2026

March 8, 2026

Curator's tour: P. Staff - Durchdringung
February 12 – 17, 2026

Our opening hours during Carnival

2025

December 27 – 28, 2025

Our opening hours in December and January
December 14, 2025

Guided tour: P. Staff - Durchdringung
December 14, 2025

Guided tour: Jahresgaben 2025
November 30, 2025

Guided tour: P. Staff - Durchdringung
November 30, 2025

Guided tour: Jahresgaben 2025
November 29, 2025

Jahresgaben 2025: Preview and Dinner
November 16, 2025

VEREINEN #3 Mitgliederausflug: Wolfgang Tillmans: Ausstellung in Remscheid, Haus Cleff, Remscheid
November 2, 2025

VEREINEN #2 Guided tour & get-together: P. Staff, Durchdringung
October 19, 2025

VEREINEN #1: Members' excursion to KölnSkulptur #11, Skulpturenpark Köln
October 10, 2025

Opening: P. Staff - Durchdringung
February 22, 2025

Opening: Philosopher of her own Ruin

2024

November 30, 2024

Jahresgabendinner 2024
September 20, 2024

Open Book: Letters, Marks, Politics
July 28, 2024

It is light – Camilla Wills in Conversation
May 11, 2024

If I don't exist: why do I dye my hair?
March 27, 2024

Holding and Fallen Lassen
February 25, 2024

Final week of Michael Kleine, in der Blumenhalle
January 20, 2024

NOVEL PLEASURE

2023

December 5, 2023

Stammtisch XXII with Dr. Thomas Fechner-Smarsly and his students
November 10 – 11, 2023

60 years Bonner Kunstverein
November 7, 2023

Stammtisch XXI with Wilhelm Schürmann
October 15, 2023

Michael Kleine in conversation
October 10, 2023

Stammtisch XX with Rinde Am Rhein & Speakeasy
September 5, 2023

Stammtisch XIX with Heike Kirchhoff
July 29 – 30, 2023

Tolia Astakhishvili, The First Finger, Final Week
July 18, 2023

Tolia Astakhishvili in Conversation
July 4, 2023

Stammtisch XVIII mit Birgit Mersmann
June 16, 2023

KURVE / Sparda-Nacht
May 20, 2023

Michael Kleine, zur Untermiete

2022

December 6 – 5, 2022

Stammtisch with Yilmaz Dziewior
December 3 – 2, 2022

Jahresgabendinner 2022
November 13, 2022

Opening: Harkeerat Mangat, Peter Mertes Stipend
November 8 – 7, 2022

Stammtisch with Magdalena Kröner
October 30, 2022

Ellen Yeon Kim Finissage
October 30, 2022

Artist talk with Nöle Giulini
October 30, 2022

Nöle Giulini
October 4 – 3, 2022

Stammtisch with Alexander Farenholtz
October 4, 2022

Stammtisch mit Alexander Farenholtz
September 11, 2022

Members' trip to Bolzano and Venice
September 9, 2022

Opening - In The Shadows of Tall Necessities
September 9, 2022

Opening, Ellen Yeon Kim, Primordial Soup – Peter Mertes
September 6, 2022

Stammtisch mit Rolf Sachsse
August 5 – 4, 2022

Visit to documenta fifteen
August 1, 2022

Stammtisch – Summer break
August 1, 2022

Stammtisch – Sommerpause
July 30, 2022

Finissage – Lucie Stahl: Seven Sisters with Lucie Stahl, Inka Meißner & In My Talons
June 19, 2022

