Guided Tour
Special guided tour: The Sound of Hanne Lippard
Join us as we slow down for a tour focusing on a single work: Vox Humana (2026) by Hanne Lippard. In this format, we listen slowly, attentively and with the entire body, exploring the many layers of voices, history and storytelling contained within the work.
Museum visitors spend an average of eight seconds experiencing each artwork in an exhibition. With this special tour format, we want to challenge that pace by slowing down completely and exploring together what emerges—thoughts, sensory impressions, associations, and other personal and collective layers of meaning—when we take our time with a single work.
Hanne Lippard (b. 1984) is a Norwegian-Icelandic artist based in Berlin. Vox Humana (2026) was created specifically for the exhibition and church ruin and in response to its history, architecture and acoustics. Taking the voice as both a human and material phenomenon, Vox Humana explores the relationship between the divine and the synthetic, the natural and the artificial.
Accessibility: The event is accessed via the old church path and includes a single step up to the church ruin, which can be accessed via a ramp.
About the exhibition
The Sound of focuses on the poetic, political and social potentials of sound in contemporary art, presenting works by an array of international and Danish artists including Hajra Waheed, Hanne Lippard, Clara Mosconi, Julian Abraham ‘Togar’, Emeka Ogboh, Cally Spooner, Francesco Fonassis, Arendse Krabbe and Annika Kahrs.
Through voices, rhythms, language and vibrations, the exhibition opens experiences that move between the intimate and the collective, between body and space, between listening and action. The exhibition presents several newly produced works together with a programme of performances, talks and activities. Explore the programme here.
The exhibition has been created in collaboration with Moderna Museet Malmö.
The exhibition is supported by:
Danish Arts Foundation, The Augustinus Foundation, New Carlsberg Foundation, Knud Højgaards Fond, OCA, Italian Council, Det Obelske Familiefond, Sound Environment Center (Lund University), Art Music Denmark, Danish Composers’ Society, Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse, Ernst B Sund Fonden
A speciel thanks to: Roskilde Municipality, To Øl, AIAIAI, Mellemfolkelig Samvirke/ActionAid Denmark, Politiken Plus
Read more about the exhibition
The sound of
An exhibition placing sound at the centre of contemporary art and brings together international artists to explore how it shapes space, carries memory, disturbs silence and much more. Through voices, rhythms, languages and vibrations, the works move between the intimate and the collective, between body and space, between listening and action.
26. September 2026
08. November 2026
Saturday Tours
03. October 2026 07. November 2026
Join us for a free guided tour of the exhibition with one of our art guides. During the tour, we dive into the exhibition concept and explore the role of sound in contemporary art today, stopping along the way at selected works.
The sound of autumn break
During the autumn break, we invite children and families on a listening adventure through the exhibition – and the city. Crawl through a giant ear, train your listening ears, create sound artworks together, and explore strange, magical and funky ways of listening.
Special Guided tour: The Sound of Hajra Waheed
Join us as we slow down in a guided tour focusing on a single work: HUM (2020) by Hajra Waheed. In this format, we listen slowly, attentively and with the entire body, exploring the many layers of voices, history and storytelling contained within the work.