Alexander Tillegreen at Kunsthalle Mannheim: See, hear, and experience art anew
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When art begins to resonate: Alexander Tillegreen at Kunsthalle Mannheim
The exhibition Pieces for Works transforms 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 interact with selected pieces from the collection as independent artworks.
A dialogue between sound, image, and architecture
Tillegreen examines how meaning changes when sound meets painting, sculpture, works on paper, and museum architecture. His compositions do not illustrate the historical works but open autonomous acoustic perspectives. The exhibition atmosphere arises from contemporary sound art, spatial composition, and concentrated artwork contemplation.
Collection works as compositional starting points
For the exhibition, Alexander Tillegreen selected works by Auguste Rodin, Rosemarie Trockel, László Moholy-Nagy, Anna Mahler, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Isa Genzken, Édouard Vuillard, and Louise Nevelson. From the formal, material, and spatial character of these works, he developed new sound pieces. Thus, a multifaceted encounter between modernism, contemporary art, and musical form emerges.
Alexander Tillegreen: Art between perception and composition
Alexander Brix Tillegreen, born in 1991 in Taarbæk, studied Fine Arts at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York as well as Art History, Musicology, and Sound Studies at the University of Copenhagen. In 2017, he completed his master's studies at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. His artistic practice combines painting, printmaking, light, sculpture, video, installation, and composition.
At the center of his work are abstraction, psychoacoustic phenomena, language, and embodied listening. Tillegreen explores how attention, cultural conditioning, and linguistic expectations influence perception. His works have been exhibited at the Tinguely Museum in Basel, MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt, CCA Glasgow, and Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen, among others.
Aesthetic experience in the resonance space
Kunsthalle becomes, in Pieces for Works, not merely an exhibition venue but an active component of the composition. Sound spreads throughout the space, redirects the gaze, and changes the temporal experience of art contemplation. Visitors experience an art experience in which colors, shapes, materials, architecture, and acoustic movement merge together.
The exhibition thus offers cultural education beyond a linear guide through an art movement or era. It invites one to sharpen their own perception and experience familiar artworks from an unusual, sensually enhanced perspective.
Conclusion: An exhibition for eyes, ears, and imagination
Pieces for Works opens an intense interplay of collection, sound art, and architecture. Art enthusiasts can expect a precisely curated, atmospheric exhibition that makes seeing and hearing equally valid forms of knowledge. Anyone wishing to experience the boundaries between visual art and music anew should definitely discover this unique art experience live at Kunsthalle Mannheim.
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