Kunsthalle Linz

The Kunsthalle Linz presents itself as a white cube par excellence: a simple, empty and windowless room with white walls, gray floor and a ceiling that floods the room with light: a playground for big projects in keeping with common exhibition practice.

The curatorial focus of the Kunsthalle Linz is on artistic works that deal with the staging of spatial conditions. Furthermore, it is important to her to provide a spacious stage in Linz, especially for local artists. The exhibitions are opened as part of celebratory vernissages by guest speakers, but also attract attention beyond the usual Linz art audience thanks to their potent location, generous opening times and free entry.

The Kunsthalle Linz was founded in August 2013 on the extensive site of the former tobacco factory in Linz by IFEK – Institute for Advanced Art. Since February 2015 she has been traveling through Europe as part of the Kunsthalle Linz Export program and showing exhibitions by international artists. In March 2015, the new building of the Kunsthalle Linz near the Salonschiff Fräulein Florentine on the Urfahranermarkt-Donaulände was completed, giving Linz another important exhibition venue on the Danube in addition to the Lentos Art Museum and the Ars Electronica Center. Since 2017, a temporary sculpture park has been expanding the operating radius of the Kunsthalle Linz to the spacious area of the surrounding Urfahrmarkt site, thus filling another urban gap. The catalog Kunsthalle Linz 2013-2018, published in 2019, documents all 35 exhibition projects realized up to that point in words and images on over 100 pages and supplements them with contextualizing text contributions.