Sound meets art
In this special exhibition, Ulrich Eller explores the architectural and cultural-historical ambience of the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum. His sound installations change the perception of familiar places and open up the unexpected in the familiar: special exhibition rooms, foyers and even the outside area of the museum experience a partly acoustic, partly visual, but always perceptible transformation through his installations.
In Eller's art, hearing and seeing become a creative act for museum visitors, transforming the space into an instrument. The museum serves the artist as a resonating body and an invitation to actively and consciously move through his surroundings. While strolling through the collections, the artist's interventions open up fresh perspectives and surprising points of reference. New experiences between art, space and individual experience are created. Eller's tones. Sounds. Objects encourage us to re-contextualize the familiar.
Sound is art
Everyday noises, embedded and echoing in the context of the museum, become an artistic experience and enter into a dialog - with the artworks, the visitors and the architecture. Eller's intervention turns the stairwell into a "large language space". Words and sentences, taken from object texts in the picture gallery, are transformed into a new level of sound by the acoustics and reverberation of the staircase. The room becomes a resonator that absorbs and modifies the sounds of speech. There is a "ladder to heaven" in the picture gallery. Fine sound structures pulsate from small loudspeakers.