The Kunsthal

The Kunsthal Rotterdam is a notably exposition-building where annually about 25 expositions are held. You can enjoy all sorts of art, design and photography. Lancia, Leonardo da Vinci, M.C. Escher and Picasso are some of the names you can run into during your visit. The Kunsthal does not have a collection of its own, so check out the exhibition agenda.

The building was designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) architects Rem Koolhaas and Fuminori Hoshino. Basically it’s a big box with a passage through it. Inside a sloping path mirrors this passage. The whole building is conceived as a transition between park and motorway. On the roof there’s a surreal Japanese garden with a sculpture by Henk Visch. Just like the pavilion by Hubert Jan Henket at the Boymans van Beuningen museum on the other side of the park, the Kunsthal also draws heavy on the Neue Galerie by Mies van der Rohe in Berlin. Jerome: The Kunsthal is one of the most innovating platforms of art in Rotterdam; they dare to exhibit collections that are not yet accepted as art. Some collections will always be trash, the kunsthal just raisses the question.