Museum Villa Rot Concerts 2025

Beautiful spot inmidst a lush park with big old trees. Can be rented as a wedding venture for a smaller crowd. The employees at the cafe are super friendly and nice, the offered cakes are amazing!

We have been going to this beautiful villa for years and have visited so many beautiful exhibitions. Our daughter is now an adult and still raves about it today. No matter what time of year, a visit is always worth it. Art breakfast, guided tour on Sunday (afterwards to the beautiful café), Red Art Salon in October... there are still and more occasions. Today was another great tour followed by an art breakfast. Great exhibition (see homepage).

Always excellent art! The following exhibition is currently running: Works from the 80s from the FER Collection 03/03/24 — 16/06/24 The new exhibition at the Villa Rot Museum uses selected exhibits from the FER Collection to provide an opportunity to examine so-called “violent painting” since the beginning of the 1980s. Their sensual art, driven by the then rediscovered passion for painting, documents in its expressive expression not only the socio-political trends of the time, but also the character and individual freedom of their respective authors. One focus of the FER collection is the works of the “Mülheimer Freiheit” group, which came together in Cologne in 1980 with Hans Peter Adamski, Walter Dahn, Peter Bömmels, Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Gerard Kever and Gerhard Naschberger and the local gallerist Paul Maenz found an initial supporter. The studio address in a large attic in the back yard in Cologne-Mülheim, which Dahn and Dokoupil shared, gave them their name. At the same time, Werner Büttner and Albert Oehlen, among others, appeared in public in Hamburg with so-called “Bad Paintings”. And as early as 1977, the new painting caused a sensation in Berlin with one of its protagonists, the painter Rainer Fetting, and her self-help gallery on Moritzplatz. The fact that this deliberately anti-academic and ostensibly amateurish painting also found international followers is documented by the work of the Swiss artist Martin Disler at the time, whose work was driven by “an intoxicating restlessness and obsessive creative rage”. The music of those years - punk and the Neue Deutsche Welle - also had a significant influence on the “Junge Wilden”. Film and sound recordings from the 1980s, which also deal with the political and social situation at the time, bring the explosive atmosphere of those years back to life. Works by Hans Peter Adamski, Peter Bömmels, Werner Büttner, Walter Dahn, Martin Disler, Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Rainer Fetting, Gerard Kever, Gerhard Naschberger and Albert Oehlen will be shown. If you want to linger after the exhibition, I recommend the café in the basement with access to the garden.

Beautiful building with a park that is beautiful even in winter and perfect for taking a walk. Interesting history of the “Fuggerschlösschen” and some interesting objects in the exhibition such as the “Caramel Room”. The cake and coffee in a historical ambience get an extra 5 stars 👍.

Außerordentlich sehenswerte Ausstellung. Nicht verpassen. Zudem einsehen schönes Café mit wunderbaren Kuchen und herrlichem Garten.