This colour photograph shows a richly furnished room in which two women (mother and daughter) pose. Next to them is the figure of a black boy holding a cigarette in his hand, whose features are depicted in an exaggeratedly African-American manner.

Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen

Female Identities? KünstlerInnen der Sammlung Goetz

February 1 – December 31, 2004

"Art always has to have something to do with me. This is why a constant preoccupation with the new and the contemporary is a personal concern to me and one that affects my collecting." (Ingvild Goetz)

With Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Sarah Jones, Daniela Rossell, Jessica Stockholder, Rosemarie Trockel, Rachel Whiteread and Andrea Zittel.

Critically questioning one's own identity – which Ingvild Goetz does time and time again by committing herself to the art of her age – is also the starting point for the new selection of works from her extensive collection that is on display in the Neues Museum Weserburg (today Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst).
Take Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin's photographs, or Andrea Zittel's pieces of clothing and dining room tables, or Jessica Stockholder's couch parts, or Rosemarie Trockel and Rachel Whiteread's body castings or even fragments – do these reflect female identities? This was the question – or even conflict – that continually confronts visitors to the 2004 exhibit in the Neues Museum Weserburg. The selection of photographs changes twice during the course of the show.

Cyrill Lachauer. The Sunset Route

June 20 – September 27, 2026 | Kunstpalais Erlangen

feat. Mike Brodie, Mouse Green, Rhyw, Mia Justice Smith, Moritz Stumm

In the exhibition The Sunset Route, on view at the Kunstpalais Erlangen and created in collaboration with the Sammlung Goetz, Cyrill Lachauer presents works from 2020 to 2025, a period during which he traveled on freight trains through the USA, Mexico, and Bosnia. In the spirit of poetic ethnography, he created photographs and films that are now being shown together for the first time. They all explore questions of freedom, self-determination, and resistance, as well as colonization, exclusion, and exploitation.

Laurie Simmons. Dollhouse Photographs

June 25 – August 30, 2026 | Deutsches Theatermuseum

The American artist Laurie Simmons is known for her photographs featuring tiny dolls representing stereotypical female roles in domestic interiors. The exhibition, a collaboration between Sammlung Goetz, Deutsches Theatermuseum and Filmfest Munich, presents a selection of works by Simmons that cast a critical gaze at gender stereotypes in the American middle class.

Sterling Ruby

July 16 – October 24, 2026 | Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster

Los Angeles-based American artist Sterling Ruby is known for his cross-genre work, which ranges from ceramics and bronzes, collages and textiles, to enormous, spray-painted paintings. In his works, Ruby weaves together a variety of different autobiographical, art-historical, and sociological sources. Through deconstruction and reconstruction, he probes the idea of a non-hierarchical and borderless universe. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster provides insight into his multi-layered artistic practice.

Jeff Wall

November 17, 2026 – February 20, 2027 | Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster

Canadian artist Jeff Wall is one of the most influential photographers of our time. In his elaborately staged pictorial compositions, he combines the narrative of cinema with painting. Wall became known for his large-format lightbox images, which are formally more reminiscent of the world of advertising than that of fine art. With this technique, he revolutionized the medium of photography, elevating it to the height of painting and sculpture. The exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster presents a selection of his iconic lightbox images from the 1990s.