Resounding Voice - mamuta art & research center

Netta Weiser

Curator: Lea Mauas, Maayan Sheleff

31.10.25 - 26.12.25

Resounding Voice at The Mamuta Art and Research Center is the first solo exhibition in Israel by artist and choreographer Netta Weiser. Her work combines sound installation, performance, and experimental radio. Through research and dialogue with artists from various disciplines, Weiser explores how sound and radio can render silenced histories audible, and how collective listening can give rise to temporary communities.

In Resounding Voice, Weiser reactivates a sound archive recorded in Egypt in 1933 by Brigitta Schiffer (1909–1986), a Jewish-German composer and musicologist whose life was shaped by experiences of migration and exile. In her youth, Schiffer lived in Alexandria; she completed her academic studies in Berlin, and immediately after submitting her doctoral dissertation — coinciding with the rise of the Nazi regime — she fled Germany and lived in Cairo for thirty years. Her doctoral research focused on an isolated oasis in western Egypt, documenting the diverse vocal and musical practices of the local Amazigh community. Among the recordings are rare examples of queer love songs and a mourning song performed by a children’s choir—resonating with a subversive history of emotion and vocal expression.

In the exhibition, Weiser seeks to listen to these voices from the past and to allow the embodied emotional and physical knowledge within them to re-emerge. Her work creates spaces of listening for multiple historical narratives: art in times of war and killing, love and mourning, feminist and queer legacies — all interwoven. At a moment when ideologies of separation, silencing, and the repression of the “other” or the foreign are resurfacing, the exhibition makes room for complex identities and narratives, illuminating with a reflective gaze the intercultural blind spots, encounters, and tensions between places, times, and affections.

Netta Weiser is an artist and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work combines sound installation, performance, and experimental radio. In 2019, she founded Radio-Choreography, an artistic research project dedicated to developing alternative methods of documenting dance through sound. As part of this project, she is building a radio archive focusing on dance works by women created in times of migration and border crossing. Her works have been presented at international art institutions and dance festivals, including the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Onassis Stegi Athens, WDR, Villa Medici Rome, CCA Glasgow, TONSPUR Micro Museum for Sound at MQ Vienna, Tanznacht Berlin, Tanzmuseum Cologne, and Zwergelgarten Pavilion Salzburg.
In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe and completed an artist residency at Artport Tel Aviv. She is currently a research fellow at the VALIE EXPORT Center in Linz and hosts a monthly radio program on reboot.fm in Berlin. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

Collaborating artists featured in the exhibition: Roi Amots (flute), Chanan Ben-Simone (vocal artist), Michael Hauschka (electronic music), and Matthias Pasdzierny (scientific advisor and research collaborator).

The exhibition was developed as part of the Goethe-Institut Israel residency program in Jerusalem, in collaboration with the Mamuta Art and Research Center and the Media Department of the Ethnological Museum, Berlin.

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