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Kunsthalle Bielefeld Journal

Here you can expect exciting interviews and diverse insights beyond the museum rooms and exhibitions as well as artistic contributions from students at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (HSBI). In our journal you can also find out everything about the upcoming renovation of the Kunsthalle Bielefled.

artistic contributions
Essay
renovation
A slim man, about 50 years old, wearing a brown T-shirt and blue jeans, leaning against the frame of a room door. He is wearing horn-rimmed glasses with thin brown frames. In the background are stretcher frames and paintings wrapped in bubble wrap.
Essay

Artist interview with Lars Rosenbohm

kunsthalle_front
artistic contributions

Thomas Handke: What does the Kunsthalle Bielefeld sound like?

Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Rising red sandstone in the quarry with traces of cut stones.
artistic contributions

Yana Wernicke: From quarry to art gallery – the red Main sandstone

Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Galvanised pipework, partly at right angles.
artistic contributions

Vincent Hölscher: Engine room

Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

A curved reflection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld building. Columns and the protruding first floor can be recognised.
artistic contributions

Jonas Feige: The atmosphere of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Five people stand in a row in front of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. They look cheerful.
renovation

These are our architects

Caruso St John Architects have been appointed

Presentation slide for the Museum Folkwang
Architecture Symposium, renovation

The path to a climate-friendly museum

A contribution by Prof. Peter Gorschlüter

A labyrinth of various pipes, cylinders and measurement displays. In the bottom right corner it states: Air conditioning Humboldt Forum, Berlin.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Look up – the road to a green museum

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon

Black and white photo of an old globe in a wooden frame with four legs and a ring around the equator.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Peace with Gaia – perspectives, possibilities and limits of cultural institutions in the sustainability transformation process

A contribution from Ministerial Councillor Ralph Zinnikus

Dark beige background with black lettering: Curating as care work imagines and practices grief work and care for the future and insists on the hope that a culture of the living, in which human and non-human living beings can breathe again with their planet Earth, is possible.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Curating as Care Work: Of the Museum Climate in Planetary Interdependencies and Cultural Imaginaries.

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Elke Krasny

On a white background is written several times in black handwriting, in various sizes: Museum, below a square through which is written ,Power
Architecture Symposium, renovation

The city, the box, the art and the climate. Attempt at a relational reassembly

A contribution by Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bernd Kniess

A large fire at dusk. It eats its way through a construction of wooden slats that form a building.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Exhibiting and preserving as toxic paradigms. Can cultural institutions negotiate the environmental crisis?

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann

A very high, shaft-like room. The entire floor is covered by a white, paintable surface on which countless drawings can be seen. People can be seen adding drawings all over the room. Large sheets of white fabric covered with splashes of paint hang from the ceiling.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Rewilding the white cube: the role of art museums in tackling the climate emergency

A contribution from Frances Morris

On the left side six pictures of white painted exhibition rooms. Art from the Middle Ages hangs on the walls. To the right is a floor plan drawing with many black lines running through the rooms at different densities, on different paths. A red line marks a circular path through the rooms.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

The spatial culture of the museum

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Kali Tzorzti

On the left, an oblong, rectangular flyer in magenta, on the right one in yellow. In large black letters on the top of both is written: Stannaki Forum Art and Research in Conversation. Below that on the left it says: 05.04.23 Motif, FROMPO. On the right it says: 07.06.23 Mining, AQU.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Vulnerable Processes. Vulnerable Processes. A Curatorial Reflection on the Museum in Transition.

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Doreen Mende

In a yellow-painted hall-like space stands a large seating area. The stair-like construction is made of poles from scaffolding and wooden boards.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Abhängen statt aufhängen? – Museum Spaces and the New Ethics of Communitization

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg

Two blocks of four photos in portrait format. Each shows a section of a building and a word in capital letters: Obvious, Accepted, The opposite of obsious, Incalculable, Forgotten, Hidden, Think ahead, Continue.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

The overwhelmed monument

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg

Evening twilight. On the right is a modern building with large windows. Bordering it on the left is a paved area with people sitting along its edge. You can look down to another paved area on the left. There are many people, tables, pavilions, surrounded by bushes and small trees.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Form versus function. The solution rarely lies in the middle.
Examples from the renovation of the Neue Nationalgalerie.

A contribution by Dr. Joachim Jäger

In the foreground, the silhouettes of a row of people standing leaning against a railing. They look up at a yellow glowing sphere that illuminates an industrial-looking vent.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

“Invisible” Museums.
Or: The invention of the new as the discovery of the existing.

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Stanislaus von Moos

An old, large building with several building wings from the bird
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Make Museums Great Again? The future of museum architecture

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung

Arranged in a triangle, there is a large TV screen at the top, an open laptop at the bottom right and a tablet at the bottom left. All three screens show people sitting on chairs and talking. If you look at all the screens together, they show eight different people, but from different perspectives on each screen.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Architecture Symposium Part III

Climate box versus climate crisis

Image is filled with rectangular tiles from book title images. All deal with the theme of ethics in architecture, are mostly in shades of blue, and are marked with the year of their publication. 1998 to 2012.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Moral communication in architecture. About Philip Johnson and Others

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Stephan Trüby

Magazine cover. On it stands Philip Johnson, with an architectural model of a tall building in his hand. Viewing angle slightly from the bottom up, skyscrapers behind him, title of the issue: U.S. Architects. Doing their own thing.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

The passions of Philip Johnson

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Lieber

In the photo there are huge red balloon flowers and green leaves behind a row of trees. They are attached to the roof of a large stone building with columns.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

The public museum as a monument

A contribution by Dr. Andrea Lissoni

Photo of a graphic writing in a golden frame. There it says: Art has Wumm
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Art has WUMM – The Kunsthalle and its naming as a site of civil society debates and artistic interventions

A contribution by Dr. Irene Below

Photo of a bust showing the head of a middle-aged man, with his hair combed back to medium length.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Repeatedly finally “discussed out”!?
Biographical and Memory Cultural Observations on Richard Kaselowsky

A contribution by Dr. Jochen Rath

Black and white photo of an architectural model of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. On the right edge of the picture is a middle-aged man in jacket and tie looking at the model.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Philip Johnson’s Bielefeld Art Gallery from 1968:
a challenge for German architectural criticism.

A contribution by Prof. Dr. Fritz Neumeyer

A building in the shape of a cuboid. The front consists of square surfaces of glass and opaque panels.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Years of Construction. Impulse Kunsthalle Mannheim. Architecture, Concept, Digital Strategy

A contribution by Dr. Ulrike Lorenz

Three women and two men of different ages sit in a semicircle on a flat stage. On the wall behind them is a projection, it shows the screen content during a video conversation, on the right the group from the stage, on the left a woman with chin-length hair.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Architecture Symposium Part II

What next? More and more is not enough.

Kunsthalle Bielefeld mit einigen Passanten
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Kunsthalle Bielefeld – developing for the 21st century: renovation/expansion

A text by Christina Végh

Three white men and two white women sit with chairs on a stage. A poster for the architecture symposium is beamed onto the wall Behind the panel.
Architecture Symposium, renovation

Architecture Symposium Part I

Good Spirits, Bad Spirits

Black and white photograph of a woman pouring paint from a pot onto the floor.
Essay

Between color volume, drippings and braiding

German women artists of the Informel after 1945

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