ZIL - One Gesture, One Vibration, One Resonance

Mahalla Festival - Büyük Valide Han, Istanbul

A participatory sound installation

Opening Sept.18 2026
September 19th – October 3rd
daily 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm, except Sundays
mahalla.inenart.eu

Since the Ottoman Empire, cymbal-making has been closely linked to Istanbul, where generations of artisans have passed down the alchemy of transforming metal into sound. ZIL extends this transformation, shifting the cymbal from a percussive instrument into a floating personal sound space. Visitors are invited to stand alone beneath a cymbal, strike it once with a mallet and force of their choice, and fully experience its vibration and lingering resonance.

ZIL consists of a series of cymbals suspended at varying heights from climbing ropes, with mallets specially conceived for the installation with the artisans of the Büyük Valide Han. During the opening of the Mahalla Festival, ZIL will be activated with the public, evolving from an intimate sonic experience into a collective performance.

VIVE LE VOID!
Exhibition with the high school students of the “collège de Bretagne” and the “collège de Chavagne”.
Galerie RDV, Nantes, June 2026

Void worshop at the Collège de Bretagne
© Caroline Lesueur, 2026

galerierdv.com/expositions/vive-le-void

BZZB Concert - Virage Mirage Residency - Montreuil-Bellay

“Ain’t Djaz’t Play’n”
April 16th - MAJC Marseille, France
April 18th - Puppen theater Museum, Berlin, Allemagne

Solo exhibition Anatoms Sonores - Galerie RDV, Nantes. March 14th to May 2nd 2026.

galerierdv.com/expositions/anatoms-sonores

artpress Nov. 2025

L’édition d’artiste à l’ère de sa propagation même
Françoise Lonardoni

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BEYOND THE BORDER

DMZ International Art Exchange Project, Gangwon-State DMZ Museum, Goseong-gun, DMZ.
09/1-30/2025

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SOUND PERFORMANCE DRD- PRK TRÄGHEIT
DMZ International Art Exchange Project - Gangwon-State DMZ Museum, Goseong-gun, DMZ.
09/02/2025.

VOID A SPACE IN BETWEEN
DMZ International Art Exchange Project, Tongil Unification Observatory, DMZ.
09/02/2025

A Void in Between Zabo Chabiland - DMZ 2025

The performance “A Void in Between” focuses on a mathematical shape created by the simple gesture of pressing a malleable material between the thumbs and index fingers of both hands. The fingers act as a natural mold, and a tetrahedron emerges, intuitively and inevitably. This shape goes back to the very first creation of humanity, to the ball of clay found in ancient cultures. A gesture of unification, drawn of the collective unconscious.
Duration: 10 min.

CONCERT - MILLÉSIMES 2025

End-of-residency exhibition “Natuerlish 4”
Les Maisons Troglodytes de Forges, Dénézé sous-doué.
08/22/2025.

VOID SCULPTURE
27 X 17 X 16 cm. Tuffeau stone
End-of-residency exhibition “Natuerlish 4”.
Les Maisons Troglodytes de Forges, Dénézé sous-doué.
08/22/2025.

VITICULTURAL CONCERT FOR ELECTRIC GUITARS
End of the “Mirage de virage” residency

Les Maisons Troglodytes de Forges, Dénézé sous-doué. 08/17/2025

VOID STREET ART
Berlin

05/2025

DADA NACHTMatribal Gallery, Berlin
05/15/2025

Painting: Marco Scola

Photography : Galya Feierman.

MINI PIPE ORGAN ACTION
Sound performance at the opening of Alex and John Gailla's exhibition, “Kreuzigung”, St Thomas Kirche, Berlin.
05/14/2025

Photography : Galya Feierman.

VOID STREET ART
Marseille
05/2025

ATELIER VOIDWith Jackson Dickstein, within the exhibition «Espaces hybrides»,
Le Hangar Belle de Mai, Marseille.
27/04/2025.

ATELIER DE PERFORMANCE SONORE
Calanque de Sormiou, Marseille.
With students from the Evangelische Hochschule Berlin.
Claudia Rudolph's class.
05/03/2025.

Let’s imagine that this boat launching ramp is an instrument...
A sound performance workshop based on Armand Gatti's book “La mer du troisième jour” (The Sea on the Third Day) and the contemporary music
salon “Le Domaine Musical,” initiated by Pierre Boulez and Suzanne Tézenas in Paris in the 1950th.

WEIGHTLESSNESS - CONCERT BZZB
La Roseraie, Swimming pool, Angers.
10/31/2024

ANATOMS SONORES
Museums Nacht Köln.
« Natürlich #3 », Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne.
1/11/2024

CONCERT EN ANAEROBIE - MILLÉSIMES 2024
10/2024

INSTALLATION SONORE - CUVÉE MARIE-LOUISE European world heritage days
Troglodytes & Sarcophages, Doué en Anjou.
09/2024

SOUND INSTALLATION - CUVÉE MARIE-LOUISE
Exhibition “NATUERLISH #3”
Complexo Cultural da Levada & résidency at Casalinho, Tomar, Portugal.
09/2024

ANATOMS SONORES
Made Anywhere
Fondation Fiminco, Romainville.
09/6- 09/08 /2023

SOUND PERFORMANCE - SLEEPING ODYSSEY
Carte blanche #1 to Nicolas Puyjalon
20 years anniversary of the BBB art center, Toulouse.
04/20/2024

Photo: Emilie Franceschin

READ LIPS
On ne se perd pas de vue ....Jean Dupuis
Exhibition “Rouge à lèvres” (Lipstick)
SECONDARY RESIDENCE
Private contemporary art gallery.
Jacques Halbert & Cindy Draguet Candes-Saint-Martin.

