Timo Kahlen Projects

Nominated for the German national Sound Art Prize 2006



Sound sculpture  Media Dirt, 2004  / Proposal for installation Diodenzwitschern, 2006





Intermedia (Introduction)


"It‘s a paradox. In the dirty twittering,
gurgling, hissing, roaring, growling, whistling, thundering,
humming, droning, grinding, snapping, rustling and crackling
noises we discover unexpected beauty...”

Sound sculptor and media artist Timo Kahlen (* 1966)
has been creating subtle, intriguing, eye- and earcatching,
temporary media sculptures and sound installations
for more than 25 years.

Presenting challenges to our imagination and perception,
and nominated for the German national Sound Art Prize 2006,
Kahlen has enriched contemporary art with surprising concepts
and has chosen to work with new, often unusual,
transient and ‘immaterial‘ media: with wind and vapor,
light and shade, with radiation, ephemeral noise and sound.

In 2010, Timo Kahlen’s work is supported by a
scholarship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn.



Biography

Born in Berlin in 1966. Studies at the Hochschule der
Kuenste Berlin with Prof. Dieter Appelt from 1985 - 1994.
Since 1985 assistant work for the Ruine der Kuenste Berlin.
Master of Arts / Meisterschueler der Hochschule der Kuenste
Berlin in 1993. Lectureship on Visual Media / Video Art
at the art departments of the Humboldt-Universitaet and
the Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin from 1993 to 1998.
Showcased at Prize for Young European Photographers 1989.
Nominated for the Kahnweiler-Prize for Sculpture 2001.
Nominated for the German national Sound Art Prize 2006
(Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis). Invitations to Manifesta 7 / Italy 2008
Tonspur expanded: The Loudspeaker, Vienna 2010,
The Unknown: Mediations Biennale, Poznan 2012 and
Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of the Arts, ZKM Karlsruhe 2012.
More than 120 solo and group exhibitions.



Scholarships and Residencies: 1990 - 91 European Scholarship
for Fine Arts (Pépinières), Paris. 1993 - 95 Scholarship of the
Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft Berlin. 1994 Artist in Residence
Programme, DC Arts Center, Washington DC. 1997 Scholarship
for Fine Arts and Photography of the Berlin Senate
(Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und
Kultur Berlin). 2001 International Artist in Residence
Programme, Guernsey (GB). 2007 Temporary Artist Consultancy,
Gandhi Multimedia Art Museum, New Delhi.
Scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn 2010.



Catalogues: Art(s) d'Europe: Emerging Artists in Europe Today
Pépinières Européennes / Goethe-Institut Paris (1994), Stipendiaten der
Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft 1993-95 KHG Berlin (1995), Zeitskulptur:
Volumen als Ereignis Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie Linz (1997),
Projekt SOMA SOMA Projektgalerie Berlin (1998), Licht.Zeit.Klang.Raum
Schwartzsche Villa / Kulturamt Steglitz, Berlin (2000),
Timo Kahlen GFCE Art and Design / the gallery, Guernsey (2001),
International Symposion on Electronic Arts ISEA 2004 / Wireless Experience
Kiasma / Helsinki (2004), Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis 2006
Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl / WDR 3 (2006),
Manifesta 7 / Italy (2008), Tonspur expanded: Der Lautsprecher (2010),
Timo Kahlen: Noise & Beauty (2010),
Sound Art : Sound as a Medium of the Arts, ZKM Karlsruhe (2012)

Timo Kahlen: Noise & Beauty
25 years of media art. 104 pages / ca. 160 images.
English / German. Texts by Werner Ennokeit and Leon Zwart.
Edition Ruine der Kuenste Berlin, 2010

Collections: ZKM Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe /
Cornell University, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Ithaca NY /
Fotografische Sammlung DZ Bank, Frankfurt / Optische Werke Schneider-Kreuznach /
Galerie Voges, Frankfurt / Deutsche Leasing AG / Gallery Dieci.Due!, Milano /
Galerie Pankow, Berlin /Ruine der Kuenste Berlin / Wolf Kahlen Museum, Bernau /
Sammlung Kuenstlerfoerderung Berlin / International Artist in Residence Programme,
the gallery, Guernsey /   Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl /
Gandhi Multimedia Museum, New Delhi / Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam /
various private collections




News:


