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Hypercreatures – Future Mythologies

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.

Online Press Kit HYPERCREATURES (PDF, 882 KB)

Press image 1 Federico Cuatlacuatl, Xochipitzahuatl-Nova, 2024, 3 channel video installation (still), photo: © David Morales
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Press image 2 Marco Brambilla, Installation view of Creation (Megaplex), 2012, 4K video (Detail), © photo: Courtesy of NXT Museum Amsterdam
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Press image 3 Anne Horel, Lepidodinium Chlorophorum, 2024, generated with a LoRA trained with creatures from an obsolete experimental OpenAi model, photo: © Anne Horel
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Press image 4 Troika, Phoenix Faun, 2024, Courtesy MAK Contemporary, photo: © kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
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Press image 5 Wangechi Mutu, Homeward Bound, 2009, Deutsche Bank Collection, Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter, Los Angeles, photo: © Robert Wedemeyer
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Press image 6 Anys Reimann, L’APRES MIDI D’UNE FAUNA, 2024, Mixed media collage and oil on canvas, Collection AGLAIA, photo: Anys Reimann
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Press image 7 Ontograph X: Ego-Concept: SOFF, 3D Model & Animation: ABOOOH
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Press image 8 Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Forced Amnesia, 2023-24, computer game, colour, sound, 25-30 min, © Mary-Audrey Ramirez
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Press image 9 Lu Yang, DOKU - Binary Conflicts Invert Illusions, 2022, 1-channel video, paint, sound, 4:33 min, photo: © Courtesy the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin
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Installation view 1 Kévin Bray BullBear Dynamics, 2025, and Angelo Pleassas, Meditation of All Beings, 2022, and The Quilt of Alle Beings, 2022, © Kévin Bray and Angelo Pleassas, photo: Jürgen Vogel / LVR
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Installation view 2 Lex Rütten and Jana Kerima Stolzer, LUCA, 2025, © Lex Rütten & Jana Kerima Stolzer, photo: Jürgen Vogel / LVR
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Installation view 3 Nina Paszkowski, Ventress, 2024, Anomas-Serie, 2024-25, how to hold a void 3/3, 2023, ceramic, Troika, Phoenix Faun, 2024, 3D-print, Eva Papamargariti, Mutants, Crawlers, Shapeshifters I, 2025, videos and textiles, and Federico Cuatlacuatl, Xochipitzahuatl-Nova, 2024, Video, © Nina Paszkowski, Troika, Federica Cuatlacuatl and Eva Papamagaritit, photo: Jürgen Vogel / LVR
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Installation view 4 Anne Horel, Xenobiome.exe, 2025, Installation, and Max Ernst, The Attirement of the Bride, 1973, colour serigraph in oil on canvas, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, photo: Jürgen Vogel / LVR
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Installation view 5 Mary-Audrey Ramirez, Eggplants (Big), 2020, Blooh on Alien Weapon, 2024, Courtesy of the artist and MARTINEZ, Cologne, as well as Max Ernst, The Twentieth Century, 1955, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Foto: Jürgen Vogel / LVR
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Preview 2025

Press release Preview 2025 and Frauke Dannert – Desert After Rain (PDF, 355 KB)

Farah Ossouli – New Perspectives in the Leonora Carrington Hall
June 27 until October 5, 2025

Farah Ossouli is one of the first artists to engage with classical Persian miniature painting and reinterpret it within a contemporary context through her own visual language. She interweaves references from both Persian and European art and cultural history into symbolically charged images that poetically center feminist themes.

For her exhibition at the Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR, Farah Ossouli has created a new 15-part series of works. The title, Remember the Flight, the Bird Will Die, is taken from a poem by Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967). The series also connects with Max Ernst’s socially critical collage novel Une semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness, 1934). A recurring motif in Ossouli's series is hair, which she stages as a multifaceted symbol pointing to femininity, intimacy, and vulnerability, as well as societal power structures, control, and political oppression.

