Alexander Tillegreen in the Kunsthalle Mannheim: Sound Art Meets Collection
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When Sound Meets Art: Alexander Tillegreen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim
With the exhibition Pieces for Works, Alexander Brix Tillegreen transforms the Kunsthalle Mannheim into a space of concentrated perception. From September 29, 2026, to January 10, 2027, site-sensitive sound installations and selected works from the museum collection engage in a multi-layered dialogue. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and music combine to create an artistic experience that expands visual perspective through hearing.
A Dialogue Between Seeing and Hearing
Alexander Brix Tillegreen, born in 1991 in Taarbæk, Denmark, works as a visual artist and composer between Copenhagen and Berlin. His artistic practice encompasses painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, sound installation, and composition. In Mannheim, he develops new musical and acoustic works that coexist with selected artworks from the collection, making their spatial, formal, and emotional effects newly experienceable.
Sound as Material and Space of Perception
Tillegreen's sound art explores how voice, language, acoustics, and psychoacoustic phenomena shape our perception. His works engage with spatially distributed sound, electronic compositions, and subtle shifts between noise, rhythm, and meaning. The ear becomes not just a passive receiving organ but an active part of the artwork contemplation.
The Collection of the Kunsthalle as a Resonance Body
The exhibition brings new sound works together with pieces from the collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim. This creates not an illustrative accompaniment but an independent curatorial relationship between visual art and music. Forms, materials, light, and spatial effects gain an acoustic dimension; familiar works appear in a changed temporal and physical presence.
Between Abstraction, Memory, and Aesthetic Experience
Tillegreen is interested in transitions: between the visible and the audible, body and landscape, language and meaning, abstraction and memory. His works open a space of perception where personal and collective memories can resonate. The atmosphere of the exhibition remains focused yet open to individual interpretations. Each movement through the spaces alters the relationship between sound source, artwork, and viewer.
Art Historical Context and Cultural Education
The exhibition exemplifies a contemporary art direction where media boundaries become permeable. Tillegreen connects the tradition of abstract art with concepts of sound art, media art, and installation composition. His works invite visitors to grasp curatorial contexts not only visually but also physically and acoustically. Thus, the Kunsthalle becomes a place of aesthetic experience that makes perception visible as an active, culturally shaped process.
Conclusion: An Exhibition that Resonates
Pieces for Works invites art enthusiasts to a precisely curated encounter of collection, sound, and space. The exhibition opens new perspectives on familiar and newly conceived works and makes audible how closely seeing, remembering, and physical perception are intertwined. Anyone wishing to experience sound art, contemporary installation, and demanding museum presentations first-hand should discover this special art experience live at the Kunsthalle Mannheim.
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