From April 20 to May 5, 2023, "Broken Music Vol. 2_Live" will introduce pioneers such as Sven-Åke Johansson, Charlemagne Palestine and Christian Marclay and present young international artists such as Jessica Ekomane, Hassan Khan, Mieko Suzuki/Claudia Rohrmoser and Emeka Ogboh, who now have a foothold in the music city of Berlin.
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On six evenings, the concert program complements the current exhibition on 70 years of records and sound works by artists* at Hamburger Bahnhof (until May 14, 2023).
The live performances in the exhibition spaces transcend the boundaries between art and music.
The series concludes with the Broken Music Party in the Rieckhallen on May 5 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
Sven-Åke Johansson and Charlemagne Palestine stand for sonically, physically, psycho-acoustically and conceptually strong music performances since the 1970s.
Work with records, record players and "players with records" is central to Christian Marclay - central pioneer of artistically advanced "turntableism" - and to Mieko Suzuki and Raed Yassin. Jessica Ekomane, Hassan Khan and Emeka Ogboh devote themselves to the live montage and live electronic processing of prefabricated sound recordings, samples and field recordings.
What they all have in common is the rejection of categorical demarcations between the artistic genres of music, visual art and performance.
Freunde Guter Musik have been cooperation partners since the opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof in 1996, for example in the exhibition series "Musical Works by Visual Artists" begun in 1999 with projects by Hanne Darboven, Lawrence Weiner, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Ryoji Ikeda, Susan Philipsz and Cevdet Erek, among others.
With "Broken Music Vol. 2_Live" the Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. celebrate their 40th anniversary of promoting and hosting experimental, intermedial and open musical as well as sound art forms. Ursula Block, whose collection of artists' records was acquired by Hamburger Bahnhof and forms the starting point of the current exhibition, was one of the founding members of Freunde Guter Musik with her record gallery "gelbe MUSIK" in 1983.
- Artistic direction: Ingrid Buschmann
- Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds
Additional information
Admission: 14€
Reduced: 10€
Opening hours:
Tue, Wed, Fri: 10 am - 6 pm
Thu: 10 - 20 h
Sat + Sun: 11 - 18 h
