Art/Power

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the completion of Peter Paul Rubens' famous Medici cycle (1621–1625), this exhibition is the first monographic focus on his artistically ambitious transfer of the cycle to the medium of printmaking and the texts associated with it. The Galerie du Palais du Luxembourg, created by multiple authors and published in Paris in 1710, not only contributed significantly 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 representative gallery work, realised with enormous journalistic effort, functioned well into the 19th century as a central aesthetic interface for art-theoretical, art-historical and, not least, art-political discourses.

The exhibition was conceived by Ariane Koller and Anna Pawlak in collaboration with SFB 1391 Other Aesthetics and the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT. It is accompanied by a publication of the same name.

A. Koller und A. Pawlak (Hg.), Kunst / Macht. Rubens’ Medici-Zyklus und der gedruckte Kanon, Tübingen 2025. ISBN: 978-3-949680-14-4.

Thursday, November 20th, 2025 at 7 p.m.

Castle Church | Hohentübingen Castle
Burgsteige 11 | 72070 Tübingen