Showing Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time, at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

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Installation view of Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time
Installation view of Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time
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Ryuichi Sakamotoseeing sound, hearing time

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Sep 11, 2026 – Jun 20, 2027 Moabit

The first major European retrospective of the composer and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto: seven works in five large sound-and-image installations.

Spread over about 1,500 square meters of the Rieckhallen, the show includes IS YOUR TIME (2017), a piano damaged in the 2011 tsunami and played by seismic data from earthquakes worldwide, and installations from his 2017 album async made with Shiro Takatani and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Two films by Carsten Nicolai use music from Sakamoto’s last album, 12.

Curated by Ingrid Buschmann with Sachiko Namba.

Full details at smb.museum

Museum Moabit

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Invalidenstraße 50–51

Open Tue–Fri 10–6 (Thu to 8), Sat–Sun 11–6

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