Soundscapes in the Garden introduces a new dimension to the music programming that Neue Nationalgalerie has presented in and around its iconic sculpture garden since its early years – beginning with the “Jazz in the Garden” showcases in the 1970s and 1980s, which featured greats like Alice Contrane and Keith Jarrett, and continuing with the more broadly defined mandate of “Sound in the Garden” since the reopening in 2022.
The clarity and precision of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture, together with the ephemeral poetry of Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculpture, serve as parallel inspirations for understanding to conceive of music as a spatial art form—something that may be experienced while wandering among the garden’s plants and sculptures just as fully as in the focused immobilization enforced by conventional concert halls. At the Neue Nationalgalerie, the spatiality and site-specificity of all live concerts is based on an immersive d&b Soundscape audio system, which will be specially installed in the garden for the duration of the series. Soundscapes in the Garden encourages audiences to understand openness and closure not only as major themes in the architecture of the Neue Nationalgalerie, but also as categories for experiencing sound and music.
Schedule
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Loraine James LIVE
Blackhaine LIVE
Doors: 6:30 pm
Tickets 18€ + fee
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Hania Rani presents “Chilling Bambino” LIVE
Doors: 7:30 pm
(side note: all exhibitions free 4pm – 6pm)
Tickets 18€ + fee
Friday, August 29, 2025
Limpe Fuchs LIVE
Pantha du Prince LIVE
Doors: 6:30 pm
Tickets: 18€ + fee
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Tributes to Fujiko Nakaya:
Carsten Nicolai / Alva Noto
Stephen O’Malley
Ryuichi Sakamoto
On hourly rotation from 11:00 to 02:00 (coinciding with Lange Nacht der Museen)
Tickets: Free with valid museum tickets