Art
Seam, voice, and cartilage is an installation and performance by Toni Brell in which ceramic sculptures materials meet, rub, and strain. Using horn instruments and voice, the performance treats sound as pressure and vibration – moving through bodies and materials – unfolding between concert, ceremony, and experiment. The performance is developed in collaboration with Toni Steffens.
Toni Brell works at the intersection of installation, performance, and sound. Their practice begins from a heightened sensitivity to touch and listening, exploring how sensory experience shapes emotional and relational states. Drawing from ASMR and Foley practices, Brell crafts soundproducing objects and ceramic instruments that invite activation through touch, gesture, and shared attention. By treating instruments as extensions of the body rather than musical tools, Brell explores how sound production can subvert traditional hierarchies of composition and participation. Recent exhibitions and performances include Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Kunstcentrum De Ploeg, NEVERNEVERLAND, and Fries Museum. Brell lives and works in Amsterdam.
Relationscapes: Encounters is an exhibition featuring six international performance artists reflecting on the theme of borders. Borders are contradictory; they protect and exclude, they reveal and conceal, they are physical and psychological, visible and invisible. Relationscapes: Encounters explores both the porosity and fluidity of these borders. A variety of themes such as chronic online presence, war trauma, power structures versus non-hierarchical systems and liminal beings are being investigated. The exhibition features installations, video, and live performances by Finn Adrian Jorkjen, Toni Brell, Karolina Rupp, Maja Zećo, Greig Burgoyne and Lola Bezemer.
