Moving Sound Pictures: Project from the ligeti center gets its own exhibition space

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From March 28 to May 2, 2026, Grindelallee 129 in Hamburg will become a place for immersive art: Moving Sound Pictures: The VR Pop-Up Gallery, an independent exhibition space for an innovative virtual reality art format will be created for the first time. Five days a week, visitors can experience four virtual environments free of charge and discover art in a new, interactive way.

Where is it possible to juggle with the colorful shapes from the paintings of Henri Matisse or Wassily Kandinsky? Or make music with Picasso's abstract depiction of a guitar and mandolin? Not only to see colors, but to hear them - and to transform entire visual worlds into sound with a single movement?

Moving Sound Pictures, a project by multimedia artist Konstantina Orlandatou, makes exactly that possible. Trained in classical composition, the artist has been working at the interface of music, space and digital art for several years. Her approach is not just to show art, but to make it spatially tangible and actively accessible.

From modernism to virtual space
The artistic inspiration for Moving Sound Pictures goes back to key pioneers of modernism - such as Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky and Kasimir Malevich. While many current immersive exhibitions work with large-format projections in physical space, Moving Sound Pictures uses virtual reality (VR) to create individual experiential spaces. "Virtual reality is a medium with enormous potential for holistic, immersive experiences," explains Konstantina Orlandatou. "Playful interactions with works of art open up new approaches to artistic forms of expression, historical contexts and technical aspects of painting."

Art you can touch and experience
In the virtual space, works of art become interactive worlds of experience. For example, visitors can spatially explore the face of the iconic actress Mae West created by Salvador Dalí, move elements from a constructivist still life by Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter or play the instruments painted by Pablo Picasso as virtual sound bodies. Each work thus becomes its own journey of discovery - between art education, playful interaction and digital experience.

Development at the ligeti center
Moving Sound Pictures was created as part of the first funding phase of the federal-state initiative "Innovative University". Since 2023, the project has been continued and further developed at the ligeti center as part of the second funding phase. In cooperation with the Hamburger Kunsthalle, for example for the exhibition "ILLUSION", works of art could be viewed and explored in the original and in virtual space.
In collaboration with Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, the project will now have its own temporary exhibition space in a central location for the first time. "I want to create a place in Hamburg where people can immerse themselves in virtual worlds and experience art as closely and immersively as possible - not alone with a headset in front of a computer, but in a place where people come together," says Orlandatou.

Moving Sound PicturesThe VR Pop-Up Gallery opens on March 28, 2026 with a vernissage and ends on May 2, 2026 with a finissage. Visitors can experience the exhibition free of charge from Wednesday to Sunday.