Cultuurhaven x Proximity Music

09.04.2026 – 12.04.2026
Thursday: 16:00 to 20:00
Friday – Sunday: 12:00 to 20:00

West Den Haag in de vml. Amerikaanse ambassade, Lange Voorhout 102, Den Haag

Free admission

Johannes Kreidler: Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation

From increasingly frequent and intense storms to turbines installed on occupied territory, air in motion is intertwined with politics, land rights, and the climate crisis. Jet Whistles / The Grand Exhalation creates a state of liveliness in air that triggers confrontation – a force that literally blows in your face. Consisting of Johannes Kreidler's own "Thunder Sheet Machine" instruments – in which sheets of aluminum, steel, bronze, copper, zinc, and silver are motorised to create compositions with air, vibrations, and pressure – the installation generates contrasts between strength and vulnerability, natural elements and technology. 

Johannes Kreidler has a long-standing interest in using precise motors to control physical sound, produced by instruments or by membranes, strings, plates, and similar materials. He creates installations that allow him to explore his robotic instruments as quasi-organisms; beings in their own right, they pose questions around agency and authorship. 

Proximity Music is a joint exhibition programme initiated by iii and Rewire. It seeks to connect sound, architecture, and technology through intimate sensory experiences. As part of Rewire 2026, the sixth edition, titled Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum, will take place from 9 to 12 April across various locations in the centre of The Hague: Amare, Duits-Evangelische Kerk, Paleiskerk, Pulchri, Quartair, West Den Haag