Mies van der Rohe Haus
Current
Richard Sides: Open House
9 August – 6 September 2026
Opening: Saturday, 8 August, 4–9 pm
For the month-long summer program Open House, Berlin-based artist Richard Sides presents a mixtape he has developed especially for Mies van der Rohe Haus as a spatialized arrangement that moves throughout the site. Various furniture pieces are activated by being transformed into a clandestine speaker installation that can be used to live and to listen. Reenacting the building’s former use as a private residence, Sides turns the institution into an instrument for music and sound pieces.
Working as an artist and a curator, Sides is interested in the psychosomatic potential of media. By critically reflecting on the commodification of ecstasy and emotion, his sculptures, paintings, and sound pieces create a sense of experience by dislocating normalcy.
Open House marks Mies van der Rohe Haus‘ summer program, which also includes an one-evening presentation by publishing platform BUS on Friday, 4 September at 7 pm, as well as picnic events. Richard Sides’ extended mixtape is the institution’s second engagement with sound this year, after the presentation of London-based label Concentric Group in March.
Curated by Dennis Brzek