Exhibition Archive 1997 – 2026

Museale Detektivarbeit am Beispiel der Sammlung Lindgens

8 April to 3 May 2026

From Louise Bourgeois to Yoko Ono

Jewellery by Female Artists

November 21st, 2025 to April 26th, 2026

Cologne Design Prize 2025

November 27th to December 7th, 2025

Dare to Design. German Design Graduates

September 4th - October 12th, 2025

Möbel mit Geschichte(n). Selected 3

Mai 23rd to August 31st, 2025

"... for intellectual use"

Artistic Positions from the Winkler Collection

31 October 2024 – 16 March 2025

Kölner Design Preis 2024

22 November to 1 Dicember 2024

Perfect Match

Selected Kunstkammer objects from the Olbricht Collection and the MAKK

21 March to 22 September 2024

Apropos Visionary

The Photographer Horst H. Baumann

August 26, 2023 to January 28, 2024

Kölner Design Preis

24 November to 3 December 2023

State Prize MANUFACTUM for Applied Art and Design in Craftsmanship

27 May to 13 August 2023

Between the Trees

Urban Greenery – Art –Design

Susanna Taras – Blumen, Flowers, Fleurs

Blumen, Flowers, Fleurs

22 October 2022 to 26 March 2023

Selected 1

Aspects of the MAKK’s Historical Collections

15. December 2022 to 12. March 2023

Kölner Design Preis

40 years of laif – 40 positions of documentary photography

40 Positionen dokumentarischer Fotografie

12 March to 25 September 2022

WE_LOVE

Deutscher Jugendfotopreis 2022

The Circle. The most iconic shape redesigned

The most iconic shape redesigned

17 January to 24 April 2022

Gamechanger. Photographs by Philipp Treudt

30 October to 28 November 2021

WORKSPACE IN PROGRESS. How work affects life

6 to 31 October 2021

Danish Jewelery Box

Contemporary Jewelery Design

13. März bis 1 August 2021

Simply Sustainable. The Art of Cologne Jewellery-Design Today

Kölner Schmuckkunst heute

3 July to 1 August 2021

Artist Meets Archive – Rosângela Rennó

22 May to 4 July 2021

Hélène Binet – Echoes and Reveries

To Gottfried Böhm's centenary

23 October to 27 June 2021

Künstlerblick. Clemens. Sigmund & Siecaup

100 Years of the Clemens Collection

26 June – 27 September 2020

Guests at the MAKK: ökoRAUSCH. Exhibition for Design & Sustainability

28 August – 24 September 2020

Design Pentagon Group

13 January to 14 June 2020

Hans Kotter / Light – Colour – Space

11. March, 2020 to 26. April, 2020

Norman Seeff. The Look of Sound

13 September 2019 to 8 March 2020

Begreifbare Baukunst – Die Bedeutung von Türgriffen in der Architektur

Kölner Design Preis – Toby E. Rodes Award

25 October to 17 November 2019

Manufactum Staatspreis für Kunsthandwerk in NRW 2019

31 August to 13 October 2019

2 of 14. Two Cologne-born Artists at the Bauhaus

12 April to 11 August 2019

All the World's A Stage? Comparing European Theatres, Operas and Concert Halls

Bühnenbauten im Europäischen Vergleich

30 March to 30 June 2019

Erik Kessels. Archive Land (part of Artist Meets Archive)

Archive Land

3 May to 2 June 2019

34 x Design

until 14 April 2019

Andy Warhol - Pop goes Art

1 September 2018 to 24 March 2019

100 Years od Adjustable Light

14 January to 24 February 2019

Kölner Design Preis – Toby E. Rodes Award

26 October to 18 November 2018

Peter Gowland's Girls

9 June to 14 October 2018

#all-rounder. Marking the 150th anniversary of Peter Behrens’ birth

17 March to 1 July 2018

Elisabeth Brockmann. FREEDOM, SPACE AND LIGHT

24 February to 8 April 2018

COLLUMINA – International Art Light Project Cologne

22 to 24 March 2018

PLAY UP! Queens, Pixel Monsters and Dragon Slayers

19 August 2017 to 4 February 2018

Stylepark Selected imm 2018 at MAKK

15 to 21 January 2018

FULL HOUSE: Design by Stefan Diez

17 January to 11 June 2017

ökoRAUSCH Festival for Design and Sustainability

12 to 21 May 2017

Willy Fleckhaus – Design, Revolt, Rainbow

26 August to 11 December 2016

"Delightful!" Precious boxes and miniature portraits from two Cologne-based collections

17 September to 11 December 2016

Kölner Design Preis

similar or different.

21 artists – 5 years – Gargonza Arts

9 September to 9 October 2016

Page Impressions. A Space for International Photo Magazines

20 to 25 September 2016

Vera Lossau - A Short History of Holes

16 April to 31 July 2016

Look at me

Illustrations by Ingrid Godon and Children’s Portraits by August Sander

26 May to 10 July 2016

RADIO Days. Tube Radios, Design Classics, Internet Radio

19 January to 5 June 2016

Alessi Made in Crusinallo. The Beauty and the Mastery

LOOK!

