Museum of Art Stuttgart (Kunstmuseum Stuttgart)

In March 2005, the Stuttgart Museum of Art opened in a spectacular new building on the small Schlossplatz in the city centre. With its widely visible glass block and two exhibition floors, fitted into a system of unused tunnels, the museum covers 5,000 square meters of display space. In addition to two to three major special exhibitions each year, highlights of the city's art collection are featured here.

The museum is at the core of the urban renewal of a stone slab built over an interchange on the edge of Schlossplatz and completed in 1968. The new public space was created using several dimensional changes. high to create a transition from the new Kleiner Schlossplatz to the Königstrasse - with the outside steps serving as a place to walk around. A three-tiered stone block for a traveling exhibition encased in a block of partially printed white glass with sides 30 meters long.

Transparency and usability are an integral part of the design of the cube, which serves as a museum display case. The rooftop with glass restaurant and event room offers panoramic city views. A generous sized staircase leads from the entrance area to the interior of the rock mass and a long circulation route takes one to the introspective studios located below the new Kleiner Schlossplatz on two overlapping floors created out in old traffic tunnels that are no longer needed. These two exhibition levels are directly connected by voids and galleries and provide an exceptionally high presentation space. A strip of glass fitted into the plaza above the gallery rooms reveals the hidden presence of underground art. At night, the band is artificially lit from below, turning it into a poetic urban icon.

The presentation of the collection shows the museum's acquisitions and perpetual loans from private collectors who have acquired for the art museum in recent years, as well as rarely or never exhibiting objects. works from an extensive collection of more than 15,000 works. Currently, ia Works by artists such as Otto Dix, Willi Baumeister, Fritz Winter, Dieter Roth, Wolfgang Laib, Ben Willikens, Joseph Kosuth, Michel Majerus and Josephine Meckseper are on display. Furthermore, a central thematic block, which spans several rooms, has been devoted to the development of non-performance painting since the 1950s with artists of Informel, Concrete Art and abstraction in general.

Everyone is welcome at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. In the heart of the city, the house with exhibitions and collections of contemporary and modern art with regional and international positions occupies a prominent place in the museum landscape of the region and across the country. Virtue. Based on the maxim “Because art affects us all”, the focus is on questions about the social relevance of art.

Address: Kleiner Schloßplatz 1, 70173 Stuttgart

Opening hours: - Tuesday - Sunday: 10:00 - 18:00

- Friday: 10:00 - 21:00 / Monday: closed

Entrance ticket: 11€