The yearly series of chamber music concerts „Kammerkonzerte Darmstadt“ exists since 1971 and is an inherent part of the musical life in Darmstadt. The interested audience has the opportunity to listen to excellent soloists and ensembles from all over the world, with old and new repertoire.

The exhibition "PAUL MEISSNER. An architect between tradition and departure" in the Kunstforum of the TU Darmstadt puts the Darmstadt university teacher and builder of the former "Landeshypothekenbank" for the first time in full focus. Paul Meißner (1868-1939) belongs to the generation of builders between late historicism and early modernism who has to be rediscovered.

The guest-curated exhibition is part of the centennial program 100 Years of Bauhaus and deals with the question how the Bauhaus’ innovations still contribute to the development of photography’s visual language today. Furthermore, parts of the Werkbund exhibition “Film and Photo,” which was on view in 1929/30, are being reconstructed physically and virtually.

With the title "Before Art - Pictures of an Exhibition", Galerie Netuschil Darmstadt will be showing the work of eleven contemporary artists, who have chossen the intimate relationship of the obersver with art as an artistic theme! For the first time an exhibition deals with the imaginary space between image and observer which the artists have never designed in a descriptive and narrative way. Intellectual, sensory-aesthetic dependency, interaction and existential memory arise through intensive art intuition. The world is experiencing an explosion of images and reflections which flood our eyes and brains in multi-layered planes.

The Hessian State Museum Darmstadt presents ist new video, works by international artists. The new program will be presented in the Gallery of Art after 1945. It pursues an interdisciplinary approach that has shaped the history of the museum since its inception.

The Bauhaus student Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900 to 1990) is considered one of the most famous pioneers of German industrial design. He designed clear, expedient, beautiful forms: his home, kitchen and table utensils, cutlery, porcelain dishes, glasses, vases are characteristic examples of contemporary form of the twenties to sixties in the most important museums in the world and enjoy great appreciation as role models. Some of his designs are produced as classics to this day.

The smell of ginger bread and mulled wine, handicraft and an festive atmosphere put you in the mood for Christmas when strolling around Darmstadt's Christmas Market. Tuesdays and Wednesdays offer special programmme for children with music and interactive quiz. The school choir "Schulspatzen" traditionally performs on Tuesdays. Special about Darmstadt's Christmas Market are the stalls of Darmstadt's many twin cities. Handicraft e.g from Liepaja (Latvia) or culinary specialities like Hungarian Lángos or wine and cheese from Swiss Saanen are awaited eagerly by Darmstädter and visitors every year.

Late-Night-Shopping "Fire & Ice" in Darmstadt's city centre. Enjoy open shops until 10 pm and lots of walking acts and fire shows. The Christmas Market is open until 11 pm.

The Institut Mathildehöhe Darmstadt will show a solo exhibition of the artist and Wilhelm Loth Prize winner Olaf Nicolai at the Artists‘ Colony Museum. Olaf Nicolai is internationally considered as one of the outstanding German artists who works with a variety of media. At the Mathildenhöhe, the artist will present work in various media, which interact with the historical site and challenge our views of the everday world.

Throughout 10 days in January, "dazz - Jazz Winter Darmstadt" celebrates the vibrant music scene in our city. More than 15 venues present jazz concerts and improvising art performances in all kinds of cultural settings.

SUPER! is a group exhibition featuring five young female painters, who share not only the passion for their medium, but also a common generational background.

In spring 2020, the Kunstforum of the TU Darmstadt will continue the exhibition series RADAR with young artists of renowned art colleges.

Joseph Beuys is the man with the hat, the felt and the fat corner. As a pioneer of a politically, socially committed and environmentally conscious art, he is today more up-to-date as a visionary. Many see in him a shaman or a charismatic showmaster, others a charlatan, a magician and mystic. Provocative, idealistic, always with catchy slogans, Beuys merges life and art. In his claim Beuys was universal and combined art, science and spirituality.

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Darmstadt artist Helmut Lortz (1920-2007), the Kunst Archiv is showing early drawings from its own collection. Helmut Lortz is one of the outstanding Darmstadt artists of the 20th century. As a painter, graphic artist, photographer, book designer, illustrator, university teacher, emblematic artist and poster artist, he combined immense creativity with exuberant genius.

"Mobility Fair Darmstadt" - with Sunday shopping

This weekend there is a varied programme for the whole family in the city centre. Companies and organisations around the topic of mobility inform and present their latest products. The shops of the city centre are open on Sunday from 1 to 6 pm.

Datterichs weekly market - From April to October every first Saturday of the month Darmstadt's weekly market on the market square offers a special programme with music, activities for children, seasonal food tastings and much more.

