The avant-garde electronic music pioneers will perform live on eight consecutive evenings, from April 10 through 17, in the Museum of Modern Art, that will present its first time-based artist retrospective. Each evening will consist of a live performance of works from one of the group's eight albums, created over four decades, followed by a selection of original compositions, to showcase both Kraftwerk's historical contributions and contemporary influences on sound and image culture.

Chief curator at Large at MoMA, Mr. Biesenbach, says that "through their experimentation with how images and sound are shaped by the latest recording and visualization tools, they have continuously anticipated the impact of technology on everyday life, and have captured the human condition in an era of rapidly changing mobility and telecommunication. In Kraftwerk's practice, all of the components -melodic music and ambient sound, elaborate stage sets, live performance and performance by robots, their trademark videos and logo-like still imagery, all conceived and realized by the artists themselves -coalesce as one work of art".

Their "electro sound paintings" will convulse us again. The first synthetic retrospective to present simultaneously and in one location the complex layers of music, sound, videos, sets and performance as a total work of art... will demolish MoMA! 

All images courtesy of Sprueth Magers, Berlin and London. © Kraftwerk

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