Fake Noise, True Image in the Pasinger Fabrik: Art to Hear, See, and Trigger

When machines sound and images lose their certainties

The exhibition Fake Noise, True Image – Synergies in Art transforms the Pasinger Fabrik into a poetic machinery of perception. On Friday, November 6, 2026, visitors will encounter electromechanical sound artworks, sculptures, photographs, prints, and cardboard comics that playfully shift the familiar boundaries between image, sound, language, and theater.

Sound machines between art object and theater apparatus

At the center are the peculiar music machines of the Munich artist duo Portmanteau, Gerald Schrank and Christian Heiß. Using old, found, and recycled materials, they create kinetic sculptures that move, produce sounds, and interact with the audience. A coin toss makes chairs step, causes a herd to sound, or activates the headstrong singing vase. The exhibition thus becomes a contemplation of works, where hearing, seeing, and one's own actions are inseparably interconnected.

Perception as an open process

The curation connects five artistic positions that engage with the question of reality and deception. Martin Dessecker explores the relationship between reflection and reality in transparent image spaces. Willi Haas photographs situations where top and bottom lose their definiteness. Astrophysicist Leonhard Scheck translates time and space into photographic image constructions, while Petr Mayr questions the image as a print, replacement, and phantom of the original with printmaking, painting, and installation.

Aesthetic experience with humor and historical echo

The exhibition atmosphere thrives on metal, wood, cables, cranks, light, and mechanical movement. It recalls a fairground, laboratory, and stage at once. A work developed specifically for the Pasinger Fabrik using hand-cranked bread-slicing machines connects to the history of the site: where art is presented today, household appliances were produced by the Ritterwerke from 1912 to 1982. Thus, the exhibition links industrial memory with contemporary sound art.

Cultural education for playful children aged 0 to 99

The works explicitly invite participation. On selected days, the artists themselves guide through the spaces and engage with individual works. Public tours take place on Tuesdays at 6 PM. The accompanying program complements the exhibition with concerts, performances, and workshops. The combination of art history, technology, performing arts, and personal experimentation makes the art experience particularly accessible and opens new perspectives on material, sound, and image for both children and adults.

Conclusion: Art that moves

Fake Noise, True Image does not expect the audience to observe silently, but rather to engage in a lively aesthetic experience. Between absurd automatons, reflected image worlds, and historical traces, an exhibition experience full of wit, irritation, and insight emerges. Those who wish to not only look at art but also hear, trigger, and physically experience it should definitely visit this unusual exhibition in the Pasinger Fabrik live.

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Sources:

• Pasinger Fabrik – Exhibition Fake Noise, True Image – Synergies in Art
• Museums in Bavaria – Fake Noise, True Image
• Portmanteau – Fake Noise – True Image
• Süddeutsche Zeitung – Pasinger Fabrik: New Exhibition Fake Noise – True Image