Kunst im Tunnel
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Kunst im Tunnel or KIT is a contemporary art
museum in Düsseldorf
. It is the new exhibition space of Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
, located within the Rheinufertunnel
- hence the name. It has an underground exhibition area of 850m².
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
museum in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
. It is the new exhibition space of Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
-Building:The present art centre was built in 1967 in Brutalist architecture by the architects Konrad Beckmann and Brockes. They used commercially available precast concrete for the construction work.-History:...
, located within the Rheinufertunnel
Rheinufertunnel
The Rheinufer Tunnel is a road tunnel in Düsseldorf, Germany. The tunnel is part of the B1 German federal road. At long, it is the sixth longest inner city tunnel in Europe....
- hence the name. It has an underground exhibition area of 850m².