Munich is a city with many, many construction sites. And these are rarely associated with music, but rather with noise and other disturbing noises. At the Music construction site “Kollabs” Things are different in the city museum. There is also some noise and disturbances here too. You could already experience this in 2022. Andrea Lesjak launched “Kollabs” as a collaborative music and sound concept on the occasion of the 50th birthday of “Olympia 1972”.
Now the upcoming renovation and conversion of the museum is the reason for the new “Kollabs” series, which is entitled “Splitter”. A variety of musicians and sound artists were also invited to perform in an experimental “laboratory room” on the first floor.
This has been happening for a few weeks now and is now happening again more and more towards the finale on January 7th. Until then, the more comprehensive farewell program “Hin und weg”, which started on November 8th, is running and includes free tours, workshops, free entry to all exhibitions and other events.
Such as the daily, historical tour “Munich City Museum 1888/2031”, an evening “flashlight tour” for children (Jan. 2/3), a “puppet theater to go” workshop for families (Jan. 4) , the pianistic puppet séance “Night Flowers” by the Tübingen Puppet Theater (January 5th) or the performance “The Puppet is present” (January 6th/7th), which is loosely based on Marina Abramovic’s “The artist is present”. Enable one-to-one encounters with puppet theater characters.
“Long Night” with surprise concerts
On January 6th, the Munich City Museum also invites you to a “Long Night”. It starts at 4 p.m. with surprise concerts, performances and DJ sets from “Kollabs”. The one-man band from the French company plays at 6 and 8 p.m La Mue/tte and at 11:30 p.m Express Brass Band. At the same time, the films “Night On Earth” (6 p.m.) by Jim Jarmusch, “After Hours” (9 p.m.) by Martin Scorsese and “★” (11 p.m.) by Johann Lurf can be seen in the film museum. The Berlin puppet maker and player Suse Waechter presents “Feeled Truths” in the hall of the city museum at 7 and 9.45 p.m., the “Smallest Stage in the World” from Pullach invites you to three short city stories in the exhibition “Typically Munich!”, and the Guided tours take place throughout the evening.
As for the rest of the “Kollabs” program in the final week, there will be the first concert on January 2nd at 4 p.m. This is entitled “Toy:Toy” and offers “new music with Casio DIY charm”. The central players are Klaus Erika Dietl and Stefanie Müller, who are accompanied by “Kollabs” curator Andrea Lesjak on percussion. Other guests include the Munich artist, author and musician Augusta Laar, the Munich beekeeper and sound artist Mucho Pitchu, the Munich composer and saxophonist Christoph Reiserer and the British musician, composer and audio software developer Pete Dowling. Together they improvise with, among other things, the saxophone, bass synth, voice and text, and the whole thing “between the walls”.
Because that’s also part of the “Kollabs” concept: that the walls in the exhibition rooms are included and become increasingly “brittle”. Holes are created, new perspectives are created, exhibition furniture such as bases and display cases are sawn into pieces and reassembled. Visitors are also invited to “collaborate” with the musicians. On January 3rd it will be Terrine and Rumbling with a noise performance from 4 p.m. At the same time, Limpe Fuchs, Pit Holzapfel, Elmar Guantes, Zoro Babel, Kordian Tetkov and Caspar Lesjak are giving a joint concert. From mid-2025 onwards it will be the turn of the “real” construction workers. The renovation work is supposed to begin there.
Back and away. Farewell program, until January 7th, Munich City Museum. St.-Jakobs-Platz 1, muenchner-stadtmuseum.de