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Kunsthalle Bern

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Established
  
1918

Public transit access
  
Helvetiaplatz

Director
  
Philippe Pirotte

Type
  
Kunsthalle

Phone
  
+41 31 350 00 40

Kunsthalle Bern

Location
  
Helvetiaplatz, Bern, Switzerland

Address
  
Helvetiapl. 1, 3005 Bern, Switzerland

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–6PMSunday10AM–6PMMondayClosedTuesday11AM–6PMWednesday11AM–6PMThursday11AM–6PMFriday11AM–6PMSaturday10AM–6PM

Similar
  
Kunsthalle, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee, Swiss Alpine Museum, Bern Historical Museum

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The Kunsthalle Bern is a Kunsthalle (art exposition hall) on the Helvetiaplatz in Bern, Switzerland.

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It was built in 1917–1918 by the Kunsthalle Bern Association and opened on October 5, 1918. Since then, it has been the site of numerous expositions of contemporary art. The Kunsthalle gained international renown with expositions by artists such as Paul Klee, Christo, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Gregor Schneider, Bruce Nauman and Daniel Buren, and with thematic expositions such as Harald Szeemann's When Attitudes Become Form (1969).

On the occasion of its 50th anniversary the Kunsthalle Bern became the first building ever to be wrapped entirely by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in July 1968.

Moshekwa langa in an other time at kunsthalle bern


Directors

  • 1918 - 1930 Dr. Robert Kieser
  • 1931 - 1946 Professor Dr. Max Huggler
  • 1946 - 1955 Arnold Rüdlinger
  • 1955 - 1961 Dr. Franz Meyer
  • 1961 - 1969 Dr. Harald Szeemann
  • 1970 - 1974 Dr. Carlo Huber
  • 1974 - 1982 Johannes Gachnang
  • 1982 - 1985 Jean-Hubert Martin
  • 1985 - 1997 Dr. Ulrich Loock
  • 1997 - 2005 Dr. Bernhard Fibicher
  • 2005 - 2011 Philippe Pirotte
  • 2012–2014 Fabrice Stroun
  • 2015–present Valérie Knoll
  • Literature

  • Jean Christophe Ammann / Harald Szeemann, Von Hodler zur Antiform. Geschichte der Kunsthalle Bern, Bern 1970.
  • Hans Rudolf Reust, Aus dem Musée éclaté an den Ort des Werks, Kunsthalle Bern 1969-1993, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-85780-088-7
  • References

    Kunsthalle Bern Wikipedia