Exhibitions Upcoming events Nebil Zaman 17.04.2025 - 14.09.2025 Nebil Zaman (b.1985) is a Kurdish / Norwegian artist living and working in Oslo. After beginning his studies in Art… John K. Raustein 26.09.2025 - 20.01.2026 What's the smell of green? Artist John K. Raustein invites these questions about his architectural sculptures and installations covered in… Past events Echoes in Clay 18.10.2024 - 15.12.2024 Manuel Canu's exhibition „Echoes in Clay: Nature, Craft, and Ephemeral Beauty" delves into the intricate relationship between nature and architecture, exploring contemporary craftsmanship's reimagination of clay as a medium for decoration and structure. A site-specific installation, rooted in dedication to… Sustainable Suisse 23.11.2023 - 15.04.2024 They are everywhere: materials are indispensable innovation drivers for almost all sectors of the economy. New materials can contribute to solving urgent questions of the future, in areas such as mobility, climate and environmental protection as well as in architecture… Call me Ornament 3 08.09.2023 - 14.10.2023 The third round of our Call me Ornament exhibition starts on 8.09. – 14.10. 2023 im Munich at the gallery of the Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein. BAVARIAN CRAFTS COUNCIL (BAYERISCHER KUNSTGEWERBEVEREIN E.V.) Founded in 1851, the Bavarian Crafts Council (BKV) is today… Call meOrnament 2 21.04.2023 - 30.07.2023 The second round of our Call me Ornament-exhibition starts on 21.04.2023 with an expanded group of exhibitors. The three-part exhibition is inspired by artists such as Alfons Mucha or Henry van der Velde, whose life's work spanned the most diverse… Call meOrnament 1 14.10.2022 - 04.04.2023 There are still today artists and designers, for whom harmony and wholeness play an incredibly significant role – creating atmospheres, whose daring interactions with the decorative, produce a magnified refinement in objects and interior spaces. Radical Craft 3 01.10.2021 - 01.04.2022 A whole new generation of craftspeople, designers and artists are bringing fresh perspectives to field of craft discourse. Today, there is a lively crossover between craft, design, sculpture and technology that is rethinking the definitions of art and design. Belkina 01.10.2021 - 24.11.2021 In the time of Romanticism thinkers kept dreaming of a world where material essence would be under control of the spirit. They were very loyal to an ideal. Nature, love, fantasy just as well as science – were the ways… Radical Craft 2 29.10.2020 - 11.07.2021 The second, ongoing exhibition "Radical-Craft 2" continues the theme started in 2020. In the first exhibition, it is about conveying the arts and crafts with design positions in order to show how artistic craft and design interact (e.g. with collectible… Radical Craft 1 24.05.2019 - 05.04.2020 The Direktorenhaus’ annual exhibition, “Radical Craft”, presents 60 designers and artistic craftworkers, who show how important artistic craft is today in creating future designs for society. For modern consumer products the market is no longer trending with static goods, but… Casey Gray 21.01.2019 - 15.11.2019 Through his work, San Francisco based artist Casey Gray examines our collective entanglement with the dignity and reality of the everyday. Ryan Coleman 15.06.2018 - 01.07.2018 Ryan Coleman’s work intertwines elements of animation imagery with abstract expressionist painting. Ryan Coleman’s work intertwines elements of animation imagery with abstract expressionist painting. It explores a series of dichotomies – control and spontaneity, light and darkness, surface and depth,… Matt Phillips 15.06.2018 - 01.07.2018 Matt Phillips (born 1979) has shown his paintings and drawings in Europe, Israel, and the United States. Matt Phillips (born 1979) has shown his paintings and drawings in Europe, Israel, and the United States. He has had two solo shows…
