Kunsthalle Bielefeld
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Tue-Fri 11-18 h
Wed 11-21 h
Sat and Sun 11-18 h
Holidays 11-18 h
Mondays closed

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Tue/Thu 14-18 h
Wed 11-13 h/14-19 h
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Where and how can I experience the Virtuelle Kunsthalle?

We regularly offer events in which the current prototype of our Virtuelle Kunsthalle can be tried out with VR headsets.
Come along and try out a new museum experience with us.

In the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Let’s get real: virtual reality in the Kunsthalle

With reference to our current exhibition, these dates will not only focus on the Virtual Kunsthalle, but above all on a virtual reality painting program.

Admission free
Meeting point: Lobby

Dates:

Wed, 11.12.24
18:00-20:00

Tue, 11.2.25
16:00-17:30

Away from home

No away dates are planned at the moment.

Further development

One goal of the Virtuelle Kunsthalle is to make our collection more easily and widely accessible and to open up new approaches to art via VR technology that are geared towards the needs of users. Since March 2024, we have therefore been meeting every 1-2 months with a group of interested people we met at our ‘Let’s get real’ events. You can find out what we do there and how you can be part of it here.

Two young white women. One is standing at the front right with a VR headset on her head and the controllers in her hands. The second woman sits further back on the left at a low table. She is using a mouse and keyboard and looking at a large screen on the wall in the background.
The Virtuelle Kunsthalle can be explored both with the VR headset and in 2D via an internet browser. Photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Screenshot of a digital room. Colorful patterns formed by circles and lines can be seen on the wall on the left. One of these patterns also floats on the right in a black-painted corner of the room. A camera floats in the middle.
Screenshot from the first prototype, 2023, photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Four people of different ages and skin colors, standing and sitting on stools, wearing virtual reality headsets. On the wall behind them, you can see which computer application they are currently testing.
Virtual art museum put to the test, International Museum Day 2023, photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
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.
In the 'Painting Disco' of the Virtuelle Kunsthalle, users can choose what music they want to listen to while looking at a painting. First prototype in 2023
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.
Let's get real at the Bielefelder Nachtansichten, 27.04.2024
View into a virtual room. A black and white painting hangs on the wall close to the viewer. Only individual areas of paint are colorful. In front of the painting, colorful areas of paint float in the air.
Users can get creative with the colors and shapes from artworks. First prototype 2023
A room under a staircase with black furniture. There is a low bench in front, behind it two round, low tables and cube seats. There is a large screen leaning against the wall and two flipcharts to the right.
Since August 2023, the Virtual Kunsthalle has its own space directly in the lobby. Photo: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
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.
Screenshot from the staircase of the vitual art museum, first prototype 2023
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

Events

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