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Regarding the „Line“ more

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A treasure house of art from China, Korea and Japan more

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Ink Roamings

April 5, 2025 to November 9, 2025

“Ink Roamings” presents works by the contemporary Chinese artist Jianfeng Pan (*1973) of the past decade, ranging from small album to monumental scroll formats. His multiversal work is both deeply rooted in China’s historical arts of writing and painting and shaped by his eclectic visions as a graphic designer. With his self-description as a “Social Calligrapher,” Pan, today living in Finland, shapes his creative practice of Radical Ink, respectively, Mindful Ink: calligraphy as a contemporary medium and endeavor promoting human communication and spiritual growth across society and cultures. more

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Tanaka Ryohei

November 30, 2024 to April 13, 2025

Tanaka Ryohei (1933–2019) was a Japanese printmaker who masterfully employed the Western intaglio technique of etching (Japanese: doban). His predominantly monochromatic prints depict Japan’s traditional thatched-roof farmhouses, temples, and landscapes with poetic beauty and a gentle melancholy. The textures of thatch, wood, stone, and other natural materials are rendered with remarkable precision and perfection. more

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Regarding the „Line“

20. Dezember 2024 bis Ende 2025

Writing and its artistic expression, calligraphy (kor. seoye), play a major role in Korean art. In order to illustrate the influence and importance of calligraphy in Korea, the exhibition contrasts works of contemporary Korean writing and traditional as well as modern painting with examples of ceramics and bronzes from the Goryeo period (918–1392), a peak of Korean culture. more

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The Ming Myth

Mai 22. bis November 9., 2025

The exhibition chronologically traces the artistic and technical development of blue and white porcelain and its trading history from the early phase of the Ming dynasty to its decline in the 17th century. In addition to the production for the court, the exhibition highlights export wares for various regional markets and the attempts by Persian, Ottoman and European faience manufacturers to imitate the Chinese models. The exhibits are complemented by visual material such as paintings, miniatures, woodblock prints and photographs. On display are objects from the museum's own collection, permanent loans from the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation as well as loans from Cologne's municipal museums, the Netherlands and important German private collectors. more

Programme

See, experience and understand

All of the museum’s exhibitions are accompanied by numerous different programmes – guided tours, workshops, lectures or special events, for grown-ups, school groups, children or the whole family. 

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Collection

A treasure house of art from China, Korea and Japan

The Museum for East Asian Art was opened in 1913 as the first specialist museum of its kind in Europe. It now houses one of the most distinguished collections of art from China, Korea and Japan in Germany. 

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Museum

History and architecture

At the heart of the museum’s holdings is the collection of Buddhist painting and sculpture, Japanese screen painting, coloured woodblock prints, Korean ceramics and lacquer art assembled by the museum’s founders Adolf and Frieda Fischer. 

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Cafeteria

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Publications

Exhibition catalogues, catalogues of the collection, publications on particular themes, and museum guide

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Precious Donation

The Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, sincerely thanks the Circle of Friends of the Museum of Lacquer Art, Münster, for the donation of a contemporary Japanese lacquer object.

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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Theft at the Museum of East Asian Art Cologne on 13 September, 2023

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Opening times

Tuesday to Sunday
11am – 5pm
Every first Thursday in the month
11am – 10pm (except Mai 1)

Closed Mondays; open on All Saints' Day
Museum is closed on December 24th, Christmas Day (25 Dec), New Year's Eve (31 Dec) and New Year's Day (1 Jan). Museum is opend on Easter Monday, Whit Monday, German Unity Day and December 26.

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Admission prices

€ 9.50 / € 5.50

KölnTag on the first Thursday of the month (except public holidays): free admission to the Museum for all Cologne residents.

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How to get here

Public transport: Tram routes 1 and 7 and bus route 142, alight at ‘Universitätsstrasse’
There is a car park at the museum
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Barrier-free

The museum is barrier-free. Disabled toilet available.
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Ostasiatische Kunst Köln
Universitätsstrasse 100
D 50674 Köln
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