Kunstverein Arnsberg

Kunstverein Arnsberg is a non-profit institution dedicated to contemporary art and located at the historic centre of Arnsberg. Since 1987 the institution develops a local and international programme of exhibitions and public projects like readings, screenings and performances. It has, amongst others, presented solo exhibitions by Santiago Sierra, Alfredo Jaar, Julieta Aranda, Erwin Wurm and Susan Philipsz. In addition and throughout the years, it also got active in the urban space. Today, it looks back to a series of sculptures in the public space by Santiago Sierra, Timm Ulrichs, Julius von Bismarck and many more that were realized in cooperation with the city of Arnsberg.

The spacious rooms of the Kunstverein are located on the first floor of a classicist town house on the central Neumarkt, a square built according to plans by Schinkel, whose building fabric has been preserved. Located in the heart of the old town, with a view of the Neumarkt as well as its own idyllic garden, many artists choose to extend the spatial presentation with outdoor projects.

The close cooperation with the artists and the personal, familiar atmosphere create an immediate, constructive basis for site-specific experiments and unconventional new productions. Small and flexible, Kunstverein Arnsberg can also react quickly to major challenges and realise projects as uncompromisingly and promptly as possible. Kunstverein Arnsberg is actively involved in public space and has produced more than 50 projects in Arnsberg's urban space since 2009. Consistently and sustainably, the projects in the publicly accessible Lichthaus open up further fields of action in dialogue with daily life.