Sculptural transformation of sounds Mirja Wellmann explores our acoustic environment, often logging the auditory landscapes over hours and days and creating listening manuscripts with exact time and location information. Wooden meshes are created, ciphers of the main sources of noise such as church bells, children, cars, birds or leaves. These so-called HörNester (listening nests) and HörWolken (listening clouds) invite us to empathise with the artist's experience but also to deepen our own perception of the diverse acoustic stimuli that constantly surround us. At first glance, the sounds transformed into sculptural objects are often perceived as abstract structures. Only gradually do the underlying individual forms, which are made from aircraft plywood like templates, painted black or in colour and interwoven, become apparent. The artist, who has won numerous prizes and scholarships, studied under Werner Pokorny in Stuttgart, among others.https://www.galerie-klaus-braun.de/mirja-wellmann/