Fashion Designers from A to Z: The MAKK Collection

19 September 2015 to 28 January 2016

Cologne DESIGN Award

30 October to 22 November 2015

manu factum 2015

North Rhine-Westphalian State Award for Crafts

22 August to 11 October 2015

SYSTEM DESIGN. More than 100 years of chaos in everyday life

20 January to 7 June 2015

Cologne 1914. Major city in the West

22 November 2014 to 19 April 2015

Markus Brunetti / FACADES.

Cathedrals, Churches, Cloisters in Europe

20 August to 30 December 2014

A party for Will! A journey into the world of Shakespeare

15 March to 27 July 2014

Rolf Sachs - typically German fare

13 January to 9 June 2014

Herzkammer. At the heart of the museum – the MAKK’s collection of graphic art

26 October 2013 to 16 February 2014

Boys get skulls, girls get butterflies. Jewellery at the MAKK

21 September to 15 December 2013

Ein Museum im Glück (a museum in clover)

Masterpieces of applied art from the collection of the Overstolzengesellschaft

18 May to 8 Decemberr 2013

Der schöne Schein - beautiful veneer - German faience art

15 June to 29 September 2013

Jubilee-Weekend: the MAKK celebrates its anniversary

15/16 June 2013

Isn't it romantic? Contemporary Design balancing between Poetry and Provocation

14 January to 21 April 2013

space-machine theatre - sets and architecture

15 December 2012 to 14 April 2013

Architectural photography from China

1 September to 25 November 2012

Kölner DESIGN Preis und Kölner DESIGN Preis international

26 October to 18 November 2012

gute aussichten_good prospects_recognising patterns. young German photography

18 August to 14 October 2012

Architekturteilchen - architectural bytes

12 May to 19 August 2012

Von Aalto bis Zumthor - Furniture designed by architects from Aalto to Zumthor

16 January to 22 April 2012

WASA MARJANOV - Skulpturen mit Architekturbewusstsein. Sculptural works of architectural inspiration

until 22 April 2012

Wünsche erfüllt! Die Neuzugänge im MAKK

Reihenhausmannskost - An exhibition on lifestyle, furnishing and gastronomic culture in suburban Germany

16 September to 11 December 2011

KAYSERZINN – Engelbert Kayser. Art Nouveau pewterware from the Cologne Kayser manufactory

4 September to 20 November 2011

Kölner Design Preis (Cologne Design Award) International

27 October to 20 November 2011

Mit Stil und Methode zum Genuss – Deutsche Korkenzieher aus 150 Jahren

unPOLISHed. Young design from Poland

16 July to 28 August 2011

The Art of Pop Video

9 April to 3 July 2011

Zwischen den Pfählen Venedigs – Aktuelles Design aus den Lagunenpfählen

Istanbul Fashion

6 November 2010 to 30 January 2011

Ins Wort gesetzt (put into words) – contemporary poetry on the photographs by Robert Häusser

4 December 2010 to 30 January 2011

Kölner Design Preis (Cologne design award) 2010

29 October to 14 November 2010

René Burri – his oeuvre

until 3 October 2010

All-over Mondrian

24 June to 8 August 2010

Nikolaus Heidelbach and Norman Junge – monsters (Ungeheuer)

17 April to 4 July 2010

Baroque porcelain from Meissen in Cologne

24 january to 16 may 2010

Mondays at Papst's

19 January to 21 March 2010

Plastic: Revolution for Design + Art. Objects of the Winkler Collection

to 24 January 2010

Falko Marx. Schmuck 1966 bis 2009

Die Ringe des Dieter Roth. Tragbare Kunstwerke eines universellen Künstlers

Kölner Design Preis und Kölner Design Preis international – Nominierte Arbeiten 2009

Marcel Proust and his letters

28 June to 6 September 2009

From Picasso to Warhol – avant-garde artists' jewellery

Künstlerschmuck der Avantgarde

10 May to 9 August 2009

Rund um vier Ecken

Networks – the art of lace-making

14 march to 17 may 2009

Gottfried Böhm. Rocks of concrete and glass

18 January to 26 April 2009

In deutschen Reihenhäusern. Familienleben in der Stadt. Fotografien von Albrecht Fuchs und Marc Räder

