Category: Installations

  • Muyang Lyu

    Beamcircus

    The idea of robot has long been intertwined with human’s imagination of mimicking life, automating labor, and the spirit of machines. Its roots can be traced back to pre-digital era, and even further to the myths and mechanical dreams of ancient times.
    Beam Bot is a series of small robots developed by Mark Tilden in the 1990s, inspired by Rodney Brooks’s behavior-based robotics. The name BEAM stands for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics. These small, bug-like creatures are driven by simple analog primitive “neurons”, that consume so little energy that they can often run on solar power. Even though they contain no micro-controllers and cannot be programmed, they are still move and respond to their surroundings in surprisingly complex and stable ways. While Tesla and Boston’s Robots capture the attention of the entire internet, these tiny electronic bugs shine quietly within old diagrams, in forgotten digital corners of unmaintained forums and blogs.
    At the festival, I’ll circuit-bending several classic Beam Bot and Synthesizers to create Chimera crickets, which will be presented as installtions. In the 30min radio piece, I will share a short history and story of these robots to discuss how bots evoke feelings similar to those we have toward living beings, and how they speak to our contemporary anxieties as well as our progressive view of technology and aesthetics.

    Sa. 11.10. 2 – 8 PM
    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 PM

    Exhibition Waschraum

    Su. 12.10. 3.15 PM

    Lecture Performance

    Mimikri

    Artist Talk

    Su. 12.10. 4.30 PM

    Waschraum

    Muyang’s kinetic and interactive sound objects often focus on the poetic misuse of low-cost, low-tech, and low-maintenance analog circuits, many of which she discovered by chance on the internet. She still believes in the value and potential of outdated analog circuits in the age of AI and coding, especially in their non-standardized and unpredictable qualities. The design of many classic circuits relies on continuous modification and refinement by countless individuals—not only professionals but also amateurs—through which new applications are discovered. She regards DIY as a media-archaeological method: a way to embody critical reflection on technology through micro-political, everyday actions.

  • Erik Soto Rodríguez

    Through sound experiments, the transformation of objects, and the use of recycled materials, he creates sensitive scenarios that oscillate between the organic and the artificial. His works offer immersive experiences in which light, sound, and space become living organisms, inviting the viewer to become an active participant in the work. Combining technical precision with poetic dimensions, his artistic research explores sustainability, the life cycle of objects, and the way images, energy, and memory reshape our way of inhabiting the world today.

    Sa. 11.10. 14 – 20 Uhr
    So. 12.10. 14 – 18 Uhr

    Waschraum

    Erik Soto Rodríguez, Mexico.

    Interdisciplinary visual artist whose practice encompasses installation, bioart, and theater production.

    With Post-Chlorophilic Landscape, he creates a dystopian scenario in which life is created in a new materiality and nature merges with technology.

  • Elkin Kutluer

    SAND II (2024)

    Sand, steel, time

    The hourglass is running, and time is slipping through our fingers like sand. Can you hear the sand trickling?

    The installation “SAND II” is an interplay of time, movement, form, and the sound that results from it. Trickling sand runs through the funnel. A pile of sand forms, which grows steadily and covers the floor over time. Put your ear to the whisper tube and listen to the sand.

    Sa. 11.10. 2 – 8 PM
    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 PM

    WH22 / cdw Kulturareal


  • Lea-Maraike Sambale

    Object and sound Velour terry cloth, round steel, stool, sound (10 min, looped) Erinnerungskörper in blau is a multi-sensory spatial installation that deals with the inscription of tender touch into the somatic memory. Long, dark blue textile tubes made of velour terry cloth hang from a spiral-shaped metal structure made of round steel down to the floor. A blue plastic stool – a familiar everyday object used in bathrooms – stands at its center. Visitors are invited to take a seat and listen to a ten-minute sound recording in a loop via headphones: the sonorous noise of a hairdryer and the rhythmic stroking of a brush. Erinnerungskörper in blau moves between everyday intimacy and the awareness of transience. The expansive installation places slightly overlooked moments of care at its center and poses questions about closeness without real contact. The work creates a space for memories stored in the body and negotiates how we can remember touch. At the RANGE Sound Festival, only the 10-minute sound of the installation will be heard.

