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Portikus

Portikus is a renowned exhibition space for contemporary art, located on a small island in the river Main at the heart of the city of Frankfurt.

As well as presenting current work from internationally renowned artists, Portikus show cases important young perspectives from around the world. Since its creation in 1987, Portikus has been an integral part of Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts’ activities, adding to the school's teaching syllabus and international reputation.

31/07/2026

Tanya Lukin Linklater
Her woven mathematics
2026

On the occasion of her exhibition “Crested,” artist Tanya Lukin Linklater created a limited edition.

“Her woven mathematics” is based on the score for the performance Tendon thread, which was presented as a series of Open Rehearsals with Mya Dixon, Talia Dixon, Mekko Harjo, and Mina Linklater during the opening weekend (30 & 31 May 2027) of the exhibition at Portikus. For this edition, the artist draws on text fragments and symbols to create a cyclical pattern.
In her artistic practice, Lukin Linklater understands performance as a process of embodying and transmitting knowledge. Movement, repetition, and interruption function as modes of embodied memory and transmission. The edition carries forward central concerns of “Crested” – embodiment, memory, and the Indigenous knowledge – rendering them into a textile form.

Scarf, 100% cotton
60 × 60 cm
Edition of 100 + 10 AP

More information and pre-order via our website.

Tanya LukinLinklater Jac Jak

17/07/2026

In her installations, Tanya Lukin Linklater references Sugpiaq cosmologies, symbols used to adorn belongings, customary bentwood techniques, weather phenomena, the movements of water, and knowledge structures.

Through her artistic practice, she asks what forms restitution and repatriation might take, with a particular interest in how knowledge, cultural practices, and relationships can be carried forward despite colonial control and institutional forgetting.

Photo: Robert Schittko

02/07/2026

From our editions:

Working under a pseudonym for more than four decades, Lutz Bacher created a diverse body of work spanning found objects, photography, and installations. A major retrospective of her work is currently on view at WIELS , Brussels, until 8 August 2027.

In 2013, Portikus presented Lutz Bacher’s solo exhibition, curated by Sophie von Olfers, featuring ‘Chess’ (2012), ‘Blue Moon’ (1996), as well as ‘Duck/Bunny’, installed in the Portikus attic window.

For the exhibition, Bacher created the edition ‘Water’ (2013), exemplifying one quality of her practice as both humorous and evasive, real and fictitious.

Lutz Bacher
Water
2013

Plastic
67.5 × 50.5 cm
Edition of 15

For more information, visit the editions section on our website.

26/06/2026

Due to the high temperatures, Portikus will be closed on Saturday, June 27, 2026.
We look forward to welcoming you on our other opening days during our regular opening hours (Tuesday–Friday, 12–7pm, and Saturday–Sunday, 11am–7pm) to see Tanya Lukin Linklater‘s exhibition “Crested.“
Please take care of yourselves, and stay safe in the heat.

📷 Tanya Lukin Linklater, Installation view, Crested, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2026, Courtesy the artist. Photo: Robert Schittko

23/06/2026

‚Headwaters‘ is a sculptural work by Tanya Lukin Linklater, newly conceived for her solo exhibition „Crested“ at Portikus. The work combines bentwood and beaded strings in gradations of blue, green, and yellow that evoke the estuaries of Kodiak Island, where her Sugpiaq homelands lie.

The title, ‚Headwaters,‘ refers, among other meanings, to the highest point of a watershed where a river begins. In Lukin Linklater’s practice, these geographical formations function as carriers of memory and ways of knowing that have been disrupted through histories of violence. Beadwork plays a central role in this work, referencing Indigenous women’s artistic craft practices – forms of cultural expression cultivated in domestic spaces that have often gone unacknowledged in historical accounts.

These questions of cultural continuance and transmission extend throughout the exhibition „Crested.“ Drawing on Sugpiaq visual practices and methodologies, Lukin Linklater considers how relationships, cultural practices, and ways of knowing endure despite colonial violence and institutional forgetting.

„Crested“ is on view until 30 August. Come and visit us Tuesday – Friday, 12 am to 7 pm & Saturday/Sunday, 11 am to 7 pm. We are looking forward to welcoming you!

Tanya Lukin Linklater, ‚Headwaters,‘ 2026. Installation view of „Crested,“ Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2026. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Robert Schittko.

11/06/2026

Please join us on Sunday, June 14, at 3 PM for a guided tour of Tanya Lukin Linklater’s solo exhibition “Crested.“

In her artistic practice, Tanya Lukin Linklater engages questions of belonging, memory, and Indigenous knowledge in the context of the ongoing afterlives of colonial violence. For “Crested,“ she has developed a new cycle of work comprising bentwood sculptures, textile installations, beadwork, and watercolors that draw on the visual traditions and methodologies of Sugpiaq communities.

Lukin Linklater asks what forms restitution and repatriation might take, and is particularly interested in how knowledge, cultural practices, and relationships can be carried forward despite colonial control and institutional forgetting.

Free admission.

Photo: Robert Schittko

09/06/2026

We cordially invite you to the symposium „Relationalities: Conditions of Interdependence,“ jointly organized by Städelschule and Portikus.

