Hidden History – Facetten der Subkultur in Frankfurt Rhein Main

The Frankfurter Kunstverein invites the Diamant Museum für Urbane Kultur, Offenbach to the Steinernes Haus am Römerberg. Through close collaboration, a four-week partnership will unfold featuring numerous events, activations and opportunities for participation. Hidden History is more than an exhibition. It presents documentary spaces of historical and contemporary positions of subversive and subcultural activity in the form of installations, interactive environments, wall magazines, collaborative murals, tape art, performances and video installations.

Which protagonists and activities have shaped the scene in Frankfurt–Offenbach–RheinMain in recent years? And how do they continue to resonate within the cultural fabric of our city today? Hidden History takes a look behind the city’s façades and, through exemplary case studies, offers insights into a culture that remains hidden from many. This culture, too, has its masters, legends and masterpieces. In Hidden History, we can discover them together.

With this exhibition, the Frankfurter Kunstverein expands the field of cultural perception. Curated by Heiner Blum, who has actively supported and made visible creative potential for decades, and developed in cooperation with the Kunstverein’s team, the project creates a vibrant and open space for cultural research and activity.

The Frankfurter Kunstverein invites everyone to discover new perspectives and to participate in a playful way. A central component of Hidden History is its programme of performative events, workshops, lectures, guided tours and concerts. For children and young people, an extensive workshop programme offers the opportunity to rediscover the city and its signs as a space of experience beyond digital habits, opening up new analogue possibilities.

The Frankfurter Kunstverein is an interdisciplinary exhibition space for contemporary art and culture. Here, an inquisitive public encounters exhibitions that engage the senses and discovers new perspectives on our present.

The project partner is the Diamant Museum for Urban Culture, Offenbach, which engages with historical and contemporary positions of subversive and subcultural activity in the Frankfurt RheinMain region.