On October 15, the exhibition Adolf Luther—Experiments Between Movement, Light, and Matter, curated by PD Dr. habil. Luca Viglialoro, opened in the Luther Room of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum.

The exhibition invites visitors to discover a lesser-known side of Adolf Luther while also taking a fresh look at the origins of his central artistic theme: light. From the Linear Structures and Moon Paintings of the 1950s, through the Matter Paintings, to the Dematerialisations and Light Sluices, visitors can trace how Luther increasingly expanded the possibilities of the traditional image in order to engage, step by step, with light. At the same time, Luther’s early paintings enter into a dialogue with various positions within European Informel art, such as the gestural visual language of Hans Hartung.

This marks a continuation of the collaboration between the Adolf-Luther-Stiftung and the Kunstmuseen Krefeld.

Photo: Dirk Rose

PD Dr. habil. Luca Viglialoro, Scientific Director and Managing Director of the Adolf Luther Foundation, is participating in the documentary film „Per grazia ricevuta (In Gratitude for Grace Received)“, which focuses on the life and work of Yves Klein. The interview centers, among other topics, on Adolf Luther’s artistic engagement with Yves Klein. The film is being screened on Italian television and in cinemas.

Since September 2025, the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum has a permanent Luther Room, which displays changing works by the Krefeld artist Adolf Luther and artworks from his collection. The exhibition Color and Transparency kicks off with a focus on the blue color of Yves Klein, which Luther took up in his Material Works and Curved Mirror Objects. In addition, a jewelry collection consisting of a brooch, necklace, ring, and watch, which Luther designed in 1985 together with jewelry designer Susanna Dünne, is on display for the first time in a museum context.

Photo: Dirk Rose

The exhibition “The Fifth Element” includes an early Luther object from the 1960s in the context of art from the Kemp Collection.

Further information is also available on the Kunstpalast website.

Photo: Adolf-Luther-Stiftung, Krefeld

The exhibition deals with aspects of the history of shadows in the art history of the 20th and 21st centuries. On display are works by Adolf Luther, Marlene Dumas, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Janice Guy, and Gerhard Richter, among others.

Further information can also be found on the homepage of the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

Photo: Archiv Adolf-Luther-Stiftung, Krefeld

Opening: Friday, 16.05.2025, 7 pm

The exhibition Adolf Luther. Seeing is beautiful marks the beginning of a close and long-term collaboration between the Kunstmuseen Krefeld and the Adolf Luther Foundation. The aim of the cooperation is to raise Krefeld’s profile as a central location for Concrete Art and to secure Adolf Luther’s artistic legacy in Krefeld by linking the two institutions. The exhibition at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum marks the start. It combines important works by Luther with works by other artists from the foundation’s collection and also surprises visitors with lesser-known aspects and projects by the Krefeld-born artist.

Further information can also be found on the homepage of the Kunstmuseen Krefeld.

Photo: Dirk Rose

„With Lucio Fontana: Expectation, the Von der Heydt-Museum brings Fontana’s complex oeuvre to life in all its many facets: from figurative to conceptual works, from ceramics to spatial installations. Around 100 works from the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, as well as from public and private collections provide an insight into the astonishingly experimental and daring work. […]

One chapter of the exhibition is dedicated to the exchange between Fontana and a younger generation of artists who took up his ideas and visions of the future: Internationally, Piero Manzoni and Yves Klein should be mentioned, and for the Rhineland, ZERO artists such as Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker [and Adolf Luther] in particular. […]“ – Announcement of the exhibition

Further information on the museum’s website.

The exhibition includes the object Concetto Spaziale, 1965 by Lucio Fontana, Adolf Luther Foundation Collection.

“Timeless Silver focuses on the material advantages, versatility and visual properties of the fascinating metal silver […] Beyond the tradition and the limits of the valuable material, contemporary artists are concerned with the visual dissolution of material and light, reflections, mirroring and monochromy with their objects.” – Exhibition brochure Timeless Silver

Participating artists among others:
Rolf Poellet, Dong-hyun Kim, Franz Anton Lang, Adolph Luther, Heinz Mack, Claudia Wieser

Further insights into the exhibition can be found on the museum’s website
An exhibition catalog is also available from the museum

Photo:
Adolf Luther, Hanging Lens, 1974
In the background: Rolf Poellet, Bossa Nova Mystery, 2022, room installation
© Rolf Poellet

On the occasion of the exhibition “Adolf Luther – Light. Work and Collection” at the Museum unter Tage, Bochum, the article ‘Wer hier raucht, hat mehr vom Licht’ by Georg Imdahl appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 02.02.2023.

Read the entire article here

The exhibition combines painting, sculpture, photography, science and technology. A kaleidoscopic journey on the border between art and science in a city, Padua, where these two worlds have always been intertwined, from Galileo to the school of perceptual psychology and the birth of Gruppo N, an artistic-cultural avant-garde collective from Padua.

On display are works by Alberto Biasi, Ennio Chiggio, Toni Costa, Edoardo Landi, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Albers, Max Bill, Adolf Luther and others.

Photo: Adolf Luther, Curved Mirror Object, 1968, © Florian Monheim