Alexander Tillegreen - Pieces for Works at Kunsthalle Mannheim

Event: Alexander Tillegreen - Pieces for Works in Kunsthalle Mannheim, Friedrichsplatz 4, 68165 Mannheim on 17. September 2026

Date and Time

17. September 2026 10:00

Location

Kunsthalle Mannheim
Friedrichsplatz 4, 68165 Mannheim-Schwetzingerstadt, Deutschland

Price

16,00
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Exhibitions & Museums

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Relaxed

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Inside

When art becomes audible: Alexander Tillegreen at Kunsthalle Mannheim

The exhibition Pieces for Works brings painting, sculpture, and sound installation into an unusually intense dialogue. The Danish artist and composer Alexander Brix Tillegreen develops newly composed sound works for Kunsthalle Mannheim that do not explain selected pieces from the collection but instead atmospherically expand them. The art experience merges artwork observation, spatial perception, and musical tension into an aesthetic experience that unfolds slowly. The exhibition runs from April 2, 2026 to January 10, 2027. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/sites/default/files/2026-03/PR_Alexander%20Tillegreen_EN.pdf))

A museum as a resonance space

Tillegreen thinks of the museum as an instrument. His compositions respond to material, rhythm, form, and architecture and operate at the threshold between the visible and the audible. In the gallery spaces, sound zones arise that envelop sculptures, drawings, and paintings. Thus, the perception of the collection shifts: the eye discovers what the ear prepares; the ear hears what the art reveals in space. The work is conceived as a site-specific installation and includes ten new sound pieces. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/sites/default/files/2026-03/PR_Alexander%20Tillegreen_EN.pdf))

Between Rodin, Bacon, and Munch

For the exhibition, Tillegreen selected artworks from the Kunsthalle's collection as compositional starting points, including works by Auguste Rodin, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Isa Genzken, Louise Nevelson, and other positions. The sound pieces respond to surfaces, tensions, and iconic motifs without falling into illustration. This is precisely where the strength of the curation lies: it opens a space where modern and contemporary art can be experienced as a living relationship. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/sites/default/files/2026-03/PR_Alexander%20Tillegreen_EN.pdf))

Artist between image, voice, and space

Alexander Brix Tillegreen, born in 1991 in Denmark, lives and works between Copenhagen and Berlin. He studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, at the Cooper Union in New York, as well as art history, musicology, and sound studies in Copenhagen. His practice combines painting, printmaking, sculpture, composition, and sound installation. Institutional exhibitions have taken him to Copenhagen, Glasgow, Basel, Milan, and Frankfurt, among others. This international grounding lends authority to his work in the field of contemporary art and experimental music. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/sites/default/files/2026-03/PR_Alexander%20Tillegreen_EN.pdf))

Listening as a form of education

The exhibition also serves as cultural education in the best sense: it sharpens seeing through hearing and makes museum mediation an embodied experience. Visitors move through different sound spaces, linger before individual works, and experience how time, attention, and perception are newly ordered. Kunsthalle Mannheim has a collection ranging from classical modernism to the present and combines historical architecture with current museum work. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/sites/default/files/2026-03/PR_Alexander%20Tillegreen_EN.pdf))

Visiting with all senses

The exhibition atmosphere promises concentration rather than volume, precision rather than spectacle. Those who engage in artwork observation discover subtle transitions between color, materiality, and sound. It is precisely these quiet connections that make Pieces for Works a rewarding artistic experience for all who wish to not only see art but also experience it spatially and acoustically. A visit to Kunsthalle Mannheim is particularly worthwhile for those who appreciate modern art, installations, and experimental formats. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/sites/default/files/2026-03/PR_Alexander%20Tillegreen_EN.pdf))

Conclusion: Alexander Tillegreen - Pieces for Works opens a rare dialogue between collection, architecture, and sound. Those who immerse themselves in this exhibition experience art as a delicate interplay of space, time, and perception. A visit on-site is definitely worthwhile. ([kuma.art](https://kuma.art/sites/default/files/2026-03/PR_Alexander%20Tillegreen_EN.pdf))

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