To kick things off, the new head of the Akademie-Galerie of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Ruth Noack, is showing early paintings by Nan Hoover for the first time alongside a sculpture by Luise Kimme, and offers an outlook on her programme up to 2029.
The Akademie-Galerie is reinventing itself as a laboratory where teaching, research and exhibiting take place. The opening exhibition is „Vorboten der Leidenschaft“ (12 October 2026 – 31 January 2027). Its highlight is early works by media and performance artist Nan Hoover (1931–2008) and sculptor Luise Kimme (1939–2014), who both once taught as professors at the Kunstakademie, including four paintings by Hoover that have never before been shown publicly.
The loans come from the Düsseldorf collectors Ingrid Malkalns and Herbert Hennig.
„It is a great gift to be able to show Nan Hoover's early pictures here at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she worked for many years, between 1987 and 1997, and trained many generations of artists."