Book launch: David Medalla, Parables of Friendship
June 18, 2022

Cameraperson
June 18, 2022

KURVE – Café-Bar
June 7, 2022

Stammtisch with Julia Krings
May 16, 2022

Members Meeting 2022
May 15, 2022

Macke Viertel Fest 2022
May 3, 2022

Stammtisch with Roman Luckscheiter
April 8, 2022

Opening – David Medalla: Parables of Friendship, Museion, Bolzano
March 11, 2022

Opening - Lucie Stahl: Seven Sisters
March 11, 2022

Opening - The Wig
March 1, 2022

Stammtisch mit Susanne Titz
February 1, 2022

Stammtisch with Prof. Dr. Cornelia Richter
January 29, 2022

Curator's tour through David Medalla: Parables of Friendship
January 29, 2022

Kuratorinführung durch David Medalla: Parables of Friendship
January 27, 2022

Temperatures VII: Adam Hines-Green – Risk of the Caring Kind
January 13, 2022

A talk by Friedrich Meschede on David Medalla

2021

December 11, 2021

Jahresgaben-Samstag with presentations
December 10, 2021

Jahresgabendinner 2021
December 7, 2021

Stammtisch with Dr. Christoph Kohlmeyer
November 12, 2021

Opening – Niklas Taleb: Live in Paris, Peter Mertes Stipendium 2020
November 2, 2021

Stammtisch with Prof. Dr. Markus Nöthen
October 26, 2021

Temperatures VI: Ana Teixeira Pinto – Dim to Dark
October 8, 2021

Opening – Magdalena Los, Peter Mertes Stipendium 2020
October 6, 2021

Members Meeting 2021
September 4, 2021

Living in the Radiant Cold
August 8, 2021

ONLINE - A conversation between Fanny Howe and Ariana Reines
August 4, 2021

Morgan Bassichis & Gregg Bordowitz: All the Leaves
July 3, 2021

Opening – The Holding Environment Chapter II
June 29, 2021

Temperatures V: Cecilia Pavón - My own Temporary Autonomous Zone
May 25, 2021

Temperatures IV: Madeleine Bernstorff – Uncertainty
April 28, 2021

Temperatures III: Andreas Malm – Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
April 9, 2021

Opening – The Holding Environment Chapter I
March 31, 2021

Temperatures II: Quinn Latimer – They're only Walls, Hush
February 23, 2021

Temperatures I: Samo Tomšič – Wachstumszwang

2020

December 5, 2020

Jahresgaben-Samstag
November 8, 2020

ONLINE Artist Talk with Anna-Sophie Berger
November 3, 2020

Mitgliederversammlung 2020
October 10, 2020

Kuratorinführung durch Anna-Sophie Berger: Duell
September 3, 2020

Opening: Anna-Sophie Berger
August 22, 2020

Reading by Lotte Maiwald
August 8, 2020

Exhibition Tour: Peter Mertes Stipendium 2019 (German language)
July 18, 2020

Opening: Peter Mertes Stipendium 2019
May 28, 2020

Annual General Meeting POSTPONED
May 16, 2020

Members' trip to Cologne POSTPONED
April 19, 2020

Concert with Irmin Schmidt
February 29, 2020

Curators Tour through the exhibition "Wir haben die Schnauze voll" with Volker Zander
February 15, 2020

Opening: Jeremy Deller

2019

December 7, 2019

Eröffnung: Jahresgaben 2019
December 6, 2019

Jahresgaben-Dinner 2019
November 20, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition with Miriam Bettin, Curatorial Assistant (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
November 20, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Miriam Bettin, Curatorial Assistant
November 19, 2019

Concepts of Masculinity (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
November 17, 2019

The Magician (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
November 17, 2019

The Magician
November 16, 2019

Maskulinitäten. A Conversation. (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
November 16, 2019

Maskulinitäten. A Conversation.
November 13, 2019

The Year of the Pig (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
November 13, 2019

The Year of the Pig
November 12, 2019

Penis/Phallus/Dildo (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
November 12, 2019

Penis/Phallus/Dildo
November 12, 2019

Guided Tour for Members in Düsseldorf (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
November 12, 2019

Guided tour for members through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Eva Birkenstock, Director
November 10, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition withh Jasmin Werner (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
November 10, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Jasmin Werner
November 10, 2019

Masculinity–Sunday
November 9, 2019

Blue Bananas and Other Meats - A Libidinous Look at the Male Body in Feminist Art (Bonner Kunstverein)
November 9, 2019

Blue Bananas and Other Meats – A Libidinous Look at the Male Body in Feminist Art
November 7, 2019

There's No Us in Masterpiece (Kunstverein Düsseldorf)
November 7, 2019

There’s No Us in Masterpiece
November 5, 2019

Guided tour for members through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Susanne Mierzwiak, Interim-Director
November 2, 2019

Cologne Night of Museums (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
November 2, 2019