Timo Kahlen at
"Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst", ZKM Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe 16.3.2012 - 6.1.2013
"The Unknown", MEDIATIONS BIENNALE, Poznan / Poland 14.9. - 14.10.2012
"Experiments in Cinema", University of New Mexico / USA, 16.4. - 22.4.2012
"Directors Lounge", Berlin 9.2. - 19.2.2012
"Roaming", Arte.Mov Circuit, Rio de Janeiro / Brasil 2012
"La Révolte des Choses", MIM & More Gallery, Berlin 10.1. - 26.2.2012
"Das Eigene in der Fotografie", Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 2.11. - 21.12.2012
"Bits & Pieces", The Radius, Chicago 3.12. - 15.12.2011
Contribution to the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 2011
"Rúido de Fronteira", Eletronika/Arte.Mov Festival, Belo Horizonte/ Brasil 12.11.- 27.11.2011
Contribution to the ZKM collection, Karlsruhe 2011
"Gewitter" at Luftmuseum Amberg, Reopening 12.11.2011
"TONSPUR_expanded: Der Lautsprecher", Freiraum Quartier21, Vienna 10.12.2010 - 20.2.2011
Five interactive sound works: "Audio Dust" / "Signal-To-Noise" / "From Scratch" /
"Carpe Diem" and "Undo / Delete" at http://www.staubrauschen.de
"Salon de Arte Digital", Maracaibo / Venezuela 10.10. - 22.10.2011
"Hear To Stay", De Maan, Mechelen / Belgium 23.6. - 3.7.2011
"Listen Here. Anghelos 7'58" at "Ermocolle", Castello Di Torrechiara, Langhirano / Italy 6.8. - 21.8.2011
"1 Quadrat Energie", Wolf Kahlen Intermedia Arts Museum, Bernau 6.11.2011
"Timo Kahlen: Windwechsel", Luftmuseum Amberg 16.10.2010 - 23.1.2011
"An Exchange with Sol LeWitt", MASS MoCA, Massachusetts and Cabinet, New York 20.1.- 31.3.2011
"LUFTKUNST", Zeppelin-Museum, Friedrichshafen 4.2. - 1.5.2011
"SNO70", Sydney Non Objective Contemporary Arts Space, Sydney, Australia 7.5. - 29.5.2011
"Timo Kahlen: Noise & Beauty", Stiftung Starke, Löwenpalais, Berlin 16.9. - 25.9.2010
"SIGHT.SOUND (INTERACTION) 5", Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore / USA 1.11. - 18.11.2010
"Sguardi Sonori: Infinite Spaces", Museo Astronomico / della Civiltà, Rome 9.10.- 30.10.2010
"Pixxelpoint 11th International Media Art Festival", Nova Gorica, Slowenia 3.12. - 10.12.2010
"Media-Scape Zagreb 2010" (The Year We Make Contact), Zagreb, Croatia 8.10. - 29.10.2010
"Erased Walls", Mediations Biennale Poznan at Concent Art Berlin 7.10. - 30.10.2010
"Büro für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum / BBK", Art Forum Berlin 7.10.-10.10.2010
"Reality Now", Concent Art Berlin 22.1. - 18.2.2010
"SoundLAB VII: Timo Kahlen", New Media Art Project Network , 1.9. - 31.12.2010
"Netart Features 2010: Timo Kahlen", Javamuseum (see http://2010.javamuseum.org/?page_id=254), 4.2. - 31.12.2010

and

"60x60" Project, Vox Novus, New York ("2009 International Mix": Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco / Loop Videoart Festival, Barcelona / University of Wisconsin Green Bay / Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois / Centennial Theatre, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, Goodwell, Oklahoma / Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois / Wallstreet, Columbus, Ohio / Kentucky New Musi Festival, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky / University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland / Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Kansas City, Kansas / New Music Circle at Mad Art, StLouis, Missouri / Lemoyne Owen College, Memphis, Tennessee / New Music Juke Joint, Mississippi / Central Michigan University, Michigan / University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, California / Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, California / Full Moon Concerts, San Francisco / World Financial Center at Winter Garden Atrium, New York / eArts, Mansfield University, Mansfield, Pennsylvania / Sonic Art Oxford, Oxford Brookes University, England ...), 1.1. - 31.12.2010

and

“60x60” Project, Vox Novus, New York ("2010 Burgundy Mix": Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, The Stage Stanford, California / International Computer Music Conference, Stony Brook University, New York / Electronic Music Foundation, NYC / Univ of Wisconsin Richland Campus, Richland, Wisconsin / Carrboro, North Carolina / Composer Concordance Parkside Lounge, New York / Mercer Island, Washington, EMM Festival, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois / Outpost 186, Cambridge, Massachusetts / Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK / Sao Paulo, Brasilien / City University in London, London / Wfestival Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden / Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas / Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Lewis University, Kansas / Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Leipzig ...), 1.1. - 31.12.2010

Timo Kahlen. Wörlitzer Bahnhof, Dessau 1999
Abandoned railroad track, re-polished.
Temporary intervention at the former
Wörlitzer Bahnhof in Dessau

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