“Mute” is the largest solo exhibition by the artist and composer Pan Daijing (born 1991, Guiyang, China). The live exhibition will take the entire West Gallery of the House of Art as well as adjacent rooms in and around the building.
It invites the audience to a trip that integrates architectural elements and opens imaginary rooms. Visitors can explore a landscape of installative and performative elements. The work is devoted to the process: works of the past ten years are reinterpreted and supplemented by new productions.
I Want mute to speak to our Inner Voices. It should bring the Eyes Closer to the Ears; Our Bodies to the Ground and our Minds to the Sky […] It Will Crack Open Thousands of Miles Below Our Feet, and The Current Will Hold Us. " - Pan Daijing
Daijing's works develop a close relationship with the rooms in which they are presented. The exhibition in the House of Art includes choreography, architectural interventions, sound and video . It directs the view in the new way and has previously opened up undiscovered areas of the building.
A versatile performance group starts a transformation process at the beginning of the exhibition by researching silence and liveliness as well as closeness and distance. During the entire six -week term, further activations such as the distinction between inside and outside or the slowdown of time are moving the perspectives of the audience.
Visitors are invited to immerse yourself, follow the traces or to blur them. In view of an increasingly networked world, Daijing's work asks questions about our connections and encourages us to explore our feelings. Every day, dancers activate the space during the slow transition from the day to dusk - everyone can meet them or follow their traces that can lead to any different locations.
The daily performances are carried out by Amie Jammeh, Chihiro Araki and Wai Lok Chan. The performers are present Monday to Friday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and on weekends from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. "Mute" is an order work of the Haus der Kunst Munich. It is supported by YDC and the cultural department of the state capital of Munich , the Goethe-Institut and the Kemmler Foundation .
In conjunction with the exhibition, Pan Daijing's first monograph is published at Spector Books in collaboration with Tai Kwun Contemporary.
The author include Emma Enderby, Donatien Grau, Mark Harwood, Andrea Lissoni, Raimundas Malašauskas, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Xue Tan and Sarah Johanna Theurer. Curated by Sarah Johanna Theurer with Lydia Antoniou, Emma Enderby and Andrea Lissoni.
Pan Daijing. Mute 9.3. - 14.4.24 House of Art, Westgalerie Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich Hausderkunst.de | @Hausderkunst
Opening with performative activation
8.3. & 9.3.24, 7 p.m.
The interactive opening of the live exhibition "Mute" is staged by a performance. Eight dancers share the exhibition space with the audience, which immerse themselves in a composition of virtuoso vocals and electronic music. Individual votes appear and disappear again within this tonal continuum.
Visitors can move freely through the landscape designed by the artist and thus become part of this musical environment in which everything becomes music.
The opening is performed by the dancers Amie Jammeh, Chihiro Araki, Cary Shiu, Camilla Brogaard, Kelvin Burkard, Leah Katz, Wai Lok Chan and Pan Daijing.
About the artist Pan Daijing
Pan Daijing is known for her music, in the focus. Regardless of whether it is reinforcing the smallest mouth or stages a waterfall of noises, the attention of the Chinese experimental artist for granular details ensures an extremely captivating listening experience.
In her lecture at RBMA Berlin 2018, Pan Daijing discussed the inspiration behind several of her impressive performance pieces, the relationship between sound and emotion as well as its approach to composition.
About the House of Art

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The House of Art in Munich is known worldwide as the leading center for contemporary art. It is dedicated to researching the stories of this art form, with a focus on exhibitions, performances, music events and knowledge transfer.
The program of the house emphasizes the global and complex developments in contemporary art that should not know geographical or cultural borders.
In a new era at the Haus der Kunst, we would like to sharpen a view of contemporary art by involving various perspectives and presenting an interdisciplinary program of the highest artistic quality. Our goal is to create a critical context in order to explore, define and convey the historical dimension of contemporary. "
- Andrea Lissoni, artistic managing director of the Haus der Kunst.

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