Gregor Schneider's autumn is doubling in scale. Days after Kunsthalle Düsseldorf opens Haus u r 2026, the German artist will unveil BAD at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) in Bucharest, opening on 24 October 2026 and running through 14 March 2027. The announcement was reported on 16 October 2026.

Schneider is one of Germany's best-known contemporary artists. He was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2001 for Totes Haus u r, presented at the German Pavilion — a staging that drew strong reactions around the world — and has since pursued a rigorously provocative practice centred on his lifelong transformation of his family home in Rheydt into an ever-shifting architecture of duplicated and hidden rooms. Earlier this year Sprovieri, his London gallery, presented Rheydt NOW, an exhibition centred on Haus u r (1985–present) with livestream projections from inside the house and the film Nacht-Video (2025), underlining how the project keeps absorbing new media. He is a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

The Bucharest exhibition follows the Düsseldorf survey (17 October 2026 – 17 January 2027), giving the artist two major European museum presentations opening within a week of each other. Together they mark one of the most concentrated institutional moments of Schneider's career, spanning Western and Eastern Europe.

MNAR, housed in the former Royal Palace in Bucharest's Revolution Square, has in recent years expanded its contemporary programme, and BAD positions Schneider before a Romanian audience at a moment when his decades-long Haus u r project is receiving renewed international attention.