Kunsthalle3000 is an institution as intervention that seeks to transform the unused potentials of the public realm into new situations. The term Kunsthalle is used in German-speaking countries for a special kind of municipal museum, the historical aim of which was to make art accessible to all people. “Eine Kunsthalle für alle” [A Kunsthalle for all], was a phrase that marked the beginning of the Kunsthalle tradition with the statutes of Kunsthalle Mannheim in 1909. Kunsthalle3000 follows this principle by literally declaring specific spots within public space as Kunsthalle to create an intensive, yet temporary locale for performance, discussion, confrontation and interchange. To date, it has been located in the public space of Vienna, Johannesburg, Geneva, Beirut, Paris and Nice. From 2018-2019 Kunsthalle3000 was a one-year guest at Kunstverein Langenhagen and in 2022 it collaborated with CAC Brétigny.
On January 19, 2019, 2-6pm, Kunsthalle3000 took place around the old Jetée-Promenade Casino to reopen this former place of gamble, chance and hazard as a Casino3000. In 1883, a casino directly inspired by London’s Crystal Palace was inaugurated in front of the Promenade d'Anglais in Nice. Situated in the centre of the Baie des Anges, a pier advancing into the sea provides exceptional views and entertainment for nearly 50 years. During the Second World War, the casino was stripped of its metals to serve the German war effort. Today, almost no trace of the presence of this glory of yesteryear exists.
Ceci ne'est pas un habitat: In January 2018, Kunsthalle3000 found its place in front of a window of a habitat store at Place de la République in Paris. By affixing graffiti and posters, the window has lost its original function of exposing. Instead, a new “wall” has emerged that turned the recess of the window into a niche for homeless people. As a reaction, so-called “Anti-Homeless” elements have been installed. This collision of personal, private and public interests became the scenery for the interventions by 6 local artists.
During May 2017, Kunsthalle3000 moved into the ruins of an house on the peninusula of Dalieh of Rouche at the coastline of Beirut. Dalieh of Rouche is one of the last natural spots left on the city’s coastline, combining a rich social life with a diversity of topographical and geological features. Here, visitors enter a wild and hilly area that brings them directly to the sea. While private parties continue to propose urban and commercial development for the area, activists continue in turn to fight for Dalieh’s long tradition of public access. The ruin of the house can be considered as an allegory for this conflict of interests: an intermediate moment and a fragile equilibrium between persistence and change.
From July till October 2016, Kunsthalle3000 was located on Beyers Naudé Square in the heart of Johannesburg, a square that is strongly connected with political and social protest in the city's history. Kunsthalle3000 was located right in front of the public library where a field marked by missing cobblestones became the host for free education, meditative journeys, edebile poems and alchemy.
From March till June 2016, Kunsthalle3000 was located in the Alois Drasche Park in the 4th district of Vienna. An old blackboard and some wooden stools became the host for installations, performances, telling exhibitions, field trips, masked balls, screenings and even fights.