    Sa. 11.10. 2 – 8 PM
    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 PM

    Artist Talk

    Su. 12.10. 4.30 PM

    Waschraum

    Lea-Maraike Sambale (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist with a hybrid practice. She currently lives and works in Vienna. Since 2020, she has been studying fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel with a focus on sculpture, new media, and theory and practice. Most recently, she completed a one-year Erasmus study program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the class for transmedia art under Professor Jakob Lena Knebl. In her artistic practice, Sambale moves between sensual-haptic textures and digital spaces. Her works include multimedia installations, performative video works, and textile objects. Her work focuses on the tension between physicality and technological surfaces, as well as the exploration of analog and digital cultures of memory. She often deals with social and political power dynamics and forms of care, placing particular emphasis on perspectives that are often underrepresented or rendered invisible. Her work has been shown in exhibition spaces in Kassel, Berlin, Hildesheim, Chemnitz, and Vienna.

  • Svea Marzok

    The performance video shows the intimate feeling of insecurity, doubt, inner struggles, as well as a feeling of confinement, inner isolation, and psychological stress. It invites viewers to dive into emotional depths, aims to generate empathy, and raise awareness of the struggles that many people experience in secret.



    Sa. 11.10. 2 – 8 PM
    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 PM

    Artist Talk

    Su. 12.10. 4.30 PM

    Waschraum



    Svea Marzok is a visual artist and has been studying at the Kassel Art Academy since 2024. Influenced by her experiences working with young adults and biographical turning points, she has developed an experimental, media-open practice that combines painting and video. Her work focuses on mental health, personality disorders, and identity. She explores how materiality and emotion resonate with each other, opening up spaces for dialogue in which viewers can actively think and feel along with her.

  • Maerie C. Fricke

    one bar of soap

    a washroom

    a shower

    a memory pressed between yellowish tiles

    a towel on the wall, soaking wet

    a bar of soap

    lemon soap, 200g, RRP $0.53

    fragments of thought in sound & words

    Sa. 11.10. 2 – 8 PM
    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 PM

    Artist Talk

    Su. 12.10. 4.30 PM

    Waschraum

    Maerie C. Fricke is a visual artist. She is currently in Kassel, on her way to Vienna to study at the University of Applied Arts, and next year she will be studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Nina Canell. Maerie C. Fricke’s artistic practice focuses on materiality and transformation processes—always in relation to social structures and dynamics. Her interdisciplinary approach extends to the realms of sound, text, and installations. The artist is driven by themes such as collective memory, the continuity of violent and radical structures, and sometimes simply a longing for something banal.

  • Anita Berger

    “Everyday Sound Makers” Can you hear the sounds of everyday life?

    The world is full of sounds, even in places where we would hardly expect them. A glass bumping against the edge of a table. The humming of electrical appliances. The creaking of an old door. For me, all of this is music: not composed, not staged, but created in the moment. I don’t just hear with my ears. When sounds arise, I see lines, flowing shapes, vibrating shadows. For me, sound becomes a movement in space, an image that cannot be captured. This work invites you to experience this perception. Instructions:
    1. Place the headphones on the back of your neck, in direct contact with your skin.
    2. Touch the objects.
    3. Hear the sound. See the light. Experience the image. Tip: You can also touch other people: when they touch the objects, the contact flows through you.

    Sa. 11.10. 2 – 8 PM
    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 PM

    WH22 / cdw Kulturareal

    “Detours broaden your knowledge of the area.” This sentence sums up how I see my own path. For a long time, I worked in a field that was characterized by clear processes and immediate demands, a daily routine that left little room for creativity or individuality. At the same time, I have always had an interest in music, art, and philosophy, which I am now pursuing in depth as part of my studies. So I live in a constant tension between the demands of reality and the freedom of individual expression and thought. This tension is also reflected in my work, in which I translate everyday things into new contexts and connect meanings. It is not a radical break, but a coexistence that has grown step by step. For me, it is not the paths I have taken that are decisive, but how they have shaped me.” – Anita Berger

  • Eeva Ojanperä

    frühe morgen – early mornings

    The audiovisual work transforms grief in time and space.

    The father’s slides are sent out into the sky through the windows. The form of the memories is no longer so important—their location is all the more so.

    Sounds from Karelia are projected inward onto the curved wall: from a kesämökki, a Finnish log cabin, from memories of the family’s summer residence that united hearts but has been lost.

    Inspired by the Finnish origin story of the world, “Alkumuna,” in which the world can only come into being through the breaking of seven duck eggs, pieces of eggshells find new meaning here: with them, it is possible to catch a brief glimpse of what it can mean to have a world (or a home) and to lose it.