9 January to 1 March 2009

Nico – Cologne, Berlin, Paris, New York – stages in the career of a pop icon

30 October 2008 to 1 February 2009

...at a top location. Architectural fantasies in contemporary jewellery

19 September to 9 November 2008

teX - Textiles von morgen. Barbara Esser - Wolfgang Horn

Schmuckpole

Die Goldschmiede Wilhelm Nagel und Karl Fritsch

Splendour of the Rococo – Ludwigsburg porcelain from the Dr Reinhard Jansen collection

extended to 20 July 2008

Pledge of love - contemporary interpretations of medieval “love caskets

5 April to 15 June 2008

16 x Yves Saint Laurent - New acquisitions in the fashion collection

until 30 March 2008

Nils Holger Moormann

15 to 20 January 2008

10 Jahre KölnDesign - Design muss sein

5 November to 10 November 2007

60 seconds of design

21 September to 4 November 2007

history, theory and design of space

21 september to 14 october 2007

Christian Dior and Germany 1947 to 1957

until 30 September 2007

the good form - Cabinet-makers exhibit their masterpieces

19 to 30 September 2007

„Die gute Form - Tischler gestalten ihr Gesellenstück“

Glas aus der Sammlung Carola Eisenbeis. Studioausstellung

toute la collection - Photographs by Christin Losta

until 9 April 2007

European Art Nouveau Ceramics

until 4 march 2007

Nam June Paik Award – International Media Art Prize of the Arts Foundation of the State of North Rhine Westphalia 2006

Exhibition of the nominated works

2 September to 12 November 2006

Malen im Feuer. Alberto Hernández – Ceramics

6 May to 6 August 2006

Audio: Elf - Ein Kulturprojekt der FIFA WM-Stadt Köln

Im Wettstreit der guten Form – Gesellenstücke der Tischler-Innung Köln im Museum für Angewandte Kunst

„Kopfsachen“

Intermediale Installation EINSEIN – Realtime Research in Grenzbereichen – zur Eröffnung der PASSAGEN

Mode & Design aus Island

Raum ist Sehnsucht. The aspect of mysticism in the ecclesiastical architecture of Dominikus Böhm (1880-1955)

24 September to 11 December 2005

Got the Look. Graphic art and pop music

until 3 October 2005

The modelled body. Studio exhibition on ceramic sculpture

1 February to 29 May 2005

Wilhelm Riphahn. Architekt in Cologne

17 September 2004 to 6 March 2005

Entwürfe für neue Kinderoper

Snapshots - The Eye of the Century

26 September to 12 December 2004

Francesco Petrarca. poet, scholar, humanist (1304-1374)

11 June to 1 August 2004

Zwanziger Jahre an Rhein und Ruhr. Architekturfotos von Ulrich Deimel und Petra Wittmar

The rectangular view. Design and Art in Dialogue - Highlights of an American private collection

20 January to 16 May 2004

in. femme fashion 1780 - 2004

Modelling of the female form in Fashion

19 October - 14 December 2003

Transparenz 10 - Zehn Jahre Kunststoffschmuck von Svenja John

plan03. Forum aktueller Architektur in Köln

Radical Architecture III: Processing Uncertainty

Ettore Sottsass & Associati 1980 – 2002

14 January – 25 May 2003

Sabine Wilharm

Die Bilder zum Buch Harry Potter (illustrations for the Harry Potter books)

25 January – 21 April 2003

Special prizes for documentary photography donated by the Wüstenrot Foundation

YOUR PRIVATE SKY

R. Buckminster Fuller: Design als Kunst einer Wissenschaft

20 September – 15 December 2002

Schmuck eines Jahrhunderts

Die Stiftung Sieversen

Mode der 50er Jahre

Schenkung Else und Ingeborg Heiliger

Norman Foster – Architecture is about people

Ars Viva – Positionen zum Design in der Kunst

Untragbar – Mode als Skulptur

WertWechsel

Zum Wert des Kunstwerks

SWISS MADE –

Aktuelles Design aus der Schweiz

Fotofokus – Fotosammlung

Jeane von Oppenheim im Norton Museum of Art

Radical Architecture

Internetpräsentation gefördert von NETCOLOGNE

Zwischen Platin, Gold und Polymer, Schmuck

1959 - 2000, Gerda und Leopold Breuer

12 May to 2 July 2000

Architekturgalerie MAK

"heilige-drei-koenige.de"

Internationales Design – Stand der Dinge

präsentiert von Jasper Morrison

Democratic Design – 25 Jahre IKEA in Deutschland

Heinz Bienefeld 1926-1995

Architektur des Privaten

"Positionen":

Die Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau (gegründet 1772)

New Scandinavia –

Aktuelles Design aus dem Norden

"Dem Buch verbunden" - Neue Arbeiten Kölner Buchbinder

Svend Weihrauch - Silber von 1928-1956

Textilien von Martha Kreutzer-Temming

Koromo - Stoffe zwischen zwei Welten

"L. Fritz Gruber: Gut behütet"

7 July to 5 August 1998

Litfaß-Bier

Historische Bierplakate Sammlung Heinrich Becker

9 May to 2 August 1998

Design mit Zukunft

Eine internationale Revue neuer Alltagskultur. Philippe Starck

9 May to 2 August 1998

Eisenzeit - Der Kölner Kunstschmied Carl Wyland

Ernst Riegel - Ein Goldschmied zwischen Historismus und Werkbund

1 August to 5 October 1997

Europäische Eßbestecke aus acht Jahrhunderten

Rudolf Schwarz - Bewohnte Bilder

Highlights - Design aus Großbritannien

Prunkvolles Zarenreich

Eine Dynastie blickt nach Westen 1613 - 1917