Bernhard Leitner is considered to be a pioneer of the "sound installation" art form. Since the late 1960s he has been working in the field between architecture, sculpture and music, considering sound as an architectural element that allows space to emerge and investigating the relationship between sound, space and the body.
He has conducted fundamental scientific research by studying the frequency, volume, movement and combination of sound as it affects the body, mapping possible spatial configurations such as cubes, corridors, fields, pipes and exploring the effect of body posture on auditory perception.
"I hear better on my knees than on my calves" Bernhard Leitner's statement may seem absurd at first, but it can be understood as follows: sounds move in a space at different speeds, they rise and fall, resonating back and forth, transmitting a dynamic, ever-changing spatial body within the static confines of the architectural frame . Special spaces emerge, auditory spaces that cannot be fixed visually or observed from the outside and that the whole body can feel.

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