Felix Kiessling
Die Stimme
Nukleus Kiel 2025, Kieler Rathaus, Germany
Opening: Oct 2, 7pm
Oct 3 – 16, 2025

For Nukleus Kiel, Felix Kiessling committed himself for over a year to give the Kieler Förde (Fjord of Kiel) a voice. In politics issues such as riverbed deepening and shoreline management are discussed. Social, ecological, and above all economic perspectives are being heard. But what does the Fjord itself has to say? As a natural entity, as the sum of all its microorganisms, the invisible world, lying outside our reality-producing cognitive apparatus, is not given a voice.

In collaboration with GEOMAR (Europe’s largest marine biology and ocean research institute), samples from the Fjord were systematically collected and later recorded with high-resolution hydrophones in Geomar’s laboratory. This will allow us to hear what is invisible to the eye. The water becomes perceptible as a collective landscape, a multi-voiced chorus of bioactivity. The fjord is receiving a voice.

Nukleus Kiel is a research/art project by the City of Kiel and HCOB Schleswig-Holstein Art Foundation under the curatorial and artistic direction of Sven Christian Schuch.