Soundscapes in the Garden 2

Name: Soundscapes in the Garden 2
Start: 2025-08-28T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Neue Nationalgalerie

Schedule

Thu, 28 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Neue Nationalgalerie | Berlin, BE

During the last week of August 2025, the music series Soundscapes in the Garden at Neue Nationalgalerie will feature three evenings of ambitious, site-specific live concerts by five internationally admired and respected musicians. Coinciding with Lange Nacht der Museen on Saturday, August 30th, there will also be a day of special, musical tributes to the fog sculpture by the iconic Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (*1933), which has been on view in the sculpture garden throughout the summer.
Soundscapes in the Garden introduces a new dimension to the music programming that Neue Nationalgalerie has presented in and around its iconic sculpture garden since its early years – beginning with the »Jazz in the Garden« showcases in the 1970s and 1980s, which featured greats like Alice Contrane and Keith Jarrett, and continuing with the more broadly defined mandate of »Sound in the Garden« since the reopening in 2022. The clarity and precision of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture, together with the ephemeral poetry of Fujiko Nakaya’s fog sculpture, serve as parallel inspirations for understanding to conceive of music as a spatial art form—something that may be experienced while wandering among the garden’s plants and sculptures just as fully as in the focused immobilization enforced by conventional concert halls.
At the Neue Nationalgalerie, the spatiality and site-specificity of all live concerts is based on an immersive d&b Soundscape audio system, which will be specially installed in the garden for the duration of the series. Soundscapes in the Garden encourages audiences to understand openness and closure not only as major themes in the architecture of the Neue Nationalgalerie, but also as categories for experiencing sound and music.
This performance showcases Hania Rani, whose music creates a space where piano melodies drift into electronic swells and dissolve into silence. Raised in Gdańsk, a city steeped in history and cultural resilience, she began playing piano at the age of seven. After formal classical training in Warsaw and further studies in Berlin, she started shaping a sound more focused on mood than genre: delicate yet purposeful, combining the precision of classical technique with the improvisatory feel of jazz and the immersive textures of electronic music.
Away from her main body of work, Rani channels a more experimental streak into her alter ego Chilling Bambino. In this project, she trades the quiet poise of her piano for the tactile energy of synthesizers - most notably the Prophet - weaving dark-tinted harmonies and pulsing rhythms into hypnotic, live-wire performances.