Kunsthalle for Music

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Kunsthalle for Music

The Kunsthalle for Music is commissioned by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, together with Spring Workshop. Music is two strangers singing a duet.

Music is not necessarily what you think it is. Can we imagine a space for music that exists outside of any media and beyond the stage? A space for unrecordable music, music of undefined duration, existing even when no audience is present? A dissolution of performer and audience, of rehearsal and performance? A music existing in the world based in a space of musical action and activity, production

and performance that can be entered into and exited from at will. A space wherein the ideal listening and viewing position is determined independently by each artist, performer or visitor, not determined beforehand by a seat number on a ticket. Having an ensemble at the center of its activity carrying out or otherwise enacting the work which continues during the opening hours whether there are visitors present or not. Music today is encountered primarily as that which we consume, through a remove, usually neatly pre-packaged, either as a recording or on a stage. And yet throughout most of its history, to experience music one had to perform it. Music was by definition: live, social and spatial. In other words also: messy, political, meta-temporal. Music was not merely in space; it was space. Music was not only social through listening; it was social in its conception. Music didn’t happen in time; it defined time. Music is inherently not about perfection or reproducibility. Music is the act of an orchestra rehearsing. Music is “John Baldessari Sings Sol LeWitt”. Music is a group of people becoming a choir, or a band, whether they perform publically or not. In short, can we imagine contemporary music, composition, music performance as contemporary art? When did we forget that music - compositional strategies, formal structures, harmony and dissonance, orchestration, scoring, arrangement, rhythm, tempo - is at the base of it all? Music traditionally had been a driver of the contemporary; all the more striking then the situation wherein music qua music has mostly separated itself and been separated from what is considered to be contemporary art. It is in this schism that the Kunsthalle for Music operates. So what, in this sense, would be the institution for music inside and alongside the contemporary art institution? What would be its repertoire? What kind of a school and educational attitudes would it have at its heart? How would it contemplate the state of musicians and music today? Would its ensemble include musicians and non-musicians alike? Would it have a collection, and if so how would music works enter into the market in the first place? What kind of a mythical new audience would it desire? Artistic Director: Ari Benjamin Meyers
Founding Directors: Ari Benjamin Meyers, Defne Ayas, Mimi Brown
Team: Natasha Hoare, Christina Li, Anja Lindner, Samuel Saelemakers
Design: APFEL (A Practice for Everyday Life)

03/02/2026

Inhabilia opens its doors in Hamburg at as part of Lessing Tage! Congratulations !

19/12/2025

12/11/2025

Berlin! Check out my film Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut at as part of the great festival!
Thursday, November 13, 6pm

07/11/2025

Opening Today

19/10/2025

What a pleasure to work again with one of my all-time favorite musicians and people . Her interpretation of my work Who’s Afraid of Sol La Ti? is epic, a physical force of nature. There will be two more activations on December 13 and 14.

10/07/2025

KOIR rehearsing the performance „Friends“ by
Thanks to .kelm for the beautiful photos!

KOIR

July 8-13

25/02/2025

Opening this Thursday! A group exhibition in the old Bethanien featuring some of my students from and students of Shannon Bool from . Come by if you’re around!

03/02/2025

AB/FM is live!

30/01/2025

Very happy to be part of this year’s Transmediale in Berlin and especially so to be sharing the stage with DeForrest Brown Jr. with a screening of Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut as the conclusion of his lecture/performance.

13/01/2025

Thrilled to be invited as part of the official selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam with my film Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut.
Showings are Feb. 1st and 3rd. See you there!

10/01/2025

So happy to catch up with Morton Subotnick and Joan La Barbara at their home and studio. Two legends I am honored to call friends.

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