Amnon David Ar

As part of Berlin Art Week 2026, the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum is opening a new exhibition entitled ‘The Magic of Everyday Life’. It features new works by the Berlin-based painter Amnon David Ar in dialogue with works by Kurt Mühlenhaupt. Ar draws attention to the overlooked. He finds beauty where others pass by: childhood objects, toys, portraits, people in wheelchairs – depicted directly, without distance, with a focus on the everyday.

What makes a picture an honest one? What is beauty if it does not stem from the subject matter, but from the language of painting itself?

Mühlenhaupt painted 20th-century Berlin with the same honest approach. At the Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg, his work forms the historical backdrop: two artists, different eras, one shared question — what does it mean simply to be here?