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Virtual Exhibition by two school classes

The current version of the Virtual Kunsthalle

We cooperated with the Hans Ehrenberg School and the City of Bielefeld’s media lab for the first time from the beginning of September 2024 to the end of January 2025.

The partnership with the school entered its second phase from February through September 2026.

For this project, Nadine Kleinken taught art to a 10th-grade class for one school semester at a time, working in tandem with Sarah Findeis (a teacher at the school). The project gave both institutions the opportunity to find answers to their questions:
How can digital art and virtual reality be incorporated into the school curriculum? Is it possible to get pupils interested in art in a different way if current computer technology is incorporated? What ideas do people around the age of 16 have about the presentation of works from the Kunsthalle collection in virtual reality? What would they like to see and do in the Virtuelle Kunsthalle?

For us, the cooperation adds important aspects to our experience of participative work, in addition to the co-creative meetings. While Nadine Kleinken and the Kunsthalle are partly responsible for the differentiation of the concepts and fully responsible for the technical implementation of the ideas out of the co-creative meetings, the students themselves are primarily responsible for both. In this way, an important basis for further possible uses of the Virtual Kunsthalle can be tested: To what extent can people realize their ideas themselves with our technology, despite the technical complexity and limitations as well as a limited time frame?

The result is not only an excitingly polyvocal new prototype of the Virtuelle Kunsthalle. The students also played a key role in planning the launch and the posters to advertise the event. You can also view the posters in full size via the background gallery.

The school also has a report about the project on its website, which you can find here.

A brief view into the result

1st Round 2024–2025

A group of pupils are standing in a room with a wooden floor and white walls. They listen to a woman pointing to one of the eight medium-sized picture frames on the wall. They are all wearing summer clothing.
A group of pupils sits in a circle on the wooden floor. Various large-scale works of art hang on the high dark green walls.
A classroom filled with students. The desks are all along the outside walls and are filled with computer screens, mice and keyboards.
You can see the backs of two students, each looking at a computer screen. A program for 3D modeling is open on the left and one for photo editing on the right.
Four students stand one behind the other in a corridor. They have VR headsets on and controllers in both hands with which they are gesticulating.
You can see the backs of three schoolgirls from above. The two on the left are drawing on a tablet, the one on the right is doing 3D modeling on a PC.
A classroom with light green and white striped walls. All the desks have been moved out of the way and four students are sitting on chairs in the middle with VR headsets and controllers. A woman stands between them and explains something.
A white room with very high ceilings and lots of books on the walls. People of different ages and genders are standing in the middle of the room. In the foreground, a young man shows a middle-aged lady a VR headset. Other people are also wearing VR headsets.

This is how you enter the 2nd floor of the 10b Virtual Art Gallery.

If you have a VR headset, enter the following short link into its browser: https://t1p.de/vr-2og-schueler.

If you don’t have one but still want a 3D experience, come to one of our events.

Are you happy with the 2D view? Then you can log in here. (You can use touchscreens, but we don’t recommend it. It’s best to use a PC with a keyboard and mouse. We recommend the Microsoft Edge browser. It also works with all other common browsers, but some automated features may not work properly.)

2nd Round 2026

Four teenage boys are standing in a line in a narrow hallway. They are all wearing VR headsets and looking in different directions. Colorful drawings hang on the walls of the hallway.
Several teenagers are sitting at a large white table. They are poring over various books. You can see notepads with notes on them lying on the table, and bookshelves line the walls of the room.
Teenage girls are scattered throughout a dark room. In the right-hand part of the image, a glowing blue sphere hangs from the ceiling. It casts colorful shadows and stripes on the walls.
Tables with computers line every wall of the room. Various teenagers are seated at them. In the center of the room stands an empty table. Two girls are seated at it, in front of a tablet. They smile at the camera; one of them is making the peace sign with her hands.
A4 sheets of paper are scattered on the floor. They feature photos of rooms. Various shapes, lines, and words have been drawn on them in pencil and ballpoint pen.
Two teenage girls are standing in a hallway. One is wearing a VR headset. The other has her back to us. Several cables and a cable reel are lying on the floor.
A woman and two boys are sitting at a low table. They are hunched over an open laptop and various sheets of paper.
A group of 16 people stands on a stage; behind them are sections of a large screen and a yellow-and-blue curtain. On the left and right stand two young women, each holding a bouquet of flowers, with teenagers of various genders and heights in between, dressed in casual attire.

