Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Artur-Ladebeck-Straße 5
D-33602 Bielefeld

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Please note that we are unable to accept external exhibition proposals. We therefore ask that you refrain from submitting applications for exhibition projects. We are unable to respond to incoming enquiries or return any documents submitted. Thank you for your understanding.

Opening hours

Tue-Fri 11-18 h
Wed 11-21 h
Sat and Sun 11-18 h
Holidays 11-18 h
Mondays closed
24. and 31.12. closed

New opening hours starting October 2026. Click here for more information.

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Tue/Thu 14-18 h
Wed 11-13 h/14-19 h
and by arrangement

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Where and how can I experience the Virtuelle Kunsthalle?

In the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

We designed the current version of our Virtual Art Gallery in collaboration with students from two 10th-grade classes at the Hans-Ehrenberg School.

However, we do not currently offer any appointments with VR headsets in the Kunsthalle.

You at home

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

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.)

Want to know more about the creation of this virtual exhibition? Then click here.

“The Virtuelle Kunsthalle was my very first touchpoint with virtual reality. The name of the event “Let’s get real” lives up to its promise: after a brief moment of sea sickness, you are right in the middle of it and really think you are somewhere else. Images can move or sound here. Some works can even be experienced in 3D by walking through them or hovering over them (#PerspektivWechsel). A special kind of museum experience and somehow also a glimpse into the future. Absolutely inspiring!” – Participant of Let’s get real and the co-creative meetings

[The event format Virtual Vibes was called Let’s get real: Virtual Reality in the Kunsthalle during the first prototype].

With us but out of the museum

Would you be interested in us coming to your group, class or club with VR headsets and the Virtuelle Kunsthalle? Then feel free to write us.

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

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.