The Staircase Gallery

Rosewood Munich opens the Staircase Gallery on May 12, 2026 - a new curated space for contemporary art at the architectural heart of the hotel. The gallery establishes a permanent art program, further strengthening the hotel’s cultural focus. Rather than a traditional white cube, the Staircase Gallery engages guests upon arrival. Embedded in the open staircase architecture, the exhibition unfolds across multiple levels, offering shifting perspectives in passing. Future programming will include rotating shows by both international and local artists. Developed in collaboration with curators from Various Others - the Munich-based platform connecting galleries, institutions, and independent spaces - the gallery fosters an ongoing dialogue between the local art scene and global perspectives.

The exhibition - Woven Maps, Woven Lands  

Through porcelain, by Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias, curated by Yara Sonseca Mas. 

Maps, images and accounts gathered by early European travelers have shaped modern Western perceptions of entire regions. How they have been seen, named and remembered. This installation brings together works from several series of Kramer Garfias textile practice, engaging with archival materials from an era whose categorical and hierarchical perspective has long gone untouched.

Suspended freely in the stairwell of Rosewood Munich, large - scale Jacquard weavings move slowly in the air, visible from multiple levels and from all sides. Woven from synthetic raffia yarn rather than the silk and gold thread that once made tapestry a medium of power representation, these figures carry the names of the peoples that colonial image - making sought to define: Selk'nam, Puelche, Yámana.

Alongside them, hand-embroidered surfaces and painted interventions on historical images bring the logic of the loom into contact with the logic of the archive. Across these works, archival material is pulled into a process that is slow, physical, and open to reinterpretation. History, these series propose, is not a monument but a living tissue suited to be rewoven.