Halle für Kunst

In the location's words:

Founded in 1995, the Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. has since helped shape contemporary art discourse with solo and group exhibitions, event series and publications. Founded as an independent organization by students at Leuphana University, the association has occupied various spaces in the city of Lüneburg over the course of its history. Since 2003, it has been housed in a former machine factory on Reichenbachstraße.

In a conference on the positioning of art associations, organized by the founders in 1999, questions were raised about "exhibition policy, the localization of contemporary discourses" and "an art [...] that includes the social and societal context"[1] - questions that still determine the orientation of the institution today. Thus, the program is not only dedicated to the production conditions and circumstances of contemporary art, but also refers to social living and working conditions and is closely related to contemporary cultural and social realities.

As an art association, the Halle für Kunst e.V. is supported by its members, whose support makes the institution's independent program possible. Through its program, the Halle für Kunst aims to create a place for experiencing and understanding art and to offer it a space in its critical and mediating forms.

Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. has been nominated for the ADKV/Art Cologne Prize for Art Associations several times for its work - most recently from 2010 to 2013 and in 2016, 2019 and 2020. In 2020, it was awarded this prize for its "top-class program of solo and thematic group exhibitions". In 1999, the Halle für Kunst received the Jürgen Ponto Prize for its "committed and courageous exhibition program".