When is the Fake Noise, True Image exhibition open?

The exhibition is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 3 PM to 7 PM and on Sundays from 2 PM to 6 PM.

How much is the admission fee?

The regular admission fee is 8 euros, the reduced admission fee is 5 euros.

Are there guided tours of the exhibition?

Yes, guided tours take place on Tuesdays at 6 PM on selected dates.

Where is the exhibition located?

The exhibition takes place in Gallery 1 of the Pasinger Fabrik, August-Exter-Straße 1, 81245 Munich.

How can the Pasinger Fabrik be reached by public transport?

The Pasinger Fabrik is located directly at the northern exit of Munich-Pasing station and can be reached by S-Bahn lines 3, 4, 6, and 8.

For whom is the exhibition suitable?

The exhibition is suitable for visitors of all ages and is announced as an experience for playful children aged 0 to 99.

Fake Noise, True Image: Sound Machines and Surprising Art in Munich's Pasinger Fabrik

Name: Fake Noise, True Image – Synergies in Art
Start: 2026-11-11T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2027-03-14T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Pasinger Fabrik, Galerie 1

When machines become sound sculptures: Fake Noise, True Image in Munich

The exhibition Fake Noise, True Image – Synergies in Art transforms the Pasinger Fabrik into a sensually surprising parcours of machines, sculptures, music, images, sound, language, and theater. From November 11, 2026, to March 14, 2027, visitors encounter the electromechanical sound art pieces of the Munich artist duo Portmanteau and other positions from contemporary art.

Sound, movement, and playful mechanics

At the center are peculiar music machines made from old, found, or recycled materials. Works like Sittichquirl, Alpinium, Strippenzieher, and Singvase blend object art, installation, and performance. With a push of a button or a coin insertion, chairs start tapping, a flock of sheep sounds, or a singing vase unfolds its humorous, double-meaning sound. The exhibition transforms the contemplation of the works into an immediate aesthetic experience: The audience not only sees but hears, acts, and discovers.

Portmanteau and the art of the absurd apparatus

Behind Portmanteau are Gerald Greulix Schrank and Christian Taison Heiß. The duo, active for more than twenty years, combines visual art, music, stage technology, and experimental sound design. The Süddeutsche Zeitung described Portmanteau as the Tinguelys of theater – an art historical classification that points to the closeness to kinetic art and playful machine aesthetics.

Between perception, image, and reality

The exhibition expands the cosmos of machines with photographs, prints, cardboard comics, and space-filling installations. Martin Dessecker investigates the relationship between reality, reflection, and perception in his transparencies. His works shift familiar certainties and invite viewers to look more closely.

Willi Haas focuses on reflections in puddles, lakes, and windows. In his photographs, top and bottom, surface and depth, reality and image come into an open state of suspension. Leonhard Scheck, a trained astrophysicist, breaks down space and time into photographic pixels, creating images that appear scientifically precise and yet unrepeatable.

Printmaking, installation, and the history of the place

Peter Mayr combines drawing, painting, graphics, print, and installation. His works revolve around reproduction, replacement, and the image as a phantom of its original. Petr Mayr also works with screen printing and etching, while the exhibition consciously incorporates the industrial character of the Pasinger Fabrik.

For this historical site, a work made from hand-crank bread-slicing machines is created. From 1912 to 1982, household appliances of the Ritterwerke were produced in the Pasinger Fabrik. The new sound machine translates this industrial history into a humorous, mechanical, and musical present.

Guided tours and musical accompanying program

On many days, the artists themselves are on site, guiding through the rooms and engaging with parts of the works. Tours take place on Tuesdays at 6 PM. Additionally, music performances by Loopin’ Lab, TiDCDTrA, and Mycrotom bring further impulses into the exhibition. Thus, a vibrant connection of exhibition, concert, performance, and cultural education is created.

Conclusion: An art experience to hear, touch, and marvel

Fake Noise, True Image is aimed at curious playful children aged 0 to 99 and combines technical inventiveness with art historical reflection. The exhibition atmosphere ranges from the quiet mechanical beat to surprising noises and opens an unusual access to installation, sculpture, and sound art. Those who want to experience art not just as a viewer but as a moving, audible, and humorous experience should discover this exhibition live at the Pasinger Fabrik.