Last Weeks for Anish Kapoor’s Lehmbruck Prize Exhibition in Duisburg

The Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg is entering the final weeks of its Anish Kapoor exhibition, which opened on 24 April and has been extended until 18 October 2026. Originally due to close on 30 August, the show marks Kapoor’s receipt of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize, awarded in 2025 by the City of Duisburg and the Landschaftsverband Rheinland.

According to the museum, it is the most comprehensive presentation of Kapoor’s work in Germany for more than ten years. It brings together 16 works spanning five decades of his practice, from early pigment pieces to mirrored sculptures and large installations. Among them are “Past, Present, Future”, a spherical work in deep red wax more than three metres high, and “Double S-Curve”, a reflective corridor almost 15 metres long, together with illusionistic pieces from the “Non-Object Black” group.

Kapoor, born in Mumbai in 1954, devised the presentation to respond to the museum’s modernist building. The museum’s director, Söke Dinkla, has linked his concerns to those of Wilhelm Lehmbruck, the sculptor after whom the museum and the prize are named, arguing that both artists sought to make the fragile inner life of people tangible, in very different periods.

The Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize was first awarded in 1966 to mark what would have been the sculptor’s 85th birthday and is now presented every five years. Earlier recipients include Eduardo Chillida, Jean Tinguely, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra, Richard Long, Nam June Paik, Rebecca Horn and, most recently, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller in 2020.

For the closing stretch, the museum is running public tours of the exhibition on Saturdays and Sundays through October, with additional tours scheduled on the final day.