Regular Formats
Marta Philharmonic
A matinee featuring music and art at Marta, in cooperation with the Northwest German Philharmonic: Following a special concert experience with the NWD musicians, visitors can explore the current exhibition with Marta art speakers.
Marta Philharmonic
A matinee featuring music and art at Marta, in cooperation with the Northwest German Philharmonic: Following a special concert experience with the NWD musicians, visitors can explore the current exhibition with Marta art speakers.
Under the title “Between Fugue and Tango – a musical expedition with artHolz”, the ensemble of four clarinetists will perform selected works for the audience.
Performing are the NWD clarinetists:
Max Schweiger, Hye-Jin Kim, Andrea Dully, and Johannes Hofmann
Ticket
€21, reduced €10, €15 for members of the Friends of Marta Herford and the NWD (incl. concert, exhibition admission)
Advance sales from mid-October
Marta Herford Museum Box Office
or office of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Stiftbergstr. 2, 32049 Herford, Tel.: 05221.98 380
Information
Seating is unreserved for ticket purchases. Remaining tickets (if available) can be paid for at the concert box office at Marta Forum from 11 AM on the day of the event (cash payment requested).
The event ticket allows access to the exhibitions in the Gehry Galleries and the Lippold Gallery (1st floor) on this day.
The reduced ticket is valid upon presentation of ID for persons in education (up to 27 years old), Federal Volunteer Service participants (or comparable volunteer services), job seekers, or people with disabilities (from GdB 50).
Marta Philharmonic
A matinee featuring music and art at Marta, in cooperation with the Northwest German Philharmonic: Following a special concert experience with the NWD musicians, visitors can explore the current exhibition with Marta art speakers.
Elena Ilinskaya (violin) and Ruschana Muborakschoeva (piano) play selected works by Gabriel Fauré, Erwin Schulhoff, Zarrina Mirshakar and Peter Tchaikovsky.
Contributors:
Elena Ilinskaya, violin
Ruschana Muborakschoeva, piano
Ticket
€21, reduced €10, €15 for members of the Friends of Marta Herford and the NWD (incl. concert, exhibition admission)
Advance sale from March
Marta Herford museum ticket office
or office of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Stiftbergstr. 2, 32049 Herford, Tel.: 05221.98 380
Information
Seating is unreserved for ticket purchases. Remaining tickets (if available) can be paid for at the concert box office at Marta Forum from 11 AM on the day of the event (cash payment requested).
The event ticket allows access to the exhibitions in the Gehry Galleries and the Lippold Gallery (1st floor) on this day.
The reduced ticket is valid upon presentation of ID for persons in education (up to 27 years old), Federal Volunteer Service participants (or comparable volunteer services), job seekers, or people with disabilities (from GdB 50).
City + Vision
Artist talk: ars viva 2026 – Ryan Cullen, Nazanin Noori, Prateek Vijan
To mark the opening of the exhibition ars viva 2026 – Ryan Cullen, Nazanin Noori, Prateek Vijan, the exhibiting artists will discuss their artistic practice and the works in the exhibition in conversation with Friederike Korfmacher (Assistant Curator, Marta Herford). In addition, Min-young Jeon (Head of Curatorial Department, Visual Arts, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft) will speak about the work of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft and the ars viva prize.
The exhibition presents the three ars viva prizewinners of 2026, focusing on a young generation of artists. The contributions developed and selected specifically for the show comment in different and striking ways on cultural, social, and political interconnections.
Ryan Cullen (*1992 in Boston, USA) addresses political and ideological structures in his paintings and sculptures. In an interplay of surfaces, images, and material presence, the value system of a capitalist present unfolds. Nazanin Noori (*1991 in Wiesbaden, Germany) explores the connection between spatial architecture, sculpture, and sound, creating multisensory narratives in which intercultural poetic and musical sources converge. Prateek Vijan (*1991 in New Delhi, India) examines who is granted access to which systems, and in what way. With his installations, he confronts visitors with situations of exclusion and barriers, making them spatially tangible.
The Kulturkreis has awarded the ars viva prize for visual arts annually since 1953 to outstanding young artists under 35 living in Germany.
Ticket
Included in the exhibition admission
Information
In German and English
In the exhibition space in the Lippold Gallery, first floor
Opening of the exhibition “ars viva 2026 – Ryan Cullen, Nazanin Noori, Prateek Vijan”
We warmly invite you and your friends to the opening of the exhibition ars viva 2026 – Ryan Cullen, Nazanin Noori, Prateek Vijan in the Lippold Gallery (1st floor).
The opening speeches will take place at 7:00 PM in the Marta Forum.
You will be welcomed by Kathleen Rahn, Director of Marta Herford, Dr. Daniel Teubner, First Deputy Mayor of the City of Herford, and Ulrich Sauerwein, Chairman of the Visual Arts Committee, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft. Friederike Korfmacher, Assistant Curator at Marta Herford, will then give an introduction to the exhibition.
