georg klein
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installations

installations | interventions | art in public space
 
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2023

asphalt memory
60 seconds each (by Kristof Georgen), Corvo Records
Vinyl Release and exhibition at Errant Sound, Oct 15 2023

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Unsounds
Listening sounds that don't exist - in 3 steps. Tutorial by georg klein, 15p.
+ Vinyl Release
Exhibition Magnified Ear, A.P.T. Gallery, London, 1-18 June 2023
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2022
3 neue Schwestern (3 new nurses)
Three sound-installations in the "Nurse Park", 22. Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik
Schwesternpark Witten, 6-8 May 2022
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2021
Dark Matter
Immersive sound video installation
Exhibition HATERS, Errant Sound Berlin
August 21th - Sept 12th 2021
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deep pink
sound light installation in a hostel boat cabin
129 Gallery on the Hostel Boat "Western Comfort" at river Spree, Berlin / Friedrichshain
June 18th - July 25th 2021
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passage
Interactive sound installation
Burgdorf, intraregionale - sound art festival 2021 der Hörregion Hannover
June 13th - July 18th 2021, public space
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2020
DYSTOPIE sound art festival : Berlin - Brazil
Artistic directors: Georg Klein, Laura Mello. Co-Curators: J. Gerlach, A. Fenerich, K.Reese, M.Asef
24 projects and 40 artists
Oct 16 Nov 1 2020, Alte Münze - Spreeufer - Errant Sound, Berlin
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NILAND
Audiovisual Installation (video triptych, 4-ch-sound)
July 3rd - 26th 2020, Kunstpunkt Berlin
Nov 18-22 2020, DOKFEST Kassel
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2019
The Dry and the Wet (Preview)
Sound-Video-Installation, Dystopia-Festival Istanbul
Oct 30th - Nov 4th 2019, MIAM Istanbul
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warten | waiting
Sound-Video-Installation, Exhibitiion Kunst.Schoeler #4: Stadt / City
Sept 29th - Oct 16th 2019, Schoeler Kunsthaus Berlin

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toposonie::engelbecken
GPS-guided Sound Walk (with historic photos), in public space, Berlin Mitte-Kreuzberg
Exhibition "Tracks in a Box" (CLB Moritzpkatz) and "sonomemo" (Errant Sound), Berlin
Permanent since Sept 7th 2019, Audio Walk Award 2020
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2018
The Sound before Silence - Souvenirs from North Korea
Pentagonal room with objects, 2 channel-video, 6-channel-audio
Kunsthaus Meinblau, Berlin

Nov - Dec 2018
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DYSTOPIE - Sound Art Festival : Berlin - Istanbul
Artistic directors: Georg Klein, Golo Föllmer. Co-Curators: Jeremy Woodruff, Ebru Yetiskin
Wasserspeicher Prenzlauer Berg, Errant Sound Project Space, Meinblau, Kollwitzplatz, Tempelh. Feld, Teufelsberg

Sept 2018
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Fog Zone
Audiovisual installation in a fog space with 6 dystopic stations
DYSTOPIE - Sound Art Festival Berlin, Gr.Wasserspeicher Prenzlauer Berg

Sept 2018
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2017
In the sound field
Series Part 4: Georg Klein + Kirsten Reese, Lecture: Lasse-Marc Rieck (Gruenrekorder, Frankfurt)
Errant Sound - Project Space
Berlin
July 2017
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GRÜN HÖREN | LISTENING GREEN
Interactive sound installation in two parts
International Garden Exhibition Berlin, IGA 2017
Opening: 13.4. 2017 - permanent

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Dansk Graense Overvågning (European Border Watch)
Participative project and installation
Festival "Horsens happens", Live Art DK, Kunstmuseum Horsens,

