Bernhard Leitner, SOUNDSPACESCULPTURE, Ausstellungsansicht, Secession 2026. Foto: Iris Ranzinger
„My works are instruments for creating and changing space by means of sound. They allow and require particular sound movements, a particular way of defining space. Just as different pieces are written for a conventional sound instrument, so different spatial programmes and sound programmes can be created for each TON: RAUM instrument.“ (Bernhard Leitner, New York 1977)
For more than five decades, Bernhard Leitner has devoted himself to the idea of sculpturally shaping and designing space with sound – with its movement, frequency, timbre and volume. As early as 1969, with his move from Vienna to New York, where he would live until 1982, he began recording first theoretical considerations on sound-space sculptures in drawings and notes.