September 1, 2026 – October 7, 2026
SYMBIOSE – Contemporary Art between China and Germany
Hunan Art Museum, China
August 27, 2026 – September 14, 2027
FUSO and SPOLA at MANN+HUMMEL
Shanghai
In August 2026, the two sculptures FUSO and SPOLA were ceremoniously unveiled.
Selected Exhibitions
2026
COLONNA
Neubrandenburg Art Collections
The first coloured sculpture in a public space now stands in front of the Neubrandenburg Art Collections
2026
BOUNDLESS — Sino-German Contemporary Art Exhibition
Can Art Centre, Beijing
2026
Lydia Mammes – Painting; Herbert Mehler – Sculpture
Beckum Town Museum
Paintings by Lydia Mammes
Sculpture by Herbert Mehler
Exhibition opening
Sunday, 31 May 2026, 11.00 am
Introduction: Dr Peter Lodermeyer (art historian, Bonn)
Beckum Town Museum, Markt 1, 59269 Beckum
2026
Change with joy
Galerie Cyprian Brenner, Sculpture park of Villa Mertz - Heilbronn
Art and attitude meet in the park of Villa Mertz – sculptures by Herbert Mehler and Sonja Edle von Hoeßle set a sign for joyful change. The exhibition can be experienced for a year as part of selected events and guided tours.
2026
GERMAN ART TODAY
Hai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
The Hai Museum of Art Shanghai is presenting ‘German Art Today: Contemporary Art from Germany’. The exhibition features over 160 works by German artists, including paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations, and offers a comprehensive insight into the diversity and artistic achievements of the contemporary German art scene.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the town twinning between Shanghai and Hamburg. It is also a significant year for deepening the comprehensive partnership between China and Germany, as well as for people-to-people exchanges. Against this backdrop, the exhibition is not only an artistic showcase but also a significant cultural initiative that celebrates the friendship between the two cities and promotes broader Sino-German cultural exchange.
German contemporary art occupies a unique and influential position in the history of world art. This exhibition brings together 23 influential contemporary German artists who represent key movements such as Neo-Expressionism, abstraction and conceptual photography.
The works on display are characterised by bold experimentation with form and visual language, and reconcile artistic autonomy with a keen awareness of social reality. Visitors can explore Dirk Salz’s abstract spaces, constructed from paint and resin on multi-layered panels, as well as Herbert Mehler’s delicate steel sculptures, characterised by precision and poetic restraint, and Nikola Dimitrov’s rhythmic colour compositions on canvas.
2026
Deji Art Museum
Nanjig, China
The sculpture DIDIMA by Herbert Mehler is very prominent in the collection alongside floral paintings by Henry Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
2025
Without borders
Chenxi Art Centre, Xinghaj, China
2025
Boundless – Contemporary Art from Germany
Taicang Art Museum, China
2025
Without Borders – Contemporary Art from Germany
White Box Art Centre, Beijing
2025
Infinity
Museum at Würzburg Cathedral
with Sonja Edle von Hoeßle
2025
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Schrade Mochental Castle
2024
Ennova Art Museum
Langfang / Beijing
2024
Dialogue and symbiosis
Jiangxi Art Museum, Nanchang CHINA
2023
Body and space
Art space Sankt Georgen Wismar
2021
Herbert Mehler
Flottmannhallen Herne
with Sonja Edle von Hoeßle
2021
Growth | Body | Space
Goethe-Universität
2019
Skulpturen
Marburger Kunstverein
mit Sonja Edle von Hoeßle
2018
ATHENS 14
Fougaro Culture Centre Athens
FKP Collection
2017
Ansbach Sculpture Mile WORLDS OF STEEL
Ansbach
with Thomas Röthel
2016
Panta Rhei
TO FOUGARO THE GALLERY NAFPLION
mit Sonja Edle von Hoeßle
