Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

With the app, you can explore the exhibition in different ways. In addition to the classic audio tour, there are various formats for couples, families, groups, and individual visitors. Additional content, prompts, and interactive elements offer different access points to the exhibition’s themes.

The app is available for free. All tours are available in German, English, and French.

Download the Bloom App now

Apple /// Android

"I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct." Accordingly, the American sculptor Richard Serra designed a two-part steel work on the hill adjacent to the State Art Gallery Baden-Baden.

© Estate of Richard Serra / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026, Photography: unknown

The New Yorker Dan Flavin (1933-1996) worked with the fluorescent light of fluorescent tubes since the early 1960s.

© Stephen Flavin / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026. Photography: Philipp Schönborn, 1989.

During the Blue Hour, the twilight of the early evening, the gallery keeps its doors open longer than usual. Through conversations with artists, readings, films, lectures, or creative activities, visitors have the opportunity to delve deeper into aspects of the current exhibition. The event ticket entitles the holder to visit the exhibition on the day of the event from 4 p.m. onwards.

© Exhibition photographs from the Staatlcihe Kunsthalle Baden-Baden of „Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts in Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin 26.2-16.4. 1989", Philipp Schönborn, Munich, 1989.

Die Kriegerin centres on two women: Lisbeth, a florist, and the "Kriegerin" (warrior), a professional soldier. The two met during basic training in the German Armed Forces. Flowers, too, play a significant role in the novel.

Helene Bukowski studied creative writing in Hildesheim and lives and works in Berlin. Her debut novel, Milchzähne, published in 2019, was nominated for several literary awards, including the Mara Cassens Prize, the Rauris Literature Prize and the Kranichstein Literature Promotion Award. Her third novel, Wer möchte nicht im Leben bleiben, was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize this year.

The event also includes a guided tour exploring connections between the novel and the current exhibition Bloom up! The Language of Flowers. Event tickets include admission to the exhibition from 4 p.m. on the day of the event.

Photo: Helene Bukowski © Tobias Kruse