Museum Folkwang Presents Its 2021 Programme: With a focus on dialogues between the arts and connections with urban society

Museum Folkwang is starting its 2021 exhibition programme with a double show on Martin Kippenberger: his lavish magnum opus The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ will be shown in the main exhibition hall, and an extensive collection of his artist books and posters will be on display in Villa Hügel. In 2021 the museum will have a particular focus on photography, film and dance. While the solo exhibitions on Timm Rautert and Tobias Zielony present two generations of artistic photography from Germany, the large-scale survey show Global Groove dives into the history of contacts between Far Eastern and Western cultures in art, dance and performance. During autumn/winter, the museum will showcase the extent to which the cinematic work of the famous Italian director Federico Fellini was inspired by drawing. In spring 2021, as a prologue to the anniversary programme in 2022, Museum Folkwang is launching the outreach project Folkwang and the City, which will focus on collaborations with various Essen-based initiatives and communities.