“I collected what delighted me, what really not under my sklin, what gave me pleasure or also made me mad.” Henri Nannen (1913-1996) wrote this about his passion for collecting. Over decades, the founder and long-time editor-in-chief of Stern magazine built up a top notch collection out of pure gut feeling. Then together with Eske Nannen he donated that collection as the foundation of the Kunsthalle Emden, which was opened in 1986.

CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI (*1968 Göttingen) is one of the most influential action and concept artists of his generation. With his subversive-ironic performances and actions in particular he has continued to surprise the international art world repeatedly to this very day.