27.09.2025

Vernissage “Art/Power. Rubens’ Medici-Cycle and the Printed Canon”, 21 November 2025–18 January 2026

This exhibition celebrates the 400th anniversary of the completion of Peter Paul Rubens’ famous Medici Cycle (1621–1625). For the first time, it offers monographic focus on the artistically ambitious transfer of the cycle into the medium of graphic print and the texts associated with it. The Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg, created by multiple authors and published in Paris in 1710, not only contributed greatly to the international popularisation and canonisation of the ensemble of paintings, which was dynastically controversial and only accessible to a limited extent at the time of its creation. Rather, the prestigious gallery work, which was realised with enormous journalistic effort, served as a central aesthetic interface for discourse in art theory, art history and not least art politics, well into the 19th century.

Exhibition and Publication 
The exhibition was conceptualised by Ariane Koller and Anna Pawlak in cooperation with the CRC 1391 Different Aesthetics and the Museum of the University of Tübingen (MUT). It is accompanied by a publication with the same title.
A. Koller und A. Pawlak (Hg.), Kunst / Macht. Rubens’ Medici-Zyklus und der gedruckte Kanon, Tübingen 2025. ISBN: 978-3-949680-14-4.

Vernissage Opening
Thursday, 20 November 2025, 7pm
Schlosskirche | Schloss Hohentübingen
Burgsteige 11 | 72070 Tübingen

For more information, please view the flyer and poster.