Hans Peter Kuhn

Hans Peter Kuhn (* 1952 in Kiel ) is a German sound artist and composer .

He was sound engineer at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin from 1975 to 1979. Since 1979 he has been making theater music and sound environments for Robert Wilson , Peter Zadek, Claus Peymann, Luc Bondy and Liz LeCompte ( Wooster Group ). He has been responsible for sound performances and sound installations outside the theater since 1982. Since 1987 , light has often been an integral part of the installations, and increasingly only light installations . Hans Peter Kuhn has been making ballet music for Dana Reitz, Steve Paxton, Laurie Booth, Suzushi Hanayagi, Sasha Waltz , Junko Wada since 1989 and has been a visiting professor at the Master’s degree in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the University of the Arts in Berlin since 2012. He directs the Section "Sound Art".

In 1993 he was awarded the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, together with Robert Wilson , for the installation Memory Loss.

Works (selection)

Theater - together with Robert Wilson

• "Death, Destruction & Detroit" (1979 Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer Berlin)
• "The Golden Windows" Kammerspiele Munich (1982 Kammerspiele Munich)
• "the CIVIL warS" (1982–85 Rotterdam, Cologne, Tokyo, Marseille, Rome, Cambridge MA.)
• "The Golden Windows" (1985 Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York)
• "Death, Destruction & Detroit II" (1987 Schaubühne Am Lehniner Platz Berlin)
• "Le Martyre de Saint Sebastian" (1988 Opera de Paris, Metropolitan Opera New York)
• "Orlando" (1989 Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin)
• "Dr.Faustus Lights the Lights" (1992 Hebbeltheater Berlin)
• "Hamlet" (1995 Alley Theater Houston, TX)
• "Saints And Singing - An Operetta" (1997 Hebbel Theater Berlin)

Theater - other

• "robert walser micrograms the small world theater" (director: Christian Bertram, 2005 rehearsal stage Cuvrystraße, Berlin)

Installations works in galleries and museums, including the Museum of Fine Art Boston, Center Pompidou Paris, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston , Houston , Texas ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, PS1 Museum New York, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Felix-Nussbaum-Museum Osnabrück, Society for Contemporary Art Bremen, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Kobe (JP), Brandts Kunsthallen Odense (DK) , Irish Museum of Modern Art , Venice Biennale 1993

in public spaces: "Lichterfeld F 60" (2003 Lichterfeld, Brandenburg, permanent), "Five Floors" (1992 Angel Square London, comm. Artangel London), "The Pier" (1996 Pier 32, New York), "LICHT "(1999 World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, Saarland - permanent)," Marzahn - seen in the light ... "(1999 20th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin district of Marzahn)," Klangremise "(2001, Federal Garden Show Potsdam)," Heiersturm "(2003 Heiersturm Paderborn , permanent), "?" (2006 Liverpool Biennial)

Web links

• Official website
• Light and sound installation Lichterfeld F 60
• World premiere of "robert walser micrograms"