Christina Kubisch. The Emergence of Sound

In the organizer's words:

With The Emergence of Sound , the Ludwig Forum Aachen presents a comprehensive overview exhibition of the sound artist and composer Christina Kubisch (*1948 in Bremen, lives and works in Berlin). For more than five decades, Kubisch has been working along the boundaries of composition, installation and performance through to intermedia video situations. In her artistic explorations, sound and noise are not merely products of physical processes or purely musical material. Rather, Kubisch sees them as cultural and natural driving forces with which she works on wide-ranging relational fields around aesthetic, spatial, technical, scientific, infrastructural and social themes.

Starting with early intermedia works and performances from the 1970s, through installative sound installations from the 1980s and 1990s, to a site-specific soundscape from the early 2020s, the exhibition The Emergence of Sound provides deep insights into the central fields of work of the sound art pioneer. Scores, working sketches, documentary archive material and audio samples, some of which have never been shown before, also illustrate working processes and her musical and artistic environment. Their practice in the 1970s is directly linked to the history of the Ludwig Forum, which was founded at that time with the aim of promoting a dissolution of boundaries in the arts with its program. The contextual connections are illuminated with supplementary works from the collection preserved in the Ludwig Forum. With a version of its Electrical Walks conceived for the city of Aachen, the exhibition will be extended into public space. The dates will take place during the duration of the exhibition and will be announced shortly.

Curated by Miriam Schmidt.

Price information:

Museum admission: Regular €10.00 Reduced €6.00