When can the exhibition Pieces for Works be seen?

The exhibition can be seen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim from April 2, 2026, to January 10, 2027.

What is the entrance fee?

The regular entrance fee stated on event pages is 16 euros.

What art is featured in the exhibition?

Ten site-sensitive sound works by Alexander Brix Tillegreen are on display and audible in dialogue with selected paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the Kunsthalle Mannheim collection.

Is the exhibition indoors?

Yes, the exhibition takes place indoors at the Kunsthalle Mannheim.

Where is the Kunsthalle Mannheim located?

The Kunsthalle Mannheim is located at Friedrichsplatz 4, 68165 Mannheim.

How long does a visit last?

A specific visit duration is not indicated. It is advisable to allow sufficient time for a quiet tour of the sound installations and works.

Alexander Tillegreen Makes Artworks Audible and New to Experience in Mannheim

Name: Alexander Tillegreen – Pieces for Works
Start: 2026-10-07T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2027-01-10T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Kunsthalle Mannheim

When Art Begins to Sound: Alexander Tillegreen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim

The exhibition Pieces for Works transforms the Kunsthalle Mannheim into a resonance space for seeing, hearing, and spatial perception. The Danish artist and composer Alexander Brix Tillegreen develops ten site-sensitive sound works that engage in direct dialogue with selected pieces from the museum collection. This creates an art experience where painting, sculpture, architecture, and music open new levels of meaning.

An Exhibition Between Image and Sound

Tillegreen's artistic practice moves between painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, composition, and sound installation. In Mannheim, his autonomous musical works encounter pieces by Auguste Rodin, Francis Bacon, Rosemarie Trockel, László Moholy-Nagy, Anna Mahler, Isa Genzken, Édouard Vuillard, and Louise Nevelson.

The sound installations do not illustrate the artworks but expand their perceptual space. Voices, sounds, pauses, and spatial acoustics make audible how meaning changes through proximity, movement, and attention. Viewing the works thus gains a temporal dimension: the audience does not just see an image or a sculpture but experiences its environment as a moving structure.

Alexander Brix Tillegreen: Art as Aesthetic Research

Alexander Brix Tillegreen, born in 1991 in Taarbæk, studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at the Cooper Union in New York. He lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. His works explore perception, abstraction, language, and embodied listening. He is particularly interested in how voices, psychoacoustic phenomena, and linguistic expectations influence the formation of meaning.

In his artistic approach, conceptual sound art, contemporary composition, and visual abstraction come together. Tillegreen treats the voice as a material that simultaneously carries and dissolves identity. His site-specific works create immersive listening situations and challenge viewers to reconsider the boundary between the visible, the audible, and the physically experienced.

Collection in Dialogue with Contemporary Sound Art

For Pieces for Works, Tillegreen selected artworks from the Kunsthalle Mannheim as compositional starting points. Sculptures, works on paper, and paintings are not merely accompanied but integrated into a sensitive web of space, material, and sound. The curation opens an unusual access to the collection and re-experiences familiar works as acoustic, atmospheric, and bodily experiences.

The exhibition atmosphere remains focused and finely nuanced. Soft resonances, changing sound directions, and the presence of museum architecture draw attention to details that are easily overlooked during a typical museum visit. It is precisely in this combination of silence and sonic density that the exhibition's special aesthetic experience lies.

Cultural Education Through Attentive Listening

The exhibition is suitable for anyone who wishes to engage with contemporary art not just as an observer, but as a sensual and intellectual experience. It offers points of connection for questions of art history, music, perception psychology, and cultural education. The museum visit becomes an invitation to sharpen one’s attention and rediscover the relationship between image, sound, movement, and memory.

Tillegreen's works have already been shown in international institutions and exhibitions, including the Tinguely Museum in Basel, the MMK Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, the Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen, and the CCA Glasgow. His music and sound works have also been present at festivals such as CTM, Roskilde Festival, STRØM, and the Nordic Music Days.

Conclusion: An Art Experience for Eyes, Ears, and Memory

Pieces for Works invites visitors as a concentrated encounter with sound art, collection, and architecture. The exhibition expands the classical viewing of works by incorporating listening, making evident how much perception depends on space, time, and personal attention. Those wishing to experience the Kunsthalle Mannheim from a new perspective will find here an extraordinary aesthetic experience between contemporary composition and art historical collection.