    Sa. 11.10. 2 – 8 PM
    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 PM

    WH22 / cdw Kulturareal

    Eeva is an interdisciplinary audiovisual artist. Her focus is on moving images, animation, and sound, exploring technological mediation and the interplay of presence and absence in everyday life in her works.

    Ojanperä has curated and organized exhibitions such as “SHOWROOM” at the ZfKW and has participated in numerous group projects, including “PoolIt!” (UK14 Kassel, 2024) and ‘Horizonte’ (Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 2023). She is also a founding member of the Kassel sound festival “RANGE.”

    Her work is characterized by the combination of sound design and tactile elements, and she works as a sound engineer, sound designer, and Foley artist.

  • Moa Florell and Jonas Eschner

    Performance and Installation

    In this collaboration we examine the relation between sound and movement through technological means. Our aim is to merge fragments from different artistic fields into a single expression. This unity may be unattainable, but it remains our horizon. The performance uses raw physical and technological elements: sensors, bodies, oscillations. A wooden box-frame, about 2.5 meters on each side, carries sensors that generate sound. Moved by a dancer, its signals are processed by a computer and guided by an artist. The sound in turn informs the performers, creating a loop between the inanimate and the living. Over time the frame is dismantled. What remains is a pile of wood and electronics, still transmitting values, now producing a steady sound that endures as an installation throughout the festival.


    Sa. 11.10. 6 – 8 pm Performance

    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 pm Installation Exhibition

    kleine Weinkirche / WH22 cdw Kulturareal

    In 2024, we collaborated on the short project Angles as an artistic duo. Coming from different professional backgrounds, we are eager to continue this collaboration, deepening our combined knowledge and artistic expression. Moa Florell is a contemporary dancer, performer, and choreographer from Trosa, Sweden, with more than 15 years of stage experience across Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Portugal. Since 2024, she has been based in Kassel, where she contributes to the freelance dance scene as a member of the association Tanzwerk. Alongside participating in collective artistic projects, she develops her own works, including Tag Für Tag and Unveiling Layers. Her artistic practice explores fundamental human themes such as identity, communication, and relationships, with the aim of creating emotional resonance and inviting audiences to reflect on their own experiences. Jonas Eschner is a visual artist and musician from Kassel, Germany, with over ten years of arts education. His practice explores the blend of digital and acoustic realms, merging interactive design with live performance. He works with CG and animation but also programming real time applications, digital modeling, and custom interfaces, reflecting a balance between systematic techniques and human expression.

  • Joshua Weitzel and Samuel Nerl

    Moritzturm (2023) – Installation / Performance

    In 2022, Samuel Nerl and Joshua Weitzel took an in-depth look at the role of Landgrave Moritz “the Scholar.” Although his forced conversion of the Kassel population to Calvinism was a violent act of domination, it also led to the influx of Huguenot refugees several centuries later.

    “Moritzturm” is part of a series of performances that deal with biblical and religious themes from an agnostic perspective. The performance consists of three acts: Procession / Initiation / Dismantling.

    The procession involves transporting 10 vintage loudspeakers in a handcart across the city to the venue.

    The initiation is the main part of the performance and lasts about 40 minutes. While Joshua Weitzel gives a sermon in the role of the pastor (based on classics of sound studies and analog sound synthesis), Samuel Nerl builds a cross about 3 meters high from the loudspeakers.

    The loudspeaker cross remains in place until dismantling, at least one day later.

    Sa. 11.10. 6 – 8 pm Performance

    Su. 12.10. 2 – 6 pm Installation Exhibition

    kleine Weinkirche / WH22 cdw Kulturareal

    The work of artist and curator Joshua Weitzel (born in Kassel in 1989) is based on a social understanding of art and encompasses improvisation, electroacoustic and experimental composition, installation art, jazz, intermedia projects, curating, and art education.

    Samuel Nerl studied philosophy at Philipps University Marburg and the University of Kassel from 2009 to 2017, and film at the Kassel Art Academy and Babelsberg Film University.

    Through his many years of work in various areas at the Kassel State Theater, he has gained extensive experience in the performing arts.

    He has been working as a freelance artist since 2016. The focus of his work is on the visual arts. His projects are characterized in particular by the short-circuiting of ephemeral arts with general criticism of the material end product. His work is therefore characterized by documentary works and significant sculptures.