Muenchen: Record Attendance and Digital Transformation at Haus der Kunst

München: Record Attendance and Digital Transformation at Haus der Kunst

Munich, March 21st, 2025

The transformation at Haus der #Kunst is in full swing. We are delighted that this also reflects in our visitor numbers, which are now available for 2024. Haus der Kunst aims to lead on exploring the digital transformation and its impact on the arts, and in engaging in dialogue with its audience through new exhibition formats. With these new formats, interconnection across projects, and a broad opening, Haus der #Kunst achieved a record attendance of 440.000 visitors in 2024, more than ever before.

The exhibition «Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956—1976« was the most successful exhibition in the museum's recent history, with over 150.000 visitors. Martino Gamper’s «Sitzung« in the Mittelhalle also attracted more than 270.000 visitors over its running time of 15 months. We are particularly thrilled about this successful opening as a social space for a broad, diverse audience. The wide appeal also reflects in the high percentage (25 Prozent) of young visitors under the age of 18. Altogether, 2024 was a year full of exciting exhibitions, new formats, and inspiring encounters.

Haus der Kunst is changing fast with the new transition under the direction of Andrea Lissoni. This success now continues with exhibitions dedicated to digitality, diving deep into these worlds: The fully AI driven exhibition «Voices« by Philippe Parreno is ever evolving, transmitting live data from the Spanish desert and engaging in dialogue with its visitors. The live exhibition «Echoes« explored the intersections of the digital and the body, with seven world premieres at the beginning of the year. And the recently opened exhibition «KI$$ KI$$« by Shu Lea #Cheang creates interactive landscapes that blur the boundaries between the real and digital world, reflecting on how the digital transformation is changing our lives.

We aim to continue these successes in 2025. As a global centre for contemporary arts, we draw new lines in art history by re appraising canons and stereotypes, working together closely with the artists. Our programme weaves exhibitions and projects into a story that evolves over time, with openness and accessibility always at the heart of our vision.

«Haus der Kunst strives to be an exciting place for exchange and encounter. We aspire to be an institution with a many voiced personality, a place where everyone can participate. We invite you to join us on this journey«, Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director.

Haus der Kunst is where the future happens

Haus der Kunst is changing fast. As a global centre for contemporary arts, we focus on working with living artists, drawing new lines in art history by re appraising canons and stereotypes. Based on a transdisciplinary, transnational, and transgenerational approach, the shaping vision behind our programme weaves projects into a story that evolves over time, creating a new context in which to understand our increasingly digitalised world. Haus der Kunst aims to lead on exploring the digital transformation and its impact on the arts. Its programme highlights visionary practices of artists from the recent past, linking them to experimentations of the present. Dialogue with the public is established through interconnections across projects and new forms of display that address the body and all senses.

«Haus der Kunst strives to be a safe hub for exchange and encounter. We aspire to be an institution with a many voiced personality, to inspire, stimulate, and serve as a porous, transparent interface with our public mission visible both online and on site, inside and out«, Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director. More …