When is the exhibition running?

The exhibition is on view from 02.04.2026 to 10.01.2027 at the Kunsthalle Mannheim.

Where is the exhibition taking place?

At the Kunsthalle Mannheim at Friedrichsplatz 4 in 68165 Mannheim.

What is the admission fee?

The regular admission fee to the Kunsthalle Mannheim is 16 euros.

Are there guided tours?

Yes, the Kunsthalle Mannheim offers public guided tours and various educational formats. Prices and dates may vary.

Is the museum barrier-free?

The Kunsthalle Mannheim is nearly fully accessible and provides visitor information about accessibility.

Is photography allowed in the exhibition?

The house rules of the Kunsthalle Mannheim apply. For photographs without flash and tripods, the relevant guidelines must be followed on site.

Sound, Collection, and Space: Alexander Tillegreen Redefines Mannheim's Kunsthalle

Name: Alexander Tillegreen – Pieces for Works
Start: 2026-04-02T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2027-01-10T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Kunsthalle Mannheim

When Sound Meets Collection: Alexander Tillegreen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim

With Pieces for Works, the Kunsthalle Mannheim presents an exhibition where visual art, composition, and spatial perception impressively intersect. The Danish artist and composer Alexander Brix Tillegreen develops newly commissioned, site-sensitive sound installations and musical works that coexist with selected pieces from the museum's collection. The exhibition runs from April 2, 2026 to January 10, 2027 in the museum building at Friedrichsplatz. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/de/ausstellungen/alexander-tillegreen?utm_source=openai))

Sound as Curatorial Gesture

Tillegreen's practice oscillates between painting, printmaking, sculpture, sound installation, and composition. His works examine how perception, abstraction, and embodied listening generate meaning. In Mannheim, this approach is curated: Ten sound works relate to pieces by Auguste Rodin, Rosemarie Trockel, László Moholy-Nagy, Anna Mahler, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Isa Genzken, Édouard Vuillard, and Louise Nevelson. This creates not an illustrative accompaniment, but an independent aesthetic experience in which music and visual art recharge each other. ([alexandertillegreen.com](https://alexandertillegreen.com/about?utm_source=openai))

An Artistic Experience Between Space, Light, and Resonance

Particularly fascinating is how Tillegreen perceives architecture as part of the artwork. Sound spreads out, interacts with materialities, reverberation, and distance, allowing the collection to appear in a transformed perception light. The exhibition thereby expands the sensory field of the museum while also connecting to Mannheim's profile as a UNESCO City of Music. For art lovers, a visit creates an experience that is not only seen but physically heard and felt. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/de/ausstellungen/alexander-tillegreen?utm_source=openai))

Tillegreen's Artistic Handwriting

The artist, born in 1991, was trained at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and at The Cooper Union in New York. His international exhibition practice includes, among others, Nikolaj Kunsthal, CCA Glasgow, Museum Tinguely Basel, and O–Overgaden in Copenhagen. In his work, he connects historical references with contemporary sound research, works with psychoacoustic phenomena, and uses the phantom-word illusion as a conceptual tool for the fragile relationship between language, hearing, and meaning. ([alexandertillegreen.com](https://alexandertillegreen.com/about?utm_source=openai))

Education, Museum Practice, and Visitor Experience

The Kunsthalle Mannheim offers regular tours, digital educational formats, and barrier-free visitor information for its exhibitions. The museum is nearly fully accessible, provides clear visitor guidelines regarding photography, and offers free admission on the first Wednesday of the month as part of the MVV Art Evenings. This makes the exhibition visit attractive for families, school classes, and art-interested individuals. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/de/ihr-besuch-der-kunsthalle-mannheim?utm_source=openai))

Those who engage with Pieces for Works will experience an exhibition that invites a new interpretation of the collection: as a resonance space, as a field for experimentation, and as a sensual encounter between art history and the present. A visit is definitely worthwhile, as this exhibition opens both ears and eyes, making the museum space itself a work of art. ([kuma.art](https://www.kuma.art/en/exhibitions/alexander-tillegreen?utm_source=openai))