Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation
Sound installation by Johannes Kreidler
Showings and tickets
Showings and tickets
Thursday, 11/09
Friday, 12/09
Saturday, 13/09
Sunday, 14/09
Step into the eye of the storm: trembling thunder sheets, howling leaf blowers, churning wind machines.
In this new large-scale installation, Johannes Kreidler composes with air, vibration and pressure. There is an actuality to this experience.
From storms tearing across continents to turbines rising on contested ground, air in motion has become entangled with politics, land rights, and climate debates.
Whether in the Fosen case in Norway, where wind power encroaches on Sámi reindeer herding land, or in the Golan Heights, where turbine projects stir geopolitical tension, wind whips up both energy and conflict.
Jet Whistles lets us feel the aesthetics of air in motion – where force meets fragility, and nature clashes with technology. It touches the boundaries between body and climate, between politics and breath. Climate change is not just a reference. It is the engine, rhythm, and force of the work.
Nature asserts itself and refuses to be ignored. It strikes back, directly, unequivocally, and immediately: in hair that lifts, in lungs that feel the pressure, in skin that vibrates.
Facts
- A jet whistle is a flute technique where the player blows forcefully without fingering a clear pitch, producing a breathy, explosive sound.
- Visitors can contribute to the soundscape with their own breath or by blowing into 3D-printed the pipes.
- Johannes Kreidler is known for his sharp, humorous political gestures. Once he submitted a piece with 70,200 samples to Germany’s copyright agency, each sample with its own form, turning bureaucracy into artistic protest.
- Wind is also the theme of Zifzafa, Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s solo exhibition at the Munch museum.
Technical illustration of "Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation"
Sculpture from "Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation"
Johannes Kreidler
In collaboration with
- Festival Musica
Supported by
- Goethe-Institut
