Regular Formats
Marta Philharmonic
A matinee featuring music and art at Marta, in cooperation with the Northwest German Philharmonic: Following a special concert experience with the NWD musicians, visitors can explore the current exhibition with Marta art speakers.
Marta Philharmonic
A matinee featuring music and art at Marta, in cooperation with the Northwest German Philharmonic: Following a special concert experience with the NWD musicians, visitors can explore the current exhibition with Marta art speakers.
Under the title “Between Fugue and Tango – a musical expedition with artHolz”, the ensemble of four clarinetists will perform selected works for the audience.
Performing are the NWD clarinetists:
Max Schweiger, Hye-Jin Kim, Andrea Dully, and Johannes Hofmann
Ticket
€21, reduced €10, €15 for members of the Friends of Marta Herford and the NWD (incl. concert, exhibition admission)
Advance sales from mid-October
Marta Herford Museum Box Office
or office of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Stiftbergstr. 2, 32049 Herford, Tel.: 05221.98 380
Information
Seating is unreserved for ticket purchases. Remaining tickets (if available) can be paid for at the concert box office at Marta Forum from 11 AM on the day of the event (cash payment requested).
The event ticket allows access to the exhibitions in the Gehry Galleries and the Lippold Gallery (1st floor) on this day.
The reduced ticket is valid upon presentation of ID for persons in education (up to 27 years old), Federal Volunteer Service participants (or comparable volunteer services), job seekers, or people with disabilities (from GdB 50).
Marta Philharmonic
A matinee featuring music and art at Marta, in cooperation with the Northwest German Philharmonic: Following a special concert experience with the NWD musicians, visitors can explore the current exhibition with Marta art speakers.
Elena Ilinskaya (violin) and Ruschana Muborakschoeva (piano) play selected works by Gabriel Fauré, Erwin Schulhoff, Zarrina Mirshakar and Peter Tchaikovsky.
Contributors:
Elena Ilinskaya, violin
Ruschana Muborakschoeva, piano
Ticket
€21, reduced €10, €15 for members of the Friends of Marta Herford and the NWD (incl. concert, exhibition admission)
Advance sale from March
Marta Herford museum ticket office
or office of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Stiftbergstr. 2, 32049 Herford, Tel.: 05221.98 380
Information
Seating is unreserved for ticket purchases. Remaining tickets (if available) can be paid for at the concert box office at Marta Forum from 11 AM on the day of the event (cash payment requested).
The event ticket allows access to the exhibitions in the Gehry Galleries and the Lippold Gallery (1st floor) on this day.
The reduced ticket is valid upon presentation of ID for persons in education (up to 27 years old), Federal Volunteer Service participants (or comparable volunteer services), job seekers, or people with disabilities (from GdB 50).
City + Vision
Guided Tour of the Gehry Architecture
Accompanied by an art educator, you will experience the museum’s unique Gehry architecture. During the one-hour tour, you will receive information about the Marta as a building and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Ticket
3.50 euros plus museum admission
Registration
no registration required, limited number of participants
Guided Tour of the Gehry Architecture
Accompanied by an art educator, you will experience the museum’s unique Gehry architecture. During the one-hour tour, you will receive information about the Marta as a building and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Ticket
3.50 euros plus museum admission
Registration
no registration required, limited number of participants
Guided Tour of the Gehry Architecture
Accompanied by an art educator, you will experience the museum’s unique Gehry architecture. During the one-hour tour, you will receive information about the Marta as a building and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Ticket
3.50 euros plus museum admission
Registration
no registration required, limited number of participants
Guided Tour of the Gehry Architecture
Accompanied by an art educator, you will experience the museum’s unique Gehry architecture. During the one-hour tour, you will receive information about the Marta as a building and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Ticket
3.50 euros plus museum admission
Registration
no registration required, limited number of participants
Guided Tour of the Gehry Architecture
Accompanied by an art educator, you will experience the museum’s unique Gehry architecture. During the one-hour tour, you will receive information about the Marta as a building and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Ticket
3.50 euros plus museum admission
Registration
no registration required, limited number of participants
Guided Tour of the Gehry Architecture
Accompanied by an art educator, you will experience the museum’s unique Gehry architecture. During the one-hour tour, you will receive information about the Marta as a building and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Ticket
3.50 euros plus museum admission
Registration
no registration required, limited number of participants
Curatorial tour of “Mindset Los Angeles” with curator Ann-Kristin Kreisel
During the one-hour guided tour of the current exhibition Mindset Los Angeles led by Marta curator Ann-Kristin Kreisel, visitors will learn about the background of the exhibition, its development, and the works on display. The tour will cover interesting facts about Frank Gehry (1929–2025), the architect of the Marta Herford, as well as the artists of his time in Los Angeles who had a profound influence on his work. Building on this, the tour will also explore works by subsequent generations of artists in L.A.
(Exhibition at the Gehry Galleries and the Lippold Gallery, 1st floor)
Ticket:
3.50 euros plus admission to the exhibition; no registration required; limited number of participants
Children’s Vernissage “Chaos in Cardboard – Where Walls Learn to Dance”
Short guided tour for families followed by a studio workshop for children ages 6 to 12
With the new exhibition Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry and die Cool School, we’re celebrating the unique architecture of Marta Herford, designed by star architect Frank Gehry. During a brief, family-friendly tour of the exhibition, we’ll explore together how art and architecture interact – focusing on dynamic forms, unusual materials, and shimmering surfaces.
