Kunsthalle Bern

Kunsthalle Bern is a leading international contemporary art institution, presenting experimental, thought-provoking exhibitions, public programmes and events. We practice kinship and care by making time and space for artists and cultural workers to speak about their ideas and the world. We engage our visitors by bridging conversations across our city and our communities.

For us art is a prism for better understanding the world and each other. While our program derives from the contemporary and contemplates the various futures of contemporary art, it also considers how art has been created and experienced in the past. The programme is anchored around not only the Western Canon but gives space to migrant and diasporic situated knowledges and their realities, in the hope that we offer visitors wider perspectives on how to think of culture and the world at large.

Learning for us is a porous process and we believe the institution expands beyond its walls, interacting with the environment that it is situated in. We aspire to do that through a collaborative way of working, and we are committed to promote diversity, equity and access for all, by being open to different perspectives, by spatializing and socializing different forms of knowledge, and hosting in ways that everyone feels welcome. Public engagement is intrinsic to our processes. Therefore, we are a space in which respect, generosity and a culture of sharing and conviviality is practiced daily.