During our public Sunday tour, our art educators will guide you through the exhibition „Unlock your heads at last!“ Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars. The Dadaists employed a wide variety of styles, producing literature, poetry, stage plays, paintings, graphic art, collages, and photographs. Yet the political dimension serves as a central common thread—running through the movement’s works like a leitmotif—and finds expression in the most diverse and unexpected ways.

During our public Sunday tour, our art educators will guide you through the exhibition „Unlock your heads at last!“ Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars. The Dadaists employed a wide variety of styles, producing literature, poetry, stage plays, paintings, graphic art, collages, and photographs. Yet the political dimension serves as a central common thread—running through the movement’s works like a leitmotif—and finds expression in the most diverse and unexpected ways.

A particular highlight of the program accompanying our Dada exhibition, “Unlock your heads at last!” Dada as Political Art Between the World Wars, is an evening with Blixa Bargeld on Thursday, June 25, 2026. The very name of this musician and author serves as a homage to the Cologne Dadaist Johannes Baargeld. With the band Einstürzende Neubauten, singer Bargeld brought Dada into the present day; in his solo projects, he continues to uphold Dada’s radical approach to language and thought.

Accompanying the exhibition “Open your minds at last!” Dada as political art between the world wars we are presenting Simon Wachsmuth’s video work From Heaven High (2025) as a contemporary intervention within our literature collection. The artist will join us for a conversation with Prof. Dr. Christian Berger on Sunday, July 5, 2026, at 3 p.m.

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Götz Aly is one of the best-known authors on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust — in his latest book, he asks the central question: How could this happen? The historian and journalist worked for, among others, the” taz “, the” Berliner Zeitung “and as a visiting professor and has received numerous awards.

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