Sound, film and performance transform the Müller building into a resonant space for the body, memory and history. A multichannel installation connects all four floors and asks what remains of a live moment – and how something new can emerge from its traces.
Tell it anyway
For ‘Residuum’, they are developing a multichannel sound and film installation that extends throughout the Müller building. Temporary walls are being removed to reveal its open architecture once more. Sound, singing and music spread across four floors, connecting the different levels; two film installations by Lemon frame the presentation on the ground floor and the top floor. The sound installation is based on the album ‘Tell it anyway’ (2026) and looks back at their shared work around ‘Rant’ and ‘Rant redux’. On 12 and 13 December 2026, a new cycle of performances featuring Darrell Jones, Lysis (Ley), April Matthis and Okwui Okpokwasili will enter into dialogue with the installation and the architecture. An artist talk with Kevin Beasley will take place on 19 November. Curated by Hendrik Folkerts, the exhibition asks what remains of a live moment and how something new can emerge from its traces.
The Müller building: the artists’ house
In 1976, the Kunsthaus opened the extension named after the architect Erwin Müller. Its open, light-filled spaces represented a new type of museum. An SRF report from the year of the opening captures this spirit of new beginnings. The open-plan layout was soon divided by movable walls, some of which became permanent fixtures over the decades.
Fifty years later, these partitions are being removed. The Müller building is intended to be experienced once again as an open, public space, where artists enter into dialogue with the architecture and the Kunsthaus collection. The new programme thus reconnects with the Kunsthaus’s beginnings as an artists’ house – an artist-led place for art and encounters with the public.