Heiner Goebbels | Landscape Plays

In his first solo exhibition in India, Frankfurt-based artist Heiner Goebbels combines the two media of sound and video installation in a new format. The title itself plays on the current proximity between contemporary performing arts and visual art, a phenomenon characteristic of Heiner Goebbels' internationally acclaimed music theatre pieces.

The Mumbai installation consists of the following works, 7 Columns and The Last Painting, Landscape 3, Stifters Dinge / Stifter's Things – together these works question collective memory, human-nonhuman tensions, and human-technology relations. Heiner Goebbels has also premiered a new work in this exhibition titled ‘Eagles’. Shot in Mumbai in 2025, this work offers a anachronical conversation about time against the historical photos of Bombay from the museum’s collection. Heiner Goebbels (b. 1952, lives in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin) is amongst the most important exponents of the contemporary music and theatre scene. His compositions for ensembles and big orchestras published by Ricordi Berlin are performed worldwide along with several of his music theatre works and staged concerts. 

He has created internationally celebrated compositions for ensemble and large orchestras (Surrogate Cities, A House Of Call), music-theatre pieces (Max Black, Eraritjaritjaka), staged concerts (Songs of Wars I have Seen), radio plays, sound and video installations (Documenta, Centre Pompidou, Museo da Arte Bogota, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, MMCA Seoul - among others).

Curatorial Advisor:  Tasneem Zakaria Mehta is an art historian, curator, designer, and cultural activist. She is the Managing Trustee and Honorary Director of Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, and former Vice Chairman of INTACH. Ms. Mehta is a Vice President of the International Council of the MoMA, New York.