The Kunsthaus Bregenz is an art museum on Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria. The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor designed it for the State of Vorarlberg, and it was built between 1990 and 1997. It opened in July 1997 with an exhibition by James Turrell. Zumthor won the Mies van der Rohe Award in 1998 and the Pritzker Prize in 2009.
The building is a minimalist daylight museum of glass, steel and cast concrete. Its facade is made of 912 etched glass panels on a steel framework. Inside, the concrete is exposed and unpainted, and the floors and stairs are polished terrazzo. Three upper floors are lit from above through glass ceiling panels, and there are two levels below ground.
The museum shows temporary contemporary art exhibitions. A separate administration building with a black facade houses the café.
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