In 1989, a traveling exhibition Broken Music started in West Berlin, which had its finger on the pulse of the time. The person behind it, Ursula Block, owner of ‘gelbe MUSIK’ (1981 – 2014), a small yet world-famous record store in Berlin-Wilmersdorf: everyone visiting the city would drop by, including influential artists and musicians such as John Cage, Yoko Ono, Sonic Youth and Björk. Following this influential exhibition, Broken Music Vol. 2 looks at artists' engagement with the vinyl record and music in a broader sense over the past seven decades. The exhibition presents 700 records, sound pieces and immersive media installations, arranged in ten chapters that explore links between the fields of music and visual art. The exhibition is curated by Sven Beckstette and Ingrid Buschmann from the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. The exhibition is taking place between 17 December 2022–14 May 2023 at Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.
December 2, 2022