kuratiert von Auswärtiges Amt, Goethe Institut Athen, Tammen Galerie Berlin
2016
UNIQ
Gallery TURKMALL / SANAT Istanbul
2015
SCULPTURE PARK in the embassy of the Republic of Germany
Istanbul / Gallery ART 350
2012
Gold
Belvedere Palace Vienna
All Exhibitions
2026
COLONNA
Neubrandenburg Art Collections
BOUNDLESS — Sino-German Contemporary Art Exhibition
Can Art Centre, Beijing
Lydia Mammes – Painting; Herbert Mehler – Sculpture
Beckum Town Museum
Change with joy
Galerie Cyprian Brenner, Sculpture park of Villa Mertz - Heilbronn
GERMAN ART TODAY
Hai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
German Contemporary Art Exhibition
Yichun Art Museum, Yichun, China
CENTUM ANNI ART: 1925–2025 Works by 40 Artists from the Gallery
SCHRADE GALLERY • Mochental Castle
Dream Images – Inner Worlds with Galerie Art Engert
Eschweiler
Deji Art Museum
Nanjig, China
Deji Art Museum; II
Nanjing, China
2025
INFINITY — Su Xinping / Herbert Mehler
Beijing China-Germany Industrial Park, Beijing, China
Sylt Art Fair
New boat hall List, List on Sylt
Without borders
Chenxi Art Centre, Xinghaj, China
Boundless – Contemporary Art from Germany
Taicang Art Museum, China
Without Borders – Contemporary Art from Germany
White Box Art Centre, Beijing
Infinity
Museum at Würzburg Cathedral
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Schrade Mochental Castle
2024
Art in the city
Heidenheim
Ennova Art Museum
Langfang / Beijing
Taat Gallery Astir Marina Vougliagmeni
Athens
Geometric spectrums
Palais Weilbach, Flörsheim
Dialogue and symbiosis
Jiangxi Art Museum, Nanchang CHINA
2023
Cross Over
Essing Art Forum
Body and space
Art space Sankt Georgen Wismar
2022
Wabi Sabi
Anna Laudel Gallery Düsseldorf
2021
Herbert Mehler
Flottmannhallen Herne
Growth | Body | Space
Goethe-Universität
Herbert Mehler
DIE GALERIE Frankfurt
Herbert Mehler
Campus Westend Frankfurt and DIE GALERIE Frankfurt
8th Swiss Sculpture Triennial
Bad Ragaz
RAILWAYS
Hellenstein Castle Museum / Heidenheim
Claudia Fährenkemper / Nam Tchun Mo / Herbert Mehler
KUNSTRAUM VILLA FRIEDE Bonn
2020
Herbert Mehler
Lahr Municipal Gallery
Future Lab
Heitsch Gallery Munich
The Sculpture Collection Vol. 2
Lahr Municipal Gallery
Colour or shape
DIE GALERIE Frankfurt am Main
2019
Vanitas
Bronnbach Monastery
Tandem
Gallery Lausberg Düsseldorf
Skulpturen
Marburger Kunstverein
Corten steel sculptures
Vineyards
The Sculpture Collection Vol. 1
Lahr Municipal Gallery
Fougaro Art Centre ATHENS 14
Kifisia, Athens
Black & Blue
Fougaro Art Centre NAFPLION
Still life II
Gallery Tammen, Berlin
2018
Linear
Gallery Uhn Königstein
Park novellas 8
Augsburg
Everything flows
Art in Gödens Castle
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Tammen at Dietmar Brixy, Altes Pumpwerk, Mannheim
Old town hall
Oberkirch
Highlights
Heitsch Gallery Munich
Skulpturale Krefeld 01
Krefeld
Discovered
Southwest Gallery Niederalfingen
Sculptural. Communication in line, form and space
Heitsch
Gallery Munich
Munich
Discovered
Southwest Gallery Niederalfingen
3 Plus 1
Gallery Lausberg at the Wirtschaftsclub Düsseldorf
ATHENS 14
Fougaro Culture Centre Athens
2017
Ansbach Sculpture Mile WORLDS OF STEEL
Ansbach
Panta Rhei – Worlds in flux
Kleinsassen art station
Dedicato Brancusi
Gallery Tammen Berlin
PageArt – a collector’s project
KunstRaum Bernusstrasse Frankfurt
Ricerche Tedesche
Five Gallery Lugano
Best Of
Gallery Cyprian Brenner Schwäbisch Hall
All that glitters is not gold
Pforzheim Gallery, Pforzheim
Layers
Heitsch Gallery Munich
Art Weekend Nuremberg
Gallery LandskronSchneidzik
Munich Airport
Heitsch Gallery
Fabula Fine Art
Ferrara Italy
2016
Coloured edition
Gallery Angela Lenz
Coloured edition
Gallery Tammen and Partner
Panta Rhei
TO FOUGARO THE GALLERY NAFPLION
To Fougaro
The Gallery Nafplion
Herbert Mehler
Altshausen
UNIQ
Gallery TURKMALL / SANAT Istanbul
