Kunsthalle Nürnberg

The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is a museum of contemporary art housed in the city's KunstKulturQuartier. The institution was founded in 1967 to create a forum for presenting and promoting international contemporary art. Since 1997, it has operated as a venue for temporary exhibitions, after the city's collection was permanently transferred to the Neues Museum. Its focus is on current artistic positions as well as on the so-called Second Modernism of the 1960s. The museum receives moral and financial support from its friends' association, Contemporaries e. V.

The building itself has a long history as an exhibition venue. It was built in 1912 in the former Zwinger area of the city wall and opened in 1913 as an art exhibition hall at the Marientor. The construction was initiated by the then mayor Georg von Schuh and the donors Oskar and Elisabeth von Petri, with chief engineer Otto Seegy drawing up the plans. The hall originally served as an addition to the neighboring Künstlerhaus, giving local artists a permanent space to show their work. In the 1930s, the building was renamed Fränkische Galerie and used for regional art.

After a comprehensive renovation lasting about a year and a half, the Kunsthalle reopened in October 2019. As part of the work, the interior lighting was upgraded and the roof was replaced. Instead of the previous seven windows, the roof now has eight skylights with electrochromic glazing, which optimizes the lighting conditions in the exhibition space. Here you can see changing exhibitions that put international artists and current art-historical discourse at the center.