Philippe Parreno: Voices

A film begins,
but there is no screen,
only an infinite image,
an ongoing representation shaped by time.

A voice hums in Munich,
an echo answers in Almeria.
Between the neoclassical walls of Haus der Kunst,
a landscape unfolds —
not solid, but spectral,
not fixed, but fluid.

Here, resonance replaces architecture.
Rigid symmetry dissolves into spirals,
triangles of sound and space,
a choreography of data and breath,
within an ongoing invisible monument.

In the Tabernas land,
an almond grove whispers a prophecy —
spectral data, inaudible sounds,
the pulse of a remote terrain.
El Almendral is not a grove but an organism,
a cinematic landscape,
a field of fiction,
where seasons shape the infinite image.

In Munich, the echoes arrive:
heat from blind lamps,
glass that blinks like an eye,
mechanical rhythms rising and falling.

In this film, each object is a character
responding to the voices,
performing in time.

Objects move,
the air shifts,
a voice speaks —
and the site answers back.

A nameless character, alien yet intimate, breathes within,
its body made of sensors,
its voice borrowed from a human.
A familiar intonation becomes the thread,
binding organism to machine, resonance to reality.

A situation by Tino Sehgal weaves a human strand,
inviting dancers into the encounter, and visitors attune.

A gesture rewrites the script,
a  voice transforms the score,
a presence bends the sound,
a breath reshapes the infinite.

Voices is a resonating membrane,
an organism without borders,
a landscape without end.
It is not confined to time or place —
only to the rhythm of its own becoming.

A cinema without end —
a film projected not on walls,
but within spaces,
across lands.

The exhibition listens and modulates.


Curated by Andrea Lissoni and Lydia Antoniou with Hanns Lennart Wiesner.

The exhibition is supported by the K.S. Fischer Stiftung Hamburg, Ulli und Uwe Kai-Stiftung, and the Circle of Friends of Philippe Parreno. Voices.

For their annual support of our programme, we thank our shareholders, the Free State of Bavaria and the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Stiftung Haus der Kunst München e. V. We further thank our major supporter, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, for their generous commitment to our work, as well as the Ulli und Uwe Kai-Stiftung.