Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin presents a concert by Lyra Pramuk, Yu Lin Humm, and Koaxula to inaugurate the 2024 season of SOUND IN THE GARDEN.

This year's edition of Sound in the Garden will kick off with an immersive multi-artist concert on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The ephemeral and transformative sounds of each of these exceptional musicians will engage in a complex dialogue with the museum's sculpture garden, a hidden gem of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's iconic architecture.

Headlined by experimental vocalist Lyra Pramuk, the evening will begin with an expansive new hybrid set by the duo Koaxula and a solo cello performance by Yu Lin Humm. 

The event is co-curated by Natalia Escobar and Daniela Huerta in collaboration with Gregor Quack, Volkswagen Group Fellow at FREUNDE DER NATIONALGALERIE e.V.

Artists:

Lyra Pramuk performs sounds built from liquified vocals and mystical electronics, driven by the desire to explore the healing potentials of music. She fuses classical vocalism, pop sensibilities, performance practices, and contemporary club culture, investigating the relation between technology and humanity and a post-human, non-binary understanding of life. For the evening at Neue Nationalgalerie, Pramuk will present a new live set accompanied by electric guitarist Jules Reidy, vocalist Eli Berman, and poets Nadia Marcus and Lesley Moon. Embracing the spirit of improvisation, the program integrates unreleased tracks with spoken poetry alongside original songs. Composed and arranged entirely from the sound of her voice, “Fountain,” Lyra’s acclaimed debut on Bedroom Community, was hailed by The Quietus as “a potent religious text in praise of human vocality’s promise.”

Yu Lin Humm is a multifaceted composer, musician, and visual artist. Known for her collaborations with notable artists such as Damien Rice and Gaspar Claus, Humm has composed award-winning soundtracks for theater and film. Her current focus is creating immersive experiences that blend music, science, and visual arts to deepen our connection with the natural world. At Neue Nationalgalerie, At Neue Nationalgalerie, she will perform her debut solo cello album Islas Resonantes, composed during her travels along the Orinoco River on the Colombian/Venezuelan border.

KOAXULA is a collaborative sound activation and performative project between Natalia Escobar and Daniela Huerta, they aim to reinvent hybrid narratives through sound, performance, and installation. They are inspired by fading cosmovisions and mythological archetypes that bridge past, present, and future. At the Neue Nationalgalerie, they will present a new site-specific hybrid performance that blends electro-acoustic sounds, touching themes of intimacy, pleasure, and vulnerability, echoing the ideas at work in the current exhibition “Andy Warhol. Velvet Rage and Beauty.”

Time: The garden opens at 5pm with the performance by Koaxula beginning at 5.30, continues with a solo cello performance by Yu Lin Humm at 8pm, and closes with Lyra Pramuk’s set at 8:45pm. 

Venue: Neue Nationalgalerie, Sculpture Garden

Entry: This concert is free of charge, but space might be limited.

Drinks will be served in the sculpture garden, courtesy of BRLO Craft Brewery, Mies-liwska Bar, and Paul Knittel and Kevin Liesmann. Mexican Food by Ta'Cabrón Taqueria 

The exhibitions "Extreme Tension", "Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin" und “Andy Warhol. Velvet Rage and Beauty” can be viewed free of charge from 4 bis 8 p.m., thanks to Volkswagen Group Art4All.

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Sound in the Garden is supported by PACE Gallery and Volkswagen Group: Partner der Nationalgalerie.

Sound in the Garden is made possible by FREUNDE DER NATIONALGALERIE e.V.

Sound in the Garden also received invaluable support from its partners BRLO Craft Brewery, Rheinsberger Preussenquelle, and Ashley Systems.