Kunsthalle Bern, Contemporary art museum in Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Bern is a contemporary art space in the Swiss capital Bern, housed in a historic building near the city center. It contains several gallery rooms of different sizes that are adapted for each new exhibition.
The Kunsthalle Bern was founded in 1917, making it one of the oldest institutions in Switzerland devoted to showing modern art. Over the following decades it built a reputation for presenting work by artists who were not yet widely known.
The Kunsthalle Bern regularly invites artists to create works directly for its spaces, so what you see inside is often made with this building in mind. This gives each show a different feel depending on how the artist chose to respond to the rooms.
The Kunsthalle Bern is located in central Bern and easy to reach on foot from the old town. It is worth checking what is currently on before your visit, since exhibitions change and each show may require a different amount of time to see.
Harald Szeemann, one of the most influential curators of the 20th century, ran the Kunsthalle Bern in the late 1960s and early 1970s and staged several shows that changed how exhibitions were made. His 1969 show "When Attitudes Become Form" is still considered a turning point in the history of contemporary art.
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