The Küppersmühle Museum in Duisburg’s inner harbor is one of Germany’s largest private museums. Highlights from the Ströher Collection, one of the most important and extensive collections of German art since 1945, can be seen here over an area of 6,100 square meters.

In three concert performances, musicians from the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and director Ludger Engels explore new levels of experience that are developed from the themes and content of the exhibited works or enter into a direct dialog with them. These sonic interventions open up new perspectives on the architecture of the building as well as the works in the collection and the current exhibition.

The focus is on the experience of sound in space – but also, very directly, of one’s own body in space. How does sound and movement change the relationship to the artwork? The musicians wander through the rooms of the museum in their concert performance. Visitors are invited to join the movement and explore new positions. In this way, the individual relationship to the artwork is explored anew in each room – an interplay of visual and acoustic sensory impressions, of visual art and performance, which creates a whole new level of experience and participation.

Sound and Image in Dialogue III – March 29, 2023 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are available available here.

The following video shows excerpts from the first concert in September 2022, accompanied by introductory words from curator and director Ludger Engels:

As curated concerts, the concerts are part of the Duisburg Philharmonic’s excellence project “ÉRCHOMAI – The Moving Orchestra”.