From superhero action figures to Chianti-infused treasure hunts and poolside art, exhibitions are exploring the importance of play

The foundation walls contain niches used to store scrolls

Only ten of the wall paintings—created in housing complexes to offer visual relief from the booming German capital—remain

Online campaign criticises right-wing governments in Austria, Hungary and Poland and warns that Germany could be next

Quinquennial appoints eight-member search committee for curator of 2022 edition

The preserved head was held in Cologne's Rautenstrauch Joest Museum of world cultures for 110 years

Sotheby’s withdrew bronze sculpture of Mars from auction at last minute

Newly-funded projects include abandoned department store that was the set for The Grand Budapest Hotel film

Show of Marc Erwin Babej’s work comes as Namibia calls on Germany to return cultural treasures

Funds donated by Alwaleed Philanthropies will support exhibitions and education, including “Multaka” project to train refugees as museum guides

First exhibition will show around 300 works on paper from the bank’s vast corporate collection

Artist's donated installation pays tribute to "a small victory for science"

Project aims to produce affordable, off-grid tools

Dundo Museum's lost objects were traced by the Sindika Dokolo Foundation

Object was returned to consigner not museum from where it was looted at the end of Second World War

Enwezor cites ill health as reason for departure

Villa Grisebach says price is the highest paid for any work in a German auction

The cap is the first “rapid response” exhibit in new vitrine

Foundation of Hans-Werner Hector, one of the country's richest people, contributed €50m to the revamp

Artist Olu Oguibe believes the city caved in to demands from the anti-immigration AfD, which opposes the monument

Sale aims to raise €1m to help buy 100 dwellings

The objects “do not belong in our museums”, says the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Culture Minister says colonial past has been a blind spot for too long

Applied arts institution is showing the sculptures in a looted art exhibition

The institution is using funds from a private foundation to restore works scarred by war

Its current venue will be leased to the new Museum of Exile from the end of 2019

New exhibition looks at how love of travel was a prominent feature of 19th-century German Romanticism

The Mosse Art Research Project, a cooperation with the German government, identifies eight works and launches online database

Axel Haubrok is fighting zoning restrictions after buying the former premises of the chauffeur service for top East German officials

Max Stern Foundation seeks reimbursement of costs from the German city