(EN) I understand sound as a material that allows me to expand my artistic practice beyond visual and spatial boundaries. For me, it functions not merely as an accompanying element, but as an independent medium through which perception, embodiment, and space can be newly experienced. In doing so, I follow an eclectic working method, combining elements from different artistic traditions and developing them experimentally.
Museum Insel Hombroich 2024
“Sounds for a wounded Landscape”
Two sound artists play and listen into the large hole of the Garzweiler open-cast mine as a self-experiment. The camera observes the conflict at the hole, looks and listens into it. All attempts to alleviate or stop the wounding of the landscape seem fragile, helpless and perhaps even futile.
“Sound Swing”
As part of the Cultural Night at City Church Mönchengladbach, loudspeakers were suspended from seven-meter-long ropes within the church space and set into motion through a performative act. Sound was released from its fixed position, moving through the space as a physical, swinging presence — an audible interplay of gravity, architecture, and time. The sonic material consisted of field recordings from the surrounding area, inscribing the outside world into the sacred interior.
Composition for 3 Recordplayer
Emerging from an engagement with the sounds of modern weaving machines in Hamminkeln, a site with a long tradition in the textile industry, a transmedial score has taken shape, reflecting the distinctive qualities of both place and time. In the soundscapes of the project Loom of a 3, the machines themselves assume the role of instrumentalists, lending the music their own pulsating voice.
Under the title Haunting Noise – Composition for Three Turntables, three dubplate releases were created, inviting an “automatic” concert. Visitors were encouraged to start the turntables themselves, becoming active participants in the musical experience.
Bling!
"Bling!" stands for shine, reflection, wealth – and at the same time, the vulgar. The sound installation at Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal Wiesbaden explores these facets. Together with the artist Nicola Schudy, the project began with research on Wiesbaden, a city that hosts one of Germany’s oldest and largest casinos. The urban impressions are reflected in the works on display, capturing the ambivalence between glamour and the everyday.
“Water Fontain Baruth”
A water glass, fountain, and hydrophone form an installative arrangement that addresses the growing issue of water scarcity in the Mark Brandenburg region. Everyday and technical elements enter into a sensitive dialogue around resource, perception, and control. At the opening, the installation was activated through a performative interplay between the fountain and electroacoustic sound, in which water became not only a carrier but an active agent of sound.
PostPost Punchcard Composition
A time-intensive punchcard composition, which was eventually assembled into a loop at the end of the exhibition. Powered by a motor and transformer, it played autonomously, offering a self-playing farewell to the temporarily inhabited space.
Sounds for a conducting River
For the Słupia River, I developed seven floating objects with integrated playback devices and loudspeakers that were controlled by the river’s current. In collaboration with local residents, we accompanied the composition through a 30-minute walk along the riverbank, culminating at the lock as its endpoint. Field recordings and interview voices addressing the pollution of rivers intertwined with the surrounding soundscape and unfolded in rhythm with the flow of the current.
Radioart
Together with the artist and radio journalist Christian Ahlborn, I developed several experimental audio works (Fatherland, FUNFUNFUN, 50 Signs and Symptoms of Feeling Alien), which were premiered at the radio festival Radiophrenia at CCA Glasgow. In other collaborations, additional audio pieces were created, including works for the RadioArtZone Festival as part of the Esch 2022 European Capital of Culture program.
-
2026
WKZ Weltkunstzimmer (Hans Peter Zimmer Stiftung) Düsseldorf 1. Februar Klangperformance
Kunstverein Dortmund
Soundtrips NRW #77 29. April
Michel Doneda & Lê Quan Ninh. Gäste: Frauke Berg – Elektronik, Eva-Maria Houben – Portativ
-
2025
BilkerBunker/Schleuse2, Düsseldorf
Ferment (Bünnagel, Berg, Lautermann)
WGW Köln mit Ferment (Bünnagel, Berg, Lautermann)
BilkerBunker/Schleuse2, Düsseldorf
Reihe RAR, Hauch Records
Bird Call Studies – Soloarbeiten mit Vogelschallplatten
Tristero Radio 674.fm, Köln
Ferment & Plümmo
Theatermuseum, Düsseldorf
Soundtrip #73
Isabel Rößler & Girilal Baars SE, D
Gäste: Mascha Corman (Voice), Frauke Berg (Electronics)
2024
Museum Insel Hombroich (Labyrinth)
“Sounds for a wounded landscape” live performance
Frauke Berg, Anja Lautermann, Oliver GatherTristero Radio 674.fm, Köln
Ferment & Killer
ONOMATO Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf
Frauke Berg und Anja lauterman
TRANSMITTER Radio XL (III) [674.fm]
Frauke Berg und Anja Lautermann
2023
Scheues Reh, Köln
Georgien Festival
Frauke Berg, Anja Lautermann & Lili Glonti (Ge)
Visual Sound Festival, Dortmund
Ferment (Bünnagel, Berg, Lautermann)
Off Church Live, Düsseldorf
Kammerklänge Frauke Berg, Anja Lautermann & Lili GlontiTheatermuseum, Düsseldorf
Soundtrip #65
Viv Corringham & Maggie Nicols
Gäste: Frauke Berg – Objekte & Elektronik, Timo Hein – Bass
Kurorti Tiflis, Georgien
Anja Lautermann, Frauke Berg2022
nyaz 32/Mex, Dortmund
Eliad Wagner, Tomcyk, Frauke Berg
Salon des Amateurs Düsseldorf
Soundtrip #58
Isidora Edwards & Nina de Heney , Frauke Berg, HeinBerger Kirche, Düsseldorf
Soundtrips #48
Rieko Okuda, Anja Lautermann, Frauke Berg_Bergerkirche DüsseldorfFrauke Berg. Salon Des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
2019
Die Digitale, Düsseldorf
Anja Lautermann und Andreas Techler (Solaris)
SoundMill Festival, Dzierżnoniów, Polen
Goethe Institut Warschau
Wojtek Kurek , Udo Noll, Gunnar Geise, Knut Aufermann, Sarah Washington, Ralf Schreiber, Frauke Berg, Hania Piosik.
Raketenstation Hombroich ( Musikerhaus), Neuss
ODB Trestle records
with Axel Ganz, Kai Angermann, Anja Lautermann
Theater Slupsk, Polen
Ecodebate Performance, with Woijtek Kurek in Slupsk
StourSpace, London
Ampersand, Lautermann, Berg
Strange Parade, London
Ampersand, Lautermann, Berg24hrs Loop Festival, Düsseldorf
Ferment
Forum NRW, Düsseldorf
Rolling Eyes Festival
Ferment (Bünnagel, Berg, Lautermann)2018
Forum Freies Theater (FFT), Düsseldorf
Stadt als Fabrik FFT
Ferment (Bünnagel, Berg, Lautermann)
Kunstraum, Düsseldorf. Ringmodulator Festival
Echo Ho, Jeremy Young, Jesse Perlstein, Frauke Berg
Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf
“3blind rooms-one performance”
Hauke Schmidt, Anja Lautermann, Frauke Berg
…