24/05/2025, 7:00 pm,

Keta Gavasheli in collaboration with Gregor Darman (Performance)

, Kunsthalle Münster

By exploring the theme of resonance, the third edition of ton not. not ton responds to an increasing alienation and counters this by offering meaningful experiences. The immediate physical experience, the encounter with textures and sounds as well as listening as a distinct sensory experience and perceptual ability allow a localization in the collectively shared space of the Kunsthalle.

Keta Gavasheli and Gregor Darman, two interdisciplinary artists working in the field of experimental / dance music, will present a live set as part of the exhibition that draws on various contrasting musical influences and processes them into a collage of voice, bass, harmony and disharmony.

The performance will explore failure and the search for one's own voice in a time of uncertainty and turbulence. Through cyclical melodic structures and fractured rhythmic constructs, the piece reflects mantra-like on the tension between persistence and collapse, how repetition can serve as both a means of reinforcement and a site of breakdown. Failure is embraced not as an end point, but as a generative force that reveals new possibilities within disruption. The music will navigate this fragile space, tracing the emergence of the voice from moments of instability, distortion and reconstruction.

Gregor Darman (born 1997) is a sound artist based in Düsseldorf. He studied art history at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Sound & Image at the Robert Schumann Hochschule (IMM – Institute for Music and Media). Darman is a co-founder of the record label candomblé and has been involved in various music projects such as Folie 2, LSW, and Phaser Boys. Since 2017, he has curated and performed at Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf, where he has been a resident DJ since 2021. Darman interweaves his ongoing research with a drive to showcase ‘important’ music as part of his artistic practice, working at the inter-section of pop and experimental music and presenting innovative sounds from the past and present as a form of expression.

Keta Gavasheli (born 1990) is an artist based in Düsseldorf. She studied architecture at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts before pursuing Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she completed her Meisterschülerin under Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in 2024. At the core of her work is an inquiry into seemingly impermeable boundaries. Through photography and film, she explores the dynamic relationship between vision and consciousness. As a resident of the Salon des Amateurs, Gavasheli has been performing regularly and curating events for the past two years, fostering collaborations with artists in the space. Her current explorations in sonic storytelling incorporate sound, voice, and both spoken and sung word. Through sound, language, and performance, Gavasheli looks at how bodies engage with their surroundings, considering presence—whether through voice, speech, or song—as an act of resistance and an embodied form of communication within socio-political contexts.