A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary art exhibitions, similar to an
art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
. It is distinct from an art museum by not having a
permanent collection
A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for exhibitions, education, research, etc. This differentiates it from an archive or library, where the contents may be more paper-based, repla ...
.
In the German-speaking regions of Europe, ''Kunsthallen'' are often operated by a non-profit ' ("art association" or "art society"), and have associated artists, symposia, studios and workshops. They are sometimes called a ''Kunsthaus''.
Origin, spelling and variants
The term ''kunsthalle'' is a loanword from the German ''Kunsthalle'', a compound noun formed by combining the two nouns ''Kunst'' (art) and ''Halle'' (hall).
Like all nouns in German, the word is written with an initial
capital letter
Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (or more formally ''majuscule'') and smaller lowercase (or more formally ''minuscule'') in the written representation of certain languages. The writing ...
. In English, it should be written with a lower-case letter (''kunsthalle'') unless it is the first word of a sentence or part of a title. The plural form ''Kunsthallen'' is usually rendered as ''kunsthalles''.
The term is translated as ''kunsthal'' in Danish, ''kunsthal'' in Dutch, ''kunstihoone'' in Estonian, ''taidehalli'' in Finnish, ''kunsthall'' in Norwegian and ''
konsthall Konsthall is the Swedish term for ''art gallery'' and may refer to:
*, a contemporary art venue in Stockholm; see
*Edsvik Konsthall, a gallery of contemporary art at Edsberg, North of Stockholm
*Göteborgs Konsthall, a museum of contemporary art i ...
'' in Swedish.
List of kunsthalles
This list contains the exhibition venues, museums, and art societies that can be considered as kunsthalles.
Kunsthal Aarhus
Kunsthal Aarhus is a contemporary arts centre located at the heart of the city of Aarhus in Denmark.
The institution initiates, commissions, produces and presents art at an international level to local, regional, and international audiences. Kuns ...
Tallinn Art Hall
Tallinn Art Hall () is an art gallery built in 1934 by Edgar Johan Kuusik on Freedom Square, Tallinn, Freedom Square in Tallinn, Estonia.
It is known for its exhibitions of modern art, held in the gallery itself as well as the locations Tallinn ...
, Tallinn (''Tallinna Kunstihoone'')
Finland
* Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki (''Helsingin Taidehalli'')
* Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki (''Kohta Taidehalli'')
* Kunsthalle Turku, Turku (''Turun Taidehalli'')
Kunsthalle Tbilisi
A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary art exhibitions, similar to an art gallery. It is distinct from an art museum by not having a Collection (artwork), permanent collection.
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, Tbilisi
Germany
* Kunsthalle Baden-Baden ''(state-run)''
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Kunsthalle Bielefeld
The Kunsthalle Bielefeld is a modern and contemporary art museum in Bielefeld, Germany. It was designed by Philip Johnson in 1968, and paid for by the businessman and art patron Rudolf August Oetker.Kunsthalle Bremen — with a permanent collection (''Kunstverein in Bremen)''
* Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (''Kunstverein Bremerhaven)''
* Kunsthalle Darmstadt ''(Kunstverein Darmstadt)''
* Kunsthalle Düsseldorf ''(municipal)''
* Kunsthalle in Emden — with permanent collection ''(foundation)''
* Kunsthalle Erfurt ''(municipal/Erfurter Kunstverein)''
* Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt ''(municipal)''
* Kunsthalle Hamburg — with permanent collection, see Hamburger Kunsthalle ''(state-run)''
* Kunsthalle Göppingen ''(municipal/Kunstverein Göppingen)''
* Kunsthalle Karlsruhe — with permanent collection ''(state-run)''
* Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Fridericianum ''(municipal)''
*
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
The Kunsthalle zu Kiel is an art museum in the German city of Kiel. With 2,000 m2 of display space, it is the largest museum in the city. It is north of the city centre on Düsternbrooker Weg. It has a lecture hall, a small cafe and a sculptur ...
— with permanent collection ''(state-run)''
* Kunsthalle Königsberg, now a market in Kaliningrad
* Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig ''(foundation)''
* Kunsthalle Kunstverein Lingen ''(Kunstverein Lingen)''
* , Mainz
* Kunsthalle Mannheim — with permanent collection ''(municipal)''
* , Münster
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Kunsthalle Nürnberg
The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art centre founded in 1967, near the city centre. It organizes exhibitions by contemporary international artists in its galleries in Nuremberg. The Kunsthalle commissions new work by a majority of the artists it w ...
''(municipal)''
*
Kunsthalle Rostock
The Rostock Art Gallery (german: Kunsthalle Rostock) was opened on 15 May 1969 as a museum of contemporary art in Rostock in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is in the grounds of the park around the Schwanenteich lake in the ...
Kunsthalle Tübingen
Kunsthalle Tübingen is the most famous art museum of the university town of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
It was founded (and the erection of its building financed) in 1971 by Paula Zundel and Dr. Margarethe Fischer-Bosch, daughters of ...
— with permanent collection ''(municipal/foundation)''
* Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (''municipal/Verein der Kunstfreunde Wilhelmshaven)''
Kunsthal Rotterdam
The Kunsthal ( en, Art Hall) is an art museum in Rotterdam. It opened in 1992.
Overview
The museum is situated in the Museumpark of Rotterdam next to the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, and in the vicinity of the Museum Boijmans Van Beu ...
Aspen Art Museum
Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Aspen, Colorado. AAM exhibitions include drawings, paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations and electronic media.
Aspen Art Museum Building ...
The Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society, founded in 1915, is a leading independent contemporary art museum located on the campus of the University of Chicago, with a focus on the commissioning and production of new works by international artists. The kunsthalle- ...
Blaffer Art Museum
Blaffer Art Museum is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in the Arts District of the University of Houston campus. Housed in the university’s Fine Arts Building, it is part of the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts. It was fo ...
University of Houston, Texas
Moss Arts Center Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Other countries
* Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
* , Prague, Czechia
* , Košice (german: Kaschau), Slovakia
* Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...