Fluxus in 2025: Exhibitions and events

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Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMC+)

Alison Knowles: A Retrospective

November 8, 2025—March 15, 2026

Alison Knowles: A Retrospective is the first comprehensive exhibition of this pioneering American artist, who has produced a significant body of work over the past sixty years. The only female member of the original Fluxus movement, a nebula of avant-garde experimental artists formed in 1962, Alison Knowles first became known for her event scores activated at Fluxus festivals, later published in  by Alison Knowles by Something Else Press in 1965. While Knowles’s events have been presented in major museums (MoMA, Guggenheim, Tate, etc.), she has never had a major exhibition examining the full depth of her output. The exhibition at MAMC+ is a next stop of this touring show, after Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Museum Wiesbaden.

Germany

Museum Schloss Moyland

„Das ist ja überhaupt alles sehr beweglich:“ Joseph Beuys & Fluxus

November 23, 2025—February 15, 2026

The exhibition examines Joseph Beuys within the collaborative context of the Fluxus movement, demonstrating how the movement’s expanded concept of art—which dissolved conventional academic forms and prioritised recipients as free, creative individuals—formed the foundation for Beuys’ own “erweiterter Kunstbegriff” (expanded concept of art) and his transformation from traditional sculptor to interdisciplinary artist between 1962-1964. Through archival materials, works, photographs, and audio-video recordings, the show highlights Beuys’ collaborations with Fluxus artists like George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, and Danish colleagues including Arthur Køpcke and Henning Christiansen, revealing how he developed his unique strategy of grasping, appropriating, cooperating, and transforming Fluxus content.

The Archiv der Avantgarden — Egidio Marzona (ADA)

Fluxurious! Art and Anti-Art from the 1960s to the 1990s

November 8, 2025—March 8, 2026

The presentation brings together works by international artists such as George Brecht, Joseph Beuys, Charlotte Moorman, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Takako Saito and Wolf Vostell. With their experiments and performances, they dissolved the boundaries between art and everyday life – not only challenging the art world, but also changing itprofoundly. The exhibition features numerous multiples and so-called Fluxkits, which consist of everyday objects and works on paper. The show is complemented by graphic works and extensive archive material. All exhibits belong to the ADA’s collection. 

Kunstsmuseum Bohum

HOW WE ME(E)T

November 8, 2025—May 31, 2026

With works by Alison Kowles, Maurioco Kagel, Alan Kaprow and others.

The Kunstmuseum Bochum is presenting the estate of Fluxus artworks from gallerist Inge Baecker as a survey exhibition on both floors of the museum, with the ground floor conceived as a hybrid exhibition and program space. During this exhibition period, artists Ei Arakawa-Nash and Yuko Mohri will be on site several times to familiarize themselves with the Fluxus collection from the estate and to develop the second part of the exhibition, which will open on the first floor in February 2026.

Neue Nationalgalerie

YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER

April 11, 2025 – Sepetember 9, 2025

The exhibition invites viewers to move beyond passive observation and engage in active participation – both physically and mentally. Often beginning on an individual level, these actions evolve into broader collective efforts, demonstrating the transformative power of communal actions in working toward peace and imagining a different world. The works invite collective actions of repair, healing, cleaning, mending, wishing, imagining, and dreaming.

mumok

Mapping the 60s: Art Histories from the mumok Collections

July 5, 2024 – May 10, 2026

The exhibition is based on the thought that substantial sociopolitical movements of the twenty-first century have their roots in the 1960s. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, for example, have built on the anti-racist and feminist upheavals of yesteryear—as have current debates on war, mass media and mechanization, consumerism, and capitalism. The developments of the 1960s in general and the events around 1968 in particular are not only paradigmatic in social and political terms, but also essential with regard to cultural policies. In 1962, the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts was founded in Vienna, a precursor of mumok, whose collection focuses on Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Vienna Actionism, performance art, Conceptual Art, and Minimal Art—artistic movements of the 1960s. Even when we ask ourselves how to address art history today and make it productive, we encounter discussions that go back to that decade.

Museion / Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano

You and the Night and the Music: Francesco Conz Editions from the Museion Collection

April 11, 2025 – January 31, 2026

Museion continues to research and explore its own collection by presenting You and the Night and the Music – Francesco Conz Editions from the Museion Collection, an exhibition dedicated to art editions, especially those of Francesco Conz, one of the key figures in the promotion and artistic production of international neo-avant-gardes in Italy.