White Beauty – Art meets Landscape
Gallery Angela Lenz Feldberg – Falkau
25 years of Galerie-peters-barenbrock, Discoveries
Peters-Barenbrock Gallery Ahrenshoop
2015
Herbert Mehler
Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam
Art Architecture Art
Jörg Heitsch Gallery Munich
Parallel worlds
Coburg Art Association
Show It Again – Park Landscapes
new art association
Herbert Mehler
Aschaffenburg
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Schmalfuss Marburg
Parallelisms
Gallery Lausberg Düsseldorf
Bad Ragartz – 6th Swiss Sculpture Triennial
Bad Ragatz, Switzerland
Heavy Metal Poetry
Conny Dietzschold Gallery Sydney
YAZ – Summer Exhibition
ART 350 Gallery Istanbul Turkey
Scultura. Opere per l`archtitettura
Pietro Coletta, Vittorio Corsini,
Antonio Ievolella e Herbert Mehlert
Five Gallery Lugano
SCULPTURE PARK in the embassy of the Republic of Germany
Istanbul / Gallery ART 350
Gallery Angela
Lenz
Summer guests
Gallery Tammen and Partner
Worlds of nature
Kunstverein Münsterland Coesfeld
2014
Gold Silver Colour Shape
PRO AURUM Munich by Troner Art
Herbert Mehler
Consulting Düsseldorf
Herbert Mehler
Nuovo Gallery Daegu, Korea
Sculptures and works on paper
DavisKlemmGallery Wiesbaden
Parallel worlds
Gallery Tammen and Partner Berlin
Parallel worlds
Gallery Tammen and Partner Berlin
Spatial play
Jörg Heitsch Gallery Munich
5 years KunstRaum Riedberg
Goethe University Frankfurt
Art Days Winningen
Winningen
Steel sculpture in Germany – yesterday and today
Wilhelmshöhe Art Association, Ettlingen
2013
Parallel nature
Jörg Heitsch, Bad Wiessee
Parallel nature
Peters-Barenbrock Gallery, Ostseebad Ahrenshoop
In the river
Gallery in the smithy, Pasching/Linz, Austria
10 years gallery Bernd A. Lausberg
Gallery Lausberg, Düsseldorf
Art = diversity
Art Gallery Wiesbaden
2012
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Tammen at Dietmar Brixy, Altes Pumpwerk Neckarau, Mannheim
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Pascal Janssens, Ghent
Herbert Mehler
LandskronSchneidzik Gallery, Nuremberg
Parallel nature
Gallery Rosendahl, Thöne & Westphal, Berlin
Dialogue in steel
DB Museum Nuremberg
inwards – outwards
Juliusspital Würzburg
Sculptures dans les Jardins
Chateau de Vullierens, Switzerland
Herbert Mehler
Municipal Gallery Lahr and City Centre, Lahr
Folds
Gallery Lausberg, Düsseldorf
Parallel nature
Kunsthalle Erfurt in co-operation with the Waidspeicher Gallery
Gold – Silver – Copper
LandskronSchneidzik Gallery, Nuremberg
MICRO worlds
Conny Dietzschold Gallery Sydney
The small format
Gallery Winter Wiesbaden
Nuit Blanche
Lausberg Contemporary Toronto
Sculpture axis Eschborn
Eschborn
Pas de deux – 25 years of Galerie Winter
Wiesbaden
NordArt artwork
Carlshütte Büdelsdorf
Gold
Belvedere Palace Vienna
2011
Travellers in time
Centre for Visual Communication, Wynwood, Miami, Florida
Parallel Nature
Allison Menkes Fine Art Contemporary Toronto
Curved
Armory Art Centre West Palm Beach Florida
Residence night
Würzburg Residence
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Cornelia Kamp Keitum/Sylt
Herbert Mehler
Atelier Archipel en Arles, Arles, France
Herbert Mehler
Schrade Gallery, Karlsruhe
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
Parallel nature
Kunsthalle Schweinfurt
Sculpture park
Heidelberg
From line to form
QuadrART Dornbirn, Austria
Summer guests
Gallery Tammen & Partner Berlin
San Marino Gallery
Pasadena, California
Uncommen Ground II
Hamptons, New York
Art trail on the Reichenbach
Reichenbach
NordArt
Carlshütte artwork, Büdelsdorf
Concrete abstraction
Gallery Lausberg Düsseldorf
Hotspot Berlin
Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin
Winter Thaw
Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto
2010
Herbert Mehler
Gallery of the City of Villach, Austria
Curved
Lausberg Contemporary Miami
2009
Herbert Mehler