The symposium will take place on Friday, June 12, 2026, from 6–7:30 pm, and Saturday, June 13, 2026, from 1–8:30 pm, at the Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main.

Participation is free of charge and no registration is required. Seating is limited.

„Relationalities: Conditions of Interdependence“ examines how artistic and curatorial practices across diverse geographical and political contexts develop collaborative strategies and methodologies in response to contemporary social, economic, and political conditions. The symposium asks, how do artists, curators, and cultural workers engage with, reshape, or create the infrastructures that enable collective initiatives? How are existing institutions reconfigured, and what forms of para-institutional networks, solidarities, and systems of material and immaterial exchange emerge through contemporary artistic practice today?

Presentations and discussions will bring together speakers and interlocutors including Amal Ahaag (Metro54), Karen Archey, Zasha Colah, Niloufar Emamifar, Haja Fanta (RAW Material Company), Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (blaxTARLINES), Sarah Pierce (The Metropolitan Complex), Hamza Walker, and Mi You.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Accessibility Information
The Aula at Städelschule is accessible at ground level via the side entrance on Holbeinstraße and a gravel pathway. Please note that large parts of the Städelschule building are not yet fully accessible. If you have specific access requirements, we encourage you to contact us in advance so that we can discuss available support and accommodations.

Design: Studio Latitude

03/06/2026

The Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule and Portikus are pleased to announce a joint symposium on June 12–13, 2026. Titled Relationalities: Conditions of Interdependence, the program focuses on curatorial and artistic practices which challenge, decentralize, or transform institutional structures and networks.

The symposium invites local and international artists, curators, and researchers to examine collective approaches that probe institutional structures and establish parallel material and affective economies.

Relationalities: Conditions of Interdependence explores how artistic and curatorial practices across the world develop strategies and methodologies of collaboration in reaction to their specific current political and economic conditions. The symposium examines how these approaches reconfigure existing institutions and foster para-institutional networks and structures of material and immaterial exchange in contemporary art today.

The symposium begins on June 12 (6–7:30pm) with a keynote by curator and writer Hamza Walker, followed by a discussion with curator Karen Archey. On June 13 (1–8:30pm), presentations and discussions will be led by renowned speakers and interlocutors such as Zasha Colah, Niloufar Emamifar, Haja Fanta (RAW Material Company), Metro54, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (BlaxTARLINES), Sarah Pierce/The Metropolitan Complex, and Mi You.

Concept by: Deiara Semeco Kouto , Städelschule program curator, and Juliane Bischoff , curator of Portikus.
Rector Städelschule / Director Portikus: Barbara Clausen.

31/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of Crested and for celebrating Tanya Lukin Linklater’s first solo exhibition in Europe.

We are pleased to present Lukin Linklater’s Open Rehearsals, Tendon Thread, as part of the exhibition. The rehearsals will take place again today from 2–4 pm.

In her artistic practice, Lukin Linklater engages questions of belonging, memory, and Indigenous knowledge within the ongoing afterlives of colonial violence.

For Tendon Thread, she develops choreographic situations that explore listening, sensation, and embodied inquiry together with performers Mya Dixon, Talia Dixon, Mekko Harjo, and Mina Linklater. Rather than presenting finished enactments, these open rehearsals are intended to to share relational, ever-changing processes.

We look forward to welcoming you.

The exhibition is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), supported by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media), the Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur, and Städelschule Portikus e.V., with additional support from Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm.

Photos: Nils Heck

26/05/2026

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of Crested, Tanya Lukin Linklater’s first solo exhibition in Europe, on Friday, 29 May 2026 at 6 pm, followed by a series of open rehearsals over the weekend - 30 & 31 May, 2–4 pm.

Crested unfolds as an open constellation — attuned to shifting temporalities, layered memory, and forms of attention grounded in relation rather than appropriation.

Lukin Linklater’s site-specific work will be activated through open rehearsals on Saturday and Sunday with performers Talia Dixon, Mya Dixon (both Payómkawichum), Mekko Harjo (Mvskoke, Shawnee, Seminole, Quapaw Nation), and Mina Linklater (Omaskeko Ininiwuk/Sugpiaq). Rather than presenting finished performances, these choreographic situations unfold as relational, ever-evolving processes, where knowledge emerges as bodily memory, activated and transmitted through movement, repetition, and interruption.

Lukin Linklater approaches choreography as an epistemological practice for articulating embodied knowledge. Silence and opacity are held as a methodology of obscurity: the body is present, yet resists full disclosure. This gesture refuses extractive reading, linear narrative, and Western archival logics, in order to hold Indigenous knowledge systems in protection.

Crested is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) and the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media). Further support is provided by Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur and Städelschule Portikus e.V. Academic research for this exhibition was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada, with additional support from Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm.

Image: Tanya Lukin Linklater, bison bison (dance_hum for dirtbath), 2025, performance with Sam Aros-Mitchell, Talia Dixon, Jonathan González, Mekko Harjo, Gladstone Butler, Fjóla Evans, Miguel Gallego, Rahul Nair, Dia Chelsea, New York, USA, 2025. Photo: Don Stahl. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation.

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