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Current art exhibitions in Essen

Seenly brings together current and upcoming art exhibitions in Essen with curated event pages, venue context and visit information. This creates a citation-friendly overview of what you can see in Essen and nearby right now.

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The Seenly city page brings together approved art exhibitions, museums, galleries, kunstvereins and other exhibition venues in Essen. Instead of a general events calendar, it focuses on the currently relevant art inventory with direct event and source links.

Seenly currently connects 11 current and upcoming exhibitions with 3 mapped exhibition venues in Essen.

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Current exhibitions in Essen are aggregated here from Seenly’s approved public inventory. The page shows what is on view now, what ends soon, and which venues currently shape the city.

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Linie Fläche Raum. 100 Jahre

Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie. · Essen
Start Mar 13, 2026 Last day Until Aug 16, 2026
Teichstraße 9, 45127 Essen
In Essen, the gallery Frank Schlag & Cie. presents the exhibition Line Area Space. 100 Years. The title refers to an examination of basic artistic categor…
Photography

Wie man lebt - wo man lebt. Dokumentarfotografien von Brigitte Kraemer

Ruhr Museum · Essen
Start Jan 1, 2026 3 weeks left Until Aug 31, 2026
Gelsenkirchener Straße 181, 45309 Essen
The gallery exhibition shows documentary photographic works by Brigitte Kraemer. Her pictures focus on everyday life, living and social spaces in the Ruhr…
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ABENTEUER FARBE

Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie. · Essen
Start Mar 21, 2026 Until Sep 27, 2026
Teichstraße 9, 45127 Essen
ADENTEUER COLOUR can be seen from 21 March to 27 September 2026 at the Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie. in Essen. The exhibition presents selected paintings fr…
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SAÂDANE AFIF. Affiches / Plakate

Museum Folkwang · Essen
Start Mar 13, 2026 Until Oct 4, 2026
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
Approximately 80 screen-printed posters and a re-staging of Afif’s first exhibition at Museum Folkwang.
Contemporary art

Mia Sanchez. Musterschülerin

Museum Folkwang · Essen
Start May 22, 2026 Until Oct 18, 2026
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
Mia Sanchez. Model student can be seen at Museum Folkwang in Essen from 22 May to 18 October 2026. The exhibition in contemporary art focuses on an artist…
Photography

Gelb ist Geschichte! Fotografien von Alexander Lackmann

Ruhr Museum · Essen
Start Mar 30, 2026 Until Oct 25, 2026
Gelsenkirchener Straße 181, 45309 Essen
Alexander Lackmann’s photographic series Gelb ist Geschichte! addresses addiction, drug consumption rooms and social attributions. The presentation contin…
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Ich, Gustave Courbet. Maler und Rebell

Museum Folkwang · Essen
Start Jul 17, 2026 Until Nov 8, 2026
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
Museum Folkwang is dedicating an exhibition to Gustave Courbet, examining the painter as both an artistic and political figure. The show explores Courbet’…
Collection

NEUE WELTEN. Dialog der Künste

Museum Folkwang · Essen
Start Jun 21, 2019 Until Dec 30, 2026
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
A collection presentation across 29 rooms with changing dialogues between the arts.
History & culture

überLeben in der Eiszeit

Ruhr Museum · Essen
Start Jan 1, 2026 Until Jan 10, 2027
Gelsenkirchener Straße 181, 45309 Essen
The special exhibition of the Ruhr Museum asks how people, animals and plants survived in the ice age. Archaeological finds, natural history and cultural …
Media art

Herbert W. Franke / Gottfried Jäger

Museum Folkwang · Essen
Start Oct 16, 2026 Until Jan 10, 2027
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
In the Museum Folkwang in Essen, an exhibition on Herbert W. Franke and Gottfried Jäger will be shown from 16 October 2026 to 10 January 2027. It brings t…
History & culture

Unter Tage. Unter Zwang. NS-Zwangsarbeit im Ruhrbergbau

Ruhr Museum · Essen
Start Jan 27, 2026 Until Jan 26, 2027
Gelsenkirchener Straße 181, 45309 Essen
The special exhibition is devoted to Nazi forced labour in the Ruhr mining industry. It makes the conditions underground, the exploitation of forced labou…
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Venues and exhibition hosts

These venues shape the current art landscape in Essen. Seenly links their current exhibitions with the relevant profile and visit information.

Museum or gallery

Ruhr Museum

Essen · Ruhr Museum, 181, Gelsenkirchener Straße, Stoppenberg, Stadtbezirk VI, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 45309, Germany

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Map of exhibition venues

A live map of the current exhibition venues in Essen. It groups ongoing exhibitions by venue, not just by the current list view.

11 current exhibitions across 3 venues in Essen are represented on this map.

Museum Folkwang · 5 Ruhr Museum · 4 Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie. · 2