IM KINOSAAL
In the organizer's words:
With: Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow, Gregor Darman, Dominik Geis, Alexandra Gruebler, Lukas Heerich, KOIR, Lilli Lake, Aylin Leclaire, Stefan Schneider, Gerhard Stäbler & Kunsu Shim, Nikolai Szymanski, Julian Westermann and DECHA.
The motto of 2025 at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is "Farewell to the Kunsthalle", as the brutalist building on Grabbeplatz will be closed for up to three years from 2026 and extensively renovated.
In the exhibition IM KINOSAAL, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is dedicating itself to its most impressive room: the "Kinosaal". Around 12 meter high ceilings and a 17 meter wide end wall give this room an imposing and oppressive, yet sublime atmosphere - a room that challenges perception and thus forms the starting point of the exhibition.
The large end wall of the cinema hall is ideal for projections and transforms the room into a monumental movie theater. IM KINOSAAL takes up this idea and shows a wall-sized projection accompanied by a sound installation. During its three-month run, this installation will be made available to local and regional artists as a stage for audiovisual experiments for up to a week at a time.
IM KINOSAAL is also dedicated to the audiovisual neighborhood history of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. The city is known worldwide for its formative music and sound culture: from Krautrock and electronic music (including Kraftwerk, Neu!, La Düsseldorf) to punk (including Die Toten Hosen, Fehlfarben) to classical music and jazz (including Robert and Clara Schumann, Hauschka). The symbiosis of music/sound and visual arts has a long and exciting tradition in Düsseldorf and is closely linked to the Düsseldorf Art Academy, whose teachers and students have been working in an interdisciplinary way for decades. Time and again, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf has been a place of experimentation and possibilities, a stage for performances, concerts and the fusion of music/sound and visual art.
The artists' bar Salon des Amateurs, which opened in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2004, also plays a special role. Founded by former art academy students Aron Mehzion, Detlef Weinrich and Stefano Brivio, it has always been a central place for the exchange of artists and a space for artistic and musical experimentation. Known for its excellently curated music program, it has produced many well-known musicians, DJs and producers over the years. In 2024, the Salon celebrated its 20th anniversary and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf thus celebrated 20 years of inspiring neighborliness, which will temporarily end with the start of the renovation and move out of the building in 2026.
In addition to the projects in the cinema hall, the important role of the artists' bar for Düsseldorf's music and sound history will therefore be honored with an exhibition on 20 years of music history of the Salon des Amateurs in the gallery of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
IM KINOSAAL thus not only reflects the architecture of the "cinema hall" and the connection between music/sound and art, but also tells an emotional story of neighborhood and creative exchange over the past two decades.
Timetable
June 7 - 15: Alexandra Gruebler
17. - 22.6.: Stefan Schneider
24 - 29.6: Gerhard Stäbler & Kunsu Shim
1 - 6.7: Dominik Geis
8 - 13.7: KOIR
15 - 20.7.: Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow
22 - 27.7.: Lukas Heerich
29.7. - 3.8.: Lilli Lake
5 - 10.8: Nikolai Szymanski
12 - 17.8: Julian Westermann
19 - 24.8.: Gregor Darman
25 - 31.8.: Aylin Leclaire
2 - 7. 9: DECHA
Price information:
Adults EUR 6.00 Reduced EUR 3.00 Groups of 10 or more EUR 3.00 Children/young people up to 18 years free Disabled persons incl. accompanying person free
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