Feb 2017
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2016
ungrounded
Walk-in space bubble with interactive installation
Nord/LB art gallery Hannover, Hermannshof Völksen, Leibniz University Hannover
Nov 2016
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sound matters : kein sound ist illegal (com.version)
Interactive sound installation with shop
Errant Sound - Project Space Berlin (Berlin Art Week - Project Space Award)
Sept 2016
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Deep Difference Unit
Loudspeaker sculpture in 2 parts with 24 horn speakers, audio loop: 9min.
Daegu Contemporary Art Festival Gangjeong, South-Korea
July - Sept 2016
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permeiamo
Interactive sound installation with 5 lightspeakers and a telephone handset
Facade Gallery, Kunsthaus KuLe Berlin
Apr - June 2016
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Transitional Societies
Group exhibition with interactive sound installation NaNa
NON Berlin in coop. with Kunsthaus Meinblau
March 2016
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2015
Im Gang der RaumZeit / Walking through Einstein's Space-Time
Interactive, audiovisual installation with laser sensor, headphone and projection.
"Day of Relativity", November 25th 2015, Leibniz-University Hannover, Lichthof.
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tracing Godwin
Participative project with a nigerian, illegal immigrant in Europa. With site-specific posters and QR-Code (Audio) in public space. Kunst im Faulerbad, Freiburg (GER), and all over Europe.
Opening: Sept. 20th 2015
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kein sound ist illegal (no sound is illegal)
Interactive sound installation in a shop window configuration
May 2015, Errant Bodies - Sound Art Project Space Berlin
Series: Voice Observatory
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European Border Watch
Organisation | Installation | Performance
April 18th - May 25th 2015,
European Media Art Festvial (EMAF), Osnabrück
Dialogue Award of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Germany
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borderlines
Solo-Exhibition at Kunsthaus Meinblau, Berlin
with "Sprich mit mir" (installation), "turmlaute.2: Wachturm" (soundpicdoc)
, "Ramallah Tours" (soundpicdoc), "tracing Godwin" (poster project), March 2015
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2014
The Interactive Piano
Interactive Installation with a Grand Piano
3rd - 9th. of Nov. 2014, Festival 25 Jahre Klangwerkstatt , SophienSaele Berlin
www.klangwerkstatt-berlin.de
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PCFS - Post Colonial Flagship Store
Exhibition with 16 artists, curated by Sven Kalden & Georg Klein
Oct 3rd - Nov 23rd 2014, freiraum quartier21 International / MuseumsQuartier Vienna

www.pcfs-vienna.com
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taranto
Due Forze di Taranto | Two Powers of Taranto
Installation with 3 photo plates (doubleside) and 2 loudspeakers
Underpassing way in Taranto / South-Italy
www.correnti-seduttive.com
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2013
toposonie
toposonie : : spree
Topographic Composition for an urban space, with Smartphone-App. Berlin-Mitte.
Permanent sound walk: 90 min. Opening: 20th of July 2013
german/english/french
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UNzuRECHT
UNzuRECHT A + B in coop. with Steffi Weismann
Case A (Finance): 3-side audiovisual Installation
Case B (Justice): Audiovisual Performance-Installation
Schlossmediale Werdenberg (CH)
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2012
Gnade
MERCY | GNADE
Installation in 2 parts: 4 interactive writings GNADE in urban space and media altar of mercy in a representative space. City of Mannheim / Castle Schwetzingen. Mozartsommer Festival by Nationaltheater Mannheim
4 Videos "Gnade" in urban space, 2 audio-video-loops with scenes of mercy (Mozart) 11:20, LED-writing with a text by W.Benjamin, kneeler with monitor (8 reports on suicide in the global world of finance), sun of mercy
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Paternoster
BMF-Interventions
3 installative sound interventions in the Ministery of Finance of Germany in Berlin
Türsprecher/Doorspeaker | Paternoster-Vibrations | wel-come

"Musik.Zeit.Geschehen - III"
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gelber Klang
Der gelbe Klang2 (The yellow sound2) - Homage to Kandinsky
Sound-Light-Installation in two entrance stairs to a underground garage in the royal park of Karlsruhe.
Exhibition "Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst."
at ZKM Karlsruhe.
2 audio-loops, 6-channel, 17:20 each. Adapted for MuseumsQuartier Wien: 1 audio-loop 10:20 + 7 posters
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2011
Godwin
tracing Godwin
Photo-Installation with voice, red shining loudspeaker and several site-specific posters in public space
with a Nigerian, illegal immigrant in Europe
audio-loop: 6 min.
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triadio trashsounds
OS school projects: TRIADIO + trashsounds
2 project in the city and at 3 schools in Osnabrück (with pupils of Anne-Frank-Schule, Gymnasium in der Wüste and Schinkel-Gesamtschule). YEAH Award / Hörbare Umwelten, Osnabrück.
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2010
ataturk
smile atatürk
Website with manipulated fotographs of Atatürk (founder of modern Turkey)
as a download service for offices, shops and tea houses in Turkey
www.smileataturk.org
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mirrorsongs
mirrorsongs
Installation with 9 mirrors and 9-channel loudspeakers at a prison facade.
With 7 voices of young people of Sinop in 5 sound loops.
loop durations: 9 min. each
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Cuts and Creeds
Cuts and Creeds
Young male assassins in an oriental-occidental perspective
Dual audio-visual installation with three medial layers: audio-video-text
2 audio-video-loops: 18min. each, 2 readers 32p. each

german / turkish versions
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2009
NaNa
NaNa
Interactive sound installation with one female voice, korean-german.
two parabolic speakers, infrared motion sensor
66 interactive variations
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Ramallah Tours
Ramallah Tours
Intervention with a Palestinian taxi in Israel
sound installation at a car in public space (Tel Aviv/UmmElFahem) & travel agency
4-channel sound with transducers, bus with labels, loop: 32min.
www.ramallahtours.info
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Sprich mit mir
Sprich mit mir | Talk to me
Site-specific research and interactive installation in two parts
in the red light district of Braunschweig
3-channel speech column + 9-channel sound wall

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2008
venture doll
venture doll in coop. with Steffi Weismann
Intervention with a robot doll as a shopping guide in american supermarkets
Performance and video
promotion video 7min., promotion website: www.savvy-shopping.info

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sonic parole
sonic parole
Acoustically animated video installation
with pseudo-revolutionary advertisement slogans
video loop: 6min.

