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| Established | 1918 |
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| Location | Helvetiaplatz, Bern, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 46°56′39″N 7°26′58″E / 46.9443°N 7.4494°E |
| Type | Kunsthalle |
| Director | Kabelo Malatsie |
| Public transit access | Helvetiaplatz |
| Website | http://www.kunsthalle-bern.ch |
The Kunsthalle Bern is a Kunsthalle (art exposition hall) on the Helvetiaplatz in Bern, Switzerland.
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 exhibitions of contemporary art. The Kunsthalle gained international acclaim with solo exhibitions by artists such as Paul Klee, Christo, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Gregor Schneider, Eva Aeppli, Bruce Nauman, Lawrence Weiner, Bridget Riley and Daniel Buren, and with seminal group exhibitions such as Harald Szeemann's Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969).[1] Szeeman's work for the institution was re-visited in recent years by various exhibitions that took place in Fondazione Prada and Kunsthalle Bern,[2] among other places, such as Impossible encounters, A seminal 1969 show is brought back to life this year at the Prada Foundation in Venice according to the Financial Times.
The institution boasts more than a century of exhibition-making and is considered an important source for the study of twentieth-century exhibition history.
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.[3]
