Despite his short career, Piero Manzoni (1933?1963), who died an early death at the age of twenty-nine, is regarded as one of the most consequential representatives of Italian post-war art. The artist would have celebrated his eightieth birthday on July 13, 2013. The Städel will pay tribute to this key figure of the European avant-garde after 1945 with its exhibition "Piero Manzoni. When Bodies Became Art” to mark the occasion exactly fifty years after the artist’s death.

Frankfurt's Städel Museum will open its garden season on 30 April 2013 with a big celebration: in honour of prominent new sculpture acquisitions made recently in conjunction with the expansion of the museum's contemporary art holdings, beginning in April 2013 the Städel will present its garden, along with the extensive sculpture collection displayed there, in an entirely new guise.

A museum’s collection lives and thrives on the basis of carefully chosen acquisitions and donations that permanently augment the existing holdings and enhance the collection’s quality. With its exhibition "Give me five!” which will run from March 6 through June 23, 2013, Frankfurt’s Städel Museum is offering an impressive survey of some 100 major new additions to the Graphische Sammlung (Prints Collection) made in recent years. The works brought together in the Graphische Sammlung includes artists ranging from Adam Elsheimer through Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo to Louis Soutter, from Max Beckmann through Alfred Hrdlicka and Jim Dine to David Hockney, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley.