2025
Everything that happened and would happen © Theatre Olympics St.Petersburg
Everything that happened and would happen © Theatre Olympics St.Petersburg

on the last shows of "Everything" in Paris

"You have to have seen one of these shows, these shows from another time, from a time when you could dedicate money to art, a time when you didn't think at the speed of light like on TikTok, a time when you considered a show as a cultural object and not as a simple product, consumable and disposable. There are few who can still do that."Thomas Adam-Garnung

il faut en avoir vu un de ces spectacles, ces spectacles d’un autre temps, du temps où l’on pouvait consacrer de l’argent à l’art, du temps où l’on ne réfléchissait pas à la vitesse de la lumière façon TikTok, du temps où l’on pensait le spectacle comme un objet culturel et pas comme un simple produit, consommable et jetable. Ils sont peu à pouvoir encore faire cela.

Genko An - 03062 Seoul © René Liebert
Genko An - 03062 Seoul © René Liebert
Walden Fragments © René Liebert
Walden Fragments © René Liebert

Solo Recitals

In MMCA - the National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Seoul - and at MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Arts, Busan - Heiner Goebbels performed "Walden Fragments" - short soli on prepared grand piano - in the context of the installation "Shadow-Forest" by Korean artist Go Eun Im.

Everything that happened and would happen © Thanasis Deligiannis
Everything that happened and would happen © Thanasis Deligiannis

Everything in PARIS

After the great response on the performances in Taiwan the large scale performance Everything That Happened And Would Happen can be seen in Europe again: June 18 to 20 @ La Villette

the fish will have to learn to walk on land © René Liebert
the fish will have to learn to walk on land © René Liebert

Sound and Videoinstallation at MOCA in BUSAN / South Korea

MOCA - Museum of Contemporary arts in Busan / South Korea opens a group exhibition on GREEN SHIVERING. including the new sound- and Videoinstallation "the fish will have to learn to walk on land" by Heiner Goebbels on April 12th. And MMCA - National Museum for Contemporary Art in Seoul announces the multimedia installation GENKO AN 03062 by Heiner Goebbels to be opening July 14th. Here a few links to the resonances in the korean press :

https://www.daljin.com/column/22757http://www.sctoday.co.kr

/news/articleView.html?idxno=44891http://www.withinnews.co.kr/news/view.html?section=190&

category=194&no=36010https://www.news1.kr/photos/7216192https://www.aaart.co.kr

/news/article.html?no=7833https://www.busan.com/view/busan

/view.php?code=2025041701075771180https://ewha.biz/549595http://www.sctoday.co.kr

/news/articleView.html?idxno=44972

Everything that happened and would happen © Wang Rui-Xu
Everything that happened and would happen © Wang Rui-Xu

Everything @ Taipei Performing Arts Center

Everything That Happened And Would Happen has used the entire double stage at the new Taipei Performing Arts Center for the first time. Two performances, and a post performance talk with Heiner Goebbels on stage and before " A Dialogue on Music, Theater and History - Decoding Heiner Goebbels' Artistic Vision" were enthusiastically recieved by the Taiwanese audience.

No 862 © Heiner Goebbels
No 862 © Heiner Goebbels

Eine Orakelmaschine - neues Hörstück von Heiner Goebbels. SWR / DLF Kultur

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.

Heiner Goebbels' radio play is a composition that, like the poetry of the oracles, offers the questioner a place for imagination and reflection - not for certain answers. Instead of certainties, music, language and sound worlds that seem both strange and familiar meet. They tell of the intuition of a hidden connection between everything living and manufactured, everything mechanical. Sounds from a disused steelworks meet the voices of local and foreign fauna, historical song recordings, electro-acoustic improvisations by the band 'The Mayfield' and texts.

Eine Orakelmaschine Hörstück von Heiner Goebbels Produktion: SWR / DLR 2025
mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Weltkulturerbes Völklinger Hütte Ca. 52 Min.
Mit Originaltönen von Hannah Arendt, Helmut Heißenbüttel, Marguerite Duras u.v.a.

2024
Everything that happened and would happen © Stephanie Berger / PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Everything that happened and would happen © Stephanie Berger / PARK AVENUE ARMORY

2024 > 2025

This passing year 2024 has been very busy with many concerts, performances and lectures all over europe and it finished on the first weekend of december with a concert of The Mayfield in Switzerland and two performances of Songs of Wars I Have Seen in Vancouver / Canada.

For 2025 Heiner Goebbels announces a new radioplay called Eine Orakelmaschine (with SWR and DLF) besides more concerts of Surrogate Cities, The Mayfield a.o. (see calender), performances of Everything That Happened And Would Happen in Taipei and Paris and new installations in Asia.

© Heiner Goebbels
© Heiner Goebbels

Heiner Goebbels: Contre l'œuvre d'art totale

Translated by Isabelle Kranabetter and Aleksi Barriere for Collection : Écrits de compositeurs

Philharmonie de Paris, 432 pages


Le compositeur et metteur en scène allemand Heiner Goebbels (né en 1952) est une figure majeure de la création contemporaine. À l’intersection de la théâtralité de la musique et de la musicalité du théâtre, ses spectacles exaltent l’hétérogénéité des voix, des genres et des médiums. « Faire de la musique avec les moyens de la scène », comme l’imaginait Arnold Schönberg.
Depuis ses débuts de musicien et de créateur radiophonique, jusque dans ses rôles plus récents de curateur et d’enseignant, Heiner Goebbels est en dialogue constant avec les artistes et auteurs qui ont influencé son travail : Hanns Eisler, Heiner Müller, Elias Canetti, Gertrude Stein, mais aussi, côté francophone, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot ou Paul Valéry.
Ce recueil est la plus vaste anthologie de ses textes écrits au fil des quarante dernières années, et la première en français. Tour à tour carnet de bord, journal rétrospectif, espace de réflexion sur les pratiques artistiques, dont la sienne, Contre l’œuvre d’art totale constitue un manifeste esthétique et politique : pour l’abolition des hiérarchies entre les arts, pour la liberté d’invention des spectateurs-auditeurs.