The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the composer and artist in Europe. Ryuichi Sakamoto is regarded as a pioneer of electronic and experimental music who continually redefined the boundaries between sound, film, performance and visual art.
Since the 2000s Sakamoto developed three-dimensional sound environments, often in collaboration with international artists such as Shiro Takatani and Carsten Nicolai, as well as the filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. “Ryuichi Sakamoto | seeing sound, hearing time” presents seven works in five large-scale installations and opens during Berlin Art Week. The exhibition places the intersection of sound and art at its centre, a hallmark of Hamburger Bahnhof since its founding 30 years ago.
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart presents seven works in five large-scale installation by the composer and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto across approximately 1,500 square metres in the Rieckhallen. IS YOUR TIME (2017), in which a piano damaged by the 2011 tsunami becomes an object for sound, is based on digitally converted seismological data from earthquakes around the world.