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Virtuelle Kunsthalle and school – do they go together?

The third prototype is created in art class

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

Nadine Kleinken teaches art lessons in a 10th grade class for one semester in tandem with a teacher from the school. The media lab provides the necessary number of VR headsets, which they have now added to their range. The project thus offers all three 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 Virtuelle 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?

Through the public events, we are also researching the use of virtual reality in the art museum in feedback discussions and statistically.

But why a Virtuelle Kunsthalle Bielefeld at all?

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