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Developing together

The second prototype is created through co-creative meetings

Since March 2024, a great group of interested people has emerged that we met at our ‘Let’s get real’ events. We meet every 1-2 months to develop new ideas and improve existing ones.

To kick things off, we discussed our different perspectives on digitalization and art. This was followed by an examination of selected works from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld collection. Little by little, we asked ourselves questions such as: What interests us about the work and the artist? Where are there connections to current or familiar topics? Do these points offer good opportunities to use the strengths of virtual reality to communicate this work? If so, how?

The next step was to prioritize ideas and the technical implementation is currently underway. For this purpose, the possible variants of an idea are implemented by Nadine Kleinken and then discussed with the group – advantages and disadvantages are weighed up, compromises are found and the changes are implemented.

In this way, we are gradually creating the next virtual exhibition in an intergenerational collaboration and taking our Virtuelle Kunsthalle to a new level.

For our meetings is no previous knowledge required. Are you interested in taking part? Then get in touch with us.

Why do we hold these meetings? Our participants sum it up best:

I’m at the co-creative meetings because I’m interested in discovering new things (and initially had no idea about VR). Collecting ideas, discussing them, rejecting them or thinking them through further, and then being surprised at how they were implemented – it’s exciting to be part of this development process. – Participant, 69 years old

I’m taking part in the co-creative meetings because I think it’s great to be involved in the digital expansion of the Kunsthalle and to play an active role in shaping it. – Participant, 25 years old

I’m taking part because I’m so fascinated by the journey through the virtual Kunsthalle. – Participant, 12 years old

Can my reservations about immersive artworks be resolved? – Participant, 59 years old

I take part in the Co Creative meetings because I enjoy being able to incorporate my own ideas and fantasies about selected works of art and their virtual realization. – Participant, 46 years old

With the development process of the third prototype, we are testing another form of participatory work process. And through the public events, we are also researching the use of virtual reality in the art museum in feedback discussions and statistically.

Information on what lays behind the whole project and how it began can be found here.

A large white sheet on a flipchart. It is written on by hand. Digitalization is written in large letters at the top and positive and negative associations with the topic of digitalization in columns and smaller letters below.
Results from the first meeting to design the Virtuelle Kunsthalle together with interested people, 14.3.2024, Photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
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.
Results from the second meeting to design the Virtuelle Kunsthalle together with interested people, 16.4.2024, Photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
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.
There are many possibilities in virtual reality that need to be discussed. Photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Two young white women looking in thoughtful wonder. In front of the one on the left is an open laptop and a projector.
Ideas and implementation options for each artwork are collected and discussed together. Photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
A room full of craft materials and splashes of color. A projection screen hangs from the ceiling, in front of it is a table with chairs. Three men are sitting at it. In the foreground stand and sit four women and girls with VR headsets.
What some people check via VR headsets, the rest can judge via the screen. Photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
A room full of craft materials and splashes of color. In the middle stand three and sit one person. They are girls and women of different ages with VR headsets. A man sits in the foreground and watches them.
This is where we test what needs to be improved in the implemented ideas. Photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
A seating area with plain chairs on a carpet can be seen between round wall sections. Behind it on the wall is a picture with geometric shapes and these shapes repeated on the right next to it in large.
A first look at the new rooms that we are designing together in the co-creative meetings, photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
A black room from a frog
A first look at the new rooms that we are designing together in the co-creative meetings, photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Events

Have you ever been to a poetry slam and wondered how to write such texts and whether you could do the same? Or are you wondering what poetry slam actually is and would like to find out?

In both cases, you’ve come to the right place! In a weekend workshop at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, presenter and poetry slammer Niko Sioulis will show you how to transform your emotions and thoughts into entertaining texts, bring them to life with your voice and perform them on stage.

Supported by the Kunsthalle team, we will search the current exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld for the themes and works of art that interest you. You will then work on your own slam text with a few writing exercises.
If you feel like it, you can also perform your text a few weeks later together with others in front of an audience, on February 7, 2025 from 18:00 at the event What’s the word, what’s the world?

Anyone aged 14 and over can take part and the workshop is free of charge. Please register by 17.01.25 at amm@bielefelder-jugendring.de.

This workshop was initiated by the Kunsthalle Bielfeld round table. It will be organized together with Slam OWL and the Bielefeld Youth Ring organized.

Logo of Slam OWL. At the bottom is a black lettering without serifs, above it a hand microphone from which a red cable runs. This also forms the outline of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region. Logo of the Bielefelder Jugendring e.V. Bielefeld is written in yellow in a sans serif font, with the rest of the name in blue below. A yellow ring is placed around the last part.

Workshop and final event are sponsored by the Peter and Monica von Möller Cultural Foundation

Logo of the Peter and Monica von Möller Cultural Foundation. The name is in sans serif font at the bottom. A black circle with a curved ampersand is placed centrally above it.

Have you ever been to a poetry slam and wondered how to write such texts and whether you could do the same? Or are you wondering what poetry slam actually is and would like to find out?

In both cases, you’ve come to the right place! In a weekend workshop at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, presenter and poetry slammer Niko Sioulis will show you how to transform your emotions and thoughts into entertaining texts, bring them to life with your voice and perform them on stage.

Supported by the Kunsthalle team, we will search the current exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld for the themes and works of art that interest you. You will then work on your own slam text with a few writing exercises.
If you feel like it, you can also perform your text a few weeks later together with others in front of an audience, on February 7, 2025 from 18:00 at the event What’s the word, what’s the world?

Anyone aged 14 and over can take part and the workshop is free of charge. Please register by 17.01.25 at amm@bielefelder-jugendring.de.

This workshop was initiated by the Kunsthalle Bielfeld round table. It will be organized together with Slam OWL and the Bielefeld Youth Ring organized.

Logo of Slam OWL. At the bottom is a black lettering without serifs, above it a hand microphone from which a red cable runs. This also forms the outline of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region. Logo of the Bielefelder Jugendring e.V. Bielefeld is written in yellow in a sans serif font, with the rest of the name in blue below. A yellow ring is placed around the last part.

Workshop and final event are sponsored by the Peter and Monica von Möller Cultural Foundation

Logo of the Peter and Monica von Möller Cultural Foundation. The name is in sans serif font at the bottom. A black circle with a curved ampersand is placed centrally above it.

The experiment continues!

What might a virtual museum experience look like? Join us in the experimentation of how virtual reality can become a social site where art can be experienced in a new way. Come by and take a walk through our emerging digital architecture.

In the lobby
VR headset use for ages 10 and up.

More information on the Virtual Kunsthalle project

The story of Eleonora is told and deepened by a free musical improvisation on easy-to-play sound instruments by young and old participants from the age of 4. We delve into Eleonora’s inner world and understand her thoughts and wishes for a new world.

The story was specially written by music teacher Martin Boes and makes reference to a well-known work in the Bielefeld Kunsthalle. He also guides us narratively through the impressive musical improvisation.
After the sound story, the children will certainly be able to find it in the museum and reflect on Eleonora’s story visually.

Children and young people up to the age of 18 have free admission.

Please register: anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de