Afterward, children and their accompanying adult will experiment in the studio with materials like cardboard, transforming ordinary boxes into flowing dreamscapes and curving fantasy castles. The young artist’s creations will be displayed in a small exhibition in the studio foyer, where they can be viewed until mid-July.
Age
6 to 12
Admission
Free of charge
Registration
Register by June 19, 2026, at bildung@marta-herford.de
Space is limited.
“City + Vision” – Frank Gehry Special: Interactive Exhibition Tour + Presentation with Prof. Berthold H. Penkhues
City + Vision – Herford Architecture Talks – Frank Gehry Special
6.30 p.m.: Interactive exhibition tour with Prof. Berthold Heinrich Penkhues and Marta Director Kathleen Rahn
7.30 p.m.: Slide presentation at the Marta Forum with Prof. Berthold Heinrich Penkues
This special evening in the “City + Vision – Herford Architecture Talks” series is dedicated to Marta architect Frank Gehry—as part of the exhibition Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry und die Cool School. The guest speaker is architect Prof. Berthold Heinrich Penkhues, who worked at Frank Gehry’s firm in the second half of the 1980s. In a one-hour interactive exhibition tour, Penkhues and Marta Director Kathleen Rahn will focus primarily on Gehry’s architectural projects.
In his following presentation at the Marta Forum, Penkhues talks about his work over several years in Venice and Santa Monica, California, with Frank Gehry: From a personal perspective, he illustrates and describes formative experiences from that time. In 1989, Penkhues returned to Kassel, where he founded his own architectural firm and served for five years as a lecturer and research associate at the University of Kassel. In 1994, he was called to the Carolo Wilhelmina Technical University in Braunschweig, where he heads the Institute for Experimental Design (IEX). In 2001, he received the Hessian Culture Prize for his outstanding achievements in architecture, particularly for the museum in Korbach’s old town.
This event is made possible through a partnership with the Association of German Architects (BDA) in East Westphalia-Lippe.
Ticket
Guided tour of the exhibition: 3.50 euros plus admission to the exhibition
Lecture at the Marta Forum: 5 euros, reduced price* 3 euros
*Reduced for people in education (18-27 years) and people with disabilities (from GdB 50), proof as well as a photo ID must be presented unsolicited at the entrance
Info
Advance sale online or at the museum box office (Tue to Sun 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wed to 8 p.m.)
On Wednesday evenings, the exhibitions are open until 8 p.m.
Los Angeles, Hollywood, Pool Parties, and “Advanced Drug Research”—An artistic movement sparked by CalArts with ongoing impact—Lecture by Christina Végh
Los Angeles, the metropolis of the U.S. West Coast, was located in the second half of the 20th century far from the art centers of the time (New York, Paris, Cologne). The vast and untamed West, which had little prior artistic influence, fostered freedom of action and thought, leading to groundbreaking artistic expression. A prime example of this is CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), the art college founded by Walt Disney in 1970 near Los Angeles. CalArts developed a radical, pioneering educational model whose interdisciplinary approach drew on European and American institutions such as the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. In addition to conceptual art, teaching programs by artists such as John Baldessari’s “Post Studio Program” and the “Feminist Art Program” by Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago were also groundbreaking. Driven by the spirit of the 1970s, legendary pool parties, and courses such as “Advanced Drug Research,” a unique cultural dynamic emerged: it transformed the West Coast and Los Angeles into a central hub for artistic production and contemporary discourse (a status that continues to this day).
In her lecture, Christina Végh (born in Zurich in 1970), director of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, offers insights into the events of that time. She introduces individual protagonists and eyewitnesses through filmed oral history interviews. In 2019, Végh curated the exhibition *Where Art Can Happen: The Early Years of CalArts in 2019 (at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover), together with Philip Kaiser (independent curator, Los Angeles), as part of a three-year research project in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin (Prof. Dr. Annette Jael Lehmann) and metaLAB (at) Harvard, Boston (Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Schnapp, Kim Albrecht), and in collaboration with IMAGE and CONTENT, Zurich (Reto Caduff, documentary filmmaker).
Lecture as part of the exhibition’s accompanying program Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry and the Cool School
Ticket:
Included with admission to the exhibition or 5 euros / reduced rate: 3 euros
Opening of the exhibitions “Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry and the Cool School” and “Mindset Los Angeles – Works from the Schürmann Collection”
We warmly invite you and your friends to the opening of the exhibitions Mindset Los Angeles – Frank Gehry und die Cool School (Gehry Galleries) and Mindset Los Angeles – Works from the Schürmann Collection (Lippold Gallery, 1st floor).
7.00 p.m. Opening speeches:
Anke Theisen, Mayor of Herford
Ina Brandes MdL, Minister of Culture and Schience of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Introduction: Kathleen Rahn, Director Marta Herford, and Ann Kristin Kreisel, Curator Marta Herford
Closing Words: Megan Meulemans, Gehry Partners LLP, and Maristella Casciato, Getty Research Institute
At Marta Plaza, a food truck will serve hot dogs, fries, and popcorn. The Marta Café (with a summer terrace) offers a delicious selection of food and drinks.
With DJ sets by DJ Tobby at the Marta Café.
We look forward to your visit!
Admission
Admission is free from 6 to 10 PM!
The exhibitions are open to visitors starting at 6 p.m.
Mindset Los Angeles – Works from the Schürmann Collection
City+Vision Archive
