Exhibition archive
2025
"Writing is as important as living" - Susanne Faschon on the 100th anniversary of her birth and the 30th anniversary of her death
Cabinet exhibition October
6 to December 19, 2025
Le jardin du temps – Drawings, graphic collages, and artist's books by Nikola Jaensch April
16 to August 15, 2025
2024
Peter Cornelius. Composer, poet, "artistic person" April
24 to December 20, 2024
2023
The Middle Ages by the meter November
22, 2023, to March 15, 2024
The Notebooks – Nicolaus Werner Retrospective
June 28 to October 31, 2023
60 Years of Mainzelmännchen – A Success Story on Television and Beyond March
29 to June 9, 2023
2022
The Best for Children – Scholz Publishing and its Artists October
12, 2022, to February 17, 2023
Publication accompanying the exhibition (opens in a new tab) available
for €8 at the city library or plus shipping costs at bibliotheksshopstadt.mainzde
Brigitte Zander – Sketchbooks and works on paper March
16 to May 6, 2022
2021
Eleutheria – Space for Art by Women* September
22, 2021, to February 18, 2022
2020
Window to the World – Works by Katharina Pischedda October
26, 2020, to January 29, 2021
Rita Eller – Artist's Books and Book Objects October
16, 2020, to February 26, 2021, extended until July 26, 2021
Cold Storage – How Cold Storage Came to the Kitchen
May 13 to September 11, 2020
Publication accompanying the exhibition (opens in a new tab) available (opens in a new tab)
for €15 at the city library or plus shipping costs at bibliotheksshopstadt.mainzde
Ludwig van Beethoven's letters to the music publisher Schott
Cabinet exhibition for the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven
[March 16 to April 24, 2020] postponed due to the library closure because of the coronavirus pandemic: November 16 to December 21, 2020
Virtual exhibition (opens in a new tab)
2019
Art by the Page III – A Tête-à-Tête of Art and Literature October
18, 2019, to March 6, 2020
"...a sight that will never fade from my soul" – Mainz in Travelogues May
10 to September 7, 2019
2018
Searching for Traces. Book art by Brigitte Pröbstel September
22 to December 19, 2018
Page by Page Art II. A Rendezvous of Typography, Illustration, and Paper May
2 to September 15, 2018
2017
Digitization in the City Library – Exhibition on the dilibri portal December
1, 2017, to March 24, 2018
Expedition Custine – The Rhine-Main region and the failed freedom of 1792/1793 September
25 to October 18, 2017
Art by the page – A declaration of love for books and reading April
28 to September 2, 2017
2016
10 years of "Patient Book Seeks Sponsors" – A successful model celebrates its birthday December
2, 2016, to April 1, 2017
Literature Land Rheinhessen - The Exhibition April
29 to September 24, 2016
Publication accompanying the exhibition (Der Satz) (opens in a new tab) available for €3, publication accompanying the exhibition (Das Buch) (opens in a new tab) available for €12 at the city library or plus shipping costs via bibliotheksshopstadt.mainzde
Friedrich Lehne - Mario Derra Illustrations of Lehne's trip to Italy and his testimony in the historical collection of the Mainz City Library February
12, 2016, to April 2, 2016
Publication accompanying the exhibition (opens in a new tab) available for €5 at the City Library or plus shipping costs via bibliotheksshopstadt.mainzde