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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

Three white-painted wooden crates stand each on the narrow underside on a sandstone floor in front of a pink sandstone wall. The boxes are transport boxes for paintings. On the front side is a carrying handle, otherwise notes such as "fragile" and so on.

Conversion
The art museum will be closed from October 3 to 15, 2026

Opening of the new exhibitions on October 16, 26, at 7 p.m.

We are setting up the new exhibits. Therefore, our museum will be closed from October 3 to 15, 2026.
We cordially invite you to the grand opening on October 16, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Feet with red ballerina shoes dancing on stonefloor

Friday , 7 pm–10 pm

Opening of the new exhibitions

Free admission

We invite you to the opening of our new exhibitions!
Under the title “Will You Go With Me?,” we are opening the second part of the comprehensive group exhibition “Shared Perspectives.” “Kunsthalle Bielefeld x KiCo Collection.” The museum will be open until 10 p.m. tonight.
We look forward to celebrating this evening with you and ending it together at Café Gemach Manhattan.

A few children aged around 6 or 7 and three adult women are walking up a flight of stairs.

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 woman with long dark hair is standing in front of a window, explaining something about a work of art. We see a few people, blurred in the background, listening to the woman.

Sunday , 11.30 am–12.30 pm

Public guided tour

Admission + 3.50 euros
with Tabea Sabrina Weber

Guided tour of our current exhibitions.

anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018
Note: On Fridays starting at 3:00 p.m., on weekends, and on holidays, please call 0521 32999500 to register.

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 Claudia Oberste-Hedtbleck

At our Sunday workshop, you can let your creativity run wild and draw inspiration from the exhibition. An experienced art educator is available to offer advice and assistance as needed to help bring your creative ideas to life. There are no prerequisites, and no prior knowledge is required.
Without registration, for adults, teenagers and children with accompaniment.

Current exhibitions

We are currently setting up new exhibitions for you. Please have a look at the preview.

The library of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld is a specialized art library that can be used by anyone interested free of charge and independently of a visit to the museum. The approximately 40,000 exhibition catalogs, encyclopedias, monographs, holdings catalogs of other museums and periodicals can be used on site. Borrowing is not possible. The focus is on literature on the various art genres from Classical Modernism to the present. A photocopier can be used. The library is a member of the Working Group of Art and Museum Libraries (AKMB).

Do you want to know what magazines you can find in our library? Use the ZDB journal database for online retrieval.
The journals at the shelfmark Z 401 are located in the external warehouse. If you need one of these magazines please register your need with Tania Müller mueller@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de.

Opening hours

Mi und Do 11 – 13 und 14 – 18 Uhr
and by arrangement
closed on holidays

Please note that the opening hours of the library differ from those of the museum.

From the 6th Until October 16, 2026, the library may only be used by appointment. Please make an appointment.

Contact person:
Tania Müller
Phone 0521.3299950-18
mueller@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de

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