When does the exhibition run

The exhibition can be seen from July 7 to September 27, 2026.

What is the admission fee

Regular admission is 8 Euros, reduced 6 Euros. Children and young people up to 18 years have free admission.

Are there guided tours

Yes, the museum offers guided tours and art educational formats. Reservations for public tours can be made through art mediation.

Is the museum barrier-free

Yes, the building is accessible without steps and can be reached via barrier-free elevators. The Cathedral Hill is also accessible via a funicular.

What are the opening hours

The Diocesan Museum Freising is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9 AM to 5 PM. It remains closed on Mondays.

Where is the museum located

The museum is located at Domberg 21 in 85354 Freising.

Ruth Kohler shows in Freising how color becomes a touching visual language

Name: A Life in Colors – Ruth Kohler at the Diocesan Museum Freising
Start: 2026-07-07T02:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-28T01:59:59+02:00
Location: Diözesanmuseum Freising

An exhibition event where color becomes language

At the Diocesan Museum Freising, A Life in Colors – The Painter Ruth Kohler offers a wide view of a painting that places the color itself at the center rather than the subject. The exhibition runs from July 7 to September 27, 2026 and gathers a body of work that has grown from academic training, church spaces, travel, and international recognition.

Color as an idea of image and emotional power

Ruth Kohler understands painting as an immediate form of expression. Color bodies, swirls, and layers arrange themselves into images where power, tenderness, hope, fear, and sadness become visible. Thus, viewing her work becomes an aesthetic experience that closely connects seeing and feeling.

Between church space, memory, and expressive abstraction

The artist, born in 1929 in Fürth, studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and became a master student of Franz Nagel. Early on, she created frescoes, stained glass windows, and paintings for sacred spaces. Later, travels to South Africa, the USA, and New York brought new impulses. From the mid-1980s onwards, her work condensed into an expressive abstraction of great independence.

A museum as a resonance space for cultural education

The Diocesan Museum Freising connects the special exhibition with a museum educational claim: Guided tours for groups, a richly illustrated catalog, and barrier-free access create a framework in which art mediation and artistic experience come together. The atmosphere of the exhibition thrives on the encounter between the historical collection, contemporary art, and open perception.

A visit that rethinks color

Whoever enters this exhibition does not encounter a mere narrative of motifs, but a concentrated reflection on painting, light, and emotion. Ruth Kohler's images make color an event. That is precisely where the strength of this show lies: It opens a space for quiet intensity, art-historical classification, and immediate aesthetic experience. A visit to the Diocesan Museum Freising is definitely worthwhile.