The Silent Room, located directly above the painting storage area, is the first room accessible to museum visitors during opening hours. Precisely at the center of the room is the “H-Hole” drilled through the floor. The vertical hole in the floor has a diameter of 20 cm. As one approaches the center, the floor becomes soft and uneven, sensitizing the viewer to this spatial zone and allowing the presence of the work to be felt more intensely.

If one tries to look through the hole in the floor of the StilleRaum into the SchatzRaum, the symbol of the “HMap” placed in the SchatzRaum shines with a special brilliance and highlights the energy center of the work and the museum.

A circular, transparent acrylic basin, installed within the slightly raised floor directly above the “H-Hole,” draws attention to a specific content of the work in the Silence Room. The floor of the basin is covered with water, which is gently set in motion by the approaching visitor and a rhythmically falling droplet. In the basin lies a “Rose of Jericho,” a symbol of rebirth and the eternity of life.

Reflections of the light figure are projected through the water onto the ceiling. This ceiling consists of a kind of dome of light containing a spiral-shaped figure. If the visitor stands almost in the center under the opening and begins to speak, they hear their own voice with increased intensity. The dome is flanked on both sides by neon tubes illuminated by black light, which further sensitizes the approaching visitor to the specific lighting situation of this location.

From the ceiling of the StilleRaum, drops of water drip into the basin at irregular intervals. Visitors moving to the center of the installation and observing the work are occasionally surprised by the drops falling into the basin, or occasionally onto their heads, and are led to the trail of the event’s origin, an explanation for something that shouldn’t actually be there.

A miniature video camera is installed in the ceiling of the room next to the “H-hole,” recording visitors in real time. The images captured here are transmitted to a video monitor located along with other monitors on the exhibition level above.

On the floor of the StilleRaum, in the immediate vicinity of the “HHole,” several footprints mark some of the work’s special locations. If the viewer stands on or near the footprints and looks up to the ceiling and through the hole there, they will discover various video images in the upper exhibition space, depending on their location, and—perhaps by chance—the face of another visitor.