Between Türkenstraße and Enhuberstraße, 22 galleries, project spaces and off-spaces show contemporary art — the oldest since 1968, five only since 2025. A street-by-street guide with opening hours, profiles and what is on view right now.
Where the museums are, the galleries are never far. Since the Pinakothek der Moderne (2002) and Museum Brandhorst (2009) opened the quarter to the east, a second centre has formed around Theresienstraße next to the classic mile on Amalienstraße and Türkenstraße — and since 2022 a third wave of young galleries has moved into the courtyards west of Barer Straße. Berlin galleries such as Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler and Friese opened Munich spaces in 2025, while Storms and max goelitz went the other way with Berlin branches.
All venues are free to enter. Most open Tuesday or Wednesday to Saturday, often not before 11 or noon; project spaces only on single days or by arrangement. The shared season opener is mid-September, when almost everyone opens on the same evening — the moment to walk from door to door. What is on view and when openings take place is on the Exhibitions and Events pages; the short notes under each gallery update automatically from the same calendar.
Theresienstraße 46 and 48 — right opposite Museum Brandhorst — form the city's densest gallery building. The 1950 Sep Ruf block houses four addresses under one roof.
Munich branch (since September 2025) of the gallery Klaus Gerrit Friese founded in Stuttgart in 2008 as successor to manus presse (1961) and moved to Berlin in 2015. The programme spans Classical Modernism to young artists, focusing on painting and drawing — estates such as Willi Baumeister, Norbert Kricke and Walter Stöhrer alongside positions such as Karin Kneffel.
ArtistsWilli Baumeister, Norbert Kricke, Franziska Holstein, Karin Kneffel
Part of the Tübingen antiquarian bookshop J.J. Heckenhauer (1823), run by Roger Sonnewald in the sixth generation. Founded in 1997 as a photography gallery, in Munich since 2014 after spells in Berlin and Brussels, and opposite the Brandhorst since 2023. Contemporary painting, works on paper and photography, plus dealing in Classical Modern prints; exhibits at Paris Photo and Art Cologne.
ArtistsJoachim Brohm, Lara Eckert, Eun Lee, HAP Grieshaber
Contemporary art gallery opposite Museum Brandhorst, in the same building as KNUST x KUNZ + and ERES Projects; at this address since at least 2016. Around 15 artists, mostly based in Germany and Europe, working in painting, drawing, photography and sculpture.
ArtistsBoris Saccone, Sebastian Tröger, Anouk Kruithof, Georg Haberler
Knust Kunz's second venue, opposite the Brandhorst since 2010. Dedicated chiefly to emerging artists: the youngest generation of curators and artists is invited to stage experimental shows, alongside presentations of new editions and publications — including Edie Monetti, Raphael Danke and Benjamin Katz.
Project space of the non-profit ERES Foundation (est. 2004, headquartered on Römerstraße in Schwabing), which promotes dialogue between art and the natural sciences. In the listed 1950s Sep Ruf building opposite the Brandhorst: a laboratory for artistic experiments, young art, talks and performances — independent and non-commercial.
The classic gallery mile of the university quarter: home to Rüdiger Schöttle, the Maxvorstadt's oldest gallery, and since 2025 to the Munich outpost of Berlin's Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler.
Based in the Maxvorstadt since its founding in 1992. Initially focused on Munich artists, internationally oriented since 2005, and since 2012 with a particular eye on Greek and Turkish positions and exchange between Munich and the Mediterranean. Artists across media who engage undogmatically with current themes.
ArtistsKlaus vom Bruch, Christopher Cozier, Esra Ersen, Philipp Gufler
Founded in 2023, at Amalienstraße 22. Contemporary art with a focus on conceptual practices engaging with social, technological and scientific conditions — transformation, materiality, ecology, social structures. Artists shown include Benedikt Hipp, Thomas Feuerstein, Mona Schulzek and Steffen Jopp.
ArtistsBenedikt Hipp, Thomas Feuerstein, Mona Schulzek, Steffen Jopp
One of Germany's established contemporary galleries since 1968, in the rear building at Amalienstraße 41. Conceptual art in the 1970s (Buren, Weiner, On Kawara), the Düsseldorf photography school with Ruff, Struth and Höfer at its core since the 1980s. Jeff Wall, Jenny Holzer, Andreas Gursky and Anri Sala had their first German solo shows here; young positions feature regularly.
ArtistsThomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Candida Höfer, Jeff Wall, Goshka Macuga
Founded in 2018 by Marcus Trautner as a pop-up, permanently at Türkenstraße 32 since March 2020. Five to six solo and group shows a year with artists of the younger and middle generation; discourse and diversity as guiding ideas. The name fuses "heroes" (Helden) and "allure" (Reize) — a comment on traditional role models. Open by appointment.
ArtistsAngela Anzi, Krištof Kintera, Martin Werthmann, Pier Stockholm
Munich location (since January 2025) of the gallery founded in Berlin in 2011 by Amadeo Kraupa-Tuskany and Nadine Zeidler. Internationally oriented — Eurasia, the Gulf, China, the USA, Europe — with speculative, hybrid, non-hierarchical approaches. Early solo shows by Avery Singer, Katja Novitskova, GCC and Guan Xiao; today Anna Uddenberg, Klára Hosnedlová and Slavs and Tatars, among others.
ArtistsAnna Uddenberg, Klára Hosnedlová, Guan Xiao, Slavs and Tatars, Brook Hsu
One building, two worlds: the 1925 Littmann building at Schellingstraße 48 houses Walter Storms Galerie on over 500 square metres — and, on the ground floor, the city's smallest art space.