The MUSEUM Jagdschloss Kranichstein uses this exhibition to look at its collection from unusual angles, thereby linking the past and the future. Not only the taste preferences of the landgraves, curators and museum visitors are addressed. In addition to signs of wear and contemporary repairs, restorative practices of bygone times and the influences that accelerate aging are shown. The focus is always on the question: to what extent can the traces of time be preserved and how will we deal with the collection in the future? And last but not least: when do we restore, conserve or repair?

Helmut Lortz (1920-2007) is widely known in the region as an artist of erotically cheerful, floral and landscape paintings and designer of the Heinerfest posters. Less well known is his unique work as a commercial artist, with which he set standards worldwide and made a name of himself internationally as a graphic designer. After all, Helmut Lortz was the first German member of the "Alliance graphique internationale" in 1954, a globally networked group of leading graphic designers of commercial art.

The international festival is meanwhile named as one of most important German photography events. It places relevant themes and cultivates an interdisciplinary discourse in photography. For a whole weekend, numerous activities throw a light on the focus topic from different perspectives: with photo exhibitions, a symposium, discussions and the Merck-Prize awards ceremony.

In 2020, for the third time, the Kunstforum of the TU Darmstadt will be showing the "Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie". The eleventh edition of the festival is dedicated to the subject of "Quirky escape - humor in photography". It is about works whose distanced or displaced perspective gives us new perspectives and insights - and casually, evidently or subtly develop their own sense of humour.

The exhibition COHABITATION, conceived by Ralph Goertz, combines three photographic positions from the 1970s and 1980s by Joachim Brohm, Ute Mahler and John Myers. As different as the artistic point of views may seem at first sight, they complement each other in their individual view of social and private structures and habits. The exhibition is part of the Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie (DTdF) 2020.

In his painting, Cristof Yvoré (1967 - 2013) uses reminiscent images in which a recognisable everyday is reduced to its simplest form of expression. A spot of light on the wall of a room, the folds on the bottom of a drawn curtain, a table with a vase on it, empty or filled with flowers of all shapes and colours. These quiet still lifes, which Yvoré consistently paints for many years and for which he refuses to provide a theoretical background, appear isolated from any form of contemporary influence.

The International Museum Day is proclaimed annually by the International Council of Museums ICOM and will take place in 2020 for the 43rd time. The aim of the Day of Action is to draw attention to the thematic variety of the more than 6,500 museums in Germany and the museums worldwide. Each year, the Day of Action is under a changing motto, proclaimed by the International Council of Museums ICOM, highlighting the different focuses of museum work, picking up current topics and referring to the thematic diversity of our rich museum landscape.

Shuttle services every hour with historic trains hauled by historic steam, diesel and electric locos as well as additional historic tramway shuttle from Darmstadt main station to the railway museum. Exhibition and extensive programm of railway history and technology in the museum, also attractive for children.

Schlossgrabenfest - Darmstadt's city centre turns into an unique festival scenery for Hessen's biggest music festival. On four stages around the residential palace, more than 100 live acts from almost all musical genres of rock&pop, alternative, hip hop, cover and singer&songwriter to slam-poetry perform on foer stages. Big and international bands have their performances as well as local artists and new discoveries.

On 12. Juni, Darmstadt's city centre is once again "electrified": the late-night shopping "Darmstadt unter Strom" offers fascinating walk-acts, musicians and other energetic actions which turn night into day. An evening full of enterteinment, where you can shop until 10 pm and enjoy a pleasent and relaxed evening.

Energy, affordable housing, local public transport, cultural offers and disposal or a maximum care hospital. The companies of the Darmstädter Stadtwirtschaft offer the citizens daily high-quality services of general interest. How comprehensive and versatile this offer is, the companies show at the day of the city economy. Under the motto "Darmstadt in the heart" and accompanied by an attractive programme, the companies will present themselves to the citizens on 20.06.2020 in Darmstadt's city centre.

The collection of the Kunst Archiv lives fn generous donations. With the acquisition of large parts of the estate of Lore Reinheimer, works by Eberhard Schlotter, Helmut Lander, Fritz Vahle, Helmut Lortz and Bernd Krimmel became part ot the inventory of the Kunst Archiv. And with the gift of Ruth Frohnmayer works by Thomas Duttenhoefer, Pierre Kröger and Fritz Schwarzbeck. Karin Dietz donated monochrome paintings by Bruno Erdmann to the Kunst Archiv. With the exhibition, the Kunst Archiv thanks the three collectors.

