OUT OF SILENCE
April 29, 2026 – June 21, 2026
a sound installation by Hans Rosenström
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.
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.”
Directions to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park
Read the lyrics for Out of Silence
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.
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy is proud to present Out of Silence along with our partner, the New York State Office of Park, Recreation & Historic Preservation.
Out of Silence image: Hans Rosenström
Photo of Hans Rosenström: Alina Girshovich