Raumordnung

From June 27, 2026, to February 21, 2027, the Kunsthalle Osnabrück will present exhibitions on the annual theme of “Spatial Planning.” The focus is on various types of spaces: built spaces that have been planned and designed for a specific purpose. For example, houses, parks, streets, or squares. And social and political spaces—that is, spaces in which we live and interact together.

The annual program asks: How are spaces built and used? But it also asks: How do spaces influence our coexistence? How do they structure our interactions? How do we move through private and public spaces?

How can art create spaces? How can it rearrange our patterns of thought? Order does not have to be a rigid system with fixed rules. “Spatial Planning” reimagines order differently: as a fluid system at the heart of the city.

Aleen Solari
“Tribute to Bicce”
June 27, 2026–October 11, 2026
Church nave
 
Aleen Solari is an artist and painter. Through her paintings, she creates spaces and installations. [An installation is a work of art in space.] This allows visitors to immerse themselves in her worlds of color and painterly objects. Aleen Solari connects her art to themes familiar to many people—drawn from everyday life and pop culture. These include topics such as fashion, sports, and youth slang. In doing so, she seeks to connect with various groups, such as soccer fans and bar-goers, with the aim of sparking conversation among people.

Lena Marie Emrich
“I left the window open for you”
June 27, 2026–October 11, 2026
Cloister
 
In her work, Lena Marie Emrich combines form and language. She moves between sculpture, spatial installation, and performative gesture. This means that her artworks invite viewers to get moving, allowing them to experience the artwork with all their senses. In her solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the corridor becomes the starting point for a critical inquiry: Is the corridor merely a hallway or a passageway? Lena Marie Emrich invites us to rethink it: as an in-between space that reconnects us with ourselves and with one another.
 
Julia Miorin
“Dreams of Spaces”
June 27, 2026–October 11, 2026
Courtyard
 
In 2026, Julia Miorin will redesign the courtyard of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Here, the artist focuses on the imagination of space—that is, the concept of buildings, squares, or playing fields. These spaces are suggested by sculptures made of delicate steel lines. Visitors can move the sculptures, rearrange them, and reconfigure them. In this way, they can contribute their own vision of “spatial organization.”