Image: Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
The Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn will open ‘NIE WIEDER! Gegen das Vergessen der NS-Verbrechen’ on 11 October 2026, an exhibition examining how Germany’s culture of remembrance may change as fewer eyewitnesses to the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes remain alive. The exhibition will run through 2 May 2027.
According to the Bundeskunsthalle, the project brings together art, digital media, historical documents and objects to consider different forms of commemoration. Its central question concerns the protection and transmission of authentic testimony in the digital age, as direct personal witnessing becomes increasingly rare.
Rather than presenting remembrance solely through historical records, ‘NIE WIEDER!’ is described as an exploration of how memory culture itself is changing in response to the crimes of National Socialism. The combination of artistic and documentary materials will address the ways institutions and audiences encounter, preserve and interpret evidence of persecution and mass violence.
The exhibition is being presented by the Bundeskunsthalle in cooperation with the Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora. The partnership links the exhibition to the work of memorial institutions at the former concentration camp sites of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, although the supplied information does not specify which individual works, documents or objects will be displayed.
The Bundeskunsthalle, formally the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, is located on Bonn’s Museumsmeile. Its website describes the institution as an establishment of Germany’s federal government and the states, supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media following a resolution of the German Bundestag. The venue’s 2026 programme also includes exhibitions devoted to sex work, sustainability and the work of Shezad Dawood, alongside conferences and live events.
The remembrance exhibition arrives within a programme that also includes the Bonn Summit, a three-day forum on cultural and political questions scheduled for 16–18 September 2026. That event’s published programme includes Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the Buchenwald Memorial, among its speakers, but the summit is separate from ‘NIE WIEDER!’ and is not listed as part of the exhibition.
The opening of ‘NIE WIEDER! Gegen das Vergessen der NS-Verbrechen’ is scheduled for Sunday, 11 October 2026, at 6 p.m. Admission to the opening will be free and no registration will be required. The exhibition will remain on view at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn until 2 May 2027.
