The video still shows three men of different ages in winter clothes sitting around a fire on a grey day. They seem to be talking to each other. A kind of industrial area can be seen in the background. Anna Molska, Sammlung Goetz Munich

Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen

Schichtwechsel

October 6, 2012 – December 22, 2013

The inaugural exhibition at the Nordstern Video Art Centre featuring works from the Sammlung Goetz and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein focused on the theme of labour. The works explored a kaleidoscopic range of fundamental issues relating to the organisation of our society and the dignity of labour.

Constructed in the early 1950s, the Nordstern colliery winding tower in Gelsenkirchen is now a registered historical monument of the industrial era housing the Nordstern Video Art Centre with temporary exhibitions of works from the Sammlung Goetz and the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein.
Some 500 film and video works of the past two decades from the Sammlung Goetz provide an excellent insight into contemporary video art. The Video Forum of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein is Germany’s oldest collection of video art, comprising some 1,400 works with such focal points as Fluxus, feminism, historical and contemporary video art as well as media-reflexive approaches. Levels 6, 7 and 8 presented works from the Sammlung Goetz by the following artists:
Francis Alÿs, Matthew Barney, Harun Farocki, William Kentridge, Jochen Kuhn, Hilary Lloyd, Aernout Mik, Anna Molska, Charles Huntley Nelson, Gabriel Orozco, Tony Oursler, Robin Rhode, Markus Selg, Rosemarie Trockel, Zhao Liang und Artur Żmijewski.
Level 9 presented a sculptural display by Silke Wagner that allows visitors to browse works from the video archives of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, while Level 10 housed an installation by Hito Steyerl.

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.