The Singing Project

What if people could meet each other singing freely?
What if an exhibition space became a place of continuous singing?

The Singing Project (2021-ongoing) is a collective practice initiated by Ayumi Paul, Artist in Residence 2022 at the Gropius Bau. Since its inception, the project has unfolded in a series of workshops, gatherings and an exhibition on site as an open space for free singing and listening to each other. The project will continue in the coming years by singing together at the summer solstice. Rooted in knowledge systems that include intuition, imagination, body memory and dreams as ways of being in the world, Ayumi Paul's activations create an awareness of the complexity of relationships.

Ayumi Paul is an artist, violinist and composer. In her practice, she explores forms of listening and different perceptions of time. Trained as a classical violinist since the age of five, she takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how sound affects perception and the boundaries of what we see and how we relate to each other. In her artistic language, she uses materials such as paper, thread and sound recordings and integrates invisible levels of reality such as vibration and imagination as spaces for collaborative creation. Although she works closely with scientific technologies, she always returns to the body and its inherent possibilities of perception beyond rational understanding. Her projects often unfold as new languages, rituals and heightened sensibilities that can be directly applied to everyday life. Ayumi Paul's work has recently been exhibited at the National Gallery Singapore (2018 and 2021), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (2020), SFMOMA (2021), Auditorium Parco della Musica (2022), haubrok foundation (2023), Gropius Bau (2023), Georg Kolbe Museum (2024), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (2024) and Sharjah Biennial (2025), among others. In 2021 she received a scholarship from the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome.