A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary

art exhibition An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhi ...

s, 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 An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own collection. It might be in public or private ownership and may be accessible to all or have restrictions in place. Although primarily con ...

by not having a permanent collection. 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

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formed by combining the two

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s ''Kunst'' (art) and ''Halle'' (hall). Like all nouns in German, the word is written with an initial capital letter. 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'' in Swedish.

List of kunsthalles

This list contains the exhibition venues, museums, and art societies that can be considered as kunsthalles.

Austria

* Kunsthaus Graz, Graz * Kunsthalle Krems ''(foundation)'' *

Kunsthalle Wien Kunsthalle Wien is the city of Vienna's institution for international contemporary art and discourse with two locations, in the Museumsquartier and at Karlsplatz Karlsplatz () is a town square on the border of the first and fourth district ...

; see also Museumsquartier,

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''(municipal)'' * KunstHausWien, Vienna

Belgium

* , Ghent * Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem * , Antwerp

Czech Republic

* Kunsthalle Praha, Prague

Denmark

* Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus *

Kunsthal Charlottenborg Kunsthal Charlottenborg is an exhibition building in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the official exhibition gallery of the Royal Danish Academy of Art. History Charlottenborg Palace was constructed in 1672–83 as a residence for Ulrik Frederik Gy ...

, Copenhagen * Nikolaj Kunsthal, (previously known as Kunsthallen Nikolaj), Copenhagen

Estonia

* Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (''Tallinna Kunstihoone'')

Finland

Kunsthalle Helsinki Kunsthalle Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin Taidehalli, sv, Helsingfors Konsthall) is a non-profit exhibition space founded by various Finnish artist and art associations in 1928. Presenting annually 5–7 major exhibitions and special events, the main fo ...

, Helsinki (''Helsingin Taidehalli'') * Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki (''Kohta Taidehalli'') * Kunsthalle Turku, Turku (''Turun Taidehalli'')

France

* La Kunsthalle Mulhouse,

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it ha ...

* Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau

Georgia

* Kunsthalle Tbilisi, Tbilisi

Germany

* Kunsthalle Baden-Baden ''(state-run)'' *

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 The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" (german: Kulturmeile). The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded ...

— 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 The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. The museum consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsa ...

— 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 — with permanent collection ''(state-run)'' * Kunsthalle Königsberg, now a market in

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...

* Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig ''(foundation)'' * Kunsthalle Kunstverein Lingen ''(Kunstverein Lingen)'' * , Mainz * Kunsthalle Mannheim — with permanent collection ''(municipal)'' * , Münster * Kunsthalle Nürnberg ''(municipal)'' * Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock *

Kunsthaus Tacheles The Kunsthaus Tacheles (English: ''Art House Tacheles'') was an art center in Berlin, Germany, a large () building and sculpture park on Oranienburger Straße, in the sub-neighborhood of Spandauer Vorstadt in the Mitte district. Huge, colorfu ...

, Berlin * Kunsthalle Tübingen — with permanent collection ''(municipal/foundation)'' * Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (''municipal/Verein der Kunstfreunde Wilhelmshaven)''

Italy

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Varese * Kunsthalle Bozen, Bolzano * Kunsthalle Meran, Merano

Netherlands

* , Amersfoort * Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam

Norway

* , Bergen * Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo * Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger * Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim

Poland

* Kunsthalle Breslau/Wrocław * Kunsthalle Danzig/Gdańsk

Portugal

Kunsthalle Lissabon
Lisbon, Portugal

Romania

* Kunsthalle Bega/Timișoara

Sweden

Switzerland

* Kunsthalle Arbon * Kunsthalle Basel ''(Basler Kunstverein)'' *

Kunsthalle Bern The Kunsthalle Bern is a '' Kunsthalle'' (art exposition hall) on the Helvetiaplatz in Bern, Switzerland. It was built in 1917–1918 by the Kunsthalle Bern Association and opened on October 5, 1918. Since then, it has been the site of numerous e ...

''(Verein der Kunsthalle Bern)'' * , Fribourg * Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen ''(foundation)'' *

Kunsthalle Zürich The Kunsthalle Zürich is a contemporary art exhibition centre in Zurich, Switzerland. It is located on Limmatstrasse, near the city centre. A number of temporary exhibitions are organized each year. In 2014 Daniel Baumann replaced Beatrix Ruf ...

''(municipal/Verein Kunsthalle Zürich)'' * Kunsthaus Zürich

United States

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sch ...

, New York City, New York *

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 ...

, Aspen, Colorado
Institute of Contemporary Art
San Jose, California * MassArt Art Museum, Boston, Massachusetts * Kunsthalle Detroit, Michigan *

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District, Houston, Texas, founded in 1948, dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public. As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visua ...

, Texas * Portsmouth Museum of Art * Dallas Contemporary Texas * MOCA Ohio *

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a contemporary art museum in Philadelphia. The museum is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, and is located on its campus. The Institute is one of the country's leading museums dedicated to e ...

, Pennsylvania * The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago *

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is an art museum for contemporary art, located in St. Louis, Missouri. Known informally as the CAM St. Louis, the museum is located at 3750 Washington Boulevard in the Grand Center Arts District. The buildin ...

* Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine * Blaffer Art Museum 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

References

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