Events

The Kunsthalle Mainz wants to give as many people as possible access to contemporary art. The entire exhibition is accessible without steps and we are strive to make all events as barrier-free as possible.

Many offers are also specifically aimed at people with disabilities. If you need assistance, please let us know.

You can find more information about barrier-free access to the Kunsthalle here.

We look forward to your visit!

On September 12th Kunsthalle Mainz invites you to celebrate friendship.

With a grand celebration in and around the Kunsthalle Mainz, we are celebrating the connections we have forged with the local community over the 18 years since the Kunsthalle was founded. Everyone is invited—from visitors to our past 59 exhibitions to neighbors and colleagues, as well as the countless educational institutions (from daycare centers to universities), cultural and social institutions, associations, and clubs in and around Mainz with whom we have collaborated over the years. It is an open invitation to celebrate existing relationships, foster new connections, and experience community as an open, vibrant process.

4–6 pm
Hands-on activity: Making friendship bracelets and recycling wine corks into charms

Hands-on activity: The Kunsthalle Mainz Friendship Book

4.30–5.30 pm
Dance from the Space at the Kunsthalle Mainz—Guided tour for families

6–7 pm
Guided tour in Ukrainian led by Laryssa Chenova

7–8 pm
Public guided tour

Additional Program
4–8 pm

• Speed-friending with friends of Kunsthalle Mainz
• Making a friendship garland
• Flea- and craftmarket
• Wheel of fortune, strike a duck, cornhole
• Photo booth
• Silent Lab Friendship
• Presentation of the zine What does friendship mean to you?
• ‘Book Surprise!’ Bags from the Library Club, Schlossgymnasium
• Picnic for families

We will be ending the evening with music and drinks until 10 pm.

DJ: Tobis CosmoCat Soundsystem
Drinks: Weingut Jakob Neumer Uelversheim, Kuehn Kunz Rosen, goldmarie

Come and join in with our craft activities.

Fri 18/09
3–6 pm

This workshop invites participants to explore friendship through art: as a feeling, as a structure, as a trace. Drawing serves as the initial point of entry, whilst ceramics act as a second, more physical interpretation. The current exhibition will be actively incorporated and used as a source of inspiration. The closeness, distance, time and timelessness of friendships will be explored and given physical form. Somewhere between observation and free interpretation, individual works will emerge on the themes of friendship, friends and connections.

Course comprising 2 sessions each:

Fri 04/09 + 18/09

Fri 02/10 + 16/10

Fri 13/11 + 27/11

4–5.30 pm

Cost: 50 euros / 2 sessions, including materials

With registration at mail@kunsthalle-mainz.de

No prior knowledge is required.

On several Sundays throughout the exhibition period, entry to the Kunsthalle is free from 1–5 pm. Come by, take a look at the current exhibition and take part in our diverse free programme.

Sun 27/09

1–5 pm free entry

2–3 pm public guided tour

3–4 pm public guided tour in Ukrainian

Sun 25/10

1–5 pm free entry

2–3 pm Public guided tour in plain language with
a sign language interpreter

3–4 pm Dance from the Space – Interactive tour for families

Sun 15/11

1–2 pm free entry

2–3 pm Dance from the Space – Interactive tour for families

Free hours is enabled by Rheinhessen Sparkasse

The young initiative Filmmm organises experimental and artistic film screenings in Mainz. To coincide with the current exhibition, it is curating the screening series ‘Fade into You’ and presenting a programme of short films that explore the theme of friendship. You are warmly invited to come along, sit together and watch moving images.

Fri 23/10
6 pm

Starting at 5 pm, visitors can view the current exhibition Freund*innenschaft; the screening that follows is included in the price of admission to the exhibition.

Attendance at the screening without visiting the exhibition is free of charge.

FILMZ and Kunsthalle Mainz present experimental films on friendship:

Wed 04/11
6 pm

Starting at 5 pm, visitors can view the current exhibition Freund*innenschaft; the screening that follows is included in the price of admission to the exhibition.

Attendance at the screening without visiting the exhibition is free of charge.

with Ole Liebl (Author/Podcaster), Tobias Boll (SFB Human Differentiation, JGU) and Sarah Horn (Film Studies, JGU)

Wed 25/11
18 Uhr

Starting at 5 pm, visitors can view the current exhibition Freund*innenschaft.

Cost: included in admission

Sun 29/11
3 pm

Cost: included in admission

with Dr. Hauke Dorsch (Archive for African Music, JGU)

Wed 09/12
18 Uhr

Starting at 5 p.m., you can visit the current exhibition, Freund*innenschaft.

Cost: included in admission

In cooperation with the Fachschaft Filmwissenschaft of JGU Mainz, a program of old and new short films will be shown, which pursue an artistically experimental approach and invite discussion.

In cooperation with Fachschaft Filmwissenschaft of JGU Mainz.