When the Pinakothek der Moderne was founded in 2002, a department for photography and time-based media was established, consequently incorporating the medium of photography actively in the collections.
In September 2021 Jesse Locker, a professor of art history at Portland State University, published an article in Apollo confirming the discovery of a long-lost painting by Artemisia Gentileschi.
The Guardian published a photo of the now-terminated technician鈥檚 artwork, along with details about his motive for secretly installing it in the museum.
A work by Nazi painter Adolf Ziegler hangs in Munich's Pinakothek museum, and German artist Georg Baselitz says it should be removed. Ziegler persecuted Jewish and so-called "degenerate" artists under Hitler.