Ehibitions bevore June 2021 (All titles are listed in their german original form.)

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Ausstellungen 1968-2021

1968

  • Generative photography. Kilian Breier, Pierre Cordier, Hein Gravenhorst, Gottfried Jäger (January 21 to February 18, 1968)
    Stanley William Hayter – Graphics (March 3 to April 7, 1968)
  • German glass (May 5 to June 2)
  • German Expressionists from the MDM Collection (September 27 to December 8)
  • Josef Albers (September 27 to December 8)
  • Contemporary Swedish Graphic Art (October 2 to October 23)
  • Pop Art. Classics of Pop Art. Pictures, Objects (November 2 to December 2)
  • Graphics, painting, sculpture. Artists from East Westphalia and Lippe, exhibition of the WBK (December 14, 1968 to January 12, 1969)

1969

  • Henry Moore (January 26 to March 16)
  • Architecture without architects. A photo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art New York (March 9 to April 20)
  • James Ensor, 1860 – 1949. Paintings and graphics (March 14 to April 13)
  • Rembrandt van Rijn. Etchings (April 17 to May 15)
  • Kurt Kranz. Picture series and constellations (April 25 to May 22)
  • Building competition at Bielefeld University (May 22 to June 12)
  • Walter Gramatté. Paintings, prints, watercolors 1897 – 1929 (May 29 to July 20)
  • Nay. Watercolors (June 22 to August 3)
  • Hungarian graphics (July 30 to August 31)
  • Erich Engelbrecht. Paintings, wooden figures, tapestries, sculptures (August 7 to September 7)
  • Hedwig Thun. Paintings (September 4 – September 28)
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner from a private collection. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics (September 14 to October 26)
  • Leonore Esdar (September 11 to September 29)
  • Swedish graphic art of today (October 2 to October 23)
  • Space travel (October 22 to November 23)
  • Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891 – 1915. Sculptures and drawings (November 2 to December 14)
  • Graphics, painting, sculpture. Artists from East Westphalia and Lippe. Exhibition of the WBK in cooperation with the Kunsthalle der Stadt Bielefeld (November 29 to December 28)
  • PAB – P. A. Böckstiegel (December 18 to January 25, 1970)

1970

  • Schmidt-Rottluff. Graphic (February 1 to March 15)
  • Well built in East Westphalia-Lippe. BDA Prize 1969 (February 8 to March 1)
  • Young Graphics in Westphalia (March 12 to April 12)
  • Masterpieces of ancient art from the Landesmuseum Münster (March 18 to May 15)
  • Erwin Wendt (April 2 to May 3)
  • Modern Irish Art (May 3 to May 27)
  • Pranas Domsaitis, a painter of Expressionism (May 14 to June 14)
  • Esperimenta (May 31 to June 14)
  • Graphic Design BDA. Exhibition of the Association of German Graphic Designers, East Westphalia-Lippe Group (June 18 to July 5)
  • Picasso. Graphics from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen (June 25 to August 16)
  • World Photography Exhibition (July 16 to August 16)
  • Dierkes. Sculptures / Wessel. Bright pictures (August 23 to October 4)
  • Soccer (September 4 to October 4)
  • Fernando Botero (October 11 to November 22)
  • Otto Wulk. Plant watercolors (October 22 to November 22)
  • 7 from Prague. Graphic (November 26 to January 14, 1971)
  • Jiri Tichy. Tapestries (November 26 to January 9, 1971)
  • Graphics, painting, sculpture. Artists from East Westphalia and Lippe. Issuance of the WBK (November 28 to December 28)
  • Piranesi (November 29 to January 10, 1971)

1971

  • Emil Nolde. Masks and figures (January 7 to February 21)
  • Eduardo Paolozzi. Sculptures and drawings. An exhibition of the British Council, London (February 7 to April 4)
  • Modern German Art. One hundred pictures from the Landesmuseum Münster (March 4 to April 18)
  • G. H. Wolff, 1886 – 1934. Sculpture, drawings, graphics (April 25 to May 30)
  • David Hockney. Drawings, paintings, graphics (April 25 to May 30)
  • Werkkunstschule/ Fachhochschule Bielefeld 1971 (June 6 to July 4)
  • Paths to Computer Art (June 8 to July 4)
  • U. Yael Niemeyer. Plastic (June 8 to July 22)
  • Surimono. Japanese greeting sheets from the Gerhard Schack Collection, Hamburg (June 14 to October 4)
  • Sonia Delaunay, Oskar Kokoschka, David Hockney, Richard Lindner, El Lissitzky, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Max Slevogt, Paul Wunderlich, Ossip Zadkine. Portfolio works (July 8 to August 12)
  • Lucien Clergue. 100 photos (August 5 to September 16)
  • Color Paths – O. H. Hajek (August 22 to October 10)
  • Revolutionary architecture. Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu (September 23 to November 7)
  • Clover. Paul Klee from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf (October 24 to December 16)
  • WBK (November 28 to January 9, 1972)
  • Wolfgang Gäfgen. Drawings (May 6 to May 30)

