What is art? Where does it begin, where does it end? Who decides what art is? What makes an artist an artist?
The works of Hans-Peter Feldmann (1941-2023), to whom the Kunstpalast is dedicating an extensive exhibition in fall 2025, revolve around these essential questions. The artist's central themes can already be seen in his early works and recur again and again: everyday life, social clichés, voyeurism, private and public spheres, the formation of taste, humor and satire, dreams and projections. From the very beginning, Feldmann also consistently pursued strategies of artistic appropriation, alienation and recontextualization. 120 works will be presented in the exhibition, which clearly demonstrates the breadth of Feldmann's oeuvre: from his early photographs from the 1970s to his sculptures with everyday objects and his expansive installations to more recent works, which will be shown for the first time in Düsseldorf. It is the first retrospective after Hans-Peter Feldmann's death in May 2023 and the last in which he was still actively involved. (Source: Kunstpalast)
Exhibition duration: September 18, 2025 to January 11, 2026
