The World Softly Lulls
Transmissions
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I’m Anna Schübel, an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Munich and Berlin. My practice spans sound, sculpture, and spatial interventions.
I explore sound as a multifaceted artistic medium in relation to individual bodily perception and spatial experimentation. A key focus of my work is the development of immersive sonic environments to investigate how resonant spaces interact with architecture, technology, and the human body.
My work has been shown at, among others, the ERES Foundation in Munich, the Museum Brandhorst, the Lenbachhaus Munich, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, and Phileas Vienna.
Inflatables, sittable sound sculpture | Public space Nuremberg, Cultural Project Office City of Nuremberg | 2024
Sonic Fields is a site-specific installation inhabiting the interior of the air-supported structure by raumlabor Berlin. Transparent, island-like inflatables are distributed throughout the space and function as resonant bodies within an expansive multichannel sound scenography, set into vibration by a spatial composition that makes sound physically perceptible. Reflecting fragments of their surroundings, the installation transforms local sounds and field recordings into an immersive sonic landscape that explores possible acoustic realities, inviting visitors to engage in a playful collective experience.
TACKER | Galerie der Künstler*innen | 2025
Bow (Resonating Bodies) unfolds as an expansive spatial setting between sound, architecture, and the body. A site-specifically developed steel tube arch formally references the surrounding architecture and serves as a supporting structure for directional speakers that project sound into the space, creating acoustic islands and shifting reflections, while a walkable mirrored floor element integrates visitors through reflection and transmits low-frequency vibrations directly to their bodies.
Debütant*innen | ERES Foundation Munich | 2024
The World Softly Lulls is an immersive multichannel sound installation exploring the materiality of the Earth and the limits of human perception. Drawing on global seismological recordings, it transforms inaudible tectonic vibrations into sensorial sonic experiences through sonification. By recontextualizing scientific data/sonification, the work turns bodies into sensors and space into an instrument, rendering deep time audible in the present.
Performance | Site specific intervention | Dianatempel, Hofgarten Munich | 2024
Three Steps in Time explores perceptions of space and temporality at the intersection of sound art and electroacoustic musical interpretation. Field recordings and biological rhythms are transformed into an immersive multichannel sound and light installation presented at the Dianatempel in Munich’s Hofgarten, accompanied by a live performance. Using geophones embedded in the ground and hydrophones placed in nearby fountains, the work transmits and processes environmental sounds in real time, merging different temporal layers through resonance and material transmission.
Concept, Composition, Performance: Anna Schübel | Cello: Clara Dietze | This project was funded by the Gerhard-Müller-Rischart Memorial Award of the Rotary Club Munich Bogenhausen in cooperation with Akademieverein Munich, NEUE WELTEN art award.
Concept, Composition, Performance: Anna Schübel | Cello: Clara Dietze | This project was funded by the Gerhard-Müller-Rischart Memorial Award of the Rotary Club Munich Bogenhausen in cooperation with Akademieverein Munich, NEUE WELTEN art award.
Concept, Composition, Performance: Anna Schübel, Performance + Cello: Clara Dietp
psen, NEUE WELTEN artpjufSite specific intervention | 2024 | Ongoing series
Transmissions uses existing architectural elements and site-specific sculptural objects as resonant surfaces. Integrated tactile transducers turn these objects into sound bodies that capture electromagnetic frequencies and make them audible through contact speakers. In this way, invisible surrounding signals become perceptible in their own musical qualities, transforming the space itself into a transmitter, resonator, and co-performer.
Site Visit, interweave
Museum Brandhorst Munich | Radio 80000 | 2022
Site Visit took place in March 2022 in the Patio, located in the basement of the Museum Brandhorst. The participating artists employed a range of media, from painting and sculpture to performance and electronic formats. In different ways, the works engaged with the institutional space as a model—either by incorporating and working with its architecture or by distancing themselves from it and creating points of friction. Text: Museum Brandhorst
Blitz Club Munich | 2023
Intimacy quarterly is a concert series with focus on experimental music.
Prinzregententheater Munich | Thalia Theater Hamburg | Körber Studio 2021
Regie / Konzept: Malena Große, Bühne / Kostüm: Lisa Rüger
Dramaturgie: Leonie Jasper
Musik / Performance: Anna Schübel
Regieassistenz: Carolin Peltz, Arabella Kappel
Ensemble: Oscar Bloch, Fabio Savoldelli, Sarah Zelt, Sebastian Degenhardt
Dramaturgie: Leonie Jasper
Musik / Performance: Anna Schübel
Regieassistenz: Carolin Peltz, Arabella Kappel
Ensemble: Oscar Bloch, Fabio Savoldelli, Sarah Zelt, Sebastian Degenhardt
Her diploma project The World Softly Lulls received the Diploma Award 2024 of the Akademieverein München. From 2019 to 2022, she was part of the DAF collective, which explores collective forms of sound research. As part of the group worldings/drift, she co-organized exhibitions and sound performances in Munich. She has been awarded a residency stipend at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2026/2027).
Awards / Scolarships
2025 Project funding, Stiftung Musikfonds e.V.
2025 Joint fellowship Le Pietricce, Pitigliano, IT
2025 Cité des Arts Paris 2026 fellowship
Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Arts
2024 Gerhard-Müller-Rischart Memorial Award,
of the Rotary Club Munich Bogenhausen,
NEUE WELTEN art award
2024 Diploma Award, Akademieverein MunichNEUE WELTEN art award
2022 Erasmus Plus Scholarship
2022 Project funding, City of Munich
2022 Project funding, Akademieverein Munich
2022 Catalogue funding, LfA Förderbank
2021 Stiftung Musikfonds e.V.
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Fenders, Musikfonds (2026, upcoming)
Neue Welten, BERGSON Gallery (upcoming-April 2026)
Smooth/Striated (2026) Funkhaus Berlin
TACKER (2025) Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich
Sediments (2025) Le Pietricce, Grosseto, IT
one step beyond, Debütant*innen (2024) ERES Foundation
Three Steps In Time (2024) Hofgarten, public space Munich
Zukunftsmusik (2024), with raumlabor Berlin, Nuremberg
The World Softly Lulls (2024), AdBK Munich
intimacy quarterly (2023) Blitz Club, Munich
Auditory traces (2023) Cashmere Radio, Berlin
dry run (2023) Heizhaus, Nuremberg
interweave (2022) Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Radio 80000
Soft Machine (2022) Phileas, Vienna, AT
Foto Wien (2022) Semperdepot, Vienna, AT
Techno bodies (2022) Lenbachhaus x Rote Sonne, Munich
Soft Kills (2022) galerie off galaxy, Vienna
Normalformat (2022) unsorted systems, Munich
drift, worldings (2022) KB1A, Munich
Sonic Sync, DAF (2021) Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,
DAF Sound Bar (2021) Floating University Berlin
Collaboratory (2021) Lenbachhaus, Munich
Sommergaben (2020) Artothek, Munich
Optikum (2019) Black Box Gasteig, Munich
Noch Ist Nicht Aller Tage Abend (2019) Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Prinzregententheater, Munich