With the exhibition the museum is presenting an innovative multimedia project space that provides comprehensive insights into the material that is thousands of years old and for the first time shows fundamental facts about leather in dialog with the museum’s outstanding collection.

Some 190 exhibits trace the history of small sculpture in the Baroque and Rococo ages.

With her monu­mental tapes­tries the artist Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970) created a powerful, polit­ical inspired oeuvre, working from a small self-suffi­cient farm on the west coast of Norway. On the occa­sion of Norway’s turn as Guest of Honor at the Frank­furt Book Fair in 2019.

Shimmering, shining, fleeting: with ETHEREAL. PHOTOGRAPHIC ART FROM NORWAY the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt presents exceptional works about the subtleties of light from A K Dolven, Dag Alveng and Linn Pedersen. It is Fotografie Forum Frankfurt’s contribution to the country’s Guest of Honour programme at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.

After more than 50 years, the work of a pioneer of Abstract Expres­sionism in the United States will once again be on view in Europe in a major retro­spec­tive.

For the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt the artist will develop a new three-dimensional sculpture for the publicly accessible Rotunda.

Contemporary projects situated in different geographical parts of Norway comprise the exhibition in cooperation with Guest of Honour Frankfurt Bookfair 2019 Norway, ranging from small infrastructure projects to a hydro power station in the mountains, individual buildings in rural and urban landscapes, and works by old masters.

The Kunstverein in collaboration with the Senckenberg Naturmuseum presents an interdisciplinary project that shifts our focus away from a historically accumulated, anthropocentric worldview towards a systemic understanding of humans as part of the evolutionary process.

Starting in the autumn of 2019, the museum will devote its entire exhibition space to the Frankfurt Book Fair’s guest of honour 2019.

In its exhibition, the museum shows works by contemporary artists who use digital compositions to approach a traditional subject of art – namely nature.