Pipilotti Rist. Pixelwald Wisera

With Pixelwald Wisera by Pipilotti Rist (*1962), the Kunsthalle Bremen is presenting an important new acquisition for the museum's collection. The spatial installation resembles an enchanted forest that has spread throughout the museum and invites you to lose yourself in it.

The immersive spatial experience is made possible by almost 3,000 LED lights hanging from the ceiling. They are framed in handmade shapes reminiscent of stalactites or crystals. As if a screen had exploded, the lights float in space as pixels without showing geometric lines and perspectives. Each pixel light is programmed separately and plays a part of a three-dimensional video, which is strongly abstracted by the distances between the pixels and cannot be captured as a whole. The video content is precisely tailored in color and movement to the pieces of music playing in the pixel forest. The rest of the synchronization is performed by the brains of the viewers, in which sound and color then merge.

The visitors wandering through the pixel forest move through the space as if on a dream journey through the video image. The installation is reminiscent of the synapses of our brains and also of the flowing colors that can be perceived with closed eyes. Video artist Pipilotti Rist is known for her always unconventional, sensual, sometimes evocative, sometimes dreamlike and meditative works. With the pixel forests she has been creating since 2016, Rist has found a new way to dissolve the video image and transform it into fascinating spatial installations that are multi-layered in terms of both sensuality and content - they make you want to immerse yourself and linger.