From the owner: The Haus for Media Art Oldenburg is a space where contemporary media art is exhibited and…read morediscussed, like a channel through which information on art, society, and new media flows. The regularly changing exhibition program presents innovative and experimental positions within international contemporary art. Presentations, artist talks, and workshops promote public discourse on contemporary art and its relationship to the social reality from which it stems. The Haus for Media Art supports the realization of several new artistic projects every year, thus contributing to artistic production, experimental collaboration, and critical exchange. We consider these newly commissioned pieces to be important inspirations in shaping the program and overall direction of the institution. The Haus for Media Art’s program not only focuses on the ways in which today’s technologies influence the shaping and defining of artistic ideas, but it also celebrates artists who have the vision and power to conceive speculative designs for the future by critically examining the present.

From the owner: Vom Oldenburger Kaufmannssohn und Kunstsammler Theodor Francksen vor über 100 Jahren gegründet, ist…read moredas Stadtmuseum heute ein Ort für Kunst-, Kultur- und Stadtgeschichte. Die Dauerausstellungen, die in drei historischen Villen untergebracht sind, geben einen Einblick in die bürgerlichen Lebenswelten von der Barockzeit bis zu Jugendstil, ergänzt durch eine kostbare Antikensammlung. Mehrere große Stadtmodelle veranschaulichen die historische Entwicklung Oldenburgs. Hinzu kommt die Sammlung des Oldenburger Malers Bernhard Winter. Regelmäßig gibt es zudem Sonderausstellungen zu Themen der Stadtgeschichte und der Bildenden Kunst zu sehen.