Image: Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus
The Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst will present a solo exhibition by visual artist and musician Chris Hinze in Cottbus this spring and summer. Titled "Chris Hinze. Fragmente eines Wegs Raum der Stille," the exhibition runs from April 25 to August 23, 2026, at the museum’s Dieselkraftwerk venue. BLMK describes the project as centered on a site-specific, room-filling installation called "Raum der Stille" that transforms the exhibition space through sculptural-architectural intervention and subtle sound.
The museum’s announcement places the show within its broader Cottbus programme, where several exhibitions are scheduled across the summer season. Hinze’s project is one of the clearest examples in that line-up of the institution’s interest in installation, sound and interdisciplinary practice. The exhibition is presented in two parts: in Maschinenhaus 1, visitors encounter the new installation, while Schalthaus 3 offers a more traditional overview of works in different techniques and sculptures from different periods of the artist’s career. According to the museum, the Schalthaus 3 presentation ran from April 25 to June 14, 2026.
Hinze, born in Cottbus in 1969, is identified by the museum as both a visual artist and a musician. BLMK notes that he first established himself as a musician and experimented in performance in the late 1980s before moving his exploration of archaic ways of life, symbolic imagery and mythological themes into visual art. The museum says recurring concerns in his work include the spiritually connoted relationship between human beings and nature, as well as forms of transgression understood as intellectual, transcendental, physical and aesthetic ways of overcoming societal constraints, conventions and self-control mechanisms.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is the “Raum der Stille,” which the museum says is transformed by sculptural and architectural interventions together with sound. Visitors enter through a double entrance and pass archways made from raw robinia trunks. Inside, two groups of sculptural figures flank a circle of white cushions intended for meditation or quiet contemplation. The figures, mounted on metal rods, are described by BLMK as simplified human forms that may evoke shadow figures, guardians, protectors or homunculi. Cast in concrete and embedded in a pre-formed forest floor, they retain traces of their making and surroundings, including moss, pine needles, leaves and soil residue.
The museum also links the work to earlier and recent production contexts. Some of the figures were made as part of the "First Nation" project, an open-air installation Hinze created in Jamlitz around vanished places and voids. Others were made recently in a forest near Drebkau. That combination, BLMK says, connects different natural spaces and their historical significance. During the exhibition period, sound and meditation sessions conceived and led by the artist will take place regularly in the Raum der Stille.
For BLMK, the exhibition extends a strand of programming that foregrounds works shaped by place, process and participation. It also points to the continuing presence of interdisciplinary practices in contemporary art, where installation, sound, sculpture and ritualised visitor experience can converge. The accompanying events underline that emphasis: “Stille Retreat” meditation journeys are scheduled for July 17 and August 7, 2026, and the concert “Stille Herz Klang,” with Gabriele Weiner and Chris Hinze, is listed for July 24 at the Dieselkraftwerk. The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at Uferstraße/Am Amtsteich 15 in Cottbus.
