Communion with sound has always been bound by time. Meaning in speech and music appears only as their sound events unfold word by word, phrase by phrase, from moment to moment.
My Place works share a different fundamental idea – that of removing sound from time and setting it, instead, in place.
Max Neuhaus, 2001
Sound Work Location: Rooftops of 137–141 Bowery, New York City, Dimensions: 100 x 60 meters
Extant: August 9–11, 1967
Sound Work Location: Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada Dimensions: 4 x 3 x 20 meters Extant: Fall, 1968
Sound Work Location: Jay Street Subway Station, Metropolitan Transit Authority Building, New York City, Dimensions: 30 x 14 x 5 meters, 1973-1977
Sound Work reference: Rooms, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City,
Dimensions: 10 x 12 x 11 meters; 11 x 15 x 11 meters. Extant: June 9–26, 1976
Sound Work Location: Old US Customs House Rotunda, New York City, Dimensions: elliptical rotunda, 20 x 60 x 15 meters
Extant: November 19–21, 1976
Sound Work location: Abby Aldrich Sculpture Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Dimensions: 60 x 20 meters
Extant: Summer, 1978
Note: Underground Music(s) II, was the original title of Neuhaus's subsonic sound work in the sculpture garden of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Clearing in Karlsaue Park, Kassel, Germany, Dimensions: 30 meters in diameter, Extant: Summer–Fall, 1977
Archive news Max Neuhaus Estate: new-music-by-joan-la-barbara-1977
Sound Work References: Collection: Since 2002, Dia Art Foundation, New York Location: Pedestrian island between 46th and 45th Streets, New York City Dimensions: triangle 6 x 12 meters Proposed: 1973 Extant: 1977–1992 and 2002–Present
Sound Work Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dimensions: 10 x 6 x 3 meters Extant: September 27–30, 1978
Sound Work reference: The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City, Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 11 meters Extant: Fall, 1979
Sound Work Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Dimensions: 4 x 5 x 18 meters
Proposed: 1978
Extant: 1979–1989
Sound Work Location: Botanical Garden, St. Paul, Minnesota, Dimensions: rotunda 30 x 20 meters
Extant: Summer 1980.
Sound Work Location: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, Dimensions: 10 x 15 x 4 meters
Extant: May 6 – June 12, 1983
Sound Work References:
Location: Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Dimensions: 8 x 16 x 3 meters
Extant: February 11 – March 10, 1983
Sound Work Reference:
Location: Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy. Dimensions: 120 x 60 meters
Extant: 1983–1990
Sound Work Location: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
Dimensions: 22 x 11 x 10 meters. Extant: October 2 - November 6, 1983
Sound Work Location: Pedestrian tunnel, Parc Lullin, Dimensions: 2 x 60 x 2 meters
Extant: June 9 – September 8, 1985
-Exhibition: Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland-
Sound Work Location: Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva, Switzerland, Dimensions: 4 x 5 x 3 meters
Extant: Autumn 1986–1993
Collection Eric et Dominique Franck, Geneva
Sound Work Location: Locmine, France, Dimensions: 120 x 200 meters, Proposed: 1985 Extant: 1986–1988
Sound Work Location: CNAC, Magasin, Grenoble, France. Dimensions: 2 x 60 x 18 meters
Extant: February 28 – April 10, 1988
Sound Work Location:
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, Dimensions: 8 x 16 x 5 meters
Extant: 1988–1990
Sound Work reference: Roaring Fork River, Aspen, Colorado, Dimensions: 20 x 30 meters
Extant: Summer–Fall, 1988
Sound Work Exhibition: Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Dimensions: 14 x 8 x 11 meters; 14 x 8 x 11 meters
Extant: November 11, 1989 – February 18, 1990
Sound Work Location: Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany, Dimensions: 3 x 2 x 3 meters
Extant: 1989–1992
Sound Work Location: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, Dimensions: 6 x 8 x 3 meters
Extant: January 28 – April 22, 1990
Location: Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy, Dimensions: 7 x 6 x 4 meters; 7 x 6 x 4 meters;
6 x 6 x 4 meters
Extant: 1990-fall 2020
Exhibition: Weg der Schweiz, Lake Luzern, Switzerland. Dimensions: 150 x 100 meters
Extant: Summer–Fall, 1990
Sound Work Location: Galleria Giorgio Persano, Milan, Italy, Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 4 meters
Extant: 1990–1993
Sound work references: From a proposal for an unrealized work
Exhibition: Documenta IX
Sound Work Location: AOK Building, Friedrichplatz 14, Kassel, Germany Dimensions: 7 x 16 x 3 meters; 7 x 16 x 3 meters; 7 x 16 x 3 meters Extant: 1992, Present Collection: Documenta, Accessible from 8 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday
Location: Musée d'Art Moderne, Bordeaux, France, Dimensions: 3 x 10 x 4 meters; 3 x 10 x 4 meters
Extant: 1993 - Reactiveted 2024 - Present
'Two passages, bearing in between shadow and daylight, identical in form , diverging in spirit, 1993 has now been restored.' December 2024
Sound work references: Collection: Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Location: Piazza di Castello
Dimensions: 8 x 4 x 2 meters; 8 x 4 x 2 meters
Extant: 1996–Present
-Unrealized Proposal
The site: The space, six by eight meters encloses a stairway twenty meters high.
-Unrelized Proposal
Sound Work Reference:
Collection: Swisscom, Worblaufen-Bern, Switzerland
Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 100 meters
Extant: 1999–Present
Collection: Kunst im öffentlichen Raum die Stadt Bern
Location: Lorrainestrasse 1, Bern, Switzerland
Dimensions: 3 x 30 meters
Extant: 1999–Present
- (First Sound Work My Place by Max Neuhaus)
Sound Work reference: Exhibition, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Extant: Summer 1999.
Unrealized
Sound Work Location: Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France.Dimensions: 4 x 5 meters. Extant: Summer–Fall 2001
Location: Park, Promenade du Pin, Geneva, (Across from entrance to the Cabinet du Stampe)Switzerland. Dimensions: 2.6 x 10 meters. Collection: Fonds Contonal d'Art Contemporian, Geneva Extant: 2002–Present, Accessible 24 hours per day.
Sound Work Location: Saint Luc, Switzerland, Dimensions: 1.5 x 1.5 meters. Collection: The Estate of Max Neuhaus
Extant: 2002–Present.
Proposal for the park on the Novartis Campus- Switzerland
Unrealized Proposal
-Unrealized Proposal
-Propose only
Sound work references: Unrealized
Sound Work Location: Conrad-Eybesfeld, Lebring, Austria, Dimensions: 4 x 5 meters
Extant: 2007–Present
Collection: Bertran and Christine Conrad-Eybesfelf
Sound Work Location: The Menil Collection, Houston, Dimensions: 4 x 4 meters.Collection: The Menil Collection.
Extant: 2008-Present.
-Unrealized propose for Fundação de Serralves