1972

  • Lukas Cranach the Elder. 1472 – 1553. Graphic (January 23 to March 26)
  • Henry Moore. Elephant skull (January 13 to February 24)
  • The horrors of war. Graphics and drawings (January 16 to March 2)
  • Abstractions along the way. A Bielefeld resident takes photographs (January 16 to February 6)
  • Karl Rödel. Graphics (February 20 to March 23)
  • Friedrich Ebert, 1871 – 1925. A documentation of his life and work (February 20 to April 2)
  • Peter Gallaus. Paintings, watercolors, drawings (March 5 to March 30)
  • Henri Laurens. Sculptures, drawings, graphics (March 12 to April 30)
  • Frank Stella. Graphic. 1967 – 1970 (March 23 to May 4)
  • Otto Dix. Drawings and watercolors (May 7 to June 26)
  • Woldemar Winkler. Paintings, watercolors and drawings (May 14 to June 18)
  • Prof. Willi Pramann. Object and abstraction. Oil Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings Part I “Organic and Technical Objects” (May 28 to June 18)
  • Prof. Willi Pramann. Object and abstraction. Oil paintings, watercolors and drawings Part II “Organic and technical objects, landscape and landscape structures” (June 25 to July 30)
  • Thyra Hamann – Hartmann. Textile surface art (June 25 to July 23)
  • Alf Welski. Etchings (June 25 to July 30)
  • Profitopolis or: People need another city (July 30 to September 10)
  • Save Lübeck! – Photo documentation of a citizens’ initiative (July 30 to September 10)
  • Dieter Krieg (August 10 to September 17)
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson. Photos (August 10 to September 17)
  • Carl Spitzweg and his Munich Circle (September 24 to October 19)
  • Goepfert – Hölzinger. Integration. Objects, Architecture, Projects (October 1 to November 12)
  • German Art of the 60s (October 12 to December 29)
  • Graphics, painting, sculpture, artists from East Westphalia and Lippe. Exhibition of the WBK in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Bielefeld Richard-Kaselowsky-Haus (November 28 to January 9, 1972)
  • BBK (November 30 to December 31)
  • Nikolaus Störtenbecker. Graphic (December 3 to January 21, 1973)

1973

  • Landscape from four centuries from the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (January 14 to March 4)
  • The school is there for the people. Student works from the art classes of the Städtisches Gymnasium Oerlinghausen and the Städtisches Grillo-Gymnasium Gelsenkirchen (February 1 to March 4)
  • Alexander Calder. Tapestries (February 8 to March 8)
  • German Drawings of the Present (March 18 to May 6)
  • Free spaces – spaces of freedom. An exhibition by Herbert Muck (March 22 to April 29)
  • Mies van der Rohe (March 22 to April 29)
  • Hannah Hoech. Photomontages and collages (May 6 to July 1)
  • Detlef Kappeler. Paintings, Drawings (May 10 to June 17)
  • Reality – Realism – Reality (May 29 to June 30)
  • Siegfried Baron (July 5 to August 29)
  • Cecil Michaelis and Lil Michaelis. A couple of painters from Paris. Collages, paintings and lithographs (July 15 to August 26)
  • Rupert Shepard. London (July 15 to August 26)
  • Timm Ulrichs. Total art (August 2 to August 26)
  • Robert Häusser. Photographic images (August 30 to October 14)
  • Warsaw since Canaletto. Splendor, Devastation, Reconstruction (September 2 to October 7)
  • Kandinsky. Paintings, watercolors, gouaches, drawings (September 9 to November 4)
  • East Westphalian Puppet Theater (November 4 to December 2)
  • BBK (November 22 to December 30)
  • Sculpture of the 20th Century from the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum of the City of Duisburg (December 13 to February 10, 74)
  • Winfried Gaul. Retrospective 1953 – 1973 (without dates)
  • Depictions of anglers from four centuries (November 24 to January 15, 74)

1974

  • Winfried Gaul – Paintings. Exploring abstraction and the modern world of drawing (January 20 to February 24)
  • Horst Janssen. Hand drawings and etchings for the cycles: Hokusai’s Walk, The Copy, Hanno’s Death, The Landscape, Carnevale di Venezia (February 17 to March 31)
  • The picture factory. Popular wall decorations 1845 – 1973 (March 14 to April 21)
  • Tapestries by Sonia Delaunay (March 31 to May 12)
  • Aleksei Nikolaevich Chistyakov (April 7 to May 12)
  • Walter Breker (May 16 to June 23)
  • The Hölzel Circle until 1914 (June 30 to August 8)
  • Tet von Borsig, 1899 – 1972. Photographs (July 7 to August 31)
  • 100 years of architecture in Chicago. Continuity of structure and form (August 4 to October 6)
  • Lovis Corinth. 1858 – 1925. Watercolors, paintings, pastels, drawings (September 8 to October 20)
  • BBK. Art show – art action (November 14 to January 12, 1975)
  • Francois Morellet (November 17 to January 5, 1975)
  • Siegfried J. Schmidt (December 8 to January 19, 1975)

Study gallery:

  • Children paint and draw (June 16 to July 28)
  • Heinz Beier (December 12, 1974 to January 23, 1975)

1975

  • Gerhard von Graevenitz. Light Kinetic Objects (January 31 to March 2)
  • Hans Bernhard Reichow. Urban planning & building through five decades (January 31 to February 27)
  • Schools make art (February 6 to March 2)
  • Mordechai Ardon (March 2 to March 31)
  • J. C. Schlaun. 1695 – 1773. Baroque architecture (March 16 to May 11)
  • Giuseppe Zocchi and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Views of Rome, Florence and Tuscany (May 25 to July 6)
  • Church square Halle in Westphalia. Presentation of a design process (May 30 to July 6)
  • Human construction. Illustrated by the work of the English architects Bob Maguire and Keith Murray (June 15 to August 3)
  • Karl Ehlers 1904 – 1973 (June 22 to July 27)
  • Valentin Ionescu. Graphic (July 10 to August 10)
  • Robert Motherwell. Graphics (July 24 to September 7)
  • Masterpieces of Japanese Hand Drawing (September 21 to October 26)
  • The architecture of Bielefeld University. Photo exhibition (October 19 to November 16)
  • Max Beckmann (November 2 to December 14)
  • Exhibition of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (November 20 to January 8, 1976)
  • Master of European graphics (without period)

Study gallery:

  • Between the things. An exhibition by Herbert Muck (March 13 to April 17)

