Exhibition

Passage
Architecture by Assaf Kimmel

Apr. 26 - July 20, 2025

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Assaf Kimmel, Passage (spatial concept for the Kestner Gesellschaft), 2025, courtesy of the Architect and Assaf Kimmel Studio, photo: Volker Crone

The newly designed space Passage in Hall 5, created by architect Assaf Kimmel together with the Art Education Department and Curatorial Team of the Kestner Gesellschaft, will be a dynamic transition space for collective exchange. It connects art education, kestnerkids, and events with an ever-changing presentation of editions and archival materials from the Kestner Gesellschaft.

As part of its historical responsibility and links with the international avant-garde as well as its exhibition activities, the Kestner Gesellschaft will use this new architectural setting to question conventional forms of educational work, promote accessibility, and experiment with progressive formats.

A new presentation will make archival materials accessible, including internal records, correspondence, photographs, posters, flyers, and other ephemera from over 100 years of institutional history. The archive will become an active resonant space in which artistic and historical perspectives not only overlap but mutually recontextualize each other.

The Passage will remain an “unfinished architecture,” adaptable and continuously evolving through dialogue with artists, visitors, and experts.

Curator: Alexander Wilmschen
Assistant Curator: Emilia Radmacher


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