Bangladesh’s architectural world is masala (Bengali মাসালা) — an intoxicating mixture of contrasts.

Coinciding with the Guest of Honor Program of Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019, Portikus shows an exhibition the Norwegian-Nigerian artist and sociologist.

On September 25 the winners of this year’s competition Houses of the Year were honored.

The exhibition presents the life of the indigenous peoples of North America as shown in posters largely from the 1970s to today.

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.

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.