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Neue Architektur in Südtirol 2018-2024
Kunst Meran freut sich, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Architekturstiftung Südtirol und dem Südtiroler Künstlerbund, die vierte Ausgabe des Ausstellungs-...
The Insubric Line
The Insubric Line is the debut exhibition of the three-year curatorial programme The Invention of Europe. A tricontinental narrative (2024-2027). The...
Nibelungen: I M A G I N E W O R L D S
The exhibition I M A G I N E W O R L D S focuses on the manuscript of the Nibelungenlied [the Song of the Nibelungs], dating from around 1300, which...
incontrare Christian Martinelli begegnen
From 7 October 2023 to 28 January 2024, Kunst Meran/o Arte will be presenting the solo exhibition entitled incontrare Christian Martinelli [Meet...
Vielheit. Stories from the postmigrant society
Starting from South Tyrol, the exhibition Vielheit. explores living together in postmigrant societies: How do preferences, habits, perceptions, and...
Mock-up. 1:1. Architectural Experiments. Photographs by David K. Ross
Sparkassensaal
Opening: 7 pm on Friday, 14 April 2023
The opening will be accompanied by a talk with the artists David K. Ross and Andreas Kofler (S...
Typoésien. Heinz Waibl – Siegfried Höllrigl
Typoésie, ist eine aus dem Französischen stammende Wortverschmelzung aus Typographie und Poesie und benennt die Praxis der Schriftgestaltung, wobei es...
Nuove cantine italiane – Territori e architetture.
Kunst Meran Merano Arte, in collaborazione con il Merano WineFestival e CASABELLA
propone dal 27 ottobre al 20 novembre la mostra
Nuove cantine...
TURNING PAIN INTO POWER
The exhibition TURNING PAIN INTO POWER focuses on the potential of art to awaken and raise people’s awareness of social, political and societal...
TOGETHER. Interact – Interplay – Interfere
After more than two years of the pandemic and social distancing, Kunst Meran returns to celebrate and critically investigate togetherness and...
Elisabeth Hölzl, Gina Klaber Thusek. Lichtpausen, lückenhaft
Lichtpausen, lückenhaft is an exhibition that presents two artists – Gina Klaber Thusek (1900-1983) and Elisabeth Hölzl (*1962) – in interlocking...
THE POETRY OF TRANSLATION
„[…] what I consider to be one of the most important arts of the future:
the art of translation.“
Édouard Glissant (1928-2011)
Writer, poet and...
ART IS. 25 years of Kunst Meran Merano Arte
Kunst Meran – a private association for the arts, founded 25 years ago and active as a municipal arthouse under the Meran arcades for 20 years now –...
KULTUR IN BEWEGUNG. Meran 1965 - 1990
Artists: Barbara Bertagnolli, Christoph Blum, Henri Chopin, Arnold M. Dall’O, Jakob de Chirico, Walter Erckert, Ulrich Egger, Peter Fellin, Anton...
Studio Other Spaces. The Design of Collaboration
Project partners: Barth Innenausbau, Talking Water Society in cooperation with Pichler, Frener & Reifer
Kunst Meran Merano Arte...
Lisa Ponti …così il disegno sa dove atterrare
The exhibition at Kunst Merano for the first time offers an insight into the rich world of the drawings of Lisa Ponti (1922-2019),...
RESENTMENT
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die (Malachy McCourt).
From 19 May to 30 August 2020, KUNST MERAN MERANO ARTE...
Design from the alps. TyrolSouth Tyrol Trentino 1920-2020
The first comprehensive review of the production and culture of modern design in a dynamic cross-border European region.
Özlem Altin. Lens
In spring the German artist Özlem Altin spent two weeks in Merano and developed her exhibition at KUNST MERAN MERANO ARTE based on the legend of the...
Alterazioni Video. Incompiuto: the birth of a style
From 29 June to 22 September 2019 KUNST MERAN MERANO ARTE will be hosting a show by Alterazioni Video, an artistic collective founded in Milan in 2004...
Da lontano era un'isola
At the beginning of the exhibition season, Kunst Meran unites three solo shows on respective floors of the museum under the title Da lontano era un...
New Architectures in South Tyrol 2012 – 2018
An international jury will select about 40 projects coming from the entire territory with special emphasis on the most important buildings. The...
