Exhibitions 2013–2026

Since the establishment of the Ruth Baumgarte Art Foundation, numerous exhibitions on the work of Ruth Baumgarte have been initiated, including at the Städtische Kunstsammlungen Salzgitter, the Ludwig Museum Koblenz, the Marble Palace of the Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum St. Petersburg, the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig.
The Museum of Art and Cultural History Dortmund hosted the first retrospective, which presented the most important phases of work under one roof for the first time in 2020. The curator was the art historian Dr. Eckhart J. Gillen.
The Albertina in Vienna presented the artist's Africa cycle with great success, to which over 200,000 visitors flocked. The curator was Angela Stief of the Albertina Modern.

This year, the focus turns to Bayreuth, where we warmly invite you to the forthcoming exhibition at the Iwalewahaus.
The exhibition Ayeye! Ruth Baumgarte at the Iwalewahaus, on view at the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth from 11 June to 18 September 2026, unfolds as a cross-continental dialogue between two artistic spheres whose historical and geographical origins differ, yet whose humanist foundations correspond in a remarkable way.