Divided views. Kunsthalle Bielefeld x KiCo Collection
Part I: Sharing and being shared
What happens when we share – ideas, spaces, responsibility? With “Shared Views”, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld is opening a comprehensive, two-part exhibition project that focuses on sharing as an aesthetic, social and political principle. The show combines works from the KiCo collection with items from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld collection. The KiCo Collection was founded in 2009 by Doris Keller-Riemer and Hans-Gerd Riemer – with the aim of not only creating a private collection, but also developing it in continuous collaboration with public museums. In close dialog with the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau München, which work in partnership on the selection and decisions for the acquisition of artworks, considerations on a meaningful and conceivable expansion of the respective art collections are incorporated.
From 2026, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld will be the new partner museum and is looking forward to presenting the new interplay in different forms of access in two exhibition cycles. “Vom Teilen und Geteiltsein” examines how deeply sharing is inscribed in the reality of our lives: as the shaping of space, as separation and demarcation, as the exchange of material and information, as distribution, confrontation and communication. The artworks on display pick up on traces, surfaces, imagery and personal handwriting and weave them into new shared narratives. A larger whole emerges from fragments; a resonating space of collective experience from individual perspectives.
The exhibition thus poses a central question of our coexistence: How does sharing shape our society – and what role can museums as public places play in negotiating these shared realities? This dialog between historical and contemporary positions creates an open space in which art is not only viewed, but also makes responsibility, community and exchange visible.
Artists: Monica Bonvicini, Andrea Büttner, Sandro Chia, George Condo, Thomas Demand, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gefeller, Isa Genzken, Erik van Lieshout, Daniel Knorr, Michel Majerus, Marcel Odenbach, Ulrich Rückriem, Tomás Saraceno, Corinne Wasmuht, Clemens von Wedemeyer and others.
Supported by the Kulturstiftung Kunsthalle Bielefeld
