Marc Behrens

Born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1970.
 
Marc Behrens works on several cerebral and physical levels.
 
His works mainly consist of concrete electronic music, installations, the occasional photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest, founding an incorporated company as a social art work, and staging a rite of passage for an investment banker.
 
Behrens has performed and exhibited extensively across six continents, and developed collaborations with Atom™, Jeremy Bernstein, Ana Carvalho, Bernhard Günter, Nikolaus Heyduck, Francisco López, Paulo Raposo, Achim Wollscheid, among others.
 
2006–2010 Marc Behrens was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken, Germany (HBKSaar), and 2007–2009 at the University of Applied Arts Darmstadt-Dieburg, Germany.
He is a member of the German Association for Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM), Granular (Lisbon), subscriber to the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), and a citizen of The Kingdoms of Elgaland~Vargaland. 2003–2007 he was co-director of the Portuguese music label Sirr.
 
Selected solo shows
2010 «Phonebox 9/12, Apparatus» IMO, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 «GGAAFFISEC» Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
2005 «Video Works» Space–Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2004 «Of Mouths and Explosions», Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, U.K.
2003 «Correnti Sonore», with Alessandro Fogar, Centro europeo di arte e cultura Luciano Ceschia, Tarcento/UD, Italy
2003 «Foto- und Videoarbeiten», with Stephen Fenton, Galerie Station/Mousonturm, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
2002 «tenyearsofart», Wacker Kunst Galerie, Mühltal, Germany
2001 MAMÜ Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
2000 «Tokyo Circle», Galerie t-u-b-e, Munich, Germany
1999 «Experiment in Scale», Kunst.verladehalle, Rüsselsheim, Germany
1999 «Keyholes», INM-Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
1994 «Objekte», with Ho. Turner, Galerie Gartners, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
1989 «Virgo», Kunstfabrik Arheilgen, Darmstadt, Germany
 
Selected group shows
2012 «God Factor», Mosteiro de Tibães, Braga, Portugal
2011 «Paivascapes #1», Binaural, along the Paiva river, Portugal
2010 «SoundArt 2010», Praetorium, Cologne, Germany
2010 «Deutscher Klangkunstpreis 2010», Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
2008 «The Third Guangzhou Triennial», Time Museum/Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2007 «Sleppet», Galleri 3_14, Bergen and Møllergata 13, Oslo, Norway
2006 «Weather in my Brain», eslite Gallery, Taipei and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2005 «Mülheimer Profile 2005», Kulturbunker Mülheim, Cologne, Germany
2005 «B!AS International Sound Art Exhibition», Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2004 «Observatori 2004», Museu de las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain
2003 «Electrograph», Athens Sound Media 03, Bios, Athens, Greece
2003 «Stazione di Topolò», Grimacco/UD, Italy
2002 performance with Achim Wollscheid, at «Frequenzen», Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
2001 «Sound in Art», Space–Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2000 «Erlanger Hörkunstfestival», Markgraphentheater, Erlangen, Germany
2000 «hEXPO – International Festival of Self-Organized Forms», Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000 «Hörgänge», Völksen, Germany
2000 «Sound Art – Sound as Media», ICC-InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
1998 «Stazione di Topolò», Grimacco/UD, Italy
1998 «Salon Vireal», INM-Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
1992 «Slaughterhouse», Wiesbaden, Germany
 
Residencies
2010 Binaural, Nodar, Portugal
2008 Mamori Artlab, Brazil
2008 Qinghai Province (Goethe-Institut China), China
2004 Hull Time-Based Arts, Hull, U.K.
2002 Lampo, Chicago, USA
1999–2000 INM-Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
 
Awards
2013 Atmosphären, ZKM | Institut für Musik und Akustik, Karlsruhe
2010 Production Award of WDR 3 Culture Radio (featured in German Sound Art Award 2010)
2009 nominated for Qwartz 6 Music Award (Anthologies category)
2006 «Broadcasting Art I» (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, MUSAC & Radio Nacional de España – Radio 3)
 
Selected publications
2013 Queendom Maybe Rise – CD/mp3/FLAC (Crónica/PT)
2013 Irregular Characters – CD/booklet (Serralves/SOOPA/PT)
2012 Unit/Cutting Qinghai – CD/book (and/OAR/USA)
2012 Final Final Ballet – 12&/mp3 (Entr’acte/U.K.)
2011 Apparatus – CDR (ΑΓΧΙΒΑΤΕΙΝ/GR)
2011 20 Zonen – CD (Auf Abwegen/D)
2009 Sleppet – CD/mp3/FLAC (Crónica/PT)
2009 A Narrow Angle – CD (Entr’acte/U.K.)
2009 Compilation Works 1996–2005 – mp3/m4a (Crónica/PT)
2007 Architectural Commentaries 4&5 – CD (Entr’acte/U.K.)
2007 Entity Mülheim – double DVD (Auf Abwegen/D)
2006 Hades, with Paulo Raposo – CD (and/OAR/USA)
2005 Kosovski Rekvijem-Requiem i Kosovës-Kosovo Requiem – 3″CDR (Oblast/USA)
2005 Plastic Metal, with Nikolaus Heyduck – double CD (Antifrost/GR)
2004 Further Consequences Of Reinterpretation, with Paulo Raposo – CD (Crónica/PT)
2004 Animistic (for Donatella) – CD (Auf Abwegen/D)
2004 A Szellem Álma, with Francisco López – double CD (.absolute.[koblenz]/D)
2003 Security vs. Freedom – double 3″CD (edition.../USA)
2002 Architectural Commentaries – CD (CMR/NZ)
2001 Elapsed Time – CD (intransitive/USA)
2001 Transition – double 3″CD (edition.../USA)
2001 Integração – CD (Sirr/PT)
1999 Contraction – CD (Digital Narcis/JP)
1998 Final Ballet – CD (Rastermusic/Noton/D)
1995 Advanced Environmental Control – CD (trente oiseaux/D)
 
Selected productions for radio
2013 «Progress» – Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst
2012 «Bauteile» (Atom™ & Marc Behrens) – Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst
2012 «Crowd» – WDR 3 open: Studio Akustische Kunst
2010 «20 Zonen» – HR2 Kultur, The Artist’s Corner
2009 «Bushdesertrainforest» – WDR 3 open: Studio Akustische Kunst
2008 «Sleppet/A Narrow Angle» – Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst
 
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