The Museum Morsbroich aims to be a place of intellectual enjoyment and pleasurable discovery. Unlike in a discount store or in front of the television, as a visitor to our museum you are not asked to be a passive consumer or a self-sufficient customer. We need your curiosity.

We don't want to tell you what you have to see. For once, disregard the signs, which are deliberately not displayed next to the works, but are available for you to take with you on hall cards in front of the respective exhibition space. Don't start by asking about the artist, title or year of creation, don't think about the sometimes exorbitant valuations of the art trade. Give the respective work, the respective room time. Face the sensual event.

Every society needs a critical, reflective look at its history in order to be able to shape the future responsibly. Even a museum of contemporary art cannot ignore this requirement. Morsbroich would like to tempt you as a viewer to look at the familiar from a new perspective. Because we do not see the museum as a warehouse of dead things, but as a place for the future, from which a new narrative can begin. The focus here is not on the year in which an artwork was created, but on its possible relevance for us viewers today. How can we turn yesterday and today into tomorrow?

The question of why one work hangs next to another, why this or that constellation comes together in a room, what the individual rooms have to do with each other, arises anew. Ask yourself: Where do distances form, where do seams form? What dialogs open up in the spaces in between?

Morsbroich focuses on dialog - the staging of encounters between different works of art and between works of art and you as a visitor. Trust your senses, enter into a conversation with the works, especially those that initially seem strange to you. The artwork only gains its presence through you.

But what is the nature of this presence and why does it also have a political dimension? In this presence, which is generally an extended presence, i.e. a long while, you can adjust your inner speed so that you are enabled to experience something again - an ability that is deliberately taken away from us in times of systematically produced low attention spans. We would like to invite you to give yourself and art time for surprising, irritating, even ‘beautiful’ experiences. (Sensory) experiences can confirm attitudes, make us aware of them or even change them. Actions can only arise from attitudes.

Morsbroich stands against the increasing brutalization of our society, especially in public discourse, as a place where fragile things can be tried out, where quiet tones can still be heard. In addition to your curiosity, we therefore ask you to be mindful of the works on display.
Enjoy your visit!