Guided tour: Leyla Yenirce – The canvas as a concert hall

Sandra Teitge, the curator of this collaboration between Leyla Yenirce and the Konzerthaus Berlin, will lead visitors from Yenirce’s banners on the façade of the Konzerthaus into the Werner-Otto-Saal, where the three accompanying canvases are on display. She will provide an insight into the origins and process of this collaboration – the first of its kind – and shed light on Yenirce’s artistic practice as a musician and painter.

Leyla Yenirce, a German-Kurdish artist and musician based in Berlin, paints in the same way that she composes – intuitively and, initially, improvisationally, before arriving at a structured form.

‘The Canvas as a Concert Hall’ transforms lines and colours into sound, and frequencies into visual forms: an attempt to translate the collective listening experience – physically perceived by individuals – into painting.

Leyla Yenirce’s musical canvas draws on architectural elements of the concert hall building. Her focus, however, lies on the human gesture: the hand that touches an instrument, conducts and sweeps through the space. Yenirce works across disciplines, spanning painting, sculpture, video and performance. Her works explore a variety of themes, such as manifestations of feminist resistance and power structures within the media.

Leyla Yenirce studied Fine Art at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She has been awarded the prestigious ars viva Prize, the Berlin Art Prize and the Finkenwerder Sponsorship Award, amongst others, for her work.

• Meeting point for the guided tour: open staircase, colonnade
• Admission by ticket only.
• Free admission tickets are available online and at the ticket offices in the visitor centre.