Ryoji Ikeda

28.01. – 09.04.2012 Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | East and West Wing db Composition | Exhibition Fotos: Uwe Walter Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for the Hamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum’s east and west wings. The exhibition’s title »db« (abbr. for decibel) refers to this symmetry while simultaneously indicating the complementary relationship between the two exhibition spaces. Ikeda has designed the white room and the black room as counterparts, not only physically (brightness, color), but also conceptually and perceptually. The project is a composition in which time and space…