1976

  • LACRIMAE. Jonas Hafner (January 25 to February 29)
  • 20 teachers from the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (February 15 to March 28)
  • Bielefeld residents photograph their city (March 16 to April 10)
  • George Rickey. Kinetic Objects, Material and Technique (April 11 to May 16)
  • Three printers in Ireland (May 20 to June 20)
  • The Hudson and the Rhine. The American painters’ colony in Düsseldorf in the 19th century (May 23 to June 20)
  • Elmar Stobinski. Pictures 1969 – 1976 (July 1 to August 12)
  • Walker Evans. Photography 1928 – 1970 (July 15 to August 15)
  • European Small Sculpture from the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig (August 29 to October 17)
  • Monument protection exhibition. A future for our past (August 22 to September 19)
  • Chile today – artists denounce. An exhibition of Chilean artists (September 2 to September 19)
  • Doll exhibition (October 7 to November 7)
  • Max Klinger. Printmaking (October 10 to November 11)
  • Israeli Artists from Nahariya and Western Galilee (November 18 to January 4, 1977)
  • BBK (November 25 to January 2, 1977)

1977

  • American Prints 1913 – 1963. American Prints from the Museum of Modern Art, New York (January 6 to February 17)
  • Artists from Pescia and the surrounding area (January 20 to March 6)
  • Encounter. Kenneth Noland and Michael Steiner (February 27 to March 27)
  • Unreality, reality. Images as food for thought. Reinhard Hanke (March 17 to April 24)
  • Frank Stella. Works 1958 – 1976 (April 17 to May 29)
  • Renate Walter. Strawberries and toasted sandwiches (May 5 to June 19)
  • Kings instead of servants. Student works from the art classes of the Städtisches Gymnasium Oerlinghausen (May 12 to June 26)
  • Legacy of Herhta Koenig (June 12 to August 7)
  • Your city: Bielefeld. A photo documentation to discover the shape of our city (August 21 to October 6)
  • From the collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Lovis Corinth. Graphics (July 24 to August 28)
  • Environments in the study gallery 1st Rolf Bendgens. Constellations (September 4 to October 2)
  • Necropolis. European necropolises, their layout and architecture, their inhabitants (October 2 to November 6)
  • Max Beckmann. Watercolors and Drawings 1903 – 1950 (October 16 to December 11)
  • Environments in the Study Gallery 2. Karl Egon Vester. Polyester pictures (October 23 to December 4)
  • BBK (December 4 to January 29, 1978)
  • Friedel Dzubas. Paintings (December 18 to January 15, 1978)

1978

  • Giuseppe Spagnulo. Sculptures (January 29 to March 5)
  • Richard Hamilton. Studies 1937 – 1977 (April 2 to May 7)
  • Young illustrators (1). Karl-Heinz Lünstroth (April 20 to June 4)
  • Environments in the study gallery. 3rd Rainer Tappeser / Bielefeld Suite (April 27 to June 6)
  • Felix H. Man. 60 years of photography (May 21 to July 2)
  • Evidence of past cultures from Pescia (June 11 to July 2)
  • Peter Sommer. Pädagogik Hochschule Bielefeld (June 22 to July 13)
  • Graphic art of the 20th century from our own collection (July 13 to September 3)
  • 150 years of Bavink-Gymnasium Bielefeld
  • Bruno Krenz. Field cultivation (September 21 to October 29)
  • Louis Cane. Works 1968 – 1978 (September 24 to November 12)
  • Paul Klee. Late works 1934 – 1940 (November 26 to January 7, 79)
  • From the idea to the picture (BBK) (December 3 to January 7, ’79)
  • In search of the shadow (November 2 – December 10, 1978)
  • Town music. Visions of an idea (December 17 to January 21, 1979)
  • Children design – an impulse to see. Exhibition of children’s work from the Martinschule primary school (August 12 to March 26)

1979

  • From a private collection in Bielefeld. Painting and graphics 1900 – 1945. 50 years of the Bielefelder Kunstverein (January 21 to February 25)
  • Drawings and collages of Cubism. Picasso – Braque – Gris (March 11 to April 29)
  • Ulrich Rückriem. Sculptures 1961 – 1979 (May 13 – June 24)
  • Peru (May 2 to 6)
  • Tim Scott. Sculptures (May 13 to June 24)
  • Richard Hamilton – Dieter Roth. Interfaces (May 31 to July 29)
  • Theo Ortmann. Drawings (June 13 to July 25)
  • Two photo exhibitions: Albert Renger-Patzsch – 100 Photographs / Weegee – Perpetrators and Victims (July 12 to August 26)
  • New building in old surroundings. An exhibition of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects and the Neue Sammlung München (August 9 to September 16)
  • Alan Green. Paintings 1969 – 1979 (September 9 to October 28)
  • Your city Bielefeld: A district (September 20 to November 11)
  • Allen Jones. Paintings 1957 – 1978 (November 11 to December 30)
  • Self-representation – self-portrait. Exhibition of the Bundesverband Bildender Künstler, Bezirksverband Ostwestfalen-Lippe (November 18 to January 6, 1980)
  • Masks, fairy tales, children’s games. Works by children and young people from the Kunsthalle’s painting courses (February 11 to April 1)
  • Sculptures and actions by children and young people from Bielefeld (June 10 to June 17)

1980

  • Paco R. Knöller. Wall objects and drawings (January 17 to February 17)
  • James Reineking. Sculptures / Robert Mangold. Paintings (January 27 to March 16)
  • Sculptures of modernism. Julio Gonzalez, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Tim Scott, Michael Steiner (April 13 to May 22)
  • Joseph Beuys. Drawings (June 8 to July 20)
  • Energy plan. Joseph Beuys Photo-Environment by W. Krüger (June 8 to July 20)
  • Experience – Discover – Create. Works by children and young people from the Kunsthalle’s painting courses (July 13 to August 31)
  • Gérard Titus-Carmel. Drawings: Episodes and Series 1871-1979 (August 3 through September 21)
  • The dignity of man. Works by prisoners from prisons in Westphalia (September 14 to November 2)
  • Edvard Munch. Love. Fear. Death (September 28 to November 23)
  • The architect Emil Steffann (November 16 to December 30)
  • BBK – Annual Exhibition Part I (December 7 to January 11, 1981)
  • Comprehensive school in concrete terms. Art education at the comprehensive school in Bielefeld (February 24 to April 20)
  • Gerhard Hoehme – Relations (May 8 to June 29, Study Gallery)

