From 21 June 2025 to 22 February 2026, the Kunsthalle Osnabrück will focus on spirits. This includes topics such as predecessors and ancestors, passing on knowledge across generations, traditional craft techniques, transgenerational trauma, and learning together. [Transgenerational trauma means that bad experiences are passed on from one generation to the next.]

The Kunsthalle Osnabrück is a special place. It is in a former church. The 2025 programme invites visitors to think about their own hidden ghosts and hauntings. Art can be a way of exploring them and a way of understanding and dealing with your own history.

The annual theme, “Spirits”, has multiple meanings. Some aspects of the theme are easier to understand using your mind, others are more emotional. Both are equally important and should be passed on to others. The programme combines material and non-material phenomena, European and non-European perspectives, and old and new cultural techniques.