Alexander Tillegreen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim: Hearing Art and Seeing Anew
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When Art Begins to Sound: Alexander Tillegreen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim
The exhibition Pieces for Works by the Danish artist and composer Alexander Brix Tillegreen transforms the Kunsthalle Mannheim into a resonance space for seeing, hearing, and spatial perception. From April 2, 2026, to January 10, 2027, ten site-sensitive sound installations engage with selected works from the museum's collection.
A Museum as an Acoustic Resonance Space
Tillegreen's sound works do not merely accompany the artworks. They are autonomous artistic creations that unfold in various spaces of the Kunsthalle, entering into a subtle dialogue with painting, sculpture, works on paper, and architecture. The exhibition atmosphere is created through fine acoustic shifts that alter the sense of time, attention, and artwork observation.
Between Sound Art, Painting, and Sculpture
As compositional starting points, Alexander Tillegreen chose works by Auguste Rodin, Rosemarie Trockel, László Moholy-Nagy, Anna Mahler, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Isa Genzken, Édouard Vuillard, and Louise Nevelson. He translates the forms, textures, rhythms, and material properties of these works into auditory structures. Thus, an aesthetic experience emerges, where visitors not only view art but also perceive it spatially and physically.
Psychoacoustics and Experimental Composition
The installations combine elements of contemporary classical music with psychoacoustics, field recordings, and experimental instrumentation. Some sounds appear as distant traces in space, while others develop an immersive presence. Language, musical references, and performative sound forms open suggestive layers of meaning between memory, materiality, and abstraction.
Concrete Sound Images in Dialogue with the Collection
One sound installation reacts to Isa Genzken's sculpture Yamasaki with a moving vibraphone solo that envelops the work like an acoustic architectural model. Louise Nevelson's monumental sculpture Vision One inspired a composition of various wooden circles. In the encounter with a work by Arnold Schönberg, Tillegreen incorporates a distorted voice and fragmented language.
Alexander Brix Tillegreen: An Intermedial Artist Biography
Alexander Brix Tillegreen was born in 1991 in Taarbæk, Denmark, and lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. His artistic practice combines composition, sound installation, contemporary art, and media research. Exhibitions and projects at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, CCA Glasgow, the MMK Museum for Contemporary Art Frankfurt, Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen, and other international institutions establish him within the current fields of sound and media art.
Cultural Education through Concentrated Listening
Pieces for Works invites visitors to traverse museum spaces more consciously and to experience familiar artworks anew. An audio tour lasting about 55 minutes leads to several sound stations. The exhibition makes audible how architecture, distance, volume, and movement shape perception. This art experience connects art historical collections, contemporary composition, and cultural education.
Conclusion: An Exhibition for All Senses
Visitors can expect a quiet, intense, and unusual encounter with the collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim. Those engaging with the sound zones will discover painting, sculpture, and architecture from a new perspective. A visit to Pieces for Works enriches cultural perception and makes palpable how closely seeing, hearing, and remembering are interconnected.
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