EVENTS
As a museum, DASMAXIMUM is in a lively exchange with its visitors. Here you will find information on all past events such as exhibition tours, workshops or other activities, such as the nationwide reading aloud day. Current events and announcements can be found under the heading "News".
27.01.2023: Flavin by Night - A Review
With over 200 visitors, DASMAXIMUM celebrated the start of the anniversary year 2023 on January 27! With "Flavin at Night", the Friends and Sponsors of the Museum, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, offered visitors the opportunity to see Dan Flavin's (1933-1996) light installation "European Couples" (1966-1971) for the first time in the course of twilight and finally in full darkness. . .
27.01.2023: Flavin by Night - Kick-off to the Museum Season 2023
On Friday, January 27, 2023, the Flavin Hall on the museum grounds will be open from 4 - 8 pm. Experience the luminous and intense color world of the light artist Dan Flavin once outside the usual opening hours!
16-11-2019: Tour "Maximalism in minimalism".
Minimal Art arose in the 1960s in the United States as a counter-movement to the prevailing abstractly gestural painting and the apparently trivial world of images of pop art. The artists employed industrial . . .
15-11-2019: Nationwide Reading Day at DASMAXIMUM
Do works of art require texts? Precisely the unbiased visitors to the museum, DASMAXIMUM, repeatedly prove that art has an effect even without explanations. But you are allowed to be curious. . .
14-09-2019: Tour "Tumbled from the pedestal - the expansion of the concept of sculpture".
After the Second World War, many artists developed completely new forms of three-dimensional sculpturing which we want to discover on our joint tour at DASMAXIMUM.
22-07-2019: Lecture Johannes Stüttgen: Warhol + Beuys
They could not be more different: the two most influential and important visual artists in the USA and Europe after 1945, Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys: the one a Pop Art star and . . .
19-05-2019: International Museum Day
Lots of peace, light and space on more than 4,300 m2 for over 200 works of art and their viewers. Between the halls, colourful and lush flowering meadows invite you to enjoy. Over a cup of coffee, impressions can be exchanged, and the museum team around Dr. Birgit Löffler is ready to answer any questions about art and artists, museums and projects. This is what the museum promises...
18-05-2019: Tour "Who does not want to think, flies out": Joseph Beuys and his students
The work of Joseph Beuys is actually directly accessible in its archaic choice of material, but also unsettles in its mysteriousness. What the exceptional German artist and museum founder Heiner Friedrich...
16-03-2019: Tour Art is (not) a commodity: Heiner Friedrich as gallery owner
In 1963 Heiner Friedrich opened his first gallery in Munich, others in Cologne and New York were to follow. Friedrich's galleries became important shop windows for international contemporary art and helped world-famous artists such as Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Andy Warhol to achieve a breakthrough throughout Europe. Many of the products exhibited in the DASMAXIMUM...
14-08-2014: Traunreut Trilogy: ArtContemporary, Industrial History, Vintage Cars
With the DASMAXIMUM KunstGegenwart Foundation, art patron Heiner Friedrich donated an art collection of international standing to the Chiemgau region. His father Harald Friedrich had founded the Alzmetall company in Altenmarkt after the war and produced the "Spatz" small car in the 1950s on what is now the museum site in Traunreut. In his private life, too, he had a passion for noble vehicles. A small selection from Harald Friedrich's classic car collection, including the Spatz and . . .