The Marta art speakers will be present in the exhibitions from 6 – 9 PM to answer your questions or discuss the art.
The Marta Café is open and offers a delicious selection of food and drinks.
We look forward to your visit!
Admission
Admission is free from 6 to 10 PM!
The exhibition is open from 6 PM.
Children’s vernissage “Search for Clues”
Children’s Vernissage Search for clues
Atelier workshop for children aged 6 to 12
followed by a short guided tour for the whole family
Children will create small artworks together in the Marta atelier using natural materials. Their creations will be presented afterwards in a small exhibition.
The event concludes with a short family tour through the exhibition Cartographies of Growth – Katinka Bock in Dialogue with Lois Weinberger, inviting everyone to explore together. The young artists’ works will remain on display in the Marta atelier until the end of February.
Registration at bildung@marta-herford.de
Participation is free.
Opening of the exhibition “Cartographies of Growth – Katinka Bock in Dialogue with Lois Weinberger”
We warmly invite you and your friends to the opening of the exhibition Cartographies of Growth – Katinka Bock in Dialogue with Lois Weinberger in the Gehry Galleries.
The opening speeches will take place at 7:00 PM in the Marta Forum.
The Marta art speakers will be present in the exhibitions from 6 – 9 PM to answer your questions or discuss the art.
The Marta Café is open and offers a delicious selection of food and drinks.
We look forward to your visit!
Admission
Admission is free from 6 to 10 PM!
The exhibition is open from 6 PM.
Final views of “Cartographies of Growth” with Director Kathleen Rahn
For the finissage of the exhibition Cartographies of Growth – Katinka Bock in Dialogue with Lois Weinberger, Marta Director Kathleen Rahn will offer a personal look at the closing exhibition. Participants will learn background information about the show, as well as individual works and themes, during this tour.
Ticket
€3.50 plus museum admission
Available at the museum ticket desk or online
“Lois Weinberger – A Pioneer of Ecology in Art” – Lecture by Prof. Dr. Robert Fleck
The art critic, curator, and author Prof. Dr. Robert Fleck discusses the Austrian artist Lois Weinberger (1947–2020) and his multifaceted work in his illustrated lecture. The event is held in conjunction with the Marta exhibition Cartographies of Growth – Katinka Bock in Dialogue with Lois Weinberger.
Robert Fleck (*1957 in Vienna, has lived in France since 1980) is a freelance art critic, exhibition organizer, and publicist. He studied at the Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck, and Paris (with Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault). From 2004 to 2008, he was director of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, and from 2009 to 2012, he was artistic director of the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn; from 2012 to 2015, he was Professor of Art and the Public Sphere at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was Vice-Rector from 2013 to 2023. Fleck is the author of 40 books on art, politics, and history. His most recent publications include: Kunst und Ökologie, Vienna 2023; Mack – en face, Munich/Chicago 2025. More information: https://robert-fleck.com/
Information
Event in the Marta Forum
Ticket
included in the exhibition admission or 5 euros / reduced 3 euros
Available at the museum ticket desk or online
Artist talk with Katinka Bock and Marta-director Kathleen Rahn
As part of the exhibition Cartographies of Growth – Katinka Bock in Dialogue with Lois Weinberger, we welcome Paris-based artist Katinka Bock (*1976 in Frankfurt) for an artist talk at Marta Herford. The conversation with director Kathleen Rahn will provide deeper insights into the Bock’s art practice. In addition, you will learn about the special background to this exhibition.
Information
The conversation will take place in the exhibition in the Gehry Galleries.
Ticket
Included in the exhibition admission
International Museum Day at Marta
As every year, Marta Herford will participate in International Museum Day with a special program for visitors of all ages. This worldwide event invites people to discover the diversity of museums. Visitors will receive free admission to the current exhibitions.
The Marta art speaker will be available in the exhibitions to answer questions and engage in conversation.
Accompanying the exhibition Cartographies of Growth – Katinka Bock in Dialogue with Lois Weinberger, the film Lois Weinberger – Ruderal Society (directed by Markus Heltschl, Austria 2025, 96 min.) will be shown several times in the Marta Forum.
Free admission
Last views “Ingrid Wiener” – with Director Kathleen Rahn
For the finissage of the exhibition Ingrid Wiener – Simply Make and Do, Marta Director Kathleen Rahn takes a personal look at the ending exhibition. Participants will learn background information about the artist and her work, as well as about individual exhibition themes.
Ticket
3.50 euros plus museum admission, no registration required
Interconnections: Lectures on the work of Ingrid Wiener with Thomas Brinkmann and Nils Röller
To conclude the exhibition Ingrid Wiener – Simply Making and Doing, there is an opportunity to delve into the contexts of Ingrid Wiener’s work. With Nils Röller and Thomas Brinkmann, two companions offer a multifaceted view of her work, bringing together the various media of expression, collaborations, and Wiener’s life practice.
