally – Kramer gave expression and form to the changing conditions of life in the twentieth century.
06. June - 31. August 2014
What do a Cubist teapot by Kasimir Malevich, a table lamp by Elio Martinelli and a Chinese wine beaker from the Qing Period have in common?
10. April - 17. August 2014
For the third time already, the Museum Angewandte Kunst was one of the few venues outside Japan to present the best of the works distinguished by the “Tokyo Art Directors Club Award”.
27. April 2013 - 22. June 2014
It is the age of Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler, of geographic discoveries and technical progress, of religious conflicts and European expansions, and new concepts in philosophy and science.
19. November 2013 - 01. June 2014
Since it reopened in the spring of 2013, the Museum Angewandte Kunst has been treading new paths in how it works with and presents its own holdings. In November 2013, yet another original new display form was introduced: the Depot Show.
21. September 2013 - 16. February 2014
Born in São Paulo in 1928, Alexandre Wollner is one of the most important as well as one of the most successful graphic designers of the second half of the twentieth century worldwide.
13. June 2013 - 05. January 2014
Time and again, the visions of fashion were able to disclose social conditions.
27. April - 27. October 2013
Ukiyo-e from the Collections of Johann Georg Geyger and Otto Riese
Garishly made-up stars of the stage, delicate beauties in the tea houses, sublime landscapes along the major trade routes – the ukiyo-e woodcuts present a fascinating mirror image of life in seventeenth to nineteenth-century Japan.
27. April - 25. August 2013
As a mass producer of consumer goods, South Korea is today one of the leading industrial nations. Korea Power will be the first extensive exhibition in Germany to focus on contemporary Korean product and graphic design.