Curator's Tour of Alexander Tillegreen at the Kunsthalle Mannheim
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When Art Begins to Sound: Curator's Tour of Alexander Tillegreen
On October 24, 2026, the Kunsthalle Mannheim invites you to a curator's tour through the exhibition Pieces for Works. Dr. Stefano Agresti will convey the conceptual foundations of a presentation in which sound art, painting, sculpture, and museum architecture enter into a precise dialogue.
A Museum as a Resonance Space
The Danish artist and composer Alexander Brix Tillegreen, born in 1991 in Taarbæk, develops ten site-sensitive sound installations and musical works for the exhibition. They relate to selected works from the collection, including pieces by Auguste Rodin, Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, Isa Genzken, and Louise Nevelson.
The installations are spread across different rooms of the Kunsthalle. This creates an exhibition atmosphere in which sound, space, and visual perception mutually change. Tones appear as fleeting lines in space, condense into acoustic zones, or only become conscious upon focused contemplation of the work.
Viewing Works Between Image, Sound, and Architecture
Tillegreen's art form combines contemporary sound art with elements of contemporary classical music, psychoacoustics, field recordings, and experimental instrumentation. Visual properties such as texture, rhythm, layering, and spatiality are not given illustrative sound, but translated into independent auditory structures.
This process is particularly impressive in the sound work for Isa Genzken's sculpture Yamasaki, whose architectural appearance Tillegreen captures with a vibraphone solo circling around the work. Louise Nevelson's monumental sculpture Vision One also served as the starting point for a composition that works with the motif of wooden circles.
Hearing Art Historical Contexts Anew
The curator's tour opens access to an exhibition that places works from different epochs and media into new perceptual contexts. Modern sculpture, expressive painting, works on paper, and contemporary sound installations encounter each other in a curatorial drama that expands the classical museum as a purely visual place.
The tour combines art historical expertise with cultural education and invites participants to sharpen their perception: How does an artwork change when its environment becomes audible? What role do movement, time, and body play in the aesthetic experience? And how do new layers of meaning emerge in the interplay of image, material, and sound?
A Concentrated Art Experience in Mannheim
The curator's tour with Dr. Stefano Agresti offers art enthusiasts the opportunity to learn about the exhibition from a curatorial perspective and to understand the special goals of its selection and presentation of works. The conversation with the curatorial mediation deepens the view of Tillegreen's working method and the connection of visual arts, music, and architecture.
Those who visit the exhibition Pieces for Works will experience a museum as a multifaceted resonance space: visible in forms, colors, and materials, audible in subtle sound movements, and tangible in one's own physical presence. This aesthetic experience makes the curator's tour a special appointment for all who want to not only view art but also attentively listen and think anew.
Conclusion: See, Hear, and Understand Art Anew
The curator's tour promises knowledgeable and sensual access to Alexander Tillegreen's sound art. Visitors discover how collection art changes through acoustic interventions and how closely work contemplation, spatial impact, and temporal perception are interconnected. Take the opportunity for an inspiring art experience at the Kunsthalle Mannheim.
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