A room for Karl Kneidl
June 14, 2024 – August 22, 2025
Created by Franziska Kneidl
Kai Middendorff Gallery
Die Galerie a special exhibition to the renowned stage designer, who has worked with legendary directors such as Peter Zadek, Hans Neuenfels, Pina Bausch, Heiner Müller, Matthias Langhoff, and many others.
Karl Kneidl's unorthodox 150-page monograph, which has just been published, takes center stage. It invites you on an odyssey through the heyday of director's theater. The pulse of the artist's book is based on the central materials and substances that Karl Kneidl always used in new and surprising ways in his stage spaces. A labyrinthine cosmos unfolds, allowing the reader to become an explorer.
Karl Kneidl (*1940) is one of the most important and influential stage designers in the German-speaking world. He was Professor of Stage Design at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1974 to 2008 and worked as a stage designer, costume designer and director at almost all relevant theaters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. His legacy is kept in the German Theater Museum in Munich. In May 2025, his monograph Grammatik der Bühne - Eine Gespenstergeschichte will be published by Vandenhoeck-Ruprecht, edited by Frank M. Raddatz.
Karl Kneidl is the father of artist Franziska Kneidl. He was married to the theater photographer Helga Kneidl until 1986, and since then to the writer Sevgi Emine Özdamar. He lives and works in Berlin.
Kai Middendorff Gallery
Niddastraße 84 HH
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Phone +49 (0) 69 743 090 35
Wed-Fri 14-18:30
Sat 11:30-16 and by appointment.