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Three institutions - one building: Under the title "The Anniversaries!" the "Hallenbau-Festival 2022" celebrates 25 years of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe and ZKM | Karlsruhe in the Hallenbau as well as 30 years of the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Karlsruhe.
Hallenbau A has been one of the central art locations in Karlsruhe since the 1990s. With a length of 312 meters, 10 inner courtyards as well as 16,500 square meters of floor space, the listed industrial architecture from the 20th century is an urban signet between the western and southwestern city, which is renowned far beyond the city.
From Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, the "Hallenbau Festival 2022" offers culture across all genres: exhibitions, films, concerts, lectures, debates, guided tours, retrospectives and outlooks.
Admission is free in all houses during the festival period.
Starting point for the Hallenbau-Festival is Friday evening in the foyer of the ZKM. With welcoming speeches we open the festival together and at the same time two new exhibitions as well as the artist:inside book fair "BookBauFestival" of the HfG. The Städtische Galerie presents "Drawing Rooms: Marcel van Eeden | Karl Hubbuch and the ZKM "Marijke van Warmerdam. Then, now, and then".
The Hallenbau will be accessible via all atriums, a DJ will play in the foyer of the ZKM into the night, and the Mint Café will be open for wine, cocktails, and small food offerings. The exhibitions can be seen from 20:00-22:00.
Welcome Hall Building Festival from 19:00
19:00-19:20
Welcome to the Hallenbau Festival with presentation of the festival program
Moderation: Luisa Banhardt, HfG
Stefanie Patruno, Director Städtische Galerie
Prof. Constanze Fischbeck, Acting Rector of the State Academy of Art and Design
Peter Weibel, Director ZKM | Center for Art and Media
19:25 - 19:30
Hallenbau A as an artistic place in the city,
Frank Mentrup, Lord Mayor City of Karlsruhe
19:30-19:35
On the exhibitions of Dutch artists, Annelies Faro, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
19:35-19:40
On the exhibition "Drawing Rooms: Marcel van Eeden | Karl Hubbuch", Stefanie Patruno, Director Städtische Galerie
19:40-19:45
On the exhibition "Marijke van Warmerdam. Then, now, and then", Daria Mille, Curator ZKM
19:45-19:50
On the exhibition "BookBauFestival", Prof. Susanne Kriemann, Professor of Media Art / Artistic Photography HfG
19:30-22:00
Opening of the exhibitions with free admission
19:30 - 2:00
In the foyer of the ZKM: Bar open with DJs Gaisma and G Raffe
Visits to the exhibitions in the Städtische Galerie, the ZKM and the Staatliche Hoschule für Gestaltung are possible until 18:00.
All day
BookBauFestival, HfG
Museum rally, ZKM
Rally through the exhibition "Drawing Rooms", Städtische Galerie
Book exhibition / book flea market, ZKM
11:00 a.m.
Public guided tour - ArchitekTour Hallenbau, ZKM
11:00-20:00
Audio(visual) cross-section through the history of music produced at ZKM, ZKM
12:00
Guided tour with Erich Schütt through the exhibition "Drawing Rooms", Städtische Galerie
12:00-14:00
Reading & Sharing - book presentations and readings, HfG
12:00-17:00
BookBau regulars' table for kids with workshops and children's library, HfG
12:30 p.m.
Guided tour with the artist:in to "Marijke van Warmerdam. Then, now, and then", ZKM
2:00 p.m.
Barrier-free guided tour, ZKM
14:00-16:00
Attention, art mongering! With Lena Zeiler, Municipal Gallery
15:00-17:00
Round Table Discussions - "Library and Archives" "Political Spectra's of the Artist Book", HfG
15:30
Curator:inside guided tour "Walter Giers. Electronic Art", ZKM
4:00 p.m.
"From Armaments Factory to Art Museum", architectural tour of the Hallenbau with Dr. Gerhard Kabierske, Städtische Galerie
5:00 p.m.
Curator:inside guided tour "John Sanborn. Between Order and Entropy", ZKM
6:00 p.m.
