Art full of questions: Lillien Grupe conquers Lower Saxony!

The Sprengel Museum Hanover presents a solo exhibition by the painter Lillien Grupe, which addresses social and individual reflections with a style characterized by realism. Grupe, born in 1997 in Lower Saxony, deals intensively in her work with the fast pace and constant change in society. Her works of art revolve around topics such as emotionality, subjectivity as well as control and freedom, whereby the central question of your work is: What is reality? The exhibition, which offers an overview of its picturesque work in recent years, is shown as part of the Sprengel@Feinkunst cooperation format and is curated by Katharina Herrmann.

In the balance sheet for 2024, the Sprengel Museum Hannover recorded over 147,000 visitors, which means an increase of 40,000 compared to the previous year. Particularly noteworthy is the exhibition "Pablo Picasso I Max Beckmann", which attracted 85,000 interested parties in spring. The museum is planning a diverse program for 2025, which includes the autumn exhibition "Niki. Kusama. Murakami. Love You for Infinity" and a retrospective to the artist Grethe Jürgens in February.

program highlights 2025

The summer exhibition "Stand Up!" Taking a look at the feminist avant-garde of the 1970s and is supplemented by various special exhibitions. At the end of 2025, a retrospective of the artist Käte Steinitz and the group exhibition "Das Atelier as a Community" are planned, the work of artists with disabilities presented. In addition, Frida Orupabo is awarded the Spectrum Foto Prize of the Lower Saxony Foundation and Sven-Julien Kanclerski receives the Sprengel Prize of the Lower Saxony Sparkassen Foundation.

The museum will also provide newly designed areas such as the foyer, the insight hall and the forum as a “third place” for art and exchange. The new installations include "Mimese (Futsch)" by Lotte Lindner and Till Steinbrenner and "The facial expressions of the Tethys" by Julius von Bismarck. An art kiosk of Sven-Julien Kanclerski is set up in the foyer.

The exhibition "Love You for Infinity", which runs from September 6, 2025 to February 14, 2026, combines important works by Niki de Saint Phalle, Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami. In the retrospective of Grethe Jürgens, around 150 works from the 1920s to 1980s are presented, while the Käte Steinitz exhibition shows numerous unpublished work from her photographic estate.

The continuous collection and special exhibitions of the Sprengel Museum offer significant insights into art history from modernity to the present and thus reaffirm the high importance of the museum in the art scene.