Passage at Funkhaus | Presented by Spatial Festival

This September, Spatial unfolds across the iconic Funkhaus, transforming its legendary recording halls into instruments for deep, communal listening. Across three days, more than 60 pioneering artists will present original works through live performances, art installations, and continuous listening sessions—each crafted using the 4DSound system, a holographic sound instrument developed through a decade of artistic and technical research.

About ›Polyphonic Views‹

For the first time, Spatial is partnering with Passage to present ›Polyphonic Views‹, an exhibition showing works of over 30 artist. Unfolding throughout the brutalist expanse of Shedhalle at Funkhaus, ›Polyphonic Views‹ explores the abstract potential of performance in the absence of a physical act.

Juxtaposing the productions of Spatial, each work serves as residue, vessel, or echo, whether bearing the physical imprint of a past gesture, implicating the viewer into an interpretive encounter, or acting out its own subtle choreography through substance and form. Together, they compose a landscape where performance is everywhere and nowhere, distributed across materials, minds, and moments, reevaluating what it means to witness and to be present.

Curated by Victor Auberjonois and Konrad Biedenkopf of Passage.

The exhibition opens on 12 SEP and runs for three weeks.

About ›Spatial‹

The Spatial Arts are emerging as a new artistic movement, treating space itself as a primary medium for composition and experience. Spatial, as Monom's research and development platform, connects and amplifies this global shift by centering sound as the entry point to spatial experience, creating a platform for artists, technologists, and audiences to explore it together.

This year's programme includes Richie Culver, Loraine James, Origin Te Yon'ton, Nik Nak, Jan Jelinek, Rrose, and Evita Manji, among many others. Dance will be explored through motion-sensor-driven works, where movement shapes sound in real time. A large-scale breathwork session will use spatial sound to support collective rhythm and regulation. The programme also includes unreleased material from Genesis P-Orridge, presented in 4DSound.

To bring this vision to life, Monom will install the largest ever 4DSound system configurations to date across the halls of Funkhaus. No stage. No best seat. The boundary between audience and artwork dissolves. Each room—Saal 1, Saal 2, Shedhalle, Monom Studio, and others—is reimagined as a sonic instrument for communal listening.

About Monom

Monom is an artist-run studio working at the intersection of spatial sound, music, art, and technology. Utilizing 4DSound, Monom develops spatial sound experiences from concept to exhibition. We believe in sound as a medium for expanded perception and design listening environments that support transformation and connection.

About Passage

Passage was founded in May 2024 with the opening of an exhibition space in the Hermannplatz subway station, inspired by Lucio Amelio's legendary Parisian gallery Pièce Unique. Since then, Passage has presented a solo exhibition at Hermannplatz every month and a group exhibition in a temporary space nearby.

What began as a project with the aim of radically displaying art in public is now developing into a media-agnostic curatorial platform that presents artists' works in unexpected locations.

Passage is instinctive and independent. We exhibit both emerging and established artists based solely on our interests. We don't represent artists in the traditional sense, which gives us the freedom to work with anyone we admire. Each exhibition is a collaboration with the artists, and we consider all aspects such as texts, documentation, and archiving as an integral part of the project.