Finissage "A Place in the Woods (Hardtwald)" featured by BookBoi*, HfG
21:00
25 years of Hallenbau. The concert Kreidler (15 € / 12 €) , ZKM
All day
Rally through the exhibition "Drawing Rooms", Städtische Galerie
BookBauFestival, HfG
11:00 a.m.
Matinee - short film on the history of hall construction & Peter Weibel in conversation with Margit Rosen, ZKM
11:00-13:00
Do it with books - Workshop, HfG
11:30 a.m.
Public guided tour - family tour, ZKM
12:00 p.m.
"From armaments factory to art museum", architectural tour through the Hallenbau with Dr. Gerhard Kabierske, Municipal Gallery
12:00-14:00
Reading & Sharing - book presentations and readings, HfG
12:00-17:00
BookBau-Stammtisch for kids with workshops and children's library, HfG
12:00-18:00
BÄMlab - Open Workshop, ZKM
13:00
Guided tour for curators "Soun-Gui Kim: Lazy Clouds", ZKM
13:00-15:00
Attention, art mongering! With Lena Zeiler, Municipal Gallery
14:00
Films, ZKM
Sebastian Drost: "Cartridge Forest
Gerhard Kabierske: "100 Years of Hall Construction"
Christian Haardt: "A New Environment - Heinrich Klotz on Architecture and New Media"
2:00 p.m.
Behind the scenes of knowledge. Public guided tour through library, archives, laboratory for antiquated video systems and the depots of the collection, ZKM
14:00-15:00
Round Table - Vive les Zines, HfG
14:30
Curator:inside guided tour "zkm_gameplay. the next level", ZKM
3:00 p.m.
Guided tour with Dr. Elke Pastré through the exhibition "Drawing Rooms," Städtische Galerie
15:00-16:30
"The Colorful World of Black and White - Drawings with Pencil and Charcoal," children's workshop with Dr. Hannah Reisinger, Städtische Galerie
16:00
Public guided tour - ArchitekTour Hallenbau, ZKM
4:30 p.m.
Performance with Johanna Wagner, Städtische Galerie
5:00 p.m.
Curator:inside guided tour "Katharina John. Talking Heads", ZKM
5:00 p.m.
Finale "BookBauFestival", HfG
For the Hallenbau Festival, students and teachers organize an extraordinary artists’ book fair in the atriums of the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe. Seven universities, twenty-one players from the international and national artists’ book scene and over thirty students come together and present their artists’ books for sale. From HfG, the initiatives BookBoi*, KLaK, the student publication Munitionsfabrik as well as the magazines Umbau and MAS take part. The BookBauFestival takes place in the context of the economy, sustainable production, and the exhibition and collection of artists' books.
The joint library of ZKM and HfG exhibits a selection of historical books. ZKM, Städtische Galerie and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe open their storage facilities and make catalogs from three decades available. The program of the BookBauFestival offers workshops for children and adults, readings as well as round table discussions with protagonists of the scene.*
The BookBauFestival was conceived in an interdisciplinary way with students of the seminar “artists’ books with photography” and Prof. Susanne Kriemann.
More information about the BookBauFestival
Built in 1915 as an ammunition factory, Hallenbau A was in operation until the end of the Second World War with the employment of forced laborers, apart from interruptions between the two world wars. In the 1980s, independent artists discovered the monumental building for themselves, before the Städtische Galerie and the ZKM moved in in 1997, followed two years later by the HfG.
In the diversity of their programs and projects, the three institutions have established the building internationally far beyond Karlsruhe - as a platform for art, media and contemporary art production, as a place for learning and teaching, for debating and researching, as well as for exhibiting and mediating. Three institutions that stand for an art and production space in the middle of Karlsruhe.
On April 15, 1992, the HfG Karlsruhe was officially opened and began its work in the summer semester of the same year with a few students. The first years were still improvised, and this also applied to the spatial accommodation in the Moninger Brewery. It was not until the university moved into the huge Hallenbau from 1995 to 1998, and the ZKM in 1997, that Heinrich Klotz's idea was fulfilled: the reciprocal relationship between art, media and thought was to be taught, researched, experimentally tried out and exhibited in one building.
