kunsthalle

See also: Kunsthalle

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Kunsthalle (literally “art hall”).

Noun

kunsthalle (plural kunsthalles)

  1. A facility that holds temporary art exhibitions, typically with loaned works.
    • 2007 July 8, Jori Finkel, “A Museum That Lives Within Its Means”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      But in terms of contemporary art, the Hammer was operating more like a kunsthalle, a temporary home for a constantly changing roster of exhibitions.
    • 2021, Georgina Adam, The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum (Hot Topics in the Art World), Chicago: Lund Humphries, →ISBN:
      Some—following the Kunsthalle model—do not have the collection on show and hold exhibitions of loaned works, but often mixed with works from the founder's collection.
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