When can the exhibition be visited?

The Kunsthalle Mannheim is open Tuesday and Thursday to Sunday and on public holidays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. On the first Wednesday of the month, extended opening hours apply until 10 p.m.

How much does admission cost?

The regular admission for collection and special exhibitions is 16 euros. The reduced admission is 14 euros.

How long is Pieces for Works running?

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

Which artworks are in the spotlight?

Alexander Tillegreen developed ten sound works in relation to selected paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the collection, including works by Auguste Rodin, Rosemarie Trockel, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, and Louise Nevelson.

Is the exhibition suitable for people without prior knowledge?

Yes. The exhibition invites direct aesthetic experience through hearing, seeing, and spatial perception and does not require prior art historical knowledge.

Where is the exhibition taking place?

Pieces for Works can be seen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Friedrichsplatz 4, 68165 Mannheim.

Alexander Tillegreen makes art resonate: A sensual museum experience in Mannheim

Name: Alexander Tillegreen – Pieces for Works
Start: 2026-11-07T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Kunsthalle Mannheim

When art begins to sound: Alexander Tillegreen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim

The exhibition Pieces for Works by 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 newly developed, location-sensitive sound works enter into an independent dialogue with selected pieces from the museum collection.

An art experience between sound and image

Tillegreen's artistic practice moves between painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, light, composition, and sound installation. In Mannheim, situations arise where sound does not merely appear as an accompaniment but exists as an autonomous artistic form alongside paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. The exhibition thus opens an aesthetic experience in which perception unfolds across multiple senses.

Selected works as compositional starting points

For the project, Tillegreen selected ten artworks from the collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim as starting points for his compositions. These include works by Auguste Rodin, Rosemarie Trockel, László Moholy-Nagy, Anna Mahler, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Isa Genzken, Édouard Vuillard, and Louise Nevelson. Fine correspondences, formal shifts, and new layers of meaning arise between the exhibits and the sound installations.

The exhibition atmosphere as resonance space

The location-sensitive sound works incorporate architecture, spatial effects, and audience movement into the experience of the artworks. Electronic sounds and instrumental elements respond to the visual structure of the artworks without explaining them illustratively. This principle is particularly evident in the engagement with Louise Nevelson's monumental sculpture Vision One, whose constructive linguistic forms resonate in a specially developed sound work.

Between abstraction, psychoacoustics, and cultural education

Alexander Brix Tillegreen, born in 1991 in Taarbæk, studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. In addition, he studied art history, musicology, and sound studies at the University of Copenhagen. His works examine how language, voice, psychoacoustics, and spatial hearing shape perception. The exhibition makes this research sensually tangible and invites a rediscovery of familiar artworks with a slowed-down gaze and attentive ears.

A museum in the sign of the music city of Mannheim

By connecting sound, architecture, and visual arts, Pieces for Works expands the sensory field of the Kunsthalle. The project is simultaneously situated within the cultural context of Mannheim as a UNESCO City of Music. Visitors encounter a curation that does not present collection art in isolation but sets it in motion through contemporary compositions.

Conclusion: See, hear, and perceive differently

Alexander Tillegreen's Pieces for Works offers a concentrated art experience between installation, composition, and collection. The exhibition opens new access to painting, sculpture, and space and provides an unusual temporal depth to the appreciation of the works. Art enthusiasts should definitely experience the sound installations on-site, as their impact arises from the interplay of body, space, light, material, and hearing.