1 MAY until 29 MAY 2026
Opening – 1 MAY 2026, 6-9 pm

At Galerie Michael Haas

Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) was one of the most radical artists of the post-1945 era.
Moving away from the academic concept of art, he developed an authentic, ‘unadulterated’ style of expression that drew inspiration from voices outside the intellectual art world: scribbles in public spaces, works by the mentally ill, drawings by children and other self-taught artists, for which he soon coined the term ‘art brut’.

In the 1940s, Paris was the undisputed centre of Western art. Dubuffet’s early works— explicitly figurative, almost naive paintings—stand in stark contrast to the styles of Art Informel and Geometric Abstraction pursued by his contemporaries, and are recognised as a revolutionary new idea by only a few intellectuals.

“My art is an attempt to bring all disparaged values into the limelight”

Throughout his artistic career, he created distinct cycles of work, each representing a new challenge and set of questions, which he brought to a close as soon as their possibilities seemed exhausted. He avoided allowing his formal language to solidify into a single style and never tired of systematically and thoroughly questioning and reinventing every traditional aspect of art.

A comprehensive retrospective featuring more than 200 works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1962 marked the point at which Dubuffet’s work finally reached a wider audience. His influence on his own and subsequent generations cannot be overstated.

Galerie Michael Haas presents a selection of paintings and drawings from the years 1942 to 1961.

1 MAY until 19 JUN 2026
Opening – 1 MAY 2026, 6-9 pm

At Galerie Michael Haas & Kunst Lager Haas (Lise-Meitner-Str. 7-9)

Under the title D’après Manet, Galerie Michael Haas has brought together works by 51 international artists, the vast majority of which were created specifically for the exhibition. They pay tribute to the legacy of French painter Édouard Manet (1832–1883) by quoting or parodying his paintings and drawings, adapting them in their own distinctive styles and opening up entirely new perspectives for us, the viewers.

Manets work marked the most profound and perhaps most radical transformation in painting since the French Revolution. He brought about a shift in 19th-century art history that was as unexpected as it was sudden, and paved the way for modernism.

Today, Manet’s work has long been part of our visual culture, its astonishing diversity still an almost inexhaustible source of inspiration. Much of his œuvre is held in major museums and collections, and the open market has been exhausted, at the very latest since the sale of the 1881 painting ‘Le Printemps’ at Christie’s auction house for a record price of over 65 million dollars in 2014. As a great admirer, Michael Haas nevertheless sought a way to organise a Manet-inspired exhibition – and commissioned a group of artists to engage with the theme. 

Jordi Alcaraz
Martin Assig
Andrea Baumgartl
Nicole Bianchet
Peter Böhnisch
Peter Bömmels
Abraham David Christian
Christopher Colm-Morrin
Michael Craig-Martin
Tatjana Doll
Slawomir Elsner
Tim Ernst
Marianna Gartner
Pep Girbent
Julius Grünewald
Beate Günther
Tobias Hauser
Axel Heil
Almut Heise
Gregor Hildebrandt
Hipkiss
Marcel Hüppauff
John Isaacs
Martha Jungwirth
Michael Kirkham
Astrid Klein
Gustav Kluge
Bernd Koberling
Dirk Lange
Philip Loersch
Markus Lüpertz
Haruko Maeda
Jakob Mattner
Jonathan Meese
Monika Michalko
David Nicholson
Tanja Nittka
José Noguero
Albert Oehlen
Lydia Pettit
Reinhard Pods
Daniel Richter
Gerd Rohling
Gino Rubert
Matthias Schaufler
Dennis Scholl
John Stark
Craig Stewart
Strawalde
Dimitris Tzamouranis
René Wirths