If you have luck on your side and you’re planning on visiting Dusseldorf during the Quadriennale, you’ll have an array of art displays, exhibitions and museums to keep you busy during your visit. This year the Quadriennale Dusseldorf 2014 takes place between April 5th and August 10th and will then return four years later.
Here are my favourite must see galleries in Düsseldorf:
1. Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
The Kunsthalle Dusseldorf showcases the “Smart New World,” giving you a deeper understanding of information and data today which consumes our lives and our generations to come. There are 15 different artists who used their creativity to include today’s digital society in their works of art.
www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de
2. Museum Kunstpalast
The place for art and alchemy, the Museum Kunstpalast showcases many different German artists from the passed and present. With over 250 different works of art from many different artists, this museum is bound to keep you busy for a couple of hours.
3. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – Westfalen K20 Grabbeplatz
White, white and more white. If this exhibition doesn’t shine light on your mood, I’m not sure what will. The works of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich showcase works of art with a focus on the shade white. Simply white. Unfortunately this art piece was only available until July 6th but it is definitely worth mentioning as it was the first one I read into and wanted to visit.
www.kunstsammlung.de
4. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – Westfalen K21 Standehaus
Known as the exhibition ‘beneath the ground,’ this is a wonderful place to explore historical periods in Germany history through the use of art. Explore the visual art which provides incredible representation of the German caves, cellars, bunkers and much more. If you visit this museum you also get a special gift upon your departure ;).
5. KIT – Kunst im Tunnel
An exhibition specifically made out to explore the our contact through lights, videos and symbolic objects. Pauline M’barek is the creator of this wonderful installation that is now called KIT. This exhibition causes a state of confusion, but allows you to sit there for hours studying the meaning behind the projects.
www.kunst-in-tunnel.de
Give for Granted was sponsored as a guest through Dusseldorf Tourism. All words and thoughts are as always, my own. For more information about visiting Düsseldorf be sure to check out a couple more blog posts: The Best of Unterbilk, An Art Filled Day in Dusseldorf, and 5 Speedy Ways to See All of Düsseldorf in One Weekend.
