Bernhard Leitner
Sound / Body / Space. Notations.
Since the 1960's Bernhard Leitner has been building spaces and sculptures with acoustic matter. His material is the sound, the physical sound. Whole-body-listening is an essential aspect of his work. For the viewer, who has to interact like an user sitting, lying, standing, walking - within the sound-space-sculptures and sound architectures in order to have this experience it is an unique and hardly ever before experienced moment. Vaults, curves, spirals, planes are thus not only visible, but also audible in their proportions and thus also from a distance haptically noticeable. Such a conception, which has barely any pre-conditions in art history and music history, nor vocabulary and signs, needs an intensive empirical-aesthetic research and written fixation. Thus, the notation sheets occupy a special, almost independent position in the oeuvre of Bernhard Leitner.
The notation sculpture SOUNDCUBE 1970 as well as the space-program created for different sound-architectures within the soundcube are shown in the exhibition as a first ideamanifest. TON-WÜRFEL 2019 (SOUNDCUBE 2019) refers to it like TON-WÜRFEL 1982 (SOUNDCUBE 1982) exhibited at documenta 7. Sound planes of spruce wood are the sound sources for the new work. The dance-like collages and montages in turn relate to early body acoustic Investigations such as KÖRPER-HÖREN (body-listening) from 1974/75. Sound spaces in motion between speakers mounted on hands and feet in motion. The work SPRINGER (Jumper) from 2018 shows that listening is always a complex synergy of all our senses. The eye sees and hears how the sound jumps aleatorically over a series of hurdles.
Stefan Fricke
Biography
born 1938 in Feldkirch/AT, lives and works in Ravelsbach-Gaindorf near Vienna
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Bernhard Leitner. Ton – Raum – Skulptur, Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche, Krems
2019
Sound / Body / Space. Notations., Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2018
Ton-Würfel 18, Musikpavillon Hofgarten, Innsbruck
2017
Klangachsen, Kollegienkirche, Salzburg
2016
Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
TON – RAUM – SKULPTUR, Zeit Kunst Niederösterreich, St. Pölten
2015
Klangachsen, Kollegienkirche Salzburg, Salzburg
2014
30 Jahre Ton-Raum TU Berlin, TU Berlin, Berlin
Bernhard Leitner. TonRaumSkulptur, Objekte, Notation, Graphik, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Berlin
Ton-Architektur, Architekturzentrum Wien
Bernhard Leitner Spacesoundbodyspace, Buda Tower, Festival van Vlaanderen Kortijk
2011
The Saving of the Wittgensteinhouse Vienna (1969-71), Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Earspacebodysound, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2008
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
2007
Moving Heads, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
2005
Singuhr-Hörgalerie, Berlin
2006
SynErgon, LINZ AG Center, Linz (P.I.)
2004
Galerie Gelbe MUSIK, Berlin
2003
Spiegelgalerie, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
Klangstein, Kulturbezirk St. Pölten, St. Pölten (P.I.)
2002
Künstlerhaus Wien, Wien
ZKM Karlsruhe/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
2001
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
2000
Strömungen, Otto-Wagner-Spital Wien, Pavillon Felix, Vienna (P.I.)
1999
Klangkunstforum Berlin, Potsdamerplatz, Berlin
Akademie der Bildenden Künste Berlin, Berlin
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
1997
Wasserspiegel, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen (P.I.)
Raumquellen, Atrium, Friedrichstrasse Berlin (P.I.)
1996
Tonhöhe, Kollegienkirche, Salzburg
1993
Galerie Weißer Raum, Hamburg
1992
Ton-Feld, Lasallestraße Wien, Vienna (P.I.)
1991
Ton-Raum Buchberg, Buchberg (P.I.)
1990
Ruine der Künste, Berlin
Galerie Aedes, Berlin
1990
Ton-Tor, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna
1987
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Le Cylindre Sonore, Parc de la Villette, Paris (P.I.)
1984
Ton-Raum TU Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin (P.I.)
1982
Kunstraum München, Munich
1981
Museum moderner Kunst Wien, Vienna
1980
Pro Musica Nova, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
1979
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
1978
Galerie Zwirner, Cologne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Das kleine Spiel zwischen dem Ich und dem Mir. Kunst und Choreografie, Kolumba Kunstmuseum des Erzbischofs Köln, Cologne
2018
CONCENTRATION - a tribute, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Reduction, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna
2017
moving is in every direction. Environments – Installationen - Narrative Räume, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Erwarten Sie Wunder, Ulmer Mueum, Ulm
Où sont les sons? Where are sounds?, CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels
2014
KOLUMBA Museum, Cologne
Art or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Venice
2013
Pèlerinage. Kunstfest Weimar
System and Sensuality. The Ernst Schering Foundation Collection -Contemporary Art from Tom Chamberlain to Jorinde Voigt, Schering Stiftung, Berlin
Four Houses, Some Buildings and Other Spaces, New York Universities at 80 WSE gallery, NY
2012
70.40.30, Kunstraum Buchberg, Gars am Kamp
SuperBodies, 3rd Triennale for contemporary art, fashion and design, Hasselt
Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien
A House full of Music. Strategien in Musik und Kunst, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
KOLUMBA Museum, Cologne
2011
Continuum_the perception zone, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
2010
TONSPUR_expanded / DER LAUTSPRECHER, MQ Wien, Vienna
The View, Contemporary Art Space, Berlingen
RAUMREFLEXION, KOLUMBA Museum, Cologne
MaerzMusik, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
2009
Klangraum Krems, Minoritenkirche, Krems
See This Sound, LENTOS Linz, Linz
Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen
Corps Sonore, EPFL, Lausanne
2008
Feedbackstage, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
2007
Sound Dimension, San Sebastian
2006
Sonambiente, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2005
Das digitale Bauhaus, Pèlerinages, Kunstfest Weimar, Weimar
Radio France, Atelier de Création Radiophonique
2004
Ex.Position, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
Zeitversetzt, Pèlerinages, Kunstfest Weimar 2004, Weimar
MaerzMusik, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
2003
Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen
2002
Resonanzen II, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbruecken
2000
Resonancias, Museo Municipal de Malaga, Malaga
1998
Crossings, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1997
Des Eisbergs Spitze, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1996
Sonambiente, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Pariser Platz, Berlin
1994
Blaues Wölben, Forschungszentrum Austria Tabak, Vienna
1993
Grosse Raumwiege, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Agoraphon, Mediale Hamburg, Hamburg
1991
Sinneswerkzeug, Steirischer Herbst, Graz
1986
Biennale di Venezia, Venice
1985
Kreuz-Klang-Körper, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Vom Klang der Bilder, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
1984
Walter Philips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Alberta
1983
Electra Musée d´art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
1982
ars electronica, Linz
documenta 7, Kassel
1981
Soundings, Neuburger Museum, Purchase, New York
1980
Für Augen und Ohren, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Ecouter par les Yeux, ARC, Musée de la ville de Paris, Paris
1979
Sound Space, P.S.1, New York
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