The Bonner Kunstverein is delighted to present this years Jahresgaben with works by a select group of renowned regional and international artists:

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 present 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

Join us for a guided tour through the 2025 Jahresgaben presentation with Viktor Neumann on Sunday, December 14, at 2 pm.