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Wuppertaler Str. 160    
42653 Solingen

Öffnungszeiten

Tuesday — Sunday,
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Eintritt

Adults: 9€
Reduced: €4.50
Up to 18 years: free admission

Mehr Infos zu freiem und ermäßigtem Eintritt

Öffnungszeiten

Tuesday — Sunday,
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Eintritt

Adults: 9€
Reduced: €4.50
Up to 18 years: free admission

Mehr Infos zu freiem und ermäßigtem Eintritt

Das Zentrum für verfolgte Künste ist ein Entdeckungsmuseum und widmet sich ausschließlich Künstler:innen deren Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten und Werke durch die Diktaturen des letzten Jahrhunderts und totalitäre Regime bis in die Gegenwart hinein blockiert, verhindert oder vernichtet wurden. Es ist ein gattungsübergreifendes Museum und erzählt in seiner Kunst- und Literatursammlung von verschollenen, verlorenen, kaum berücksichtigten Kunstwerken, Geschichten und Schicksalen.

Wuppertaler Str. 160    
42653 Solingen

Opening hours

Tuesday — Sunday,
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Admission

Adults: 9€
Reduced: €4.50
Up to 18 years: free admission

More information about free and discounted admission

Öffnungszeiten

Tuesday — Sunday,
10 a.m. — 5 p.m.

Eintritt

Adults: 9€
Reduced: €4.50
Up to 18 years: free admission

Mehr Infos zu freiem und ermäßigtem Eintritt

The Center for Persecuted Arts is a museum of discovery, dedicated exclusively to artists whose works and opportunities for development were blocked, prevented, and partially destroyed by the dictatorships of the last century and by totalitarian regimes up to the present day. It is an interdisciplinary museum, and its collection of visual art and literature tells of lost and neglected works of art, stories, and fates.

Aktuelles

Current temporary exhibitions

Manya Gutman, portrait drawing by Eva Besnyő
12.3.26
26.4.26

Temporary Exhibition

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Manya Gutman: Change of View

Portraits of Jewish Women Artists in the Age of Extremes

Manya Gutman embarks on a search for traces of female Jewish artists in the “age of extremes.” The project comprises 100 drawn portraits and short biographies.

Temporary Exhibition

Manya Gutman, portrait drawing by Eva Besnyő

Manya Gutman: Change of View

Portraits of Jewish Women Artists in the Age of Extremes

Manya Gutman embarks on a search for Jewish women artists in the “age of extremes.” Many know Sonja Delaunay, Meret Oppenheim or Gisèle Freund. But what about Dora Bromberger, who studied with Hans Hofmann in Munich, was a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreunde (GEDOK) in Bremen from 1928 and was murdered at the Maly Trostinez extermination camp in 1942? Or Malva Schalek, who recorded everyday life in the camp in Theresienstadt in more than 100 drawings and watercolors? The project comprises over 100 drawn portraits and short biographies.

Future temporary exhibitions

Temporary Exhibition

Women on the Balcony (in the Window), 1914, oil on wood, 62 x 60 cm, signed and dated Maryan Ruzamski, private collection

„Marian Ruzamski – The Art of Remembrance“ in Poland

Exhibition at the Palace of Art in Krakow

The artistic work of Marian Ruzamski almost vanished from collective memory in the catastrophe of the 20th century, but is now experiencing a remarkable comeback. A century after his last appearance in Krakow, the artist is once again being honored at the Palace of Art. More than 130 artworks from all phases of Ruzamski's career are on display here, following their initial presentation in Solingen: from his earliest drawings from his art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, through works created during his captivity in the First World War, works from the interwar period, to the harrowing portraits Ruzamski created in the camp infirmary of the Auschwitz concentration camp – the so-called "Auschwitz Portfolio."

Temporary Exhibition

Exhibition poster “Open your minds at last!“ Dada as political art between the world wars

“Open your minds at last!”

Dada as political art between the world wars

Anti-bourgeois, anarchist, and pacifist, Dada, with its sharp eye and biting satire, offered social criticism, questioning prevailing values ​​as well as political and social conditions and dynamics, especially those that had led to the catastrophe of the First World War. To mark its 110th anniversary, “Open your minds at last!” celebrates the Dada art movement and demonstrates the continued relevance of its political engagement.

