Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

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Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

The Emanias Project©The Emanias Project

The Emanias Project kicks off the 2024/25 season with ‘Innovative Missions’.

Saxophone, piano and bass float over wiry drum beats and invite you to enjoy, nod your head and dance. Elias Prell on drums, Hendrik Marin on saxophone, Emmanuel Walter on keyboards and Simon Henschen on bass - the four young musicians from Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin make up ‘The Emanias Project’. A groove-laden fusion jazz band that combines the best of complex harmonies, breakbeats, booming bass and catchy saxophone lines. With a mission to unite the inspirations of all four members, a unique instrumental sound has been created. The band knows how to break conventions and exude a dancing mood and energy.

The four musicians of The Emanias Project got to know each other in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where they went to school in Rostock and Schwerin. There they had already played together in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Youth Jazz Orchestra.
After studying music, the band was founded in 2021 and their successful collaboration was rewarded with 3rd prize at the Sparda Jazz Award in 2023. The group works out their ideas together and only plays their own compositions. Their music draws on influences from funk, groove and jazz, but is difficult to describe due to its versatility.

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Even during his lifetime, his books ‘Giovanni's Room’ and ‘The Fire Next Time’ made him famous and landed him on the cover of ‘Time Magazine’. But Baldwin was black and gay, and the society in which he lived was racist and homophobic. This tension gave rise to a unique body of work that opened wide the gates through which generations of activists have passed after him. On 2 August 2024, the great author, who some called a prophet, would have turned 100 years old.

In his elegantly written portrait, Baldwin expert René Aguigah outlines Baldwin's life from his origins in poor circumstances in Harlem to his escape from everyday racism to Paris, his rapid rise to become a sought-after speaker and his relationships with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Above all, however, Aguigah's essayistic book sets out in search of what Baldwin still has to tell us today. It explores the relationship between his artistry and activism, the tension between literature and politics, his advocacy of minorities and his universalist beliefs. Baldwin, who knew hatred so well, held on to love as hope in his novels and essays. Aguigah portrays him as a witness to a time of violence and injustice that still exists today.

René Aguigah, born in Würzburg in 1974, spent part of his childhood and youth in Datteln and graduated from Comenius-Gymnasium. He is a cultural journalist and presenter and has been Head of Department since 2019.

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.

Foto: K. Degenhardt

For 15 years now, bassist Caris Hermes has been unleashing her luminous world of sound full of references, ramifications and sensitive moods. Everything seems possible for her in the field of tension between swing, groove, straight ahead and subtle modern jazz. ‘This is where I feel particularly at home - and most comfortable. It's simply the music my heart beats for.’
Caris Herms has long since established herself as a highly esteemed, virtuoso sidewoman who impresses both her fellow musicians and the audience with her rhythmic and melodic diversity. In fact, her double bass has a voice all of its own: whether sensitively singing or humming, whether soulfully grooving or exuberantly walking, Caris Hermes celebrates the immense range of her instrument with delicate sophistication. In addition to the Sparda Jazz Award, the Folkwang Jazz Prize and the WDR Jazz Prize, she has taken part in numerous festivals and appeared in the documentary film ‘Jazzfieber - The Story of German Jazz’.
She performs at the Kunsthalle with Lennart Allkemper on saxophone and Tim Bücher on guitar.

Every sunday at noon a public guided tour is offered through our current exhibition.

The tour ist free of charge for visitiors, only the entry fee (5,- Euro / 2,50 Euro reduced) needs to be paid.

No registration necessary.