‘HOTEL BEETHOVEN’
Past event
Cancelled
Postponed
13 Oct.'20 →
14 Feb.'21
CANCELLED
Due to the consequences of the fire on January 18, BOZAR unfortunately has to close the doors of the exhibition HOTEL BEETHOVEN permanently. If you already bought a ticket for this exhibition, you can find all the information here.
250 years after his birth, Ludwig van Beethoven is more than ever an icon. In the midst of all the celebrations to mark his birthday, BOZAR opens the doors of the HOTEL BEETHOVEN.
This exhibition about the composer, his music and his ideas will look at how Beethoven remains relevant to us today. An exceptional musical innovator, he also provides a springboard for questions about the democratic and physical power of sound. How can we listen with our bodies when hearing is not an option? If art can change the way in which we see the world, can it also change the way in which we listen? How do visual artists translate sounds and music into images, movements and lines?
From popular culture to conceptual art, from 1770 to 2020, including manuscripts and instruments alongside work by artists such as Antoine Bourdelle, Andy Warhol, Katie Paterson and John Baldessari, HOTEL BEETHOVEN is a time-travelling musical mix of different eras and points of view. So put down your suitcase and stop for a while to meet people, art and ideas from all over the world around a universal icon. Welcome to HOTEL BEETHOVEN.
Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn in the framework of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the commemoration year BTHVN 2020. Funded by the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media.
Can't wait to visit this exhibition? You can already take a virtual dive via our 3D scans.
Terry ADKINS, Synapse (from the series "Black Beethoven"), 2004. Courtesy Estate of Terry Adkins, Lévy Gorvy, New York © SABAM, Belgium 2020
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN, Third Movement of the Quartet in F Major, opus 135 (Lento assai e cantante tranquillo), 1826, Autograph score. Musée royal de Ma
Antoine BOURDELLE, Composition pour Beethoven, ca. 1883. Musée Bourdelle, Paris
Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation / Joseph Beuys Archive / JBA-F 91243 © SABAM, Belgium 2020
Brigitte DANNEHL, Joseph Beuys during the action "Death Mask of Napoleon", for the installation "Beethoven's Kitchen" by Joseph Beuys, Düsseldorf, 4.10.1969. Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation / Joseph Beuys Archive / JBA-F 91243 © SABAM, Belgium 2020
Raoul HAUSMANN, Beethoven, 1957. Collection Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Château de Rochechouart © SABAM, Belgium 2020
Photo: Russ Rowland
HEARTBEAT OPERA, New York, Fidelio, Contemporary American “Black Lives Matter” adaptation of the opera of Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring 100 incarcerated singers from 6 US prison choirs and 70 outside volunteer singers, 2018.
Christine SUN KIM, The Sound of Relevance, 2017. Courtesy White Space Beijing and the Artist, Photo : YANG HAO
Photo: Pieter Peeters
Replica of Beethoven’s 1817 John Broadwood & Sons piano (Chris Maene, 2013), with a reconstruction of Beethoven’s Gehörmaschine. Developed and owned by the Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium.
Terry ADKINS, Synapse (from the series "Black Beethoven"), 2004. Courtesy Estate of Terry Adkins, Lévy Gorvy, New York © SABAM, Belgium 2020
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN, Third Movement of the Quartet in F Major, opus 135 (Lento assai e cantante tranquillo), 1826, Autograph score. Musée royal de Ma
Antoine BOURDELLE, Composition pour Beethoven, ca. 1883. Musée Bourdelle, Paris
Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation / Joseph Beuys Archive / JBA-F 91243 © SABAM, Belgium 2020
Brigitte DANNEHL, Joseph Beuys during the action "Death Mask of Napoleon", for the installation "Beethoven's Kitchen" by Joseph Beuys, Düsseldorf, 4.10.1969. Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation / Joseph Beuys Archive / JBA-F 91243 © SABAM, Belgium 2020
Raoul HAUSMANN, Beethoven, 1957. Collection Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Château de Rochechouart © SABAM, Belgium 2020
Photo: Russ Rowland
HEARTBEAT OPERA, New York, Fidelio, Contemporary American “Black Lives Matter” adaptation of the opera of Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring 100 incarcerated singers from 6 US prison choirs and 70 outside volunteer singers, 2018.
Christine SUN KIM, The Sound of Relevance, 2017. Courtesy White Space Beijing and the Artist, Photo : YANG HAO
Photo: Pieter Peeters
Replica of Beethoven’s 1817 John Broadwood & Sons piano (Chris Maene, 2013), with a reconstruction of Beethoven’s Gehörmaschine. Developed and owned by the Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium.
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In the framework of
- the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union
- the commemoration year BTHVN 2020