1981

  • Jochen Gerz. Le grand amour. Photo/Texts 1978-1980 (January 18 to March 8)
  • Manu factum ’81. Arts and Crafts in NRW (March 21 to May 3)
  • Living in the city today (April 2 to May 17)
  • Fields of vision 81: Painting in France today (May 17 to June 26)
  • BBK – Annual Exhibition Part 2 (May 24 to July 5)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Franz Hochmayr. Pictures 1980/81 (July 16 to August 30)
  • ars viva. Sculptures and installations by award winners. An exhibition of the Kulturkreis im BDI (August 30 to October 4)
  • “…our kingdom will last a millennium.” Bielefeld 1933-1945. Art and Art Politics under National Socialism (September 10 to October 25)
  • Living on the edge of the city (September 26 to October 4)
  • Henri Matisse. The Golden Age (October 18 to December 13)
  • Artistic work at the Waldorf School (November 22 to January 3, 1982)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Jürgen Karius. Painting as Vision (January 8 to March 15, Study Gallery)

1982

  • Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings 1976-1981 (January 10 to February 21)
  • Dorothea Fischer. Watercolors and drawings (January 21 to March 14)
  • Giulio Paolini. Del bello intelligibile (March 7 to April 25)
  • Joseph Kosuth. Meaning of meaning (March 7 to April 18)
  • The lecturers of the Department of Design at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences are exhibiting (April 1 to May 16)
  • Lucio Pozzi (May 9 to June 30)
  • Graphic from the seventies. New acquisitions in the Prints and Drawings Department (July 11 to September 5)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Brandes, Gerke, Haverkamp, Krenz, Neumann (August 26 to October 10)
  • Max Beckmann. The early pictures (September 26 to November 21)
  • Annual editions of the Bielefelder Kunstverein e. V. (November 2 to December 30)
  • Art from East Westphalia. New acquisitions of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (December 2 to January 9, 1983)
  • Series – Sequence – Series. Annual exhibition of the BBK, Ostwestfalen-Lippe (December 5 to January 30, 1983)

1983

  • Under the sign of the swastika. Bielefeld 1933-1945 (January 27 to March 20)
  • Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi. Pictures (February 13 to April 17)
  • Artist for Amnesty International. Auction exhibition (April 3 to April 13)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Hilmar Boehle (April 28 to June 19)
  • Art in Bielefeld. Painting and Graphics 1900-1933 (July 24 to October 9)
  • Nabis and Fauves. Drawings, watercolors and pastels from Swiss private collections (May 8 to July 3)
  • Heckmanns – Summer – Students of the University of Bielefeld. Environment (June 30 to August 28)
  • Artist Films” series (films by Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, Luis Buñel and others) (until March 23)
  • Günter Frecksmeier. Foreground – Abyss (September 15 to October 30)
  • Georges Seurat. Drawings (October 30 to December 25)
  • Caption – text image. Annual exhibition of the BBK (November 20 to January 8, 1984)

1984

  • Picasso. Death themes (January 15 to April 1)
  • Viewpoints. Realistic photography. Hänel, Keller, Kulka, Langer, Mertens, Sol and Thomas (January 26 to March 4)
  • How a bronze sculpture is created. Didactic exhibition on the technique of bronze casting (March 22 to May 13)
  • Jonathan Borofsky. Drawings 1960-1983 (April 1 to May 13)
  • Krakow impressions. Drawings by Alf Welski (May 24 to July 15)
  • Zigzag. Sponsorship award winner of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (June 3 to July 29)
  • Lucio Fontana (August 12 to September 23)
  • BBK – Show your colors. Annual exhibition 1984 (October 7 to November 11)
  • introduced: Ulrich Bauß. Sculptures (October 16 to December 2)
  • Contexts. The architect Gottfried Böhm (November 25 to January 13, 1985)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Objects and collages. Sabine Funke (August 2 to September 16)
  • Who is afraid of the evil wolf? – Works from the painting courses at the Kunsthalle (December 2 to January 20)

1985

  • introduced: Yvonne Kuschel. Drawings 1983/84 (January 10 to March 3)
  • Rainer Plum. Sculptures (February 7 to March 31)
  • Palermo. Works 1963-1977 (January 27 to March 17)
  • Astrid Klein – Rudolf Bonvie. Photographic works (March 28 to May 19)
  • WE. Photographers see the Federal Republic of Germany (April 18 to June 2)
  • introduced: Jutta Ehrhardt. Soul pictures (May 9 to July 24)
  • 7000 oaks (June 2 to August 11)
  • Hans von Drumpt. Works 1981-1985 (June 13 to August 4)
  • introduced: Antje Schnülle. Compositions (August 8 to October 6)
  • The newcomers at the BBK (August 15 to September 29)
  • Georg Baselitz. Four Walls (September 1 to October 27)
  • Eight hours of school is not yet a day (October 20 to December 1)
  • O my time! So namelessly torn… On the World View of Expressionism (November 16 to January 26, 1986)
  • introduced: Martin Scholz. Painting (November 7 to January 5, 1986)
  • The return of the barbarians. Europeans and “savages” in the caricature of Honoré Daumier (December 12 to February 9, 1986)

