Image and sound come together in the international exhibition “Sonicimage,” which opens on 24. January 2026. In the rooms of the Kunstverein Neukölln, artists Chris Dreier (Germany), Ann Rosén (Sweden), and Tracey Snelling (Germany/USA) create a landscape of heterogeneous sounds and visual structures using very different artistic means.
Image above: Milgram Schema, Abbildung © Chris Dreier
While Chris Dreier focuses on the social soundscape by referring to one of the most famous social psychological experiments on dealing with authority in the 20th century, Ann Rosén draws on analog-digital transfer processes, which she creates manually with synthesizer sounds generated by drawing pens. Tracey Snelling, known for her video and sound-enriched building sculptures, uses record sleeves to create a pop-cultural horizon against which the present outside the art world can unfold.
Chris Dreier studied visual communication at the HDK Berlin and was a founding member of the legendary Berlin band “Die Tödliche Doris.” She has been working with Gary Farrelly for 10 years as the Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.) and performs in various constellations, solo and with others. For “Sonicimage,” the artist has developed a new sound installation inspired by the Milgram Experiment that raises the question of how much external pressures condition our social behavior. This work is accompanied by a selection of older photographs taken with a pinhole camera depicting the facades of British and German social clubs.
Ann Rosén lives alternately in Stockholm and in the village of Östra Hoby, where she runs Schhh Vardagsrummet, a production facility and label for experimental music, together with Sten-Olof Hellström. Her equally experimental sound techniques combine drawing, wearables (body-worn systems), and performance, which she will also perform live at the exhibition opening. The act of drawing creates not only a work on paper but also a musical structure: the moment of drawing, through the movement of the hand, forms both the notation and the musical execution.
Tracey Snelling studied at the University of New Mexico and has lived in Berlin for many years. Through performative situations, photographic installations, and model building objects, she explores the realities of social interaction. From Japanese love hotels to US brothels to European social housing complexes—in her sometimes miniature, sometimes life-size replicas of exterior and interior spaces, she creates tableaux of the present that oscillate between hedonistic affirmation and critical depiction. For the exhibition at the Kunstverein, she installs her collection of record covers as a landscape horizon.
WHEN?
Opening: Friday, 23. January 2026, 7 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 24. January until Sunday, 15. March 2026
Opening hours: Wed – Sun from 2 – 8 pm
WHERE?
Kunstverein Neukölln
Mainzer Str. 42 | D
12053 Berlin
