Events

The Kunsthalle Mainz wants to make contemporary art accessible to as many people as possible. Among others, we offer tours in Einfacher Sprache (easy language) with interpretation into German Sign Language and tours for people with dementia. Step-free access to all works of art is given.

All offers which are labeled inclusive! specifically take the needs of people with disabilities into account. If you need assistance, please let us know.

We look forward to your visit!

On these sundays, admission to the Kunsthalle is free from 1–5 pm. Come by, take a look at the current exhibition and take part in our free programme.

Sun 23/11

2 pm guided tour in simple language with sign language interpreter

3 pm guided tour in ukrainian language

1–5 pm admission free of charge

Enabled by Rheinhessen Sparkasse

As the first feature film festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, FILMZ - Festival of German Cinema presents current German-language productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland every year. FILMZ gets you in the mood for the next festival with a varied selection of films at the Kunsthalle Mainz.

Wed 27/08
7 pm

Costs: included in admission

Zollhafen Mainz GmbH & Co. KG is to thank for the Audience Award. All visitors are cordially invited to nominate their personal favourite of the exhibition by 31 August. The winners of the Audience Award will be announced at a ceremony in the presence of all the artists.

Sun 31/08
4 pm

Award ceremony with
Peter Zantopp-Goldmann (Zollhafen AG)
Robert Meyer (Kunsthochschule Mainz)

Costs: included in admission

With the kind support of Zollhafen AG

Drawing and mindfulness combine in this special meditation to create a new form of experience. Breath and hand movement create lines and traces that make the moment visible. The drawing meditation invites you to pause, sharpen your perception, and experience art directly – calmly, concentratedly, and openly.

Each participant sits on a large sheet of paper, which fills with traces during the meditation. Afterwards, interesting excerpts are sought out to take home as a personal memento.

The drawing meditation is aimed at anyone who would like to experience art differently – as a meditative, physical, and simultaneously creative practice. No previous artistic experience is necessary.

The event is led by Anne Nilges, an artist and art coach from Mainz-Gonsenheim. In her work, she combines abstract painting with meditative approaches and opens up paths to a free, intuitive approach to drawing and painting.

Wed, 26/11
5–6 pm

Group size: 8–15 people
Materials provided
Duration: 60 minutes”>Drawing and mindfulness combine in this special meditation to create a new form of experience. Breath and hand movement create lines and traces that make the moment visible. The drawing meditation invites you to pause, sharpen your perception, and experience art directly – calmly, concentratedly, and openly.

Each participant sits on a large sheet of paper, which fills with traces during the meditation. Afterwards, interesting excerpts are sought out to take home as a personal memento.

The drawing meditation is aimed at anyone who would like to experience art differently – as a meditative, physical, and simultaneously creative practice. No previous artistic experience is necessary.

The event is led by Anne Nilges, an artist and art coach from Mainz-Gonsenheim. In her work, she combines abstract painting with meditative approaches and opens up paths to a free, intuitive approach to drawing and painting.

Wed, November 26
5–6 pm

Group size: 8–15 people
Materials provided
Duration: 60 minutes

Tue 28/10
10 am–4.30 pm

As part of the state programme ‘Generation K – Culture Meets School’, art and education come together in a creative way – as a source of inspiration for contemporary subject teaching. Four formats were developed for the afternoon workshop at the Kunsthalle, demonstrating how artistic methods can be linked to various school subjects. Teachers learn how exhibitions and cultural learning venues can be actively incorporated into subject teaching. This opens up new perspectives on teaching, learning and school development – practical, interdisciplinary and inspiring.

Participation in all workshops is free of charge.
Please register at weber@kunsthalle-mainz.de, stating which workshop(s) you would like to attend.

This event is sponsored by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Education.

Based on the current exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mainz, the screening Fade Into You explores landscape. Landscape is deeply intertwined with moving images—travelogues, for example, mark one of the first film genres — and moving images helped in this, including in the colonial appropriation of what was shown. Landscape photographs commonly seen today implicitly carry this dynamic within them — seemingly untouched environments are visual constructions intended to turn what we see into an object. For Fade Into You, the focus is therefore on film and video works that emphasize the subjective, look closely at details, and consciously break with dominant constructions of landscape images.

The screening, curated by Jakob Villhauer (Film Studies) and Sine Ebert (Artist), includes EVENTIDE (2022) by Sharon Lockhart: a meditative, non-narrative long-form recording that uses choreography to explore landscape, communal relationships, solitary questing, psychic endurance, and the play of light moving through darkness.
The full program will be announced soon.

Wed 05/11
6 pm

Cost: included in admission

In this practical workshop, we draw from ancestral dyeing knowledges and techniques while also turning to the colouring agents of our (post-)natural present. From the agents that surround us, we harvest shades and nuances that open a space for reflecting on the ecological, social, and economic dimensions of material culture. At the centre are those colours brought forth by climate change – pigments of a transforming world, in which change, vulnerability, and entanglement become visible.

Sat 15/11
2–5 pm

Costs: 20 Euro / red. 15 Euro

Registration required via mail@kunsthalle-mainz.de

Kunsthalle Mainz at Science Schoppe of the Mayence Science Alliance

Wed 19/11
6 pm

How do art and its sensory experience become a source of insight and knowledge? Through art, we not only acquire factual knowledge, but also learn to question, reflect and experiment. Based on the exhibition Speak, Old Bonnet, Where Is It Missing?, Stefanie Böttcher, Marlène Harles and Lisa Weber look at artistic strategies for imparting knowledge with all the senses.

The event will take place in the Capponiere of the Turmschänke, Taunusstr. 44, 55118 Mainz.

Costs: free of charge

Registration required via mail@kunsthalle-mainz.de

Three concerts, a sound walk, a sonic meditation

With a sound walk and listening exercises, we open our ears to the elements that shape the landscape. Nathalia Grotenhuis, Carina Pesch and Anna Schimkat invite you to take part in three different sound experiences that explore the sounds created by the transformation of the landscape – through volcanic activity, meandering rivers or the extraction of mineral resources.

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Sat 22/11
5 pm

Cost: included in admission

This Sunday, admission to the Kunsthalle is free from 1-5pm. Come by, take a look at the current exhibition and take part in our free programme.

Sun 23/11

2 p.m. Tour in simple language with sign language interpreter
3 p.m. Tour in Ukrainian

1–5 p.m. Admission free

Made possible by Rheinhessen Sparkasse

The Fade into You series shows single-channel video works that accompany exhibitions and explore the themes of the exhibitions in greater depth, presenting both established and new positions in video art. The series, whose title is derived from the cinematographic term, has been running since 2012. Artists are regularly invited to talk about their works and there are special screenings as part of collaborations.

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.

The Kunsthalle Mainz will be closed from 08/09–25/09 whilst the new exhibition Say, old top-knot, what do you want? is set up.

On this Sunday, admission to the Kunsthalle is free from 1–5 pm. Come by, take a look at the current exhibition and take part in our free programme.

Sun 11/01
3 pm

1–5 pm admission free of charge

Enabled by Rheinhessen Sparkasse