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Virtuelle Kunsthalle

View from bottom to top. The walls of the staircase are reddish. The gray stairs between the floors are straight, but wind upwards in a circle.

To the trailer

In the foreground you can see a young white woman in profile. She has long blonde hair and a virtual reality headset in front of her eyes. A screen with colorful surfaces can be seen blurred in the background.

To the next dates

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Background information

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“But even the prototype already whets the appetite for more. On the one hand, because the animation of the Kunsthalle architecture is well done, and on the other, because visitors can become active themselves and interact with the individual elements.” – Westfalen – Blatt No. 166, Thursday, July 20, 2023

“Moving around in virtual space, playing with shapes, colors and sounds really fascinates me. It is a playful approach to art and unites all generations.
For me, the virtual art gallery is a varied, exciting and creative change from everyday life and a new way of engaging with art.” – Participant of Let’s get real and the co-creative meetings, 46 years old

Impressions into the Virtual Kunsthalle


On the first virtual upper floor of the Virtuelle Kunsthalle you will find five works from our collection presented in different ways. Two central aspects can be experienced through different interaction possibilities: Simultaneism with its deliberate use of color contrasts and the endeavor to bring the dynamics of sounds onto the canvas, in short: music as a source of artistic inspiration. For our first prototype, however, the content was more of a means to an end.

Our main aim was to make the technical scope of our virtual reality application available for testing as condensed as possible, as the first prototype was primarily intended to explore how we should develop the Virtuelle Kunsthalle in the long term and what opportunities and hurdles events with the use of virtual reality present.

Two rooms in our virtual architecture therefore focus on the power of virtual sensory perception and ease of use (the room with the different wall colors and the room where you can decide for yourself which song accompanies your picture viewing). Two rooms allow you to get creative yourself via more sophisticated controls – either with three-dimensional patterns or color pieces from the artworks (the room in which you can take patterns from the wall and the room in which you can draw color areas from the otherwise black and white pictures). The camera function can also be used to capture and exhibit your own creations. The different ways of integrating text, music and a video test the multimedia presentation possibilities of the virtual space.

Overall, we are testing different levels of individual and collective customization, manipulation and design possibilities that differ from those in our physical exhibitions.

However, we have not yet exhausted all the possibilities. Find out more about why this is the case and how the whole project came about and how the first prototype came about.

Or read more about the technical background.

“The Virtuelle Kunsthalle is a completely new experience for me and the opportunity to perceive art differently – it’s fun!” – Participant of Let’s get real and the co-creative meetings, 69 years old

“For me, the Virtuelle Kunsthalle is an opportunity to gain new access to art through the immersive experience and thus open up new target groups.” – Participant in the co-creative meetings, 25 years old

In the foreground you can see a young white woman in profile. She has long blonde hair and a virtual reality headset in front of her eyes. A screen with colorful surfaces can be seen blurred in the background.

Where and how can I experience the Virtuelle Kunsthalle?
Angled view of a large white table. On it lie many printed-out pictures of artworks and notes. Colorful post its with handwritten notes are stuck on the pictures.

Who is involved

This is how it continues

Every wall of the room is covered with bookshelves. In the middle is a large table with various sodas on it. Seven white people of different ages and genders are sitting at it.

Developing together

The second prototype is created through co-creative meetings
A VR headset with controllers lies on a large wooden table at the front, with various craft materials such as wool, feathers and pens in small baskets behind it.

Virtuelle Kunsthalle and school – do they go together?

The third prototype is created in art class

The beginnings

The corner of a virtual room with a dark parcel floor. You can see a park with a pool of water through a window. On the left wall hangs a small-format painting made up of brightly colored areas. Below that sit three black squares with musical notes on them.

Why a Virtual Kunsthalle Bielefeld at all?

How the first prototype came to be
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Behind the scenes – a look at the backend technology

Research with the object

Two white women are standing in front of a bookshelf. The one in front is wearing a VR headset and gesticulating with her hands, in which she is holding controllers. The woman in the back seems to be talking to her and is smiling.

This is your feedback on the first prototype
A room whose walls are covered with bookshelves up to the ceiling. Scattered around the room are four white people with VR headsets on their heads. There are two children and two young women.

Statistics on the test of the first prototype

Supported within the framework of ‘Neustart Kultur’

Logo of the Neustart Kultur program, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. It is a dark gray square. It says Neu, Start, Kultur in capital letters san serif, in blue, red and light brown.

The work on the research project was funded in 2023 and 2024 as part of the state-funded program ‘Forschungsvolontariat Kunstmuseen NRW’.