Annika Kahrs: Strings, Alone Together

Thursday, 19.02.2026
Musikinstrumenten-Museum SIM
Ben-Gurion-Straße 1, 10785 Berlin

8 p.m.
Performances
Strings, 2010
String quartet
Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop

Alone Together, 2016
4 performers
Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
Musical Arrangement: Louis d‘Heudières

In Strings and Alone Together, Kahrs engages with the structure of the classical quartet and tests its limits. In Strings, a string quartet is intentionally thrown out of rhythm as the musicians swap instruments and positions after each movement. In Alone Together, a vocal quartet deconstructs a three-minute jazz classic through temporal expansion and spatial separation, transforming it into a 30-minute performance — a study of synchrony, autonomy, and collective failure, from which something new emerges.

Image:
Annika Kahrs, Strings, 2010, video still © Courtesy of the artist and Produzentengalerie Hamburg