Oliver Beer's Resonance Project: The Cave opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki on 6 November 2026, running until 28 March 2027. The immersive video opera takes over the museum's top floor in its second iteration, following its premiere at the Biennale de Lyon in 2024, and marks the work's Nordic debut. Kiasma has given the whole of its top floor over to the installation.

Beer was granted special permission to film inside Font-de-Gaume, a cave in southwestern France renowned for its prehistoric paintings, some more than 15,000 years old. Inside the cave, eight singers from around the world each perform fragments of a song connected to their earliest musical memory. Lullabies, traditional songs and vodou melodies intertwine, with Rufus Wainwright, Woodkid, eee gee, Melissa Laveaux, Hamed Sinno, Jean-Christophe Brizard, Mo'Ju and Michiko Takahashi among the voices.

The installation pairs 16 audio channels with eight monumental video projections arranged throughout the gallery, recreating the atmosphere and acoustics of a cave that only a handful of people will ever enter. Singing a low F note inside Font-de-Gaume causes the cave itself to vibrate, amplifying the sound many times over, and Beer invited each singer to tune into that unique frequency.

The exhibition is curated by Patrik Nyberg and Anna Mustonen. It continues Beer's Resonance Project, a series he has developed since 2007 exploring the relationships between voice, architecture and inherited memory. His work has previously been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris.