herbert oehm. entropy and order
06.04. - 12.10.2025
Herbert Oehm (*1935) creates events on the surface. As a trained poster painter, student at the Ulm School of Design, representative of Concrete Art and member of the ZERO movement, his works offer an impressive variety and challenge the viewer. Whether fluttering, shiny golden leaves, grid-like arrangements made of toilet paper, drop structures made of polyester resin, precisely painted colour gradients with a spatial effect or relief-like galaxies made of sand: Oehm’s oeuvre offers a pictorial world full of the most diverse materials and techniques. Thanks to his non-representational visual More >
More >A New Spelling of Museum. Part 2
23.11.2024 to 05.10.2025
From M to Z: The Museum Ulm’s guest exhibition in the neighboring kunsthalle weishaupt is entering its second round. What do Alemannic pearl necklaces from the 5th to 7th centuries have to do with gold cufflinks today? Curiosity, amazement and joy in beautiful, artfully crafted things are deeply human – and the leitmotifs of this exhibition. Knitted stitches by a contemporary artist next to 1800-year-old Roman clay lamps: When fundamentally different objects from art and cultural history are shown side by side for the first time, surprising connections emerge across More >
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Previous Exhibitions | Publications
ANYTHING BUT FLAT! From Surface to Space”13.10.2024 - 23.03.2025Publikation
Dynamic. Movement in the Collection01.07.2023 – 25.02.2024Publikation
Caution Reconstruction. 23rd Triennial Ulm Art01.07. - 12.11.2023Publikation
Just Look – The Opening Show24.11.2007 – 23.08.2008Publikation
Zero is alive07.09.2008 – 07.06.2009Publikation
Keith Haring17.05. – 01.11.2009Publikation
Imi Knoebel15.11.2009 – 28.04.2010Publikation
In Dialogue – Erich Hauser09.05. – 26.09.2010Publikation
Robert Longo28.11.2010 – 25.09.2011Publikation
At Second Glance – Works from the Collection09.11.2011 – 03.06.2012Publikation
Sculptures and Reliefs from the Collection14.07.2012 – 10.02.2013Publikation
American Idols – From Basquiat to Warhol24.02. – 13.10.2013Publikation
Hans Peter Reuter – The Way into Blue27.10.2013 – 04.05.2014Publikation
Living with Art – Part 117.05. – 09.11.2014Publikation
Open Outcome – New Works from the Collection21.10.2018 – 06.10.2019Publikation
Living with Art – Part 223.11.2014 – 12.07.2015Publikation
Spot on!04.10.2015 – 10.04.2016Publikation
Gerold Miller24.04. – 02.10.2016Publikation
Ben Willikens – Taking Measures of Spaces and Places16.10.2016 – 26.03.2017Publikation
Best of 10 Years09.04.2017 – 22.04.2018Publikation
Why Art?05.05. – 07.10.2018Publikation
Spelling Museum in a New Wayuntil 27.10.24Publikation
Wolfram Ullrich. Overcoming Gravityuntil 29.09.2024Publikation
Alexander Kluge – The Power of Music20.10.2019 - 19.04.2020Publikation
INTERMEZZO – The Collection as an Interlude30.05. - 15.11.2020Publikation
Beat Zoderer – Visual Interferences 1990-202028.03.2021 - 30.01.2022Publikation
Poetry in Painting – Graphic Works by Chagall and His Contemporaries13.02. - 09.10.2022Publikation
A Matter of Pure Form. Constructivist-concrete Art from the Weishaupt Collection23.10.2022 - 18.06.2023Publikation