MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Seoul (Korea)
Genko An 03062 Seoul
multimedia installation
The Genko-An series was conceived after Heiner Goebbels visited the Buddhist temple Genko-An in Kyoto in 1992. Inspired by the impression of viewing the same garden through two different windows—one round and one square—the artist created a series of site-specific installations. Genko-An 03062, titled after the ZIP code of the MMCA, transforms the garden
seen through the windows into a “garden of sounds and voices.”

The work is rooted in writings by philosopher Henry David Thoreau and in Empty Words (1974), a sound piece by John Cage, that artistically deconstructed Thoreau’s journals.

Genko-An 03062 includes excerpts from the artist's composition Walden (1998) — an orchestral work based on Thoreau’s WALDEN or Life in the woods (1854) — and it features the painter, sculptor, musician and instrument maker Robert Rutman. Walden is recognized as Thoreau’s exploration
of the value of a simple life in nature and of his unhierarchical listening habits. The installation further incorporates ethnographic voice recordings from Armenia, Siberia, Greece, Colombia, Korea among others along with the voices of various writers, artists and musicians
like John Cage, Robert Rutman, Heiner Müller, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Gertrude Stein, Hannah Arendt and others

The Mayfield

Monheim Triennale
Monheim Triennale, Monheim am Rhein (Germany)

Everything that happened and would happen

Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris (France)
With IRCAM – Centre Pompidou as part of the IRCAM ManiFeste 2025 festival

Surrogate Cities

Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna (Italy)
Heiner Goebbels
Surrogate Cities

Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
conductor Andrea Molino

vocals Aurore Ugolin, John De Leo and Jack Bruce
saxophones Alípio Carvalho Neto
composition, set and lighting design Heiner Goebbels
sound director Norbert Ommer

production Ravenna Festival
in collaboration with Teatro Alighieri

Los Peces tendrán que aprender a caminar sobre la tierra
Instalación Performativa in Situ

the fish will have to learn to walk on land
sound- and videoinstallation

MOCA Museum of Contemporary Arts, Busan (Korea)

MOCA Museum of Contemporary Arts, Busan (Korea)
"Walden Fragments" for Piano Solo - during the opening of the installation "Shadow forest" by Go Eun Im.

Seoul (Korea)

MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Seoul (Korea)
"Walden Fragments" for PIano Solo - during the preview for "Shadow Forest" by Go Eun Im.

Everything that happened and would happen

Taipei Performaing Arts Center, Taipeh (Taiwan)

Eine Orakelmaschine
Hörstück von Heiner Goebbels

SWR 2 (Germany)
Heiner Goebbels’ Hörstück ist eine Komposition, die gleich der Poesie der Orakel den Fragenden einen Ort für Imagination und Reflexion bietet - keinen der gesicherten Antworten. Anstelle von Gewissheiten begegnen sich gleichsam fremd wie vertraut scheinende Musik-, Sprach- und Klangwelten. Sie erzählen von der Ahnung eines verborgenen Zusammenhangs alles Lebenden und Hergestellten, Maschinellen. Geräusche aus einem stillgelegten Stahlwerk treffen auf Stimmen heimischer wie fremder Fauna, historische Liedgutaufnahmen auf elektroakustische Improvisationen der Band „The Mayfield“ und Texte.

Eine Orakelmaschine
Hörstück von Heiner Goebbels

DLf Kultur (Germany)

The Mayfield

Theater am Gleis, Winterthur (Switzerland)
FESTIVAL UNERHÖRT

Songs of Wars I have seen
Staged Concert with words by Gertrude Stein

Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Vancouver (Canada)

A House of Call
my imaginary notebook

Philharmonie, Paris (France)
With Ensemble Modern Orchestra, conductor Vimbayi Kazibono

Bagatellen für Violine, obligate Klarinette und Sampler
1989-2006

Fabryka Biedermana Musica Privata, Łódź (Poland)
Anna Kwiatkowska Violin
Martyna Zakrzewska, Sampler

Bagatellen für Violine, obligate Klarinette und Sampler
1989-2006

Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego, Krakow (Poland)
Anna Kwiatkowska Violin
Martyna Zakrzewska, Sampler