The Bonner Kunstverein is delighted to once again offer its members unique works and editions by a select group of renowned regional and international artists as its Jahresgaben 2025:

Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Yvo Cho, Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino, Cédric Eisenring, Elmgreen & Dragset, Valérie Favre, Heike Karin Föll, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Julian Göthe, Philipp Gufler, Wade Guyton, Lisa Herfeldt, Viktor Jeraj, Melike Kara, Katrin Mayer, Flo Kaserau, Murat Önen, Henrik Olesen, Karol Radziszewski, Aykan Safoğlu, Morgaine Schäfer, Hanna Schiller invited by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Jeremy Shaw, Mikołaj Sobczak, P. Staff and Wolfgang Tillmans, as well as works from our archive by Petrit Halilaj, Mona Hatoum, Mark Leckey, Helen Marten, and Takako Saito

This year, the Bonner Kunstverein celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Peter Mertes Scholarship, a unique initiative within the international art landscape. To mark this occasion, we are presenting a special edition of the Jahresgaben that includes numerous new works and editions created specifically for this anniversary by former Peter Mertes Scholarship recipients:

Sonja Alhäuser, Monika Baer, Matti Braun, Tobias Hohn & Stanton Taylor, Simon Lässig, Jonas Monka, Phung-Tien Phan, Frances Scholz, Gert and Uwe Tobias, and Christoph Westermeier

We would like to express our sincere thanks to all participating artists and everyone involved for their generous support.

The Jahresgaben presentation will be on view from November 30 to December 21, 2025. Guided tours with Viktor Neumann will take place on Sunday, November 30, and Sunday, December 14, each at 2 pm.

An overview of the current Jahresgaben can be found here (please scroll down to see the works for 2025).