1986

  • Francesco LoSavio. Space – Light (February 9 to March 30)
  • Joseph Beuys. Prints from the Kunsthalle collection (until March 9)
  • Hans Ehrenberg School Sennestadt. Art lessons in the upper secondary school (March 2 to April 27)
  • introduced: Dieter Kahl. Area rooms (March 13 to April 27)
  • The landscape. Masterpieces of the 16th-20th century A collection from the Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (April 13 to June 22)
  • Sandro Chia. Passione per l’arte – Passion for art (May 11 to June 22)
  • introduced: Wolfram Odin. Fire pictures (June 6 to July 27)
  • The presence of color (July 6 to August 31)
  • Positions in Experimental Photography (July 10 to September 14)
  • Room pictures in bronze. Per Kirkeby, Markus Lüpertz, A. R. Penck (July 20 to September 28)
  • Objects – montages – collages. Annual exhibition of the BBK (September 21 to October 26)
  • Idea – Space – Construction. Positions of Polish Art Today (September 24 to November 2)
  • European arts and crafts 1500-1800. Legacy F.K.A./G.A.E. Huelsmann (November 9 to January 4, 1987)
  • Time shut down – industrial worlds (November 14 to January 18, 1987)

1987

  • Enzo Cucchi. Guida al disegno (January 18 to March 1)
  • Klaus Merkel. Geisha, beautiful neck, contemplatio (January 22 to March 22)
  • Richard Oelze (1900-1980). Paintings and Drawings (March 15 to April 26)
  • Thomas Schnurr. Drawings, objects (April 2 to May 17)
  • Beyond the image. Works by Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold and Richard Tuttle from the Dohorty & Herbert Vogel Collection, New York (May 3 to July 5)
  • Closed due to construction work (June 6 to September 30)
  • Hans von Marées and Modernism in Germany (October 25, 1987 to January 10, 1988)
  • black and white on paper. Annual exhibition of the BBK (May 31 to July 5, Study Gallery)
  • a real subject. Oberstufen-Kolleg at Bielefeld University (October 18 to November 29, Study Gallery)
  • When giants sneeze. Works from the painting courses at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (December 13, 1987 to February 7, 1988, Study Gallery)

1988

  • David Rabinowitsch. Sculptures and Drawings 1963-1977 (January 21 to April 3)
  • Picasso’s classicism. Works 1914-1934 (April 17 to July 31)
  • Annual exhibition of the Berufsverband bildender Künstler (BBK) Ostwestfalen-Lippe (August 21 to September 18)
  • Carlfriedrich Claus. Language sheets Franz Mon. Visible Language (October 2 to November 27)
  • Joseph Beuys. The secret block for a secret person in Ireland (December 11 to February 26, 1989)
  • Reflexes. Gottfried Pilz (March 5 to April 17, Study Gallery)
  • Everyone here does what they want anyway. Artists Unlimited e. V. (May 5 to June 19, Studiengalerie)
  • Artists Unlimited and their guests: Dillwyn Smith (July 7 to August 21, Studiengalerie)
  • Artistic techniques: Alf Welski. Lithography (September 4 to October 16, Study Gallery)
  • Architectural details using the example of Gottfried Böhm’s buildings (from October 30, Study Gallery)
  • Pop art and realism. Works from the Graphic Collection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (December 15 to January 22, Study Gallery)

1989

  • Helmut Federle. Paintings and Drawings 1925-1988 (March 19 to May 7)
  • Sketches from the Renaissance to the Present from the Basel Museum of Prints and Drawings (May 28 to August 13)
  • The photograph as an autonomous image. Experimental Design 1839-1989 (September 3 to November 12)
  • Axel Kasseböhmer. Painting (November 24 to January)
  • Georg Baselitz. Woodcut 1966-1989 (December 3 to February 4)
  • Yvonne Kuschel. Stadtzeichnerin von Nürnberg 1988 (February 9 to March 26, Studiengalerie)
  • New architecture in detail. Heinz Bienefeld – Gottfried Böhm – Karljosef Schattner (April 9 to May 28, Study Gallery)
  • Richard Serra. Bielefeld Sculpture (April 20 to May 28, Studiengalerie)
  • Photo images. Exhibition of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler, Bezirksverband Ostwestfalen-Lippe (June 11 to August 13, Studiengalerie)
  • Artistic Techniques IV: Photography (September 3 to November 12, Study Gallery)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Monika Huber. Painting (November 30, 1989 to January 14, 1990, Study Gallery)

1990

  • Concept Art, Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Land Art. Marzona Collection (February 18 to April 8)
  • Gottfried Pilz. Aus-Grenzen (April 29 to June 24)
  • Annual exhibition of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (BBK) Ostwestfalen-Lippe (July 15 to August 26)
  • Continuity and change. From Rococo table decorations to the table culture of industrial design (September 16 to November 18)
  • New Objectivity – Magical Realism (December 2, 1990 to February 10, 1991)
  • Richard Serra. Axis Documentation (February 1 to March 18, Study Gallery)
  • Frank O. Gehry. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. The American architect’s first building in Europe (April 2 to May 20, Study Gallery)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Johannes Kares. Sculptures (June 7 to July 22, Study Gallery)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Veronika Radulovic. Pictures (August 9 to September 23, Study Gallery)
  • Jochen Geilen. Artistic Techniques V: Copperplate Engraving (October 11 to November 25, Study Gallery)

1991

  • A perspective for the future. The permanent collection. Rarely shown works. Loans from private collections (March 17 to May 19)
  • Hermann Stenner. 1891-1914. Retrospective on the 100th anniversary Birthday (June 2 to August 25)
  • Picasso’s surrealism. Works 1925-1937 (September 15 to December 15)
  • Cabinet – Insights into five hundred years of European decorative arts (February 7 to April 1, Study Gallery)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Elisabeth Vary. Objects (April 18 to May 26, Study Gallery)
  • Encounters. German-French artist exchange. Génie de la Bastille, Paris & Artists Unlimited e.V., Bielefeld (June 6 to July 21, Studiengalerie)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Joseph Felix Müller (August 1 to September 15, Study Gallery)
  • Artistic Techniques VI: The Woodcut (September 26 to November 10, Study Gallery)
  • Annual exhibition of the Berufsverband bildender Künstler (BBK) Ostwestfalen-Lippe (November 24, Studiengalerie)

