ANA MENDIETA – Alison Jacques

Ana Mendieta

TATE MODERN, LONDON: UNTIL 17 JANUARY 2027

Sheila Hicks

PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS DE LILLE, FRANCE: UNTIL 8 MARCH 2027

Gordon Parks

Tribeca Film Festival, New York

Sheila Hicks

Cleveland Museum of Art

Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers

in ‘We Will Walk – Art and Resistance in the American South’, Turner Contemporary, Margate

Michelle Stuart in conversation with Alicia G. Longwell

The Parrish Art Museum, Long Island

Robert Mapplethorpe

in ‘American Art 1961-2001’, Palazzo Strossi, Florence

Sheila Hicks & The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers

in Art Basel OVR: Portals

Graham Little

in ‘Mixing It Up: Painting Today’, Hayward Gallery, London

Erika Verzutti

Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Erika Verzutti

Nottingham Contemporary, UK

Birgit Jürgenssen

in ‘Women House’, Monnaie de Paris

Birgit Jürgenssen

in ‘The Shape of Time’, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ana Mendieta, Flower Person, Flower Body (detail), 1975, colour photograph, 55 x 71 cm (21 5/8 x 28 in). © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. DACS 2026. Courtesy of Alison Jacques. Photography: Michael Brzezinski.

What motivates artists worldwide to create artworks for children? What does it mean to be a child today? Is childhood a closed chapter or a state of being? Haus der Kunst explores these questions with the group exhibition For Children. Art Stories since 1968. The exhibition is based on several years of research, and brings together works by over twenty international artists that have been created specifically for a young audience since the late 1960s. Visitors of all ages are invited to enter into a dialogue with contemporary art and with each other, to rethink today’s understanding of childhood.

The group exhibition unfolds across multiple areas of Haus der Kunst, extending all the way to the terrace facing the Eisbach. There, a sculpture by KOO JEONG A invites visitors to skate, while Ei Arakawa-Nash calls on everyone to draw on the floor of the Mittelhalle. In the Archiv Galerie, the happening-like actions of the KEKS group are presented – a collective that formed in 1968 in the context of the Munich Art Academy. The presentation includes previously unpublished materials and marks the historical starting point of the exhibition, which unfolds across the entire Ostgalerie, the Foyer, the Terrassensaal and the Atelier. For Children. Art Stories since 1968 explores universal themes such as humanity, society, politics, economy, environment, technology, and the future – topics we first encounter as children and that accompany us throughout our lives.

Until the mid-20th century, artworks made for children primarily involved designing toys, building sets, and children’s furniture. However, from the late 1960s onwards, artists around the world began to create works that invited children to collaborate, treated them as equal and capable recipients, and encouraged autonomy and responsibility for their own actions. They increasingly saw young people as a relevant audience, as well as active participants and co-creators of their works.