Listening to art

Of course, I really enjoy visiting museums and art exhibitions. I love the atmosphere of these institutions, the multifaceted interaction not only with the art on display, but also with the architecture of the spaces and the other visitors.

It all starts with the type of building you enter. Which rooms within were selected, prepared, and made accessible in a specific way for which type of art? What paths does the visitor take not only through an exhibition, but also on the way to its entrance, and afterward, on the way out of the exhibition? Where are the most interesting visual axes and interactions between artworks? How do they come about?

I almost always try not to follow the designated path at the start; if possible, I enter the exhibition from the end and thus move counter-cyclically to the flow of visitors. This certainly works best at the beginning of opening hours. This way, I experience as many rooms as possible without other visitors and enjoy the artworks in complete silence.

And with a little luck, the exhibits are arranged in such a way that they actually begin to speak to one another when I’m there - and then I listen.