Städel Museum, Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
Opening hours: Tue–Sun, 10am–6pm; Thu, 10am–9pm
Opening: Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 7pm–10pm
Today
Ongoing
Summer Semester 2025
Information, 22 April – 25 July 2025
Upcoming
Tanya Lukin Linklater: _structural_flex_
Lecture, 8 July 2025, 19:00
Overture – Graduate Exhibition
Exhibition, 15 July – 10 August 2025, 19:00
Florence Jung: Doing nothing?
Lecture, 24 June 2025, 19:00
Rabih Mroué: Shot/Counter Shot. Rethinking the Reverse
Lecture, 17 June 2025, 19:00
Adir Jan & Emrah Gökmen: On the Shores of the Munzur, on the Shores of the Murat
Concert, 12 June 2025, 20:00
Miloš Trakilović: Love Songs & War Machines
Lecture, 10 June 2025, 19:00
Anna Roberta Goetz: 36. Bienal de São Paulo. Not All Travellers Walk Roads / Of Humanity as Practice
Lecture, 3 June 2025, 19:00
Jimmy Robert
Lecture, 27 May 2025, 19:00
Klein: No Degree, No Budget, No Problem
Lecture (20.5.) Concert (21.5.), 20 – 21 May 2025
Julian Irlinger: Reanimation and Reconstruction
Lecture, 13 May 2025, 19:00
İmran Ayata & Bülent Kullukçu: Songs of Gastarbeiter
Music Lecture, 8 May 2025, 19:00
Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien: Langit Lupa (Heaven Earth)
Screening (5.5.) Lecture (6.5.), 5 – 6 May 2025, 19:00
Helen Marten: Animal Hours
Lecture, 29 April 2025, 19:00
Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Application, 10 April – 31 May 2025
Semester Break Spring 2025
Information, 14 February – 21 April 2025
Water Cooler Talks 2025
Event, 8 – 9 February 2025
Rundgang 2025
Exhibition, 7 – 9 February 2025, 10:00–20:00
Trisha Donnelly
Lecture, 30 January 2025, 19:00
Kerstin Brätsch: Parasite Painting
Lecture, 28 January 2025, 19:00
Emma Enderby: Curating in and out of Place
Lecture, 14 January 2025, 19:00
Vittoria Martini & Thomas Hirschhorn: The Ambassador’s Diary

Vittoria Martini and Thomas Hirschhorn discuss Martini’s new book Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival. The Ambassadors' Diary (Hatje Cantz, 2023). This conversation is the first occasion in which her experience as an 'Ambassador' is re-examined. Furthermore, Martini explains the approach of 'presence and production' experienced – as an art historian in Bijlmer – and share why and how she designed her text. She also talks about if and how this mission has changed her personally and professionally. Yasmil Raymond, rector of Städelschule, who happens to have been an ambassador of the Gramsci Monument in New York (2013) will also join the conversation.
Vittoria Martini (*1975), PhD, is an independent art historian living in Italy. Her research focuses on the institutional, geopolitical history of cultural institutions that produce exhibitions and the Venice Biennale in particular as a lens through which to read the various inconsistencies and urgencies of contemporaneity. The study of the Venice Biennale from this perspective has led her over the years to work with artists presenting critical projects such as Antoni Muntadas (Spanish Pavilion, 2005), Alfredo Jaar (Chile Pavilion, 2013), Maria Eichhorn (German Pavilion 2022 and 2023). Since 2013 she teaches history of exhibitons and curatorial practices at CAMPO - Program of curatorial studies and practices established by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy). She recently published The Giardini: Status of the Property, in Maria Eichhorn: Relocating a structure (German Pavilion 2022, 59th Biennale di Venezia, Walther König, 2022) and The contextual relocation of Maria Eichhorn’s Relocating a Structure: in ARCH+ 252, Open for Maintenance / Wegen Umbau geöffnet, (German Pavillon, 18th Biennale Architettura 2023).
Thomas Hirschhorn was born in 1957 in Bern, Switzerland. After studying at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, he moved to Paris in 1983 where he has been living and working since. His work has been presented in many international exhibitions such as Skulptur Projekte Münster (1997), the Venice Biennale (1999 and 2015) where he represented Switzerland in 2011, Documenta11 (2002), 27th Sao Paolo Biennale (2006), 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburg (2008), La Triennale at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012), Manifesta 10 at Saint-Petersburg (2014), Atopolis Mons (2015), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2021). Other venues have hosted solo exhibitions, among which the Art Institute of Chicago (1998), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1998), Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2005), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2005), Museum Tinguely, Basel (2013), South London Gallery (2015), Kunsthal Aarhus, (2017), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2018), GL Strand, Copenhagen (2021). A complete survey of his Pixel Collage works is presented at Fondazione MAXXI, Rome (fall 2021). With each exhibition – in a museum, gallery or alternative space – and with every work in public space, Hirschhorn asserts his commitment toward a non-exclusive public.
The lecture will be held in English language.