{"id":76067,"date":"2024-10-01T15:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=76067"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:09:11","slug":"light-sound-senses-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/light-sound-senses-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Sound Senses exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsensessmall1.jpg\" alt=\"Museum sign and lantern\" class=\"wp-image-76139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsensessmall1.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsensessmall1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Heidi Horten Collection takes it up a sensory notch with the <em>Light Sound Senses<\/em> exhibition. Immerse yourself in art that engages your eyes, nose and ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Features 30+ artists with often large works<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Light, audio and scent ensures an engaging visitor experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Sept 20, 2024 &#8211; Mar 23, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/heidi-horten-collection\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"47637\">Heidi Horten Collection<\/a> overview<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/#modernart\">Contemporary art exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Art to immerse yourself in<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses1.jpg\" alt=\"Colour shadows on a wall\" class=\"wp-image-76058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Olafur Eliasson, <em>Your uncertain shadow (colour)<\/em>, 2010, TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Photo: Jens Ziehe | Courtesy Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin and \u00a9 Olafur Eliasson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Light Sound Senses<\/em> is one of those exhibitions you can enjoy at different levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might speculate, for example, on the commentary and context of individual pieces or their innovative and impactful use of light sources, audio and scents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equally, you can just enjoy the (multi)sensory experience offered by those same works. A key aim behind the exhibition is, after all, to make art more tangible and accessible by engaging different senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The individual works vary from small and simple through to whole-room installations.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses2.jpg\" alt=\"Audio installation in a museum\" class=\"wp-image-76059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(View of the exhibition in a photo by Ouriel Morgensztern that shows the <em>Serpentinata<\/em> installation, \u00a9 Heidi Horten Collection)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ceal Floyer&#8217;s 1997 <em>Throw<\/em>, for example, adds a light mask to a theatre lamp to create a different shape on the projected spotlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viewing the patch of light on the floor creates one of those moments when you wonder what other unquestioned practices and processes could do with a touch of artistic inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernhard Leitner&#8217;s 2006\/2024 <em>Serpentinata<\/em>, on the other hand, near fills a room with tubing that hints at some lifeform and has loudspeakers peppering its length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your perception of the different sounds and pulses depends on your position, inviting you to meander through the installation in an absorbing interplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leitner&#8217;s work speaks to the interactivity and immersion associated with much of the exhibition space. You walk through as much as past the art.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses3.jpg\" alt=\"Light installation in a museum\" class=\"wp-image-76060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Another view of the exhibition in a photo by Ouriel Morgensztern, notably featuring one of Martin Walde&#8217;s works, \u00a9 Heidi Horten Collection)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 <em>Your Uncertain Shadow (Colour)<\/em> installation (one of several intriguing works by Olafur Eliasson) allows you, for example, to project your own coloured body shadows almost like make-your-own pop art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The use of more expressive light, sound and scent certainly intensifies your artistic encounters. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The hum of Iv Toshain&#8217;s fans combined with the 3D holographic messages projected upon them proves strangely captivating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Martin Walde&#8217;s constructs of glass and noble gases feel like alien life imagined through a futuristic Van der Graaf generator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lena Henke&#8217;s <em>Memory of a Young Sculpture X<\/em> had me circling the piece while inhaling deeply<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses4.jpg\" alt=\"Metal objects hanging in an art installation\" class=\"wp-image-76061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/lightsoundsenses4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Christine Sch\u00f6rkhuber,<em> Circuit &#8211; Entangled Structure I<\/em>, 2023, photo by and \u00a9 Christine Sch\u00f6rkhuber)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At times in the exhibition, you feel HAL 9000 might speak up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that you should imagine some aseptic dystopian landscape. On the contrary, the regular appearance of neon light and colour actually provides a rewarding antidote to the climatic autumnal oppression outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Immerse yourself in the contemporary art from September 20th, 2024 to March 23rd, 2025. An entrance ticket for or from the Heidi Horten Collection includes access to the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re here during the Advent season, then look out for lights of a rather less artistic nature (but uplifting all the same): the city&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/christmas-lights\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"884\">Christmas displays<\/a> normally switch on sometime in mid-November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Light Sound Senses<\/em> runs across two levels above the ground floor. The latter deserves your attention, too, since it houses the collection&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/klimt-warhol-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"75543\">permanent exhibition<\/a>. The unobtrusive work you walked past could well be a masterpiece by such names as Warhol, Magritte, Picasso\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the travel tips at the bottom of the main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/heidi-horten-collection\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"47637\">Heidi Horten Collection article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1asmHlbVpicbQLt1557vf6l4l0zQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heidi Horten Collection takes it up a sensory notch. 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