Open tomorrow from 11 am-6 pm

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Opening hours and admission

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.

Children and teenagers under 18: free admission

Adults 10 €
Adults in group from 10 persons 8 €
Persons entitled to reductions (see below) 6 €
annual ticket 50 €
reduced annual ticket 30 €

free admission for members of the Förderkreis, children and young people under 18, holders of the Bielefeld Pass, persons accompanying disabled persons entitled to a reduction; also for students and schoolchildren on Wednesdays 19:00 – 21:00

Persons entitled to a discount (proof required): Pupils over 18 years of age, students, participants in the voluntary social year/ federal voluntary service, disabled persons with a “B” in their ID card.

Further group discounts as well as discounts for schools and kindergartens are available upon request.

Current events

Black and white photo of a girl. She stands close to us and looks at us with one eye through a roll of paper. She is smiling.

Saturday , 11 am–1 pm

Art gallery for children

7 Euro

Would you like to look at pictures, talk about them and be creative yourself? Are you between 5 and 12 years old?
Then you are welcome every Saturday in our painting room! During these two hours, we will get to know the Kunsthalle and its exhibitions and be inspired to create our own works.

Come at short notice at the beginning of the event and see if there are still places available. Quantities are limited. With this offer we work without registration.
Offer for children unaccompanied by adults.

A group of people during a guided tour of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

Sunday , 11.30 am–12.30 pm

11:30 a.m. Public Guided Tour

Admission + 3,50 Euro
mit Hannah Göhler

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.

anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018
Fridays from 3 p.m., at weekends and on public holidays on T 0521 32999500

Sheets of paper lie on a colorfully painted table. Some of them are being drawn on with pencils or pastels.

Sunday , 12 pm–4 pm

Sunday atelier

included in the admission
with Alwina Westerwinter

Try artistic techniques for yourself!
Without registration, for adults, teenagers and children with accompaniment.

A group of people of different sexes and ages stands in a semicircle. Two large pictures hang on the wall behind them. They are all looking in the same direction, some are holding open notebooks and a pen.

Sunday , 4 pm–5 pm

4:00 p.m. Public Guided Tour

Admission + 3,50 Euro
with Regine Höweler

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.

anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018
Fridays from 3 p.m., at weekends and on public holidays on T 0521 32999500

Eine Zeichnung im Stil der ,Eine-Linie-Kunst‘. Sie zeigt verschiedene Kleidungsstücke eng beieinander.

Wednesday , 5 pm–8 pm

Clothing Swap Party

for free
Admission to the exhibition is not included

Sharing brings joy and makes room for something new!

Bring along well-preserved clothes that you no longer wear, and discover new favorites among the treasures others have brought. Instead of buying new things, we swap what we already have—it’s sustainable, creative, and community-oriented. In conjunction with our current exhibition, which explores the theme of “sharing” in its various facets, we invite you to a clothing swap party.

Do your clothes show signs of wear or need to be altered?
No problem—in collaboration with Transition Town Bielefeld’s Repair Café, they can be repaired right away, either before or after the swap—giving your new favorite items a new lease on life.

The new find has potential, but it’s still missing that certain something?
There will also be an upcycling station where you can add a personal touch to the clothes you’ve just swapped through creative alterations or custom embellishments.

Whether it’s for swapping, repairing, crafting, or just browsing and chatting. Come by and see how sharing leads to new connections.

The event is part of the cooperation project “Building Bridges – Creative and Sustainable”. This is a joint project of the Bildungsstätte Einschlingen, the IBZ Friedenshaus e.V. and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. The aim of the project is to bring people from different backgrounds together through shared interests. The project aims to help people come into contact with each other beyond their usual social groups.

Current exhibitions

In the darkness, a section of a wire mesh fence is visible, as if illuminated by car headlights.

Shared/Divided Views. Kunsthalle Bielefeld x KiCo Collection

Part I: Sharing and Being Shared

Kunsthalle Bielefeld Journal

Here you’ll find fascinating interviews and a wide range of insights—even beyond the museum’s galleries and exhibitions—as well as artistic contributions from students. In our journal, you can also find out everything about the upcoming renovation of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

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.

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.

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.

Between color volume, drippings and braiding

German women artists of the Informel after 1945

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