Kunsthalle Gevelsberg, Art museum in Gevelsberg, Germany.
Kunsthalle Gevelsberg is an art museum housed in a former church building from the early 1900s. The structure preserves original architectural details while incorporating modern gallery spaces inside.
The building was constructed in 1913 as a chapel for a free evangelical congregation and received heritage protection status in 1986. It reopened in 2021 as an art museum following significant restoration work.
The building was a Free Evangelical congregation's chapel, the Friedenskapelle, until its last service in 2019 after 106 years. It now shows the contemporary art collection of Frank Hense, a Gevelsberg-born entrepreneur, in temporary individual and group exhibitions drawn from around 1000 works and supplemented by loans.
The Kunsthalle occupies the former Friedenskapelle on Schillerstraße; the entrance is the round-arched doorway in the projecting bay, marked by the Rosengasse street sign on its right. The chapel's historic layout means the exhibition rooms are entered through the former church interior rather than a purpose-built gallery sequence.
The collection belongs to Bochum collector Frank Hense, born in 1967 in Gevelsberg, who financed the conversion of the chapel in his birthplace. He had previously opened the Kunsthalle Hense in Gescher, accessible from 2018 to 2022. The Gevelsberg collection comprises around 1000 objects, including works by Neo Rauch, Cornelia Schleime and Thomas Zipp.
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