Düsseldorf celebrates Kraftwerk with a spectacular light show

For the opening of the exhibition
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Düsseldorf celebrates Kraftwerk with a spectacular light show

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The light installation should look like this visualization.
Foto: Modern Media Group

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Düsseldorf The Museum Kunstpalast is showing an exhibition on electronic music. A music and light show at the Tonhalle will start with some of the Düsseldorf electropioneers’ titles. The group worked on this.

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From Thursday, the Düsseldorf Art Palace will be the first German museum to show the more than 100-year history of electronic music and its connections to art. A highlight is the staging of the entire Kraftwerk plant – after all, the electrical pioneers come from the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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On this occasion, Kraftwerk can also be experienced in public spaces. To celebrate the start, the light artist Klaus Gendrung and Kraftwerk will be staging the sound hall with a spectacular music and light installation from Wednesday. She deals with songs by the group – especially the “Trans-Europa Express”.

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Gendrung has, so to speak, power plant experience. He has known the members for a long time and is the artist behind the Rheinkometen, the light installation on the roof of the Rheinturm. Among other things, it shone in 2017 on that Saturday evening when the Tour de France made a guest appearance in Düsseldorf and Kraftwerk played an open-air concert in the Ehrenhof on the occasion.

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The installation will be on view daily from 5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. It is 15 minutes long and is repeated after a break. The best location for spectators is the courtyard of the courtyard in front of the NRW Forum. The music is played there. The installation will run until December 18th. It is made possible by the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and a group of top-class Düsseldorf companies, according to a press release.

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13 pictures Pictures from the Kraftwerk appearance in Düsseldorf
*Photo: dpa, Oliver Berg*

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Paid content The exhibition in the Kunstpalast shows the musical genres bundled under the term “electronic music” in more than 500 exhibits, some of them interactive. You can see instruments, self-made sound generators, photographs, audio recordings, videos and graphic design. The spectrum ranges from the first electronic musical instruments from the early 20th century to the use of artificial intelligence in contemporary electronic sound production.

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New music trends such as Detroit Techno, Chicago House and Hip-Hop from the 1980s find their acoustic and photo-artistic echoes, as does the rave culture that emerged in the 1990s.

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The show, which runs until May 15, is a co-production with the “Musée de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris” – this is one of the reasons why the “Trans-Europa Express” was chosen as the motif for the light installation. The Düsseldorf show was created in close collaboration with Kraftwerk founder Ralf Hütter.

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