Tammen Gallery, Berlin
Plenty and abundance
Janzen Gallery, Wuppertal
Berlin Art
PRO-ART Gallery, Athens
2008
Cultural Award of the City of Würzburg 2007
Spitäle Würzburg
Herbert Mehler
Evangelical Hospital Königin Elisabeth Herzberge Berlin
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Uwe Sacksofsky Heidelberg
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Marie-Luise Fellner von Feldegg Krefeld
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Cornelia Kamp Keitum / Sylt
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Schrade Castle Mochental Ehingen
Emerging Art Seoul – Berlin
ORCO-GSG-Hof Berlin
2007
Herbert Mehler
Museum at Würzburg Cathedral; in the cloister of Würzburg Cathedral
Herbert Mehler
Gallery LandskronSchneidzik Nuremberg
Herbert Mehler
Gallery at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Barbara Ruetz, Munich
Herbert Mehler
Tammen Gallery, Berlin
2006
Gallery Carola Weber
Wiesbaden
Gallery Fellner von Feldegg
Krefeld
2004
Herbert Mehler
gallery tammen & busch Berlin
Colour spaces – Colour bodies
Art Spectrum GKK, Krefeld
Spione
Aub
2003
Bunny bread
Gallery Senefelder 7, Würzburg
2002
Nettetal-Lobberich Municipal Gallery
Nettetal-Hinsbeck
2000
Inclined position
Old Town Hall, Schweinfurt Municipal Collections
99 points of view
Langenhagen Cultural Foundation
6th Biennial Small Sculpture plus
Hilden Town Hall
1999
Herbert Mehler
Art Spectrum GKK, Krefeld
Art in concrete
Ebracher Hof Schweinfurt
Kunstbeirat – Ten years of Kunstverein Würzburg
Art ship Arte Noah
1998
Bavarian art of our time
Slovak National Gallery Bratislava
40 x 40
Gallery for Contemporary Art Bamberg
CIRCUM 2.2.2 – Sculptors and painters from Germany, the Czech Republic and Italy, travelling exhibition
Otto-Richter-Kunsthalle, Würzburg / Marmelsteiner Kabinett, Würzburg / Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich / Manes-Kunsthalle, Prague / Ex Chiesa della Maddalena (GAMC), Bergamo / Museo Marino Marini, Florence
X-Fair
Hafemann Gallery, Wiesbaden
1997
Traces of Suomi
Gallery Schulgasse 18, Eibelstadt near Würzburg
Flow and dynamics
Sculpture trail Veitshöchheim
1996
Art ship Arte Noah
Art ship Arte Noah, Kunstverein Würzburg
3rd Friedberg Sculpture Trail
Friedberg
1994
7 rooms
Municipal Gallery Peschkenhaus, Moers
Insights / Guardare Dentro
Atelier Mimmo Roselli, Bagno a Ripoli / Florence
1992
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Schütte, Essen
Herbert Mehler
Forum Vebikus, Kammgarn Cultural Centre, Schaffhausen
1991
Copper age
Dr Ehlert Gallery Art-Vision, Düsseldorf
Paessagi
Pesaro
Studio visits – Bayerischer Rundfunk visits four Würzburg artists
Spitäle Würzburg
Art Space Franconia
Nuremberg Art Gallery
Stretchable – rubber, caoutchouc, latex as a material in contemporary art
New art association
Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg
Nuremberg News Art Prize
Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg
1990
Herbert Mehler
Galerie im Kunsthaus, Essen
Herbert Mehler
Gallery 22, Antwerp
Art space Bretten
Bretten
1989
Herbert Mehler
Gallery of the Association of Artists of Lower Franconia, Spitäle Würzburg
Herbert Mehler
Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg
Franconian Art 89
Krakow and Kunsthalle Nuremberg
Gallery of authors 1
Munich
1988
Herbert Mehler
Staircase gallery, Krefeld
Herbert Mehler
Gallery Palais Stutterheim, Kunstverein Erlangen
Herbert Mehler
Gallery la linea, Cologne
Borderline
Florence and Pesaro
Heidelberg Art Association
Heidelberg
1987
Herbert Mehler
Böblingen Art Association
Dreamtime
Former Jesuit Church, Aschaffenburg
Herbert Mehler
Gallery of the Association of German Artists, Stuttgart
1986
Herbert Mehler
Greisinghäuser Würzburg
1985
Herbert Mehler
Otto Richter Art Gallery, Würzburg
1984
Artwork 84
New Residence, Bamberg
Franconian Art 84
Nuremberg