About us

The Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen is dedicated to influential positions in contemporary art ranging from painting, photography and film to spatial and temporal installations. Its main focus is aimed at contemporary art practice and its roots while pursuing the exciting changes in artistic themes and strategies, interrelationships and references prevalent in modern art. The museum's primary objective is to promote and enhance our understanding, appreciation and fascination of art while feeling equally committed to both the art and our visitors.

One important point of departure of the museum’s conceptual program are the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher, since Bernd Becher was born and grew up in Siegen. This explicitly underscores the region’s contribution to international contemporary art and lays the groundwork for the museum’s conceptual orientation regarding the Collection and its ongoing exhibitions.

The Museum also showcases permanently the exquisite private Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, which represents an impressive panorama of painting in the latter half of the twentieth century and contains paintings and prints by the eleven Rubens Prize laureates Hans Hartung (1957), Giorgio Morandi (1962), Francis Bacon (1967), Antoni Tàpies (1972), Fritz Winter (1977), Emil Schumacher (1982), Cy Twombly (1987), Rupprecht Geiger (1992), Lucian Freud (1997), Maria Lassnig (2002) and Sigmar Polke (2007).

The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection was created over twenty years ago in connection with the founding of the Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen. Since then the collection has continuously grown to now comprise over 120 paintings, drawings, prints, as well as several photographs and sculptural pieces.  

The Rubens Prize awardees draw our attention away from the present and back to the twentieth century, delineating an impressive young history of painting.