Pieces for Works in the Kunsthalle Mannheim: When art becomes audible
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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 installations and musical works that enter into an independent dialogue with selected works from the collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim.
An art experience between image, sound, and architecture
Painting, sculpture, works on paper, and architecture encounter a contemporary sound art in this exhibition that not only accompanies but opens up new spaces of perception. Tillegreen's compositions respond to texture, spatiality, rhythm, and layering of visual works. This creates an aesthetic experience where the view changes through hearing and the museum space becomes physically tangible.
Alexander Brix Tillegreen: Between composition and visual art
Alexander Brix Tillegreen, born in 1991 in Taarbæk, Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. He studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at Cooper Union in New York. His artistic practice combines painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, installation, and composition. Central to his work are questions of perception, abstraction, language, psychoacoustic phenomena, and the relationship between body, space, and memory.
For Pieces for Works, Tillegreen selected artwork from the museum collection as compositional starting points. His sound works draw on elements of contemporary classical music, field recordings, experimental instrumentation, and language-related sound research. Some works investigate the transitions between visibility and audibility, while others activate suggestive and symbolic layers of meaning.
Viewing art as sensory perception
The exhibition atmosphere arises from subtle acoustic shifts, spatial silence, and conscious concentration on individual works. Voices, electronic sounds, and site-specific resonances interact with forms, materials, and surfaces. The museum becomes a walkable composition, where every movement alters the listener's impression.
Art historical classification and cultural education
Tillegreen's exhibition stands in the tradition of intermedial art forms that transcend the boundaries between visual art, music, and architecture. It connects to the history of sound art and installation art, expanding classical artwork viewing into an acoustic dimension. At the same time, the project fits into Mannheim's profile as a UNESCO City of Music.
The art experience invites visitors to reconsider familiar categories: What happens when a painting is conceived as a sound structure? How does the perception of a sculpture change through spatial sound? And what memories arise when visual and acoustic impressions intertwine?
Conclusion: An exhibition for eyes, ears, and imagination
Pieces for Works awaits visitors with a concentrated aesthetic experience between collection, sound, and architecture. The exhibition makes art not only visible but also audible and physically tangible. Anyone wishing to experience contemporary sound art, intermedial installation, and new forms of artwork viewing should discover this special exhibition project at the Kunsthalle Mannheim live.
