Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR

A dry grassy landscape with a mountain in which a costumed, masked man stands.

Federico Cuatlacuatl, Xochipitzahuatl-Nova, 2024, 3 channel video installation (still), photo: © David Morales

HYPERCREATURES – Future Mythologies

Exhibition from March 22 until October 5, 2025

Max Ernst used scalpel and scissors to dissect images of human and non-human bodies and to assemble them into new beings in his surrealistic collages. With a view to societal changes and current developments in science and technology, the international group exhibition presents visions of mixed beings that combine elements of humans, animals, machines or plants, and thus providing impetus for the development of new shared narratives.
In a dialogue process with works by Max Ernst, around 20 contemporary artists are asking themselves how the role of humans can be rethought in the face of acute global crises. The Hypercreatures exhibition with international positions from the fields of sculpture, painting and collage as well as video and media art (gaming, VR) can be seen from 22 March to 5 October 2025.

Subject to change!

An angel in armour and a woman with a halo

Farah Ossouli, Fra Angelico, Ahmad and I, 2012, gouache on paper, photo: © Farah Ossouli

Farah Ossouli

New Perspectives in the Leonora Carrington Hall
Exhibition from June 27 until October 5, 2025

The Iranian artist Farah Ossouli (born 1953 in Zanjan, Iran, lives and works in Tehran, Iran) is one of the first artists to draw inspiration from classical Persian miniature painting while creating independent, contemporary works that refer to the political situation in Iran.
Her unique paintings reveal multidisciplinary approaches from the fields of photography, film, literature and theatre: she subtly interweaves classical motifs from Western art history with current political issues in Iran, which serve as a catalyst for feminist themes and oppression by the Iranian regime.
For her solo exhibition at the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR, she is creating a new series of works with direct references to Max Ernst's time-critical collage novel Une semaine de bonté.

Subject to change!

A black and white aerial view of Cologne, with a plastic bag above it

Alex Grein, Anonymous Collection (Pictures on a Screen), plastic bag over Cologne, 2023, inkjet print, Courtesy The Artist and Galerie Gisela Clement

Alex Grein

Luise Straus Price of the LVR 2024 in the Leonora Carrington Hall
Exhibition from November 8, 2025 until February 28, 2026

Subject to change!