Alexander Tillegreen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim: Seeing and hearing art
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When art begins to resonate: 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-specific sound installations and musical works that engage in a precise dialogue with selected pieces from the museum collection.
An art experience between sound, image, and architecture
Tillegreen's exhibition examines how meaning changes when sound meets painting, sculpture, works on paper, and architecture. The sound works do not merely accompany the exhibits; they exist as independent artistic creations. They open perceptual spaces where visual forms, acoustic textures, and the movement of the audience intertwine.
The selected works include pieces by Auguste Rodin, Rosemarie Trockel, László Moholy-Nagy, Anna Mahler, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Isa Genzken, Édouard Vuillard, and Louise Nevelson. Tillegreen used these works as compositional starting points and translated their materiality, spatiality, rhythmic structure, and formal tension into sound.
The exhibition atmosphere as a resonance space
In the contemplation of works, a unique aesthetic experience emerges: the eye follows contours, surfaces, and spatial effects while the ear responds to overlays, pauses, and psychoacoustic shifts. Contemporary classical music, field recordings, experimental instrumentation, and electronic sounds expand the sensory field of the Kunsthalle.
A sound piece refers to Louise Nevelson's monumental sculpture Vision One. The construction of various wooden circles captures the formal logic of the sculpture and translates it into an acoustic structure. Works by Rosemarie Trockel, Isa Genzken, and other artists will also be experienced through new listening perspectives.
Alexander Brix Tillegreen: Art between composition and perception
Alexander Brix Tillegreen, born in 1991 in Taarbæk, Denmark, 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 artistic practice combines painting, printmaking, sculpture, video, sound installation, and composition.
At the center of his work are perception, abstraction, language, and embodied listening. Tillegreen investigates how psychoacoustic phenomena, linguistic expectations, and cultural influences affect meaning formation. His works have been exhibited, among others, at the Tinguely Museum in Basel, the MMK Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, CCA Glasgow, and the National Gallery of Denmark.
Cultural education through concentrated listening
Pieces for Works invites visitors to slow down their seeing and explore the Kunsthalle with all their senses. Visitors move through an exhibition where sound is not a background, but an independent material of curation. This creates a direct access to questions of contemporary art, musical composition, and perceptual psychology.
The exhibition is also set within the cultural context of Mannheim as a UNESCO City of Music. It connects the collection of the Kunsthalle with a current position in sound art and makes the museum space itself an instrument.
Conclusion: An exhibition that reconnects seeing and hearing
Alexander Tillegreen's Pieces for Works awaits art enthusiasts with a concentrated, sensual, and art historically rich experience. Those who wish to experience painting, sculpture, installation, and experimental music in an expanded context will discover new relationships between image, space, and sound. A visit to the Kunsthalle Mannheim enriches the contemplation of the works with an intense acoustic dimension.
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