This is how you enter the first floor of the 10b Virtual Art Gallery.

If you have a VR headset, enter the following short link into its browser: https://t1p.de/vr_kb_schueler.

If you don’t have one but still want a 3D experience, come to one of our events.

Are you happy with the 2D view? Then you can log in here. (You can use touchscreens, but we don’t recommend it. It’s best to use a PC with a keyboard and mouse. We recommend the Microsoft Edge browser. It also works with all other common browsers, but some automated features may not function properly.)

But why a Virtuelle Kunsthalle Bielefeld at all?

Cell phone screenshot from an Instagram story. In the middle is a poster with people wearing VR headsets. Around it, it is written that one of the pupils
Things got colorful on the Kunsthalle's Instagram channel thanks to the students' advertisement posters.
Sky blue poster with curved lines. In the center is a photo of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and a woman with a VR headset. Above and below the information: VR exhibition, April 4, 2025, 4 p.m., Kunsthalle
A space with endless posibilities and new perspectives. Poster for the launch of the new Virtuelle Kunsthalle. Designed by Edda Hinzmann and Tabea Schermer from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule).
Light blue, dark blue and orange areas of brushstrokes in the background. Image motifs shine through on the left and right. Centered text from top to bottom informs: Digital art, 4.4.25, 4 p.m. start, program with food, student project. Several VR headsets hover around the text.
Poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Designed by pupils Denny Dustin Skuratov, Furkan Hirça and Denis-Alexander Mustaf from class 10b (Hans Ehrenberg School). Works of art featured from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld collection: Max Beckmann, Italienische Fantasie, 1925; Julio González, Tête dite ,La Suissesse‘, around 1932, Photos: Philipp Ottendörfer.
Everything is drawn in thin lines. In the middle you can see a person with long hair, a zipped jacket and a VR headset. In the top left-hand corner behind her is the Kunsthalle Bielfeld in a triangle. Written underneath: VR Art, 4.04., 4pm. On the right side are colorful watercolor spots in a wide arrow shape pointing to the center.
VR: endless posibilities. Poster for the launch of the new Virtuelle Kunsthalle. Designed by Konrad Leo Behrendt, Till Eckmann and Joris Schröder from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule).
A painting of a pillared corridor in beige tones in the center. On the right side in the foreground is a VR headset. Pixels in blue and magenta emerge from its lenses and the image behind the lenses also has these colors. In the bottom left corner are two statues surrounded by beige pixels. Lettering in black and beige:
Digitally altered works of art 2. Poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Designed by pupils Timea Krauth, Julia Rempel and Zahra Hadeil from class 10b (Hans Ehrenberg School). Featured artworks from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Robert Delaunay, St. Séverin, 1926; Georg Kolbe, Najade, 1928, Photo: Ingo Bustorf; Julio González, Tête dite ,La Suissesse‘, um 1932, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer.
A pixelated arm is stretched out and the hand touches a landscape. Waves appear in the picture around the hand. Within these, the colors appear more colorful. In the top left corner is a VR headset, next to it in black and neon pink is the words
Digitally altered works of art. Poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Designed by pupils Timea Krauth, Julia Rempel and Zahra Hadeil from class 10b (Hans Ehrenberg School). Featured artwork from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Max Beckmann, Seelandschaft mit Pappeln, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer.
Photo of a painted poster. Dark green background with yellow winding lines. In between, in white, a VR headset with two controllers.
Virtual worlds of Art. Poster for the launch of the new Virtuelle Kunsthalle. Designed by Svea Hollmann, Luana Allroggen and Mina Türk from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule).
Poster with a painted sailboat named Kunsthalle Bielefeld on green water. At the bottom left, a projector is aimed at the sails. Inside them is written 4.4.25 at 16:00.
Beyond the Frame. Poster for the launch of the new Virtuelle Kunsthalle. Designed by Luisa Gabriel and Eray Tunç from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule).
Image of a VR headset in a golden ornate frame. The background and lettering on the VR headset are blue, purple, brown-gold. Writing has different fonts and says: Art from a different viewpoint using VR, names of project partners, 4.4.25, 4 pm.
Virtual tradition. Poster for the launch of the new Virtuelle Kunsthalle. Designed by Levi Jeremia Krenzer and Jeremias Penner from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule).
Upright photo of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld from the sculpture park. The windows and stones of the facade are partially traced like a comic and painted in blue, purple and orange. These surfaces form a VR headset. Above and below is all the information about the vernissage: when, where, what is happening.
Traditional art and modern time. Poster for the launch of the new Virtuelle Kunsthalle. Designed by Mia Vaupel and Lucy Katharina Roth from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule).
Cubist drawing of a Pierrot with a red and yellow striped ball on his back. The background has triangles of green tones. Pixelated white and red lettering, repeated several times slightly offset downwards, forms
A space with endless posibilities and new perspectives. Poster for the launch of the new Virtuelle Kunsthalle. Designed by Henry Heldberg and Samuel Bernhardt from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule). Featured artwork from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld: August Macke, Pierrot, 1913, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer.
In the background, the pale drawing of a church corridor. In front of it, a large bronze statue of a naked, kneeling woman with short hair. In the middle of the poster, both can be seen in color through the lenses of a VR headset. Above and below the information: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 4.04.25, 4 pm to approx. 7 pm.
Poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Designed by pupils Sarah Antonia Kleine-Beek, Rosalie Gaub, Luis Maximilian Krupicka and Finn Jona Wiens from class 10b (Hans Ehrenberg School). Works of art featured from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld collection: Robert Delaunay, St. Séverin, 1926; Georg Kolbe, Najade, 1928.
Color gradient from light to dark blue with thin semicircles on top. In the foreground, the statue of a naked man from the front. He is resting his right arm on his knees and his chin in his hand. He is wearing a VR headset. A white thought bubble emerges from his head and reads: Vernissage for digital art in collaboration with the high school. On the base of the statue it says Kunsthalle Bielfeld, next to it 4.4.2025, 4-7 pm.
Art! With a difference? Poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Designed by pupil Sofía Cimiano from class 10b (Hans Ehrenberg School). Artwork featured: Auguste Rodin, Le Penseur (The Thinker), 1880-1882, a version is on display in front of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
The text “Art trifft VR” looks like a technical glitch. Below it, we see through a VR headset, whose lenses display two drawings of young and old people. In the background, the Kunsthalle appears faded. In the lower right corner the date, time, location, and organizer are written down.
Student poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition in 2026. Designed by Dominik Sommer, Joel Willms and Leon Luca Miehe from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-School).
A black VR headset floats in the center, above a painted rock cliff in shades of pink and blue. These colors also cover the background of the image, surrounded by a white border. In the upper half of the image, the word “Digitale” is written in black pixels. This is followed by the word “Kunsthalle” in black sans-serif typeface. Additional details regarding the target audience, date, location, time, and occasion are scattered across the image.
Student poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition in 2026. Designed by Joshua Hartke, Malou Ostermann, and Maria Ilin from Class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg School).
The centrally placed text “Vernissage Virtuelle Kunsthalle” is surrounded in a circle by nine black-and-white images. They depict expressionist woodcuts of angels and various figures in long robes. The Kunsthalle building stands faded in the background. In the upper-right corner, it reads “September 11, 2026, starting at 4 p.m.”
Student poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition in 2026. Designed by Elias Bohdálek, Henry Bauer, and Jonathan Wölke from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg School). Selection from Ernst Barlach’s woodcuts, 1924; book illustration from: Schiller, “An die Freude,” published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1927, general edition; collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld; and background image edited with AI.
In the left third of the image, the words “Kunsthalle Bielefeld” are written vertically in large red sans-serif letters. To the right of this stands a sculpture composed of basic geometric shapes on a rough stone pedestal. In the background, the silhouette of a person wearing a VR headset is visible in magenta against a yellow background. Two thick, dark brushstrokes, curved horizontally, run through the entire composition.
Poster created by students to mark the launch of the new virtual exhibition in 2026. Designed by Liya Salkin, Sophia Hass, and Tuana Sultan Yilmaz from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule). Featuring Julio González, Tête dite “La Suissesse”, c. 1932, welded iron on a stone base, Collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer.
The Kunsthalle Bielefeld building is visible. An oversized VR headset is attached to its facade. Holograms of computer screens can be seen on the front of the headset, all over the walls of the Kunsthalle, and in the sky. Below the image, information about the exhibition’s content, date, and time is displayed in black sans-serif typeface.
Student poster for the launch of the new virtual exhibition in 2026. Designed by Ole Rebischke and Tom Peukert from Class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg School) with the help of AI.
A painted white VR headset rests on the dark, painted building of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Both are surrounded by black-and-white images that have been manipulated with colors and distortions to make them look like a technical glitch. In the upper half, the words “VR Kunsthalle: Old Art Reinterpreted” are written in white sans-serif typeface.
Poster created by a student to mark the launch of the new virtual exhibition in 2026. Designed by Constancia Boldt from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg-Schule). Featuring a selection of woodcuts by Ernst Barlach, 1924; book illustration from: Schiller, ,An die Freude', Paul Cassirer Publishers, Berlin 1927, General Edition, Kunsthalle Bielefeld Collection.
The background features a black-and-white drawing of a church sanctuary. In the foreground of the left half of the image, we look through a VR headset at the background drawing and see it in color. On the white frame surrounding the image, the text “Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Opening. September 11, 2026, 4–7 p.m.” is written in italics in black and purple.
Poster created by students to mark the launch of the new virtual exhibition in 2026. Designed by Elona Kameri and Sofie Günthner from class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg School).
The entire background is filled with short, broad brushstrokes in various shades of blue-gray. The brushstrokes crisscross each other. Scattered throughout are one-line drawings of the Kunsthalle, a VR headset, and a kneeling female figure. In addition, text in white serif font informs viewers that the vernissage is free and that they can experience art in a new way.
Poster created by students to mark the launch of the new virtual exhibition in 2026. Designed by Jette Koralewski, Julia Brehm, Merle Marie Obermüller, and Nadja Mirza from Class 10b (Hans-Ehrenberg School).

