The Kunsthalle Where No One Can Hear

Alison O’Daniel, What we feel when we hear, 2021, carpet, wood, subwoofer.
The building now occupied by Kunsthalle Osnabrück used to be the chapel of a German monastery, so its acoustics—with a nave meant to amplify the voices of a priest and choir—are sometimes at odds with its present-day function. The pulpit and choir loft, once ideal locations for projecting voices, have been removed. Try and speak to the person sitting next to you where art installations now replace p