image: Johannes Offerhaus
image: Johannes Offerhaus

Shelter

Het Muziek
Thu 18 Dec 2025 20:15 - 22:00
Thu 18 Dec 2025
20:15 - 22:00
  • Thu 18 Dec 2025
    20:15 - 22:00
    Grote Zaal

Program

19.15 / Foyerdeck 1 / Pre-concert talk
By Huib Ramaer

20.15 / Grote Zaal / Main program
Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe Shelter

Credits

Het Muziek
Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg conductor 
Johannes Offerhaus (Studio Boris Acket) scenographer

What is shelter in uncertain times?

In a time of social and political unrest, Het Muziek (formerly Asko|Schönberg) and artist Johannes Offerhaus explore the meaning of protection. The 2005 oratorio Shelter, written for three sopranos and large ensemble, is a collaboration between American Bang on a Can composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. The text is by Deborah Artman, who has written for them on several occasions.

For this new production, visual artist Johannes Offerhaus creates a kinetic installation that literally moves with the ensemble. His textile sculpture (growing, shrinking, breathing) is like a body that encloses us and then releases us. A temporary refuge that protects as often as it questions. His work amplifies the sensory experience in which space, skin, and music become one; in which shelter is something that arises, disappears, and must be sought again.

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