Founded in 1977 by art historian Walter Storms, specialising in conceptual art in the tradition of the German ZERO movement. The first German gallery to represent Roman Opalka and Stanislav Kolíbal, working with Günther Uecker since 1980 and managing Günter Fruhtrunk's estate as founder of the Fruhtrunk society; plus a publishing house and editions. Over 500 square metres in a 1925 Littmann building; a Berlin branch since summer 2025.
ArtistsGünther Uecker, Günter Fruhtrunk, Stanislav Kolíbal, Gerold Miller, Sean Scully
Non-commercial art space founded in 2014 by artist Caro Jost: a showcase of just 2.4 square metres on the ground floor, visible from the street. Invited galleries, curators and museums use it free of charge for a position of their choice — among them Esther Schipper with Karin Sander, and Peter Kogler. Member of Various Others.
West of the Pinakotheken a young scene has settled since 2017 — from off-space to art-fair gallery, mostly in courtyards and ground floors.
Transitory exhibition and project space run by Luise Wank, Tatjana Vall and Sebastian Quast for Munich's scene. The "n.n." stands for "nomen nominandum" — the name stays open, because the transience of a transitional period is part of the concept. Unfinished, performative curatorial approach; supported by Stiftung Stark in 2023. Open by arrangement.
Founded in 2017 by art historian Dr Britta von Rettberg between the Lenbachhaus and the Pinakotheken. Around six solo and curated group shows a year, from painting and sculpture to installation and video, with a focus on emerging and mid-career artists. Since 2022 the premises also house the experimental project space "@park".
ArtistsCaro Jost, Lennart Lahuis, Patrick Ostrowsky, Tatjana Vall
Founded in October 2022 — by its own account one of the first contemporary galleries to settle in the Maxvorstadt near the major museums. Exhibitions, performances and collaborations place young artists at pivotal points of their careers alongside internationally established positions. A regular at art fairs.
ArtistsHêlîn Alas, Augustine Paredes, Thomas Rentmeister, Vincent Scheers
Founded in 2014 by Johannes Sperling as a project space, representing artists since 2016; moved from Obergiesing to Enhuberstraße in 2025. A programme without thematic constraints: solo shows, curated group exhibitions and projects, often with institutions, publishers and curators. Eight international artists including Thomas Geiger, Andrew Gilbert and Anna McCarthy; member of the International Galleries Alliance.
ArtistsThomas Geiger, Andrew Gilbert, Veronika Hilger, Anna McCarthy, Ana Navas
Opened in October 2023 by Lu Zhang, entrance in the courtyard of Heßstraße 48b. Young international artists, with a declared aim of giving women artists more visibility. Some exhibitions in cooperation with GiG Munich; fairs such as Art Brussels, Art Düsseldorf and Beijing Dangdai.
ArtistsSophia Mainka, Yuchu Gao, Frida Kato, Veronika Günther
Ludwigstraße, Maximiliansplatz, Ottostraße, Georgenstraße: four addresses on the district's edges — among them the Klenze Palais with two galleries, and a former petrol station.
Opened in January 2023 by Dietlinde Behncke in the Klenze Palais at Odeonsplatz. Behncke previously spent over twenty years as a cultural manager (Suhrkamp, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, ZDF) and co-founded the PIN. Young Circle. The gallery sees itself as gallery and think tank: contemporary art on digital realities, AI and perception, complemented by artist talks with guests from art, academia and business.
ArtistsCharmaine Poh, Luisa Baldhuber, Amélie Esterházy, Nnenna Okore
Founded in 1982 by Sabine Knust as Galerie Sabine Knust and known for over four decades above all for editions and prints — Baselitz, Kirkeby, Penck, Lüpertz, Immendorff, Knoebel. Matthias Kunz joined as partner in 1998 and has been sole owner since 2026. Main space at Ludwigstraße 7 near Odeonsplatz; fairs include Art Basel, Frieze London and Art Cologne.
ArtistsGeorg Baselitz, Per Kirkeby, Imi Knoebel, Jonathan Meese, Jenny Brosinski
Founded in spring 2020 by Max Goelitz, at Maximiliansplatz 10 since 2022. Established conceptual positions such as Brigitte Kowanz, Haroon Mirza and Jürgen Partenheimer alongside young artists who reflect the present through process, media and interdisciplinary approaches. A Berlin exhibition space from 2022 to 2026, now an office; network with partner galleries such as François Ghebaly and OMR.
ArtistsBrigitte Kowanz, Haroon Mirza, Troika, Jürgen Partenheimer, Ju Young Kim
Opened in December 2022 by Ingrid Lohaus at Ottostraße 10 near Lenbachplatz. Emerging and established international artists and estates, focusing on research-based practices at the intersection of art, science, technology and art history — Vera Molnár, Magdalena Jetelová, Ilit Azoulay. Publications, artist talks, fairs.
ArtistsIlit Azoulay, Vera Molnár, Magdalena Jetelová, Gregor Hildebrandt
Set up in 2007 on the initiative of collector Markus Michalke in the former Metropol petrol station. Works on paper and sculpture from American Minimalism and the following generation, drawn from his collection — Judd, Tuttle, Sandback, LeWitt, Matta-Clark. Exhibitions run three to four months, each with a small publication. Not a commercial gallery; open Wednesday afternoons and by appointment only.
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