Press image 1: Farah Ossouli, Dance, 2025, photo: © Farah Ossouli
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Press image 2: Max Ernst, Blatt zu Œdipe 14 aus Une semaine de bonté ou Les sept éléments capitaux (Eine Woche der Güte oder Die sieben Hauptelemente, 1934), © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2025, Foto: Jürgen Vogel / LVR
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Press image 3: Farah Ossouli, Der Sündenfall, 2025, Foto: © Farah Ossouli
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Press image 4: Farah Ossouli, Die Locken der Kindheit, 2025, Foto © Farah Ossouli
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Press image 5: Farah Ossouli, Das leuchtende Geheimnis, Foto: © Farah Ossouli
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Installation view 1: Farah Ossouli, Der Sündenfall, 2025, © Farah Ossouli, und Max Ernst, Blatt zu Œdipe 14 aus Une semaine de bonté ou Les sept éléments capitaux (Eine Woche der Güte oder Die sieben Hauptelemente, 1934), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Foto: N. Schäfer / LVR-ZMB
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Installation view 2: Farah Ossouli, Schmetterling, 2025, Foto: N. Schäfer / LVR-ZMB
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Installation view 3: Farah Ossouli, Das Schlangennest (Detail), 2025, Foto: N. Schäfer / LVR-ZMB
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Installation view 4: Farah Ossouli, Der Flug, Video (Still), 2025, Foto: N. Schäfer / LVR-ZMB
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Installation view 5: Farah Ossouli, Die Locken der Kindheit (Detail), 2025, Foto: N. Schäfer / LVR-ZMB
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Portrait 1: Farah Ossouli in her exhibition "Remember the Flight, the Bird Will Die" in Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR, photo: LVR-ZMB / Nicole Schäfer
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Portrait 2: Farah Ossouli in her exhibition "Remember the Flight, the Bird Will Die" in Max Ernst Museum Brühl of the LVR, photo: LVR-ZMB / Nicole Schäfer
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FRAUKE DANNERT – DESERT AFTER RAIN

New Perspectives in the Leonora Carrington Hall
November 29, 2024 until March 9, 2025

The Desert After Rain exhibition in the Leonora Carrington Hall presents works on paper and canvas as well as wall paintings of the artist Frauke Dannert, who lives and works in Cologne.

Frauke Dannerts (born 1979 in Herdecke) creative manner of expression is based on the technique of collage, which she uses in her graphic and painting works in diverse and exciting ways. The exhibition title is a poetic reference to the artistic work of Max Ernst. Inspired by the fantastic landscape spaces and the wealth of forms in his work, Frauke Dannert has created new series of work especially for the exhibition.

Press release Frauke Dannert – Desert After Rain and Preview 2025 (PDF, 355 KB)

Press image 1 Installation view Frauke Dannert, Gelenk (Hinge), 2024, Collage on Paper, photo: LVR-ZMB / Nicole Schäfer
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Press image 2 Installation view Frauke Dannert, Stein auf Stein (Stone on Stone), 2024, wall painting, with Max Ernst's sculpture The King Playing with the Queen (1944) © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: LVR-ZMB / Nicole Schäfer
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Press image 3 Installation view Frauke Dannert, Stein auf Stein (Stone on Stone), 2024, wall painting, with Max Ernst's sculpture The King Playing with the Queen (1944) © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, photo: LVR-ZMB / Nicole Schäfer
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COLLECTION

The Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR is the only museum dedicated to the life and work of the seminal artist, image poet, and cosmopolitan Max Ernst (1891–1976). The collection spans 70 years of one of the most important, versatile, and fascinating artists of the 20th century. Numerous paintings, drawings, frottages, and collages let visitors immerse themselves in the fantastic worlds of Max Ernst’s images and demonstrate his boundless inventiveness. Visitors can also look forward to seeing a unique collection of more than 70 bronze castings and sculptures. Another heart piece of the collection are the 36 "D-paintings".These works were originally painted as gifts to the artist’s fourth wife, Dorothea Tanning – a fellow artist who was a part of his life for more than three decades.

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Outside view Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Photo: Annette Hiller / LVR-ZMB
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Outside view Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Photo: Hans-Theo Gerhards / Museum
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Outside view Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Photo: Hans-Theo Gerhards / Museum
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