Yorgos Sapountzis MICHSICH HOTEL
In his installations, videos and performances Yorgos Sapountzis (*1976 in Athens, lives in Berlin) brings new awareness to the places of public life,...
Marilù Eustachio HEIMAT
In her paintings and drawings Marilù Eustachio reflects on personal experiences as well as thoughts on literature and art. To this day the artist, who...
Same same but different
April 21 – July 8, 2018: Merano Arte, opening: Friday, April 20, 2018, 7 pm
May 7 – July 22: Museo Civico di Castelbuono, opening: Sunday, May 6,...
Into the Wild
The group show Into the Wild investigates the ideas and the imagination of nature we have nowadays. Following industrialization and the consequent...
Architecture of the Modern in South Tyrol 1935-1970
The projects made in South Tyrol by the architect of Veronese origin, Armando Ronca, are of the highest importance when considering the second postwar...
LORENZO SCOTTO DI LUZIO. In bocca a te ogni cosa muore
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio (1972 Pozzuoli, lives in Berlin) is a quite sensitive and keen observer of our times and of our society, of man’s small and...
HELEN MIRRA Walking, weaving
Merano Arte will host two exhibitions: The American artist Helen Mirra (born 1970 in Rochester, New York, lives in northern California) and Gianni...
GIANNI PETTENA Natural architecture
Merano Arte will host two exhibitions: The American artist Helen Mirra (born 1970 in Rochester, New York, lives in northern California) and Gianni...
Who is still Austrian?
On the occasion of commemoration of the 700th anniversary of giving the Municipal Regulations to Merano, the show, curated by Luigi Fassi, introduces...
EXHIBITION PAINTINGS
In the last few years various artists have stepped back to study painting in depth as an expressive means, with all the possible alternative...
Alois Kuperion - Painting is My Purpose in Life
On occasion of the 50th anniversary of Alois Kuperion's death, Merano arte will hold a large retrospective of the life and works of the wandering...
FRIDA PARMEGGIANI
On occasion of the 70th birthday of the Merano costume designer Frida Parmeggiani, the Salzburger Mozarteum and Merano Arte present a comprehensive...
Italomodern 1+ 2: Architecture in Upper Italy 1946 – 1976
In 2011, Martin and Werner Feiersinger offered the first comprehensive stocktaking of the postwar architecture in the region of Upper Italy by means...
CONSTRUCTIVE Alps
On occasion of the third edition of the international architectural award «Constructive Alps», the Swiss Alpine Museum and the Swiss Federal Office...
GESTURES - Women in action
Body Art is one of the great novelties of the past century. Body language, the approximation of art and performance, the accentuation of the bodily...
The Architecture of the 1920s and 1930s in Merano
In an intensive cooperation with the municipal archives of Merano, it was possible to sift the projects and put them in the context of the...
FRANCESCA WOODMAN & BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN
For the first time, Merano arte presents a double exhibition of works by the Italo-American artist Francesca Woodman (1958 – 1981) and the Austrian...
RICETTE D'ARTISTA - Between Art and Food
The parallels between art and cooking are not far to seek: both have to do with sensuality, but also with conscious composition and aesthetics. In the...
FROM & TO
The project series "FROM & TO" was initiated by Merano arte, first held in 2007, and repeated in 2011. In the past, selected Italian artists had each...
Marco Bolognesi SENDAI CITY
Sendai City is a metropolis, a mise-en-scène, a postmodern, decadent place, a non-place inhabited by cyborgs, created by an artificial intelligence...
Matthias Schönweger JANUS
The exhibition project "JANUS - 1914 and No End in Sight" commemorates World War I, 100 years ago, taking the opportunity to make a pacifist and...
Alps Architecture Tourism
Alpine Architecture, Architecture for Tourism, or Architectural Tourism in the Alps: a multi-faceted title.
At any rate, it is about architecture.
Hans Knapp - What is it like?
With the solo exhibition WHAT IS IT LIKE?, Merano arte is presenting the extraordinary oeuvre of Hans Knapp, with drawings, sketches, and collages...
Franz Pichler - HAVE NO FEAR
On occasion of his 75th birthday, Merano arte is devoting a first comprehensive exhibition to the artist Franz Pichler, presenting all his works, from...