MULTIPLE ART DAYS
Fondation Fiminco, Romainville.
09/8-10/2023

SLEEPING ODYSSEY & BZZB CONCERT

NEUZUSAMMENSETZUNG & SOUND PERFORMANCE - DDR-DPRK TRÄGHEIT

Exhibition UTOPIA PEACE?! A STORY OF WAR AND PEACE BY KOREAN AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
Kunstraum Potsdam.
07/23-08/27-2023

STRANGE MUSIC DAY 2023
Performunion (with Philip Kevin Brehse, Lars Crosby & Zabo Chabiland).
Invited by Patrick Grant
08/24/2023

Concert #1 - Parc du chateaux de la Guerche, Savennière
07/01/2023

ATELIER VOID
OMME #4 (APte)
Residency, exhibition and Void workshop.
Chapelle Saint Jacques de Clohars Carnoët.
With Karine Bonneval, Laurent Jacob and Diego Tempanelli.
04/2023

©Karine Bonneval

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SOUND PERFORMANCE - OPUS DES FALUNS
European heritage days 2022
Troglodytes & Sarcophages, Doué en Anjou.

SHOW AND TELL N.Y. 1980th ART
Ephemera and personal stories from the collection of Mark Sink.
Dateline Gallery, Denver.
09/2021

ANATOM VII
Auction “Boundless Space the possibilities of Burning Man”
Sotheby’s New York.
10/8/2021

www.sothebys.com

RESIDENCY & EXHIBITION
VIDEO - POINT NADIR & SOUND PERFORMANCE - FORCE 7
OMME #2 (APte)
Chapelle Saint Jacques, Clohars Carnoët.
With Benxamin Alvarez, Xéco Mercé and Didier Le Tallec.
04/2021

LP WATEWAH- SLEEPING ODYSSEY
Grautag records.
Motto Berlin.

SOUND PERFORMANCES - SLEEPING ODYSSEY & DRD- PRK TRÄGHEIT
Jeune Création 69E édition / Performances night / Identités Plurielles
Silencio Club, Paris.
12/2019

EXHIBITION MMXIX EL RAPTE D’EUROPA & SOUND PERFORMANCE “EL RAPTO DE LOS SUENOS DE EUROPA”
10/2019

WOLSODONAILS (wasteband)
With Pauline Payen and Kevin Morrison,
Festival Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
04/2018

SLEEPING ODYSSEY
Noiselab, Teufelsberg, Berlin.
05/2018

PIANO STRIPES FOR 36 HANDS & SLEEPING ODYSSEY
Jeune Création (68em édition), Beaux-Arts de Paris.
05/2018

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PIANO STRIPES FOR 36 HANDS
Mots Slow #5, Hand art publisher. Gr_und Berlin.
05/2018

PIANO STRIPES FOR 36 HANDS Festival Ungemütlich V
Willner Brauerei, Berlin. 10/2017

SLEEPING ODYSSEY
Hotel Kosmos by Nicolas Moulin
Hochparterre, Berlin.
11/2017

SOUND PERFORMANCE - ELBOW IN C & VIDEO - PIANO STRIKE
Blago bung #12
Emily Harvey Fondation, New-York.
10/2016

NOW WHAT? WASTEBAND
Residency + Exhibition + “Nothing else mattress” performance
Ida Shmid Project space
Brooklyn, N.Y.
2016

KIOSK #82
With Kevin Morrison
An edition by Clémentine Roy

SOUND PERFORMANCE - ELBOW IN C Multiple Art Days #1
Invited by Hand-Art publisher
La Maison Rouge, Paris.
06/14/2015

NOTHING ELSE MATTRESS
With Nicolas Puyjalon
Month of performance 2015, Berlin.
05/16/2015

©yanita mircheva

PIANO STRIKE VIDEO & VOIDING PERFORMANCE
Exhibit! Glogauair Berlin
05/2015

CORPS EN SUSPENS
Die Sünde der Wissenschaft,
500th anniversairy of the year of birth of Andreas Vesalius
Bibliothèque Universitaire de Bâle.
02/28-05/31 /2014

PIANO STRIKE VIDEO
Blago bung #12
Emily Harvey Foundation
New-York. 04/17/2013

PERFORMANCES SONORES EN

Piano stripes for 36 hands Nothing else mattress Piano Strike Cuvée Marie-Louise Piano Phare BZZB WSTBND

Sleeping odyssey Elbow in C DDR-DPRK Trägheit Funkspeil Opus des Faluns HBATF Force 7 Point Nadir Arts visuels

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© Zabo Chabiland 2026

Piano stripes for 36 hands
Nothing else mattress
Piano Strike
Cuvée Marie-Louise
Piano Phare
BZZB
WSTBND

Sleeping odyssey
Elbow in C
DDR-DPRK Trägheit
Funkspeil
Opus des Faluns
HBATF
Force 7
Point Nadir

Arts visuels

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