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Violin, F. Krolikowski, Foggia (Italy), 1946, Plexiglass. Selfmade by a prisoner of war
Violin, F. Krolikowski, Foggia (Italy), 1946, Plexiglass. Selfmade by a prisoner of war © SIMPK/Barnes Ziegler

Museumsinsel Berlin, Bode-Museum | Sound Bodies | 24.11.2026 - 7.3.2027

24.11.2026

What does art sound like? How is music represented? And how do musical instruments combine sound and form? In the interactive exhibition “Sound Bodies“, spread across all three levels of the Bode-Museum, historical and modern musical instruments enter into surprising dialogues with sculptures and other works of art related to music—from late-antique textiles from Egypt and medieval angel choirs to Antonio Canova’s “Dancer.”

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20.11.2026 11:00 AM
Press preview | Sound Bodies | 24.11.2026 - 7.3.2027
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Violin, F. Krolikowski, Foggia (Italy), 1946, Plexiglas. Amateur work, made while a prisoner of war
© SIMPK/Barnes Ziegler

Minden Altar, predella, ca. 1220–1230; triptych with sculptures on the interior and paintings on the outer surfaces of the wings, ca. 1425–1430
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Antje Voigt

Johann Georg Dir, Group of Musing Cherubs on Clouds from an organ facade at the Cistercian monastery church in Salem on Lake Constance, ca. 1770 (Property of the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsvereins)
© KFMV, Volker Schneider

Antonio Canova, Dancer, 1809/1812
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Antje Voigt

Bagpiper, Nuremberg, c. 1530–40
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Antje Voigt

Johann Georg Dir, Group of Musing Cherubs on Clouds from an organ facade at the Cistercian monastery church in Salem on Lake Constance, ca. 1770 (Property of the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsvereins)
© KFMV, Volker Schneider

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Sound Bodies – Variations on a Theme of Art.
24.11.2026 to 07.03.2027

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