Kunsthalle
An art gallery or an art house is a non-profit institution for the organization of art exhibitions and a label for art museums.
Description
Support of art galleries are usually local authorities. Even private organizations or foundations can be carriers of an art house, about art associations. The funding of the arts halls, will be from the municipal budget and / or state funding and some include third party donations and grants. The entrance fee to play, given the high cost of most a minor role.
In contrast to an art museum in the true sense, many art galleries do not have a personal collection. From the Kunsthaus Künstlerhaus is to be distinguished, which communicates with studios or workshops. The boundaries between the three terms are fluid: In the German-speaking countries, there are several art museums, the " Kunsthalle " call themselves, and work in progress, symposia and infrastructure for local artists and guest artists can be found today in many forms of art institutions. The term " art gallery " may also indicate that the exhibition building was built for an existing collection, or that both holdings of the museum's own collection as well as temporary exhibitions.
List of art galleries and art houses
Germany
Austria
Lower Austria:
- Kunsthalle Krems
Styria:
- Kunsthaus Koflach
Vorarlberg:
Vienna:
- Kunsthalle Wien
- Kunsthaus Wien
Switzerland
- Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthaus Basel-Land
- Kunsthalle Bern
- Kunsthalle Luzern
- Kunsthalle St.Gallen
- Kunsthalle Winterthur
- Kunsthalle Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich
Other countries
- Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
- Art Pavilion Zagreb, Croatia
- Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Kunsthalle Stockholm, Sweden
- Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
- Kunsthalle