Constructive Alps
An exhibition based on the "Alpenweiter Architekturpreis für nachhaltiges Sanieren und Bauen" [Alpine-wide architecture prize for sustainable...
Walter Moroder
Most of the works by Walter Moroder on exhibition at Merano arte are made of wood: human figures with timeless, empty faces.
The World of Things
Classical still lifes displayed splendor and wealth. What mattered was basically the reality status of pictures of everyday objects that also had a...
DESIRING the real. Austria contemporary
The exhibition Desiring the Real was launched by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture, Department of International and...
Sissa Micheli. Fade in the Past! Cut!
At Merano arte, Sissa Micheli will realize a serialized installation that deals with the manner in which photography operates on the interface to...
Zenzi Glatt: Paintings
Zenzi Glatt – having now reached the ripe age of 99 – has been painting for more than 40 years. What started spontaneously as a hobby, has...
Arnold Mario Dall'O - Still.life
The artist Arnold Mario Dall’O, a student of Emilio Vedova at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied sculpture, videos, and design,...
PERSPECTIVES OF THE FUTURE. Merano 1945 - 1965
With more than 300 artworks, most of which are unpublished, the exhibition tells its visitors about the buoyant, varied, and ambitioned cultural scene...
Jörg Hofer - Geology
In order to understand the tentative manner of Jörg Hofer’s paintings, one ought to keep in mind that he is a convinced adherent of the idea of...
Martin Pohl - On the Limits of Painting
Martin Pohl’s manner of painting originates from the ‘Postinformal’ of the sixties, which was basically a quest for what is essential, a gesture, and...
DIE DA DA...
The Merano project of the students of the Academy of Fine Arts Muenster.
In cooperation with ES contemporary art gallery and the youth center Jungle.
ANNEMARIE LANER - THEY NEVER WONDER
Annemarie Laner’s works are founded on personal as well as anthropological circumstances; they are reflections on our present times, always...
DENNIS OPPENHEIM - ELECTRIC CITY
One year after his death, Merano arte will be holding the first memorial exhibition in Italy of the great American artist Dennis Oppenheim.
NEW ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTH TYROL 2006-2012
On account of its particular geopolitical and cultural dimension, South Tyrol continues to be a true case history of contemporary architecture.Since...
The Abandoned Barn
Initiated by: Bündner Heimatschutz (Chur), Jürg Ragetti, Diego Giovanoli, Daniel Ladner
In co-operation with: Gelbes Haus, Flims (CH), Vorarlberger...
ELLIOTT ERWITT - Icons
The exhibition presents 40 of the best known works of one of the most important 20th century photographers.
TONY CRAGG - IN 4 D
Tony Cragg is one of the most important sculptors of our times. He made his breakthrough with works made of plastic finds which he connected with...
FROM & T(W)O
Art interactions: Merano arte presents an artistic dialogue between four artists from South Tyrol and four artists from abroad.
Living in the Alps
From May 15 to Sept. 12, 2010, Merano arte and Stiftung der Kammer der Architekten [Foundation of the Chamber of Architects] will present the...
F as Fellin
Retrospective of Peter Fellin (*1920 Revò – † 1999 Merano)
Peter Fellin, born on September 6, 1920 in Revò, Nonstal, is one of the most enigmatic...
The Delight of Collecting—Selected Works from the Finstral Collection
Merano arte is for the first time presenting a selection of works from the Finstral collection—a comprehensive international collection of...
URS LÜTHI - ART IS THE BETTER LIFE
ART IS THE BETTER LIFE
is a monographic exhibition dedicated to the works of the Swiss artist Urs Lüthi (* 1947). Presenting a selection of his...
Eduard Habicher - DRAWING SPACE
The sculptural work by Eduard Habicher is an attempt at an interesting synthesis between a minimal intervention in space and a work that nevertheless...
Contemporary Architecture in Finland
The exhibition Contemporary Architecture in Finland presents selected contemporary Finnish architecture projects that fascinate not only with their...
FROM AND TO
The local art scene is full of surprises. Not only artists born in the fifties – like Rudolf Stingel and Walter Niedermayer – are internationally...
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