Curated by Frida Carazzato with the collaboration of the Fondazione Bonotto, through the curatorial advice of Patrizio Peterlini, the exhibition uses the museum collection to explore the cultural legacy and artistic vision of Francesco Conz. This important figure, who worked with Fluxus, Visual Poetry and Concrete Poetry artists, played a decisive role in disseminating these artistic practices in Italy and abroad.

Kunsthal Aarhus

Ay-O Rainbow Landscape #2025

January 10, 2025 – January 16, 2026

The park surrounding Kunsthal Aarhus has been the setting for an annual outdoor exhibition of art flags – A Flag is a Piece of Fabric since 2017. In 2025, the exhibition project will continue with three brightly coloured flags by the Japanese artist Ay-O, crucial in building bridges between Western and non-Western art.

Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

Schaumagazin ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE

Field Test #4: Køpcke – Roth

November 21, 2024 – October 5, 2025

Whether it’s a sunset made of salami or a joint attached  to a telescope as a reimagined “lifesaver”, ANDERSCH COLLECTION/ARCHIVE once again reveals its signature humor in Field Test #4: Køpcke – Roth. The exhibition highlights the central role of Fluxus in the development of conceptual art.The art of the 1960s and 70s transformed everyday materials into works of art, challenging the elitist notions of the time. Even simple gestures, such as smiling, were imbued with artistic value. Visual artists, musicians, designers, and poets worked—often collaboratively—to break down the boundaries between cultural disciplines, resulting in works that blurred the lines between previously separate creative fields. Field Test #4: Køpcke – Roth includes works and documents by Arthur Køpcke and Dieter Roth, as well as contributions from Shigeko Kubota, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Robin Page, and Benjamin Patterson.

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)

Yoko Ono. TOUCH

March 2, 2025 – August 31, 2025

With TOUCH by Yoko Ono, n.b.k. continues its collaboration with the artist and her studio as part of the n.b.k. Billboard series. This follows the presentation of Ono’s work FLY, which premiered during Berlin Art Week in September 2024. Both works extend the artist’s engagement with billboards, a medium she has used since the 1960s.

Gropius Bau

Yoko Ono. Music of the Mind

April 4, 2025 – August 31, 2025

YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND spans a wide range of Ono’s work, from her “instruction pieces” – written instructions that guide readers to imagine, experience, make or complete the work – to installations and performances, as well as films, music and photographs. Visitors are invited to activate Ono’s instructions, exchanging handshakes with strangers in Painting to Shake Hands (1961/2025) or bringing their shadows together in Shadow Piece (1963/2025). In the atrium of Gropius Bau, which is freely accessible, a banner from Ono’s ongoing PEACE is POWER campaign (2017/2025) can be seen alongside her Wish Tree for Berlin installation (1996/2025). Wish Tree for Berlin is an open invitation to visitors to write their wishes for peace on small pieces of paper and tie them to the branches of one of the nine trees in the atrium. It also offers a place to sit, write and rest, providing space to contemplate peace as a positive and driving force.

The Kröller-Müller Museum 

I Am Still Alive. Mail Art in the Kröller-Müller Collection

October 12, 2024 – March 2, 2025

Artists have always been sending letters and messages, but not all mail sent by artists is automatically mail art. The origins of mail art lie in the 1960s, when American artist Ray Johnson sends collages to friends and receives their responses in the mail. Shortly afterwards, Fluxus artists such as George Maciunas, Yoko Ono and Robert Filiou begin using the global postal system to distribute their art. The artists of this international collective aim to avoid the beaten path within the established art world of traditional institutions, such as the art market, museums and galleries. They seek to make art democratic and accessible to all. Mail is an affordable alternative communication channel with an enormous reach.

The Kröller-Müller Museum has a modest collection of mail art, mostly from the late 1960s and early 1970s. This was the heyday of this art form. In addition to mail art by On Kawara, I AM STILL ALIVE also presents work by Gilbert & George, Jan Dibbets, stanley brouwn, Eva Hesse, Alan Sonfist and herman de vries from the collection.

Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans: Aesthetics of contingencies #2

March 16 – May 15, 2025

The works presented in this exhibition demonstrate the unique ability of artists and artisans to negotiate with contingencies (Guzenzei). They express a pleasure in the encounter (Meguriai) with the personality of materials. They invite us to pay close attention to the soul (Tamashii) of objects and their aging, to accidents, to the transformation of contexts, and to the unpredictability of living beings. These works were conceived as processes, situations, and experiences whose trajectories are deliberately uncertain. This approach allows for a reinterpretation of the processual works that punctuated the 20th century; some, produced on-site in real-time, involve principles of delegation. Certain artists entrusted the realization of their works to third parties, aided by the expertise of Japanese artisans. These artists of contingency attach as much, if not more, importance to what happens by chance, to what is unpredictable and
unexpected, as to their initial intentions.

