OUT OF SILENCE
April 29, 2026 – June 21, 2026
a sound installation
Artist: Hans Rosenström
Curator: Alina Girshovich
Recorded vocals: Vox Clamantis
The sound installation Out of Silence opens at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park on April 29, 2026 and runs through June 21, 2026.
Tickets are now available to the opening reception fundraiser on April 28.
The piece lasts approximately 15 minutes and can be experienced on the hour, starting at 10:00 AM and ending with a 6:00 PM presentation, every day except for Tuesday when the Park is closed.
Out of Silence was created by the Finnish interdisciplinary artist Hans Rosenström, in collaboration with the Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis, and curated by Alina Girshovich. Its composition was inspired by the music of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and the architecture of Louis Kahn.
In The Architect’s Newspaper, Mariana Martinez-Pazzi writes, “When the 15 minutes end, the park looks exactly the same. But the silence it holds will feel different, deeper, newly earned. Kahn built a space for silence; Rosenström has given that silence a voice. In a city that rarely asks anyone to stop and listen, Out of Silence suggests that the most radical thing an artist can do inside a work of architecture is not add to it but reveal what was already there.”
Rosenström told AN, “The openness of Louis Kahn’s FDR Four Freedoms State Park is intriguing; its architectural elements both give space to our presence and guide our perception, drawing us simultaneously into ourselves and outward toward the surrounding landscape. In this way, it resembles how I understand sound as something that maps our sense of the space we inhabit, where we are both at the center of the experience yet continuously shaped by the surrounding environment, always in relation to what lies beyond us.”
About Hans Rosenström
Hans Rosenström (born 1978, Lohja, Finland; currently based in Stockholm, Sweden) studied at both the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden, and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. Rosenström is most well-known for his site-specific sound installations that are carefully produced in relationship to the sites where they are experienced. Utilizing a variety of different mediums—from the ephemeral yet tactile qualities of sound, the intricacies of language, to architectural constructions and light—he aims to build sensitive and nuanced environments that often invite viewers to become part of the work, to feel their presence, and to pay attention and reflect upon their interconnectedness with the world around them.
Rosenström has participated in multiple group exhibitions including: Shelter, 3rd Helsinki Biennial, Helsinki, Finland (2025); Frieze Sculpture, Regent’s Park, London, UK (2023); Landscapes of Belonging, Kindl Contemporary Art Center, Berlin, Germany (2022); North Atlantic Triennial: Down North, PMA Portland Museum of Art, USA (2022), and Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga (2018). His recent solo exhibitions include: Broken Chord, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway (2025); Gradually, then suddenly, Helsinki Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland (2025); and Evanesce, Kohta, Helsinki, Finland (2022).
Rosenström’s works can be seen in several collections, including Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York; Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; and EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art. In 2020 Rosenström was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Media Art.
About Alina Girshovich
Alina Girshovich is an independent curator and cultural advisor originally from Latvia, based in New York. Her curatorial practice includes site-specific installations with a focus of bringing the experience of contemporary art to audiences in unexpected spaces. With a background in music and an interest in architecture, her work frequently explores the intersection of space and time-based media, particularly sound. Previous projects in New York include It’s Complicated, Is Possibly Art at 1014, and Assembly Required, a multi-site experience in Gowanus. She holds a degree in Art History from Columbia University, where she previously managed an arts engagement program, and is a CPR (Curatorial Program for Research) advisory board member. She has also worked as an editor and writer, and has contributed to publications and artist monographs.
About Vox Clamantis
Formed in 1996, ensemble Vox Clamantis comprises a diversity of musicians – singers, composers, instrumentalists, and conductors – who have a common interest in Gregorian chant. Alongside Gregorian chant, considered to be the foundation of all European music, Vox Clamantis often performs early polyphony and contemporary music. Vox Clamantis has performed with Catalan soprano Arianna Savall, French pianist Jean-Claude Pennetier, Italian nyckelharpa player Marco Ambrosini, Israeli oud player Yair Dalal, Tunisian singer Dhafer Youssef, the cello octet Amsterdam, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. They have collaborated with American composer, Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang, who has written pieces specifically for the choir. In 2017, Vox Clamantis received the National Culture Award of the Republic of Estonia. In 2025, under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, the choir collaborated with Robert Wilson on his installation “Mother.”
Out of Silence is generously supported by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation; the Ministry of Culture of Estonia; Saastamoinen Foundation; The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland; the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York (FCINY); and the Consulate General of Finland in New York.
Out of Silence image: Hans Rosenström
Photo of Hans Rosenström: Alina Girshovich