Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027 Expands Into Münster’s Changing Neighborhoods
Skulptur Projekte Münster will return on June 12, 2027, with a broader geographic reach than in previous editions, extending beyond the city center into districts undergoing transformation. The ten-year exhibition, one of Germany’s most closely watched public art events, is scheduled to include around 30 locations and projects before closing on October 3, 2027.
The first artists named for the 2027 edition are Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo, Iza Tarasewicz, Selma Selman, and Róza El-Hassan. The exhibition is being shaped by the Zagreb-based curatorial collective What, How & for Whom (WHW), whose members — Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, and Sabina Sabolović — are serving as artistic directors.
The curatorial emphasis on neighborhoods in flux gives the edition a distinctly civic dimension. According to the organizers, the exhibition will engage with the diversity of Münster by making urban transformation visible in places that are not usually central to the city’s cultural map. Mayor Tilman Fuchs framed that approach as a way of bringing the exhibition into dialogue with new parts of the city.
Several of the announced projects are closely tied to their sites. Tarasewicz, a Polish artist, will develop an installation at Gut Kinderhaus, a former farm now used as a residential and working community for people with different disabilities. Her work will be structured around seasonal cycles and agricultural processes, linking sculpture to rhythms of labor and land.
Murillo will collaborate with local crop producers and communities on an installation at a former military barracks in south-east Münster. Built by the Nazis, later used by British armed forces until 2012, the site now houses refugees and is being redeveloped as a new residential neighborhood. Locke’s contribution will be shown at the Krameramtshaus, a 16th-century building that once served as a meeting place and administrative center for local merchants.
Selman’s installation, which draws on her family history and explores the cycles of globalized labor, will be presented at a 19th-century cemetery. El-Hassan, the Budapest-based artist, activist, and lecturer who represented Hungary at the 1997 Venice Biennale, will split her work between the Botanical Garden near the baroque palace and a residential district in south Münster.
Further artists will be announced in the months ahead. Funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the German government, and private sponsors, the exhibition continues to use sculpture as a way of testing how public space, memory, and urban change intersect.