1992

  • Karl-Heinz Meyer and students. An exhibition of the Bundesverband Bildender Künstler (BBK), Bezirksverband Ostwestfalen-Lippe (January 19 to March 15)
  • Manolo Millares. Works from 1951 to 1972 (March 29 to May 17)
  • Art for art’s sake. Stuttgart Impulses (1977-1983) for Contemporary Art (August 16 to October 18)
  • O man. The Portrait of Expressionism (November 29 to February 14)
  • Thomas Locher. Double room (January 16 to March 1, Study Gallery)
  • Roland Fischer. Portraits (March 12 to April 26, Study Gallery)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Wolfram Odin (August 9 to September 20, Study Gallery)
  • Souvenir. Frank Udo Tielmann and Andreas Eucker (October 8 to November 22, Studiengalerie)
  • My art gallery. An exhibition by children, not just for children (December 6, Study Gallery)

1993

  • Wolfram Odin. Trel (January 21 to February 28)
  • Art for art’s sake. Thomas Grünfeld – Thomas Locher – Raimund Luckwald – Platino – Lothar Römer – Rolf Walz – Peter Zimmermann (March 14 to May 2)
  • My art gallery. Works from the children’s painting courses (March 11 to April 24)
  • I want to show architecture as it is. Klaus Kinold, photographer (May 9 to June 27)
  • Horst Reusche. RIHBOKK Immaculé – Submarine Bunker (May 16 to June 20)
  • Vera Loermann. Really? (May 16 to June 20)
  • Frank O. Gehry. Selected architectural projects (July 18 to August 15 or September 12)
  • Annual exhibition of the BBK. 3 rooms (July 25 to August 15 or September 12)
  • Picasso. Last pictures (October 17 to January 30, 1994)

1994

  • Jürgen Klauke. Prosecuritas (February 20 to April 17)
  • The return to the origin. The Graphic Cabinet of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (April 10 to May 12)
  • Positions in painting. Annual exhibition of the BBK (April 28 to June 19)
  • Victory over the sun. The Graphic Cabinet of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (June 16 to August 21)
  • Boehm. Fathers and sons (June 26 to August 14)
  • The Body – Le Corps. The body as the subject of the latest art from Canada (August 28 to October 16)
  • I had no idea what it was going to be – and then this is what came out. Works from the Holiday Games ’94 (September 16 to October 23)
  • Oskar Kokoschka. Emigrant life. Prague and London 1934-1953 (November 20 to February 19, 1995)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Sabine Funke (July 26 to September 9, Study Gallery)
  • Young artists in the study gallery. Klaus Wittkamp (September 27 to November 11, Study Gallery)
  • BBK (October 7 to November 11, Study Gallery)
  • The Graphic Cabinet. Daniel Buren – Joseph Kosuth (November 30 to January 22, 1995, Studiengalerie)
  • Who is afraid of the evil wolf? Works from the painting courses at the Kunsthalle (study gallery)

1995

  • Expressionist paintings. Ahlers Group Collection (March 12 to May 7)
  • Full House. From the Kunsthalle’s own collection (May 21 to July 16)
  • Sean Scully. The Catherine Paintings (July 30 to September 24)
  • László Moholy-Nagy. Idea and effect. Echoes of his work in contemporary art (October 8 to November 26)
  • Blumenstücke – Kunststücke (December 10 to February 25, 1996)
  • Kokoschka – Reactions (February 8 to March 12, Study Gallery)
  • Beate Günther. Las Hilanderas (March 22 to April 30, Study Gallery)
  • Nitschke + Nitschke. Twinned with a room (March 10 to June 25, Studiengalerie)
  • Felizitas Mentel. Lava Field (July 5 to August 20, Study Gallery)
  • Annual exhibition of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (August 30 to October 8/15, Study Gallery)

1996

  • A. T. Schaefer. Places of color. Works 1989-1996 (March 17 to May 5)
  • Langlands & Bell (June 9 to July 14)
  • Abstract Painting Today – nuevas abstracciones (July 28 to September 22)
  • Ideal and idyllic. Man and Nature in the 19th Century (September 19 to November 17)
  • Henri Matisse. The Unknown Face 1945-1954 (October 10 to November 24)
  • Diane Arbus. Untitled Photographs (October 10 to November 24)
  • Irma Stern and Expressionism. Africa and Europe. Paintings and Drawings until 1945 (December 8 to February 9/23, 1997)
  • Hanne Darboven. 140 sheets for Walter Mehring. Gallery of Graphic Arts (March 6 to April 21, Study Gallery)
  • Truong Tan (May 8 to June 23, Study Gallery)
  • Annual exhibition of the BBK (July 10 to August 25, Study Gallery)
  • Gina Lee Felber (September 11 to October 27/October 10 to November 24, Study Gallery)
  • Text-Pictures (November 13 to January, Study Gallery)

1997

  • New Collection II Minimal Art and Conceptual Art (until April 27)
  • Eduardo Chillida. Monument to Tolerance (February 2 to March 30)
  • 20 years of the Bielefeld Colloquium New Poetry (April 10 to May 4)
  • Not Vital. Totem and Taboo (May 15 to August 3)
  • Contemporary art from Africa. The second face. African Masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection, Geneva (May 15 to August 3)
  • Robert Longo. Magellan (August 17 to October 5)
  • New Collection III Classics of the 20th Century (August 17 to November 16)
  • Peter August Böckstiegel. People and Landscapes (October 19 to January 4, 1998)
  • Jonathan Lasker. Gemälde / Paintings 1977-1997 (November 30 to January 25, 1998)