Events

Sing. Connect. Move On: The EinTags!Chor – One Day Choir at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld II
“Will you go with me?”—at the EinTags!Chor, this becomes a warm invitation: Come by, bring your voice, and experience how a shared sound emerges from many different people. As part of the exhibition “Shared Views. Kunsthalle Bielefeld x KiCo Collection – Part II: Will You Walk With Me?”, the Kunsthalle will transform into an open sound space for an afternoon. In the current exhibition, works from two collections interact with one another: they complement, expand upon, question, and contradict each other. This gives rise to new lines of sight and perspectives—between historical and contemporary positions, between painting, space, abstraction, and movement. Just as works of art interact with one another, complement each other, and open up new perspectives, so too do different voices and experiences come together in song.
We bring these thoughts with us into our choral singing: We connect with others, listen to one another, discover old and new songs, and bring together many individual voices to form a single choir. Voice training and singing aren’t about perfection, but about openness, curiosity, and the joy of creating something together. Even though our views sometimes differ, we can listen to one another, come together, and set out on a musical journey.
Anyone who enjoys singing or would simply like to give it a try is welcome to join—whether you have choir experience or not, whether you’re young or young at heart, an amateur or a professional. You don’t need to know how to read music. The only thing that matters is the desire to share your own voice.

Registration isn’t required, but you’re welcome to sign up—that way, you’re guaranteed a spot and we can plan better. Tickets can be reserved by email at:
info@klangfestival-bielefeld.de

Led by: Kamilla Matuszewska and Nike Schmitka
Organizer: Klang!Festival e. V. in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

One day. A choir. Many voices. A shared journey.