For the jubilee year, the museum invites the Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno, who is known to an international audience with his mostly room-filling, three-dimensional space capsules. His installations show living concepts and are at the same time a symbol of interaction and social networking. At the Venice Biennale in 2009, he explored alternative life strategies under the title "Galaxies Forming Along Filaments, Like Droplets Along the Strands of a Spider's Web," with a spatial installation of crystal PVC sculptures and elastic ropes.

Celebrating the 70th Heinerfest! It´s a fair for the whole family: The Heinerfest in Darmstadt, which is celebrated in the city centre all around the residential palace of Darmstadt. 700.000 visitors can have a good time at the Heinerfest - with its about 150 cultural events free of charge. Music-lovers can choose between eight open air-stages with a huge variety of music, dance performances, comedy or theatre. Courageous people may enjoy rides on the newest high-tech merry-go-rounds or roller-coasters. To someone who prefers a less exciting attraction a trip on the ferris wheel offers a beautiful view of the whole city. Cosmopolitan find a meeting place with an international atmosphere at the "Friedensplatz" opposite the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt.

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt, the exhibition »Rembrandt Competition. A Princely Contest "gives an insight into the beginnings of the Darmstadt collection.

Rembrandt embodies the Golden Age of Baroque in Dutch art like no other. Like a century before Albrecht Dürer put woodcut and engraving on the same level, Rembrandt placed the etching artistically on a par with his painting.

International summer academy, discourse platform and music festival: for over 70 years, the Darmstadt Summer Courses have been one of the world’s most important „hot spots“ and catalysts for current and experimental music. Every two years in the summer, all day long, for two weeks.

Places in Darmstadt and its surroundings which are significant in art history become atmospheric performance venues. The events mostly take place under the open sky. Artists from whole europe offer a colourful mixture of different art forms - music from pop to classic, theatre, dance and literature.

Darmstadt's squares become the stage! For the 27th time, the Just for Fun Street Theatre Festival Darmstadt will present high-profile street theater from all over the world. The performances range from breathtaking artistry to subtle clownery. Exceptional characters and unrivaled playfulness of the artists are guaranteed. Thousands of fans make the festival an unforgettable highlight in Darmstadt's cultural life.

There is something for everyone: The series of events on the topic of industrial culture in the region provides a vivid and authentic experience for the general public - and for all ages. The "Days of Industrial Culture" are for all the inhabitants of the region and for guests who want to understand how the region works, what it does for industrial production, what the economic and cultural foundations look like - and what all this has to do with one's own everyday life.

Roundabout 90 craftsmen and artists present their work on the arts and crafts market and present a diversity of jewellery, pottery, wood work, art, textile design and much more. Numerous artists also demonstrate their craft.

Darmstadt has its own Christopher Street Day since 2011 and it's the largest event for and by LGBT people in Darmstadt. The CSD displays what everyone already knows: sexual and gender diversity are part of a city society and must be protected and supported. Anyone who is visiting, demonstrating, discussing and celebrating the CSD not only experiences a great day, but at the same time sends out a signal for a diverse and colourful urban society, for equal rights in all areas of life and against intolerance, homophobia and transphobia. The CSD Darmstadt is organised by the club vielbunt e.V.

Every first weekend in September the Wilhelminenstraße transforms into Darmstadt's wine festival. From Thursday (3.) to Sunday (6.) winemakers and food stalls from Darmstadt and the surrounding area invite you to taste, enjoy and relax. On Sunday, additionally the shops of Darmstadt's city are open from 1 to 6 pm.

For 20 years, Robert Preyer (1930-2014) belonged to Darmstadt's art scene, living in the "City of Arts" since 1958. From his inheritance, the Kunst Archiv received large parts of the prints, etchings, lithographs and mixed techniques. The sheets live through a breathing, colour-coordinated flatness that evokes space and silence. The exhibition is dedicated to Robert Preyer's 90th birthday.

Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859) visited numerous botanical gardens in Europe in preparation for his trip and dealt intensively with botany. Parallel to the current exhibition "American Heiner: A Mamoth making History", the graphic collection presents a colourful bouquet with around 60 plant pictures on paper from the 15th century to the present day.

The Darmstadt mammoth is American, a mastodon, and a sensation in paleontology history: in 1801, it was the first museum-assembled skeleton of an extinct large animal in the US and so significant that american president Thomas Jefferson considered the site a national affair and Alexander von Humboldt visited it during his trip to the United States. Around 1850, the skeleton came via a number of detours to Darmstadt. For more than one hundred and fifty years it has been a Darmstädter or, as one says here, a true Heiner. The exhibition "American Heiner" traces the history of this world-famous fossil elephant skeleton, which, according to its discoverer, is also called "Peale's Mastodon".