1998

  • From Munch to Warhol. New acquisitions (February 1 to March 15)
  • Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artistic path (March 29 to May 24)
  • Max Bill. Typography, Advertising, Book Design (March 29 to May 24, Study Gallery)
  • Hiroshi Sugimoto (March 29 to May 24)
  • Thomas Demand (June 11 to September 6)
  • Ronald Bladen (1918-1988) (June 11 to September 6)
  • Transfer. Poland – North Rhine-Westphalia (September 20 to November 15)
  • 30 years of Kunsthalle Bielefeld (September 27 to November 15)
  • Max Beckmann. Landscape as Stranger (November 29 to February 14, 1999)

1999

  • Louise Bourgeois. Spiders, loners, pairs (February 28 to May 2)
  • Michael Buthe. Early drawings and diaries (May 16 to July 25)
  • Käthe Kollwitz. The Image of the Woman (August 8 to October 3)
  • I call myself the painter Konrad Lueg. Pictures 1963-1968 (November 14 to January 16, 2000)
  • From Arp to Warhol. Permanent loans from the Staff Foundation (October 24 to January 9, 2000)

2000

  • Kazimir Malevich. The late work (February 20 to May 21)
  • Robert Lax. Three Windows (March 3 to May 21, Study Gallery)
  • Siegfried Anzinger (June 4 to August 20)
  • Heinz Beier. Scriptural Images (June 4 to August 20, Study Gallery)
  • The bathers. Man and Nature in German Expressionism (September 3 to November 19)
  • The Bathers – Reactions from a Child’s Perspective (November 4 to December 3, Study Gallery)
  • Herlinde Koelbl. Traces of Power (September 20 to November 19)
  • Abstract Photography (December 3 to February 18, 2001)
  • Matthias Müller. Fog (December 13 to February 18, 2001, Study Gallery)

2001

  • Henri Laurens. Images of Women, Women’s Bodies (March 4 to May 27)
  • Wilfried Riess. Unknown Silence (March 7 to May 27, Study Gallery)
  • Art Works. Marzona Collection – Art around 1968 (June 17 to August 19)
  • Gabriele Undine Meyer. Recall Katzenstein (June 27 to August 19, Study Gallery)
  • The uncanny woman. Femininity in Surrealism (September 2 to November 18)
  • Expressionism and more… Works from the Prints and Drawings Collection from Rembrandt to Henry Moore (December 2 to February 3, 2002)

2002

  • Hiroshi Sugimoto. The Architecture of Time – Japanese Photographic Art (February 17 to April 21)
  • Donald Judd. The whole room – the early work 1955-1968 (May 5 to July 21)
  • Jeff Koons. The pictures (September 22 to November 10)
  • Masterpieces of classical modernism and contemporary art from the Kunsthalle collection as well as loans from the Staff Stiftung Lemgo (September 22 to November 10)
  • First regional art fair (November 15 to November 17, Hochbunker)
  • Edvard Munch. 1912 in Germany (November 24 to February 16, 2003)
  • Stephanie Pech. On the Hidden Abysses of the Everyday (December 4 to February 16, 2003, Study Gallery)

2003

  • Adam Fuss. Photograms of Life and Death (March 2 to May 11)
  • Emanuel Raab. Nachtland (March 19 to May 11, Study Gallery)
  • Children build furniture (September 6 to 21, Study Gallery)
  • Hermann Stenner. Painting. Retrospective 1909-1914 (June 1 to August 31)
  • Second OstWestfalenLippe Art Fair (September 19 to 21)
  • Gereon Inger. Myriorama – Many Thousands Show (June 4 to July 27, Study Gallery)
  • Andreas Rose: Everything remains different (September 19 to 21, Studiengalerie)
  • The Blue Rider. Avant-garde and Folk Art (October 5 to January 11, 2004)
  • Ursula Pulsfort. Communication channels (October 8 to December 14, Study Gallery)

2004

  • The big meal. From pop to today (January 25 to April 24)
  • Vanessa Beecroft. Photographs, films, drawings (May 9 to August 22)6
  • Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. The architectural projects (September 12 to November 14)2
  • Karl Martin Holzhäuser: Licht-Bilder (September 15 to November 28, Studiengalerie)
  • Alvar and Aino Aalto. Furniture and Interiors (November 28, 2004 to February 27, 2005)
  • Martin Brockhoff: Surface (December 8, 2004 to February 27, 2005, Studiengalerie)

2005

  • Agadez, Africa. Not Vital (March 20 to June 5)
  • George Condo. One Hundred Women. Retrospective (June 19 to August 14)
  • In the Middle of the Night. New acquisitions since 1996 (August 28 to November 6)
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and the >bridge<. Self-Portraits - Portraits of Artists (November 20, 2005 to February 26, 2006)

2006

  • Louise Bourgeois. La famille (March 12 to June 5)
  • Josef Albers and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. From Bauhaus to the New World (June 25 to October 1)
  • Paul Delvaux and Surrealism. The secret of the woman (October 22, 2006 to January 21, 2007)
  • Philipp Donald Göbel. Mannsbilder (March 22 to June 5, Study Gallery)
  • Vera Brüggemann + Christine Gensheimer: dreizimmerküchebad (November 8, 2006 to January 21, 2007, Studiengalerie)

2007

  • Conrad Felixmüller – Peter August Böckstiegel. Working Worlds (February 4 to May 20)
  • George Maciunas. The dream of Fluxus (June 3 to September 9)
    1. Perfection and Destruction (September 30, 2007 to January 13, 2008)
  • Elisabeth Masé. The Immortals (March 23 to May 20, Study Gallery)
  • Alexander Braun. Retablo Project (June 8 to September 9, Study Gallery)