Cologne Night of Museums
October 31, 2019

Elbow Room, Physical Education II (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
October 31, 2019

Elbow Room, Physical Education II
October 27, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition with Jasmin Werner (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
October 24, 2019

Mediated Masculinities: Visual Archives, Masculinities and Race in Contemporary Practices of Self-/ Documentation (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
October 24, 2019

Mediated Masculinities: Visual Archives, Masculinities and Race in Contemporary Practices of Self-/Documentation
October 19, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Sophie Schattner, Project Assistant
October 18, 2019

Take It Like a Man (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
October 18, 2019

Take It Like a Man
October 13, 2019

Masculinity-Sunday
October 12, 2019

Studio visits with Anne Pöhlmann and Christoph Westermeier in Düsseldorf
October 11, 2019

Double Feature (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
October 11, 2019

Double Feature
October 9, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition with Nikola Dietrich, Director (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
October 9, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Nikola Dietrich, Director
October 6, 2019

NASHA (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
October 6, 2019

NASHA
October 5, 2019

Idle Talk (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
October 5, 2019

Idle Talk
October 5, 2019

Unreproductive Desires: Sexual Liberations from Our Sexes (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
October 5, 2019

Unreproductive Desires: Sexual Liberations from Our Sexes
September 25, 2019

Guided Tour for Memebers in Cologne (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
September 25, 2019

Guided tour for Members through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Nikola Dietrich, Director
September 19, 2019

Discipline Masters (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
September 19, 2019

Discipline Masters
September 18, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition with Miriam Bettin, Assistant Curator (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
September 18, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Miriam Bettin, Assistant Curator
September 14, 2019

Guided tour through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with Susanne Mierzwiak, Interim-Director (Bonner Kunstverein)
September 5, 2019

Guided tours through the exhibition "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf" with the team of the Kunstverein in Dusseldorf
September 1, 2019

Tectonic Mnemonic (Kölnischer Kunstverein)
September 1, 2019

Tectonic Mnemonic
August 31, 2019

Naked Self (Transitioning) (21 Months On Hormone Replacement Therapy)
August 31, 2019

Parallel Lines
August 31, 2019

Opening: "Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf"
August 31, 2019

Opening: Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
August 31, 2019

Legal Gender
August 10, 2019

Artist Talk: Benoît Platéus and Devrim Bayar, curator at WIELS, Brussels
June 28, 2019

Exhibition Tour: Benoît Platéus (German language)
June 8, 2019

Exhibition Tour: Peter Mertes Stipendium 2018 (German language)
May 23 – 22, 2019

Members Meeting 2019
May 19, 2019

Exhibition Tour with the artists Robert Brambora and Stefani Glauber (in German Language)
May 18, 2019

Open Studios
May 3, 2019

Opening: Peter Mertes Stipendium 2018
February 2, 2019

Artist Talk: Guan Xiao
February 1, 2019

Opening: Guan Xiao

2018

November 25, 2018

Jahresgaben Weekend
November 24, 2018

Jahresgaben-Weekend
November 23, 2018

Eröffnung: Jahresgaben 2018
November 22, 2018

Jahresgaben Dinner
November 16, 2018

"Körper_Bilder" - Tanzcompagnie ENSEMPLE zu Gast im Bonner Kunstverein
November 10, 2018

Maler*innen: Panel Discussion
October 20, 2018

Exhibition Tour (German language)
October 20, 2018

Führung: Ella Kruglyanskaya (in deutscher Sprache)
September 15, 2018

Artist Talk (English language)
September 15, 2018

Künstlergespräch: Ella Kruglyanskaya (in englischer Sprache)
September 14, 2018

Opening: Ella Kruglyanskaya
September 2, 2018

Exhibition Tour with artists Tobias Hohn and Stanton Taylor (in German)
September 1, 2018

Studio visit with Louisa Clement und Bettina Marx
August 2, 2018

Exhibition tour: Peter Mertes Stipendium 2017 (in English)
July 7, 2018

Reading by Matti Rouse from Sarah Kürtens Book: The Devil finds work in idle hands (published on the occasion of PMS 2017)
July 6, 2018

