Else Marie Pade – Partitur

Else Marie Pade, 1962. Foto: Unbekannt.

Partitur is the first international exhibition dedicated to Danish composer and sound artist Else Marie Pade (b. 1924 – † 2016, DK), a path-maker of musique concrète and European electronic music. Over a career spanning multiple decades, Pade approached sound as a visual medium of intensities, multitudes, and dissonance. Her works carry listeners through fairy tales, cityscapes, and nightmares, with scores that capture notation, process, and life’s cacophonous narrative spaces.

With Pade’s seminal musical arrangements and works on paper as its point of departure, Partitur traces the composer’s artistic trajectory beginning in the 1950s. The exhibition unfolds as an immersive listening space, shaped by the spatial structures of her scores and the language she reimagined for electronic composition. It is accompanied by a live program that engages with, and extends on Pade’s legacy, featuring Berlin-based sound artists and contemporary discourse on music, collectivity, and the heritage of women artists in electronic music.

Curator: Sofie Krogh Christensen

Made possible by the New Carlsberg Foundation

Runtime: Sat, 21/02/2026 to Sun, 10/05/2026

Price info: Berlin Welcome Card holders 6,00 €

Tickets can only be purchased on site and with card payment.

Price: €10.00

Reduced price: €6.00

Reduced price info: Berlin Welcome Card holders 4,50 €

Free admission to visitors up to and including 18, Friends of KW and Berlin Biennale, and KW Lover* cardholders, Berechtigungsnachweis holders (former berlinpass), Recipients of ALG II, students of Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and Universität der Künste Berlin, ICOM Members and Museumsbund Members

Takes place here:

• KW - Institute for Contemporary Art