Temporary Exhibition

Landscape on Hanna Melnykova's path from Germany to Ukraine. Photo: Hanna Melnykova

Lifelines. Across borders

An art project by Hanna Melnykova

In the summer of 2025, Ukrainian photo artist Hanna Melnykova emigrated from Germany to Ukraine and documented her “performative walk” photographically. The exhibition shows her engagement with migration, resilience, and cultural ties in the current geopolitical landscape. The symbolic meaning of this walk: It represents life itself. The route set for the project illustrates the borders between nations and embodies the gap between past and future as well as personal and collective transformation.

Women on the Balcony (in the Window), 1914, oil on wood, 62 x 60 cm, signed and dated Maryan Ruzamski, private collection
9.4.26
3.5.26

Temporary Exhibition

:

„Marian Ruzamski – The Art of Remembrance“ in Poland

Exhibition at the Palace of Art in Krakow

The artistic work of Marian Ruzamski almost vanished from collective memory in the catastrophe of the 20th century, but is now experiencing a remarkable comeback. A century after his last appearance in Krakow, the artist is once again being honored at the Palace of Art.

Exhibition poster “Open your minds at last!“ Dada as political art between the world wars
9.5.26
13.9.26

Temporary Exhibition

:

“Open your minds at last!”

Dada as political art between the world wars

Anti-bourgeois, anarchist, and pacifist, Dada, with its sharp eye and biting satire, offered social criticism, questioning prevailing values ​​as well as political and social conditions and dynamics, especially those that had led to the catastrophe of the First World War. To mark its 110th anniversary, “Open your minds at last!” celebrates the Dada art movement and demonstrates the continued relevance of its political engagement.

Landscape on Hanna Melnykova's path from Germany to Ukraine. Photo: Hanna Melnykova
8.10.26
8.11.26

Temporary Exhibition

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Lifelines. Across borders

An art project by Hanna Melnykova

In the summer of 2025, photo artist Hanna Melnykova emigrated from Germany to Ukraine. The Museum Center for Persecuted Arts is showing the photographic documentation of their performative walk.

Events

Exkursion

Marian Ruzamski, Tuchhallen Krakau/Stillleben (beidseitiges Werk), 1921, Öl auf Leinwand, Privatbesitz

Vergangenheit begegnen – Kunst und Erinnerung in Krakau und Auschwitz

Studien- und Erinnerungsreise nach Polen

Das Zentrum für verfolgte Künste bietet vom 9. bis 12./13. April 2026 anlässlich der Ausstellungseröffnung „Marian Ruzamski. Kunst der Erinnerung“ im Palast der Kunst in Krakau eine geführte Studienreise nach Krakau und Auschwitz an.

Lesung

Hanka Grupińska, Foto: Mikołaj Starzyński

„Wir waren ja nur einfache Soldaten“

Gespräch mit Hanka Grupińska

Vor vier Jahrzehnten begann Hanka Grupińska, die Stimmen des jüdischen Widerstands festzuhalten. Anlässlich des Jahrestags des Aufstands im Warschauer Ghetto präsentiert die renommierte Publizistin Hanka Grupińska ihr Buch im Zentrum für verfolgte Künste in Solingen.

9.4.26
13.4.26

Exkursion

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Vergangenheit begegnen – Kunst und Erinnerung in Krakau und Auschwitz

Studien- und Erinnerungsreise nach Polen

Das Zentrum für verfolgte Künste bietet vom 9. bis 12./13. April 2026 anlässlich der Ausstellung „Marian Ruzamski. Kunst der Erinnerung“ in Krakau eine geführte Studienreise nach Polen an.

23.4.26

Lesung

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„Wir waren ja nur einfache Soldaten“

Gespräch mit Hanka Grupińska

Anlässlich des Jahrestags des Aufstands im Warschauer Ghetto präsentiert die renommierte Publizistin Hanka Grupińska ihr Buch im Zentrum für verfolgte Künste in Solingen.

Permanent exhibition

In the permanent exhibition of the Museum Center for Persecuted Arts, you can discover works of art, stories, and fates from the first half of the last century that were either lost, thought to be lost, or largely ignored.

Museum für verfolgte Künste

More about the mission statement and the history of the Center for Persecuted Arts Museum.

Learn more about the Civic Foundation for Persecuted Arts and the Gerhard Schneider art collection.

More about the Promotional Society that was founded to support and enrich our program.