Kunstverein Friedrichshafen is pleased to present its 2025 annual program!
In 2025, the concept of place, which framed the Kunstverein’s overarching thematic program in 2024, will be expanded and explored from a different perspective—as a metaphorical framework. Instead of singular perspectives by individual artistic positions, the year will focus on exhibitions, engagements, and reflections shaped by collectives, groups, and duos. Local collaboration will also be made visible within the exhibition space itself: collective authorship will explore forms of working together.

Surrounded by water and mountains, the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen fulfills a unique poetic role: it is an exhibition space situated on Lake Constance, a region shared by four countries that offers a variety of perspectives.

In 2024 and 2025, the Kunstverein’s exhibitions focus on the concept of place. This theme encompasses not only physical location, but also the idea of a communal space, a place of refuge, or a realm of imagination. The Kunstverein Friedrichshafen sees itself as a site for exchange, reflection, and open dialogue; a space of possibility, not only for artistic processes but also for shared thinking, encounters, and active participation.

The 2024 exhibition program presented artists and artist duos whose creative processes posed questions about place: How do we use places individually and collectively? How important and valuable is a closer look at the everyday world around us and at how we want to live?

The featured artists engaged in site-specific and artistic research: collaborating, shifting perspectives, documenting, and ultimately creating new in-between spaces within the Kunstverein. These experiments often bridged opposites, briefly transforming the Kunstverein into a place of the future. In 2025, the concept of “place” will be expanded and explored further—no longer through singular artistic voices, but through collectives, groups, and duos. Collaboration will become visible in the exhibition space itself. Collective authorship will investigate new forms of cooperation. Additionally, the focus will broaden to include the expansion of the city of Friedrichshafen and its connection to nearby and distant locations. The exhibitions are planned to extend beyond the Kunstverein’s walls, resonating across rural and urban spaces.

Artists presented in 2024 and 2025: Angyvir Padilla, Tamara Goehringer, Xiaopeng Zhou, Super Vivaz, Hoël Duret, Marta Dyachenko, Ben Saint-Maxent, Sophie T. Lvoff, Peles Duo, PARA, and the collective DORF.