Situations: Kunsthalle
20.07.–30.08.2025
Anushka Chkheidze: Hacked Voices
Jana Irmert: Reading the Air
Nile Koetting: All Listening / Slightly There
Nicole L’Huillier: Foundation 1
Robert Lippok: Phantom Syntax
Svetlana Maraš: Jazz
Artistic Direction: Robert Lippok
Idea and Curatorial Advice: Carsten Seiffarth
Technical Direction: Rudyard Schmidt
Coordination: Markus Steffens
Exhibition as part of the Darmstadt Summer Course 2025
Organized by the International Music Institute Darmstadt
in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Darmstadt
The exhibition SITUATIONS: KUNSTHALLE sees itself as a spatial-compositional structure that shifts the traditional concept of a group exhibition toward a collective dramaturgy. Sound is not treated here as an isolated artistic medium, but as a relational, space-constituting element.
Based on the acoustic openness of the architecture, the Kunsthalle itself is conceived as a score: as a system of interferences, refections and transitions. The invited artists – Anushka Chkheidze, Jana Irmert, Nile Koetting, Nicole L’Huillier, Svetlana Maraš and Robert Lippok – develop their works along these spatio-temporal conditions. The individual positions remain recognizable, but at the same time fit into a dynamic, permeable sound continuum.
Central strategies are spatially mobile sound sources, sculptural elements, performative interventions and processual structures. The permanent acoustic interpenetration creates a form of “situational composition” in which spatial proximity, temporal overlay and sonic resonance become the primary artistic tools.
19.7. 14:00 Uhr
Ausstellungseröffnung und Eröffnung der Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2025 durch Oberbürgermeister Hanno Benz
Gemeinsamer Ausstellungsrundgang mit den Künstler:innen
Live-Performances, Artist Talks:
19.7. 16:00 – 19:00 Uhr
20.7. 17:00 – 21:00 Uhr
29.7. & 30.7. 16:00 – 19:00 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten der Ausstellung:
20.7. – 2.8., täglich 15:00 – 19:00 Uhr
3.8. – 30.8., Mi – So 15:00 – 19:00 Uhr
Eintritt frei
Ort: Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Steubenplatz 1
Veranstalter: Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt in Kooperation mit der Kunsthalle Darmstadt
Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes
PROGRAM
Sat, 19.7. 16.00 – 19.00
Performative activation of the exhibition with all artists and the performers of All Listening
Sun, 20.7. 17.00 – 21.00
Talks / lectures of each participating artist in the “library” or directly in the exhibition
17.00 Anushka Chkheidze
17.30 Jana Irmert
18.00 Nile Koetting
18.30 Nicole L’Huillier
19.00 Robert Lippok
19.30 Svetlana Maraš
20.00 Final performance with Robert Lippok
Tue, 29.7. & Wed, 30.7. 16.00 – 19.00
Anushka Chkheidze & Robert Lippok: Around the House