4 PM: Thomas Brinkmann: The Wonderful and the Useful
In his lecture, The Wonderful and the Useful, musician and artist Thomas Brinkmann considers the relationships between weaving, computer science, politics, and music. The exchange and collaborations with Ingrid Wiener as well as Oswald Wiener come into play: from references in Wiener’s dream drawings, to punch card machines, to Brinkmann’s sonic processing of loom sounds. Brinkmann unfolds the network of relationships between these elements based on a mind map.
5 PM: Nils Röller: Art is when you do it anyway
Despite the criticism of mere copying and weaving.
Despite the time that weaving takes.
Despite the travels.
The lecture follows the title of Ingrid Wiener’s work Art is when you do it anyway and develops Wiener’s aesthetics of time design: how production time becomes a vehicle for radical present-day design, as in weaving.
About the exhibition Ingrid Wiener
Ingrid Wiener – Simply Making and Doing, her largest museum exhibition in Germany to date, shows the diverse work of the Austrian artist (*1946). Starting from her woven tapestries, to watercolor dream drawings, photographs and film, themes unfold from the view of the everyday, the cooking that accompanied her life, from confrontations with perception and technologies to the view into her own body. A correspondence between Ingrid Wiener and Nils Röller is also part of the exhibition and we encounter it again in his lecture.
About the speakers:
Thomas Brinkmann is a conceptual electronic musician and artist who lives in Berlin and the Eifel region. He studied Fine Arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (Oswald Wiener, Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, Jannis Kounellis). He also studied at the Academia delle Belle Arti in Perugia, which he left after 3 days.
Brinkmann participated in Documenta X (Hybrid Work Space) in 1997 and various other exhibitions and performances, including PS1 New York, Cité de la musique / Paris La Villette, Palazzo Grassi/ Venice, Tate Tanks / London. He also participated in the worst* Rarely Heard Music concert in Cologne. (*according to Wiener and with Ingrid Wiener)
He is known for his album Klick or his Variations – a series of performances in which he edits the endless grooves of vinyl LPs and uses them as sequencers, or plays records with two tonearms in displacement and slowed down.
Brinkmann has released more than 60 records and CDs of experimental and electronic music, including What You Hear (Is What You Hear) (2015), A Thousand Keys (2017) and Raupenbahn at Editions Mego / Vienna (2019). There are various written publications, including Non-Copyriot / Mille Plateaux.
Nils Röller lives in Zurich, where he is a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Planning a poem, a book in thought, leads to perceptions that something can become coherent. It can suddenly be added. This impulse develops a tension when the factors that interact when an impulse becomes a perception are reflected. This tension is one between philosophy and poetry, which Nils Röller explores in the books Roth der Grosse (Vienna: Klever, 2013), Bittermeer – Mare amoroso (Vienna: Klever, 2017) and Alpentram (Vienna: Klever: 2021). Backgrounds that motivate this are: the collaboration with artists and poets in the Journal für Kunst, Sex und Mathematik (online), the construction of the Vilém Flusser Archive and teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts. Current publications: Philosophia – Poetik der Wahrnehmung (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: frommann-holzboog, 2025), Fragmente des Kanzlers des Kaisers, Idiome 18 (2025), Reine Mittel – Pure Means (German-English), in: Federico Federici, ICONIC + LOG, New York: Calamari Archive, 2025. Website: https://www.romanform.ch/
Ticket + Info:
5 euros, 3 euros reduced
Tickets available at the museum box office or in the online shop
Event in the Marta Forum
City + Vision – Herford Architecture Talks 47
Since 2013, the Herford Architecture Talks have addressed ideas and visions of life in the city, as well as current issues in architecture and urban planning – an inspiring evening with renowned and opinionated personalities, not just for architects!
City + Vision – Herford Architecture Talks 47
with a keynote speech by Lisa Mentrup / Mentrup Architecture Office, Kahla
(More information will follow shortly.)
The subsequent panel discussion will be moderated by a representative of the local architecture scene.
This event series is made possible through cooperation with the Association of German Architects, BDA Ostwestfalen-Lippe.
Ticket
5 euros, reduced* 3 euros
*Reduced for people in education (18-27 years) and people with disabilities (from GdB 50), proof as well as a photo ID must be presented unsolicited at the entrance
Information
Advance sale online or at the museum box office (Tue to Sun 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wed to 8 p.m.)
Event in the Marta Forum
On Wednesday evenings, the exhibitions are open until 8 p.m.
Participatory Mathematics Museum “M hoch 3”
What does math have to do with Leo the Lion and art? – experience, touch, discover, and be amazed – in a playful and easy way! A change between interactive learning, experimentation, and discovery tours offers children an exciting, supportive, and productive learning and play atmosphere. By trying out and experimenting with the exhibits, the children independently solve small tasks related to math and art to save Leo the Lion.
No registration required, admission free, everyone is welcome.
All information about Marta HOCH 2 here.
City+Vision Archive
