When does the event take place?

The event takes place on October 10, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Where does Christian Naujoks take place?

The event takes place at the Kunstverein Bielefeld, Welle 61, 33602 Bielefeld.

What can the audience expect?

A new multi-channel sound work featuring expanded listening situations where voice, spoken texts, rhythm, and noise interconnect.

Is the event accessible for individuals with disabilities?

The entrance to the Kunstverein Bielefeld is not accessible according to the event information. A restroom is available.

How long will the exhibition be on display?

The exhibition will be on display from October 10 to November 20, 2026 at the Kunstverein Bielefeld.

Christian Naujoks makes the invisible listening experience physically tangible at the Kunstverein Bielefeld

Name: Christian Naujoks – Can you hear how you hear?
Start: 2026-10-10T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-10T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Kunstverein Bielefeld

Christian Naujoks opens spaces of listening at the Kunstverein Bielefeld

What does the moment sound like when listening occurs? The exhibition by Christian Naujoks at the Kunstverein Bielefeld delves deep into the physical, fragile, and simultaneously social experience of listening. Between music, visual arts, and artistic research, a multi-layered stage experience is created without a classic stage: sound becomes spatial, language moves, and perception turns into the actual stage.

When language transitions into sound

Naujoks develops a new multi-channel sound work and expanded listening situations for the Kunstverein Bielefeld. Voice, spoken text, rhythm, and noise interweave. The dramaturgy does not follow a linear concert format but an open composition in which language can gradually dissolve into music and finally into noise.

The staging of listening begins with the most elemental processes: the vibration of air, the movement of the eardrum, and the fluttering of tiny hairs. From these bodily processes, a poetic investigation develops into how what is heard settles in the body, is remembered, and returns as internal noise to the present moment.

Sound installation as an expanded theater atmosphere

The exhibition combines sound installation, film, graphic and textual notations, sculptural works, musical pieces, as well as performative settings. The stage design emerges from space, acoustics, and attention. A printed word can stand beside a spoken one, a glance complements a sound, and a gesture becomes a form of communication.

Thus, Christian Naujoks transforms the Kunstverein into a laboratory of shared perception. Visitors encounter not only a musical work but a sensitive spatial dramaturgy that makes different forms of hearing and not hearing visible.

Artistic research between music and visual arts

Christian Naujoks works at the intersection of music, visual arts, and artistic research. His works have been showcased at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Royal Academy of Arts in London, and as part of the Sculpture Projects Münster. In 2019, he received the Villa Romana Prize; in 2026, he was awarded the Follow Fluxus Scholarship from the Nassauischer Kunstverein and the state capital Wiesbaden.

The exhibition is curated by Victoria Tarak. The artistic conception connects precise sound work with an open, sensually experiential exhibition situation. This creates a unique theater atmosphere: not through roles and dialogues, but through resonance, space, and the active presence of the audience.

Invitation to a concentrated stage experience

The event at the Kunstverein Bielefeld promises an extraordinary stage experience for all those who want to experience music, sound art, and contemporary exhibition practices as a shared form of perception. Those who engage with the multi-channel sound work will discover a fluid landscape of voice, memory, noise, and silence within their own hearing.

Conclusion: Christian Naujoks makes listening itself an artistic event. The exhibition invites one to reflect on their own perceptions and to experience sound not just as an auditory phenomenon, but physically and spatially. A visit to the Kunstverein Bielefeld offers a concentrated meeting with contemporary sound art and an unusual form of staging.