Opening: Peter Mertes Stipendium 2017
June 23, 2018

Publication launch and talk with Oliver Osborne (in English)
June 9, 2018

Exhibition tour: Oliver Osborne and Hayley Tompkins (in German)
May 24, 2018

Exhibition tour: Oliver Osborne and Hayley Tompkins (in English)
May 15, 2018

Mitgliederversammlung
May 13, 2018

Macke-Viertel Fest 2018
May 11, 2018

Supporting Member's Trip to Berlin
April 20, 2018

Opening: Oliver Osborne, Hayley Tompkins
April 19, 2018

Bonner Kunstverein at Art Cologne
March 16, 2018

Guided tour: Guan Xiao (in German language)
March 10, 2018

Member's Trip to Cologne
March 8, 2018

Curator's Tour
February 17, 2018

Guided Tour
February 3, 2018

Artist Talk Fredrik Værslev
February 2, 2018

Opening: Fredrik Værslev: TAN LINES
January 20, 2018

Performance Jennifer Tee

2017

December 9, 2017

Artist Talk: Jennifer Tee
December 5, 2017

The Art of Yoga - Yoga Party and Fundraiser for the Kunstverein
December 1, 2017

Opening: Jennifer Tee: Let it Come Down
November 30, 2017

25th anniversary of the Atelierhaus & Annual Jahresgaben Dinner
November 15, 2017

Catalogue-Launch of the exhibition "The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed"
November 15, 2017

Symposium: The Policeman’s Beard - Creativity and A.I.
October 23, 2017

Kulturrucksack 2017: Bunt ist die Welt viel schöner als nur schwarz-weiß
October 19, 2017

Teacher's Night
September 21, 2017

Opening: The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed: Kunst im Zeitalter künstlicher Intelligenz
September 16, 2017

SaisonstART 2017 - THOMAS BAYRLE, BERNHARD SCHREINER: WARP WEFT
July 29, 2017

Artist Talk Katharina Monka
July 15, 2017

Artist Talk Israel Aten
July 6, 2017

Opening: Peter Mertes Stipendium 2016: Israel Aten, Katharina Monka
May 17, 2017

Members' meeting
May 13, 2017

August-Macke-Viertel-Fest
May 4, 2017

Teacher's Evening
April 26, 2017

Art Cologne
April 23, 2017

Exhibition opening Nick Relph
April 1, 2017

Führung durch die Ausstellung
March 23, 2017

Performance: Nora Turato
March 21, 2017

Special events marking the 30 year anniversary of the Artothek
February 1, 2017

Teachers' Evening
January 29, 2017

Kunst ist sowieso immer ein Wagnis - Matinee for Margarethe Jochimsen
January 28, 2017

Artist Talk: Amanda Ross-Ho in conversation with Michelle Cotton
January 27, 2017

Opening Amanda Ross-Ho

2016

December 11, 2016

Benefit Concert
December 10, 2016

Piano evening with Susanne Kessel
November 30, 2016

Panel Discussion
October 29, 2016

Kulturrucksack Fest 2016
October 19, 2016

Exhibition Talk: Wim T. Schippers in conversation with Margriet Schavemaker
October 12, 2016

Exhibition Talk: Rein Wolfs on Wim T. Schippers
October 10, 2016

Kulturrucksack
September 10, 2016

Exhibition Talk: Harry Ruhé & Michelle Cotton on Wim T. Schippers
September 1, 2016

Artothek: Opening Wim's Choice
September 1, 2016

Opening Wim T. Schippers: A Retrospective
August 4, 2016

Artist Talk: Phung-Tien Phan, Peter Mertes Stipendium 2015
July 1, 2016

Opening Peter Mertes Stipendium 2015
June 4, 2016

Artist Talk: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd in conversation with Claus Richter
June 4, 2016

Performance: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Camshafts in the Rain
May 26, 2016

New Talents Biennale Cologne presents: A Fire in My Brain that Separates Us (2015)
May 7, 2016

Macke-Viertel-Fest and Performance
April 23, 2016

Exhibition Tour
April 16, 2016

Performance: Camshafts in the Rain
April 11, 2016

Exhibition Opening & Performance: Camshafts in the Rain
January 16, 2016

Exhibition Talk
January 10, 2016

SPARDA-Tag
January 7, 2016

Artothek.EVENT

2015

November 13, 2015

Opening