Our varied programme – featuring events, guided tours and talks at the MARKK.

On stages, in museums, and on the streets: From June 14 to 21, Hamburg will be all about dance. The Dance Triennial celebrates this art form in all its diversity. The MARKK is also participating with the Tijmur Dance Theatre.

In her lecture, political scientist and expert on 20th-century and contemporary imperialism Jeanne Morefield takes a critical look at the cultural ideas that shaped the liberal world order of the 20th century.

On stages, in museums, and on the streets: From June 14 to 21, Hamburg will be all about dance. The Dance Triennial celebrates this art form in all its diversity. The MARKK is also participating with the Tijmur Dance Theatre.

Starting in June, the exhibition Benin. Stolen History will feature the work Pink Benin Rider (2025) by the emerging Nigerian artist Modupeola Fadugba, which was donated to MARKK at the beginning of the year. In this conversation, Fadugba offers insights into her artistic practice, which engages with the legacy of the Kingdom of Benin and the tradition of bronze casting.

Curators’ discussion at the exhibition “Resonating Images from Peru” featuring Christine Chávez (curator at MARKK) as well as Katharina Krüger and Silke Straatman (curators of the exhibition “Hans H. Brüning – A Researcher’s Life in Peru” at the Kulturverein Bordesholmer Land e. V.)

Re:invent Grindel is the forward-thinking, co-creative community within the Grindelverein that is helping to shape the future of Grindel through initiatives focused on sustainable education. During Hamburg Sustainability Week (June 26 – July 3, 2026), MARKK will be the week’s destination! A neighborhood demonstrates how and with what a livable future is created. In MARKK’s summer garden, there will be dialogue, networking, and courage for the future.

During the TONALi Festival (June 28–July 3), singer Antonia Brinkers and saxophonist Daniel Calvo Valcarel, together with students from the Winterhude District School, will present an interdisciplinary concert at the MARKK.

Drawing on previously unpublished letters, photographs, and artifacts, Giovanni Masala reconstructs the journeys of the Hamburg ethnologists Arthur Byhan and Julius Konietzko to Sardinia in 1926 and 1931.