2008

  • Emil Nolde. Encounter with the Nordic (February 3 to May 12)
  • Richard Hamilton. Virtual rooms (May 25 to August 10)
  • Yoko Ono. Between the Sky and My Head (August 24 to November 16)
  • Sonia Delaunay’s World of Art (November 30, 2008 to February 22, 2009)
  • Nicole Schuck. Green Ice Land (February 13 to May 12, Study Gallery)
  • Lars Rosenbohm. Well barked (June 4 to August 10, Study Gallery)
  • Tick. Clocks and Chairs Collection (September 3 to November 16, Study Gallery)

2009

    1. The Great Innocence (March 15 to August 9)
  • Fang Lijun. Sea + Sky (August 30 to November 1)
  • Kyep (September 9 to November 1, Study Gallery)
  • German Impressionism (November 22, 2009 to February 28, 2010)
  • Gunther Grabe. “the picture calls” (December 2, 2009 to February 28, 2010, Studiengalerie)

2010

  • The 80s Revisited. Bischofberger Collection. Part 1 (March 21 to June 20)
  • Thomas Wrede. Manhattan Picture Worlds and Domestic Landscapes (March 24 to June 20, Study Gallery)
  • Rirkrit Tiravanija. Retrospective / New acquisitions from the collection (July 11 to October 10)
  • Social Dogma (July 14 to September 26, Study Gallery)
  • Westphalian Expressionism (October 31, 2010 to February 20, 2011)
  • The 80s Revisited. Bischofberger Collection Part 2 (October 31, 2010 to February 20, 2011)

2011

  • Katharina Bosse “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother” (March 13 to June 19)
  • The unknown collection. Classics of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (March 23 to June 19, Study Gallery)
  • Künstlerhaus Lydda (July 10 to September 4, Study Gallery)
  • Picasso 1905 in Paris (September 25, 2011 to January 15, 2012)
  • Veit Mette: People in the Museum (October 5, 2011 to January 15, 2012, Schaufenster)

2012

  • Carl Strüwe. Journeys to unknown worlds (February 5 to May 13)
  • Simone Nieweg. Gardens/Fields (February 8 to April 29, showcase)
  • Neighbors in Europe – Connected and Different (May 2 to May 13, Schaufenster)
  • Sou Fujimoto. Futurospektive Architecture (June 3 to September 2)
  • Adriane Wachholz. every context has its frame (June 13 to September 2, Schaufenster)
  • Kiki Smith/Seton Smith/Tony Smith (September 23 to November 25)
  • Philipp Ottendörfer. Truth or Dare. The Truth of Photography (October 10 to November 25, Schaufenster)
  • Dan Flavin. Drawing (December 16, 2012 to March 3, 2013, Schaufenster)

2013

  • Beauty and mystery. German Symbolism: The Other Modernism (March 24 to July 7)
  • On time. Murals – Picture walls (August 4 to October 20)
  • To Open Eyes. Art and textiles from Bauhaus to the present day (November 17, 2013 to March 2, 2014)

2014

  • Happiness in art. Expressionism and abstraction around 1914. Bunte Collection (March 21 to August 17)
  • The Pandora project. The pleasure and burden of collecting (August 29 to November 23)
  • Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Today is tomorrow (December 12, 2014 to March 15, 2015)

2015

  • Whatness. Esther Kläs. Johannes Wald (March 28 to June 21)
  • Sven Johne “Jutta” (April 15 to June 21, Schaufenster)
  • The art of the door handle (April 22 to June 21, Schaufenster)
  • Serendipity. The happiness of finding. Luhmann, Rückriem, Sasse (July 11 to October 11)
  • Samira Eskandarfar “A Dowry for Mahrou” (July 23 to August 30, Schaufenster)

2016

  • William Kentridge “Second-hand Reading” (January 13 to February 28)
  • Empathy and abstraction. The Modernity of Women in Germany (March 19 to July 3)
  • People/Square (March 19 to July 3)
  • Illustrations. Konstantin Grcic (April 6 to July 3)
  • Pictures from the painter. Martin Disler (July 23 to October 16)
  • Maggy Kaiser (November 5, 2016 to March 5, 2017)
  • Anohni. My Truth (November 17, 2016 to March 5, 2017)

2017

  • Partners in Design. Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson – Bauhaus Pioneers in America (March 25 to July 23)
  • Thomas Kiesewetter. Sculptor (September 2 to October 22)
  • Ulrich Rückriem. Multiples 1969 until today. Jacobs Collection (September 2 to October 22)
  • Renata Szyszlak. Informal eruption (September 7 to October 22)
  • The evil expressionism. Trauma and taboo (November 11, 2017 to March 11, 2018)
  • Johnson Plus (December 13, 2017 to January 14, 2018)

2018

  • Holger Bunk. Ballermann (March 24 to June 3)
  • Andreas Schulze. On Off Loud Quiet (March 24 to June 3)
  • Michel Majerus. In EUROPE everything appears more serious than in the USA (June 16 to September 9)
  • Olaf Nicolai. Chant d’Amour (June 16 to September 9)
  • Veit Mette. Pictures of a photographer (September 23 to February 24, 2019)
  • Pictures of a collection. 50 years of Kunsthalle Bielefeld (September 29 to February 24, 2019)

2019

  • Anna Oppermann. Being an artist (March 23 to July 28)
  • Works from the collection (March 23 to July 28)
  • Artist spaces. Graphics from the collection (August 31 to October 20)
  • L’homme qui marche. Embodiment of the bulky (August 31, 2019 to March 8, 2020)

2020

  • Antonius Höckelmann. All in all (April 4, 2020 to September 13, 2020)
  • Monica Bonvicini – LOVER’S MATERIAL (October 10, 2020 to May 30, 2021)
  • Jeremy Deller – WE HAVE THE SNOW FULL (October 10, 2020 to May 30, 2021)
  • Auguste Rodin / Jeff Wall – The thinkers, facing each other #1 (October 10, 2020 to May 30, 2021)
  • SPACE, TIME, ARCHITECTURE, GENDER. View of the collection #1 (October 10, 2020 to May 30, 2021)