Heidi Horten Collection: Light Sound Senses Exhibition Exploring Perception and Art

The exhibition 'Light Sound Senses' delves into light as a physical, natural, and aesthetic phenomenon, aiming to stimulate diverse sensory perceptions. It invites visitors to engage with multi-sensory artworks that heighten awareness of space, time, light, and sound, exploring light's role in technological development and its symbolic cultural meanings.

Light Sound Senses examines light as both a physical and aesthetic phenomenon, aiming to heighten visitors' sensory perceptions of space, time, light, and sound. The exhibition investigates light as an indicator of technological advancement and as a cultural construct imbued with symbolic meaning. Featuring works from the Heidi Horten Collection, loans from TBA21, and site-specific immersive installations created exclusively for the exhibition, it offers a deeper understanding of light, sound, and our five senses. Spanning two floors, the exhibition introduces pioneers of light art like László Moholy-Nagy and features immersive installations by Olafur Eliasson, Brigitte Kowanz, and Siegrun Appelt, who addresses light pollution and daylight research. Neon is explored as an artistic and conceptual material by Tracey Emin and Joseph Kosuth, while Bernhard Leitner's sound installation encourages visitors to 'see' sound. Other artists use sound to enhance bodily perception, and works by Lena Henke and Ernesto Neto stimulate the senses of smell and taste. A special feature is the participatory element, exemplified by Carsten Nicolai's 'Bausatz noto,' where visitors combine sounds using turntables and vinyl, and a new light and sound installation by Nicolai created specifically for the show. The exhibition takes a scientific-critical, humorous, and aesthetic approach to challenging and playing with our sensory perceptions.