Presented for the first time at the Kyoto Art Center during the Nuit Blanche in 2024,
this exhibition, conceived by Sébastien Pluot at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, features new
works and a program of conversations, performances, activations, tea ceremonies,
and a banquet offering a return journey from Paris to Kyoto by savoring dumplings.

Museum Ludwig Cologne

Fluxus and Be­yond: Ur­su­la Burghardt, Ben­jamin Pat­ter­son

Oc­to­ber 12, 2024 – Fe­bruary 9, 2025

The art of the Fluxus movement caught on in the 1960s through Happenings, concerts, performances, and spontaneous actions, greatly influencing subsequent artists. While the Museum Ludwig collection contains pieces by Nam June Paik, Daniel Spoerri, and Mary Bauermeister that are now considered true classics, the works of sculptor Ursula Burghardt (1928-2008) and composer Benjamin Patterson (1934-2016), who were both part of the Fluxus circle, are less known. This major exhibition at the Museum Ludwig takes a meeting between Burghardt and Patterson in Cologne in 1960 as a starting point to further examine their work and the complex artistic networks and collaborations in which both participated. The breaks in their careers, which came about due to artistic and social reasons, are particularly striking. The experience of exclusion, that both experienced due to their biographies—Burghardt was Jewish, Patterson an African-American—is inscribed in their works.

Dortmunder U / Museum Ostwall

“Tell These People Who I Am”

October 25, 2024 – March 23, 2025

The exhibition addresses the often overlooked female positions in art history. Divided into two parts, it is inspired by the collection of the Museum Ostwall and at the same time takes a critical look at it. The “Expressionism Part” of the exhibition presents the artistic work of Else Berg, Renée Sintenis, Lotte Reiniger, Emma Schlangenhausen, Kitty Rix, Marta Worringer and Madame d’Ora, who worked in different genres, and also look at their reception history. The “Fluxus Part” focuses on the female positions of this global art movement. Well-known artists such as Charlotte Moorman, Alison Knowles, Takako Saito and performances by Carolee Schneeman are part of the exhibition, as are the Latin American artists Leticía Parente and Mónica Mayer. With Mako Idemitsu and Mieko Shiomi, the exhibition shows female artistic positions of the Fluxus movement from Japan, which are largely unknown in Germany.

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Yoko Ono. Music of the Mind

September 28, 2024 – March 16, 2025

Spanning seven decades of the artist’s powerful, multidisciplinary practice from the mid­-1950s to now, YOKO ONO. MUSIC OF THE MIND traces the development of Ono’s innovative work and its enduring impact on contemporary culture. The exhibition in K20 brings together over 200 works including instruction pieces and scores, installations, films, music and photography, revealing a radical approach to language, art and participation that continues to speak to the present moment. Ono’s practice occupies a pioneering position within Conceptual Art and Fluxus and thus deeply resonates in Düsseldorf – a city with a rich history in both these international art movements.

Archivio Conz

EGGSIT – Hommage an Daniel Spoerri (1930–2024)

April 25, 2025—July 18, 2025

This exhibition celebrates the life and work of Daniel Spoerri who had a lifelong passion for eggs.
Born in Romania in 1930, Spoerri was a founding member of the Nouveau Réalisme movement and is renowned for his “snare-pictures” (tableaux piège), which capture chance arrangements of objects, notably remnants of meals affixed to tabletops and mounted vertically. 
A pioneer of “Eat Art,” Spoerri explored the intersection of art and gastronomy. He opened Restaurant Spoerri in Düsseldorf in 1968, followed by the Eat Art Galerie in 1970, where he collaborated with artists to create edible artworks. His collaboration with Francesco Conz was particularly fruitful, resulting in numerous editions focused on culinary themes. Notably, between 1984 and 1990, they produced the “Rezeptmappen-Bibliothek,” a series of ten recipe folders dedicated to various types of offal, each illustrated by different artists. The Exhibition pays tribute to Spoerri’s “egg hunt”, his inventive spirit, and his long friendship with Francesco Conz, their shared passion for combining art and the rituals of cooking and eating.