Exhibition Museum Folkwang: Franke / Jäger. Kunst und Konstruktion
We cordially invite you
Opening of the Exhibition
Herbert W. Franke / Gottfried Jäger
Art and Construction
Museum Folkwang
October 15, 2026, 7 pm
The exhibition is running through January 10, 2027.
Word of Welcome:
– Peter Gorschlüter (Director Museum Folkwang)
– Thomas Seelig & Noa Lohrmann (Curators of the exhibition)
– Elke Seeger (Professor Folkwang University)
The exhibition Herbert W. Franke / Gottfried Jäger. Art and Construction has been organised following a substantial donation of photographs, prints, videos and computer animations from Herbert W. Franke’s work to the Museum Folkwang. For the first time, around 250 works by the two artists are being presented together in a dialogue-based format, including Gottfried Jäger’s 120-part series of ‘Pinhole structures’. The focus is on their artistic exchange between non-representational photography and early computer art, which began in the 1960s.
PAt the same time, the Museum Folkwang is presenting Photography Masters, a selection of final-year projects by graduates of the Master’s programme in Photography Studies & Practice at the Folkwang University of the Arts. The two institutions are thus continuing their collaboration, which began in 2016 with the ‘Stopover’ series. The exhibition features works by Florian Fäth, Mara Fischer, Patrick Lohse and Nina Mokhtarbaf.