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medienrohr
thank you, China - Medienrohr (Media-Space-Award)
Video-sound installation with visuals and melodies of television news during the Iraq War 2003
8-channel video, 10-channel audio with 16 red shining loudspeakers
audio-video loop: 15min.

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Peregrinatio Paradiso
peregrinatio paradiso
Site-specific sound walk through gardens in Hannover
with texts by Ovid, Kurt Schwitters and Hermann Löns and interviews with blind and blind-deaf people
voice: Angela Winkler, MP3-player sound walk: 2 hours

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2007
metastasen
metastasen | metastases
Worldwide - unexpected - double-digit: a perspective on growth
mobile sound & light installation in the tram line 8 (Dresden-Hellerau) with 111 loudspeakers and three voices. Duration one way: 40min.
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t2-watchtower
turmlaute.2: watch tower
EUROPEAN BORDER WATCH ORGANISATION
Sound | Video | Installation | Interaction | Organisation | Website
Interactive installation and performance with website

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2006
turmlaute1 starvation tower
turmlaute.1: starvation tower
Sound-video-installation
with texts by Dante Alighieri and Franz Kafka
video-triptychon, 7-channel spatial sound installation, loop: 16min.

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KlangAuge
KlangAuge | SoundEye (concept)
Video sound installation with live-transmission between Germany and China
2 SoundEye-Objects with projektion screen and 4-channel-audio

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takeaway
takeaway in coop. with Steffi Weismann
Interactive sound installation in a takeaway wagon
with one female voice, kitchen noise and radio news

2-channel sound, laser distance sensor, yellow light, 72 interactive sentences
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Trasa 06
TRASA 06
A bi-medial space of contact
Audiovisual situation with internet live transmission between Poznan-Hannover and Plock-Darmstadt
2-channel-video live-streaming, 7-channel-audio with interactive laser sensor

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2005
warten
warten | waiting
Video-sound-installation in split screen projection
with a poem by Bertolt Brecht, voice: Otto Sander
Audio-video loop: 6 min.

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toobigtofail
too big to fail (concept)
Sound-light-installation in a restroom at Alexanderplatz Berlin on the scandal of the Bank of Berlin.
Projekt für Urban Art Stories.

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pickup
pickup in coop. with Steffi Weismann
Interactive sound installation in an empty kiosk
with two swiss voices
36 interactive phrases with ultrasonic distance sensor, orange light

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2004
TRASA
TRASA warszawa-berlin
Ein bimedialer Kontaktraum / A bi-medial space of contact
Audiovisual situation with internet live transmission between Warsaw and Berlin
with poems by Heiner Müller and Wislawa Szymborska
2-channel-video live-streaming, 7-channel-audio with interactive laser sensor

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Krankenliege Nation
Krankenliege Nation | Stretcher of Nation (concept)
Sound installation in a wagon, formerly used by neonazis a a music club.
4-channel-audio, blue light, 2 stretchers, neon writing

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2003
Imperial News
Imperial News
Video-sound installation with visuals and melodies of television news during the Iraq War 2003
8-channel video, 10-channel audio with 16 red shining loudspeakers
audio-video loop: 15min.

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Klangkurve Wedding
Klangkurve Wedding (concept)
Interactive sound installation with 51 red shining horn loudspeakers.
Gartenstadt Atlantic, Berlin-Wedding.

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wel-come
wel-come
Stereo sound installation with 22 granulated voices from 22 nations, speaking one word
2-channel audio, 2 hidden boxes covered by linen
loop: park version 20min., inside version 8min.

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2002
Ortsklang Marl Mitte
Ortsklang Marl Mitte (German Sound Art Award 2002)
Sound-light installation at a railway station in Marl
with 9 young voices of Marl, reading graffiti slogans
6-channel audio, blue light, loop: 16min.

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2001
transition
transition - berlin junction
Eine Klangsituation / A Sound Situation
Interactive sound installation in a sculpture of Richard Serra at Philharmonie Concert Hall Berlin
with two voices (Angela Winkler, Otto Sander) and a poem of Bertolt Brecht
4-channel sound, 8 infrared distance sensors

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