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   (官网资料)