STENHEIM AT "THE BIENNALE SON 2025" IN SWITZERLAND

La Biennale Son highlights the growing role of sound in contemporary art. Multidisciplinary by nature, it blurs the boundaries between artistic practices—bringing together installations, sculptures, films, performances, concerts, and even silent works where sound is only implied—to offer audiences a rich and varied artistic experience.

SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE 

Composed of contemporary artist Stephan Crasneanscki and producer Simone Merli, Soundwalk Collective integrates sound, film, and mixed media into site- and context-specific works. Evolving along multidisciplinary lines, Soundwalk Collective has cultivated long-term creative collaborations with artists and writers such as Patti Smith, the late filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, photographer Nan Goldin, choreographer Sasha Waltz, filmmaker and musician Jim Jarmusch, as well as actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, among others.

Picture: Annik Wetter

Picture: Annik Wetter

Invisible Landscape is a sound installation conceived for the main hall and control room of the Chandoline power plant—an old hydroelectric cathedral now decommissioned. Designed as a journey through landscapes that have disappeared or are fading away, the project guides the listener from one extreme to another: from the glaciers of Greenland, recorded by Stephan Crasneanscki in the summer of 2024, to the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth. The melting ice becomes sonic matter, amplified by the spectral feedback of Jim Jarmusch’s guitar, echoing the global disappearance of glaciers, before giving way to the sounds of the desert, where the voices of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nan Goldin, and Willem Dafoe recite the indexes of Rachel Carson, a pioneer of ecology, transforming scientific inventory into elegy. Read more