Concept
Performance-Recitals
Experience a new connection with classical music through Katinka von Richter's unique Performance-Recital.
A Performance-Recital combines live piano with art installations, cinematic lighting, and immersive staging. Created by Katinka von Richter, each event transforms a unique venue into a gallery of sound and light.
How does a certain materiality translate through sound? Why do certain memories return permanently throughout our lives? At what instant does a sound really disappear? Was the first note already present in space before the appearing sound? What generates the resonance and vibrations of music for you?
Katinka von Richter asks sensual and philosophical questions — to the composers of the last centuries, to the public, to music, and to herself as performer and artist. What are we searching for in art? What is the essence of music?
Sometimes through words, sometimes via pantomime, installations in the concert hall, the projection of video clips created for the musical programme, and other forms of staging the recital, her creation of Performance-Recitals surprises — but always originates from the selected masterpieces.
The existential purpose of her research is to touch the essence of the works — as a truth behind things — to communicate it and pass it on to her audience: an attempt to transform the classical recital into a holistic experience.
January 2022
Kunst trifft Kunst
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Concert-performance with the original staging "Kunst trifft Kunst", created for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. The concert was presented on television on i24 Culture.