Marek Brandt

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Marek Brandt (born August 7, 1970 in Berlin ) is a German artist in the field of photography , sound and media art .

biography

Marek Brandt grew up in Berlin, after completing his apprenticeship as a typesetter, Marek Brandt studied artistic photography at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art with Timm Rautert from 1995 to 2002 . In 2000 he went to the UK and studied Time based Arts at Duncan Jordanstone College for Art and Design in Dundee . From 2006 to 2008 at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, in the field of media art as a master student with Joachim Blank . Marek Brandt has lived and worked mainly in Leipzig since 2001 .

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Marek Brandt works with different media, including photographs, sound installations, music publications, video installations and films. Since the beginning of his artistic work, photography has been his main means of expression. During his studies at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, an expansion of his work to video works and sound and sound installations crystallized more and more. Especially in the video and performance works, the connections between acoustic and visual art are shown again and again. Since 1999 he has been experimenting with electronic sounds under the name triPhaze , often in conjunction with other musicians and with visual support. In 2000 he founded the music label Privatelektro . From 2004 Brandt realized the performance and sound art project Music for Animals, which includes performances and compositions of sound worlds for animals in their habitat. In 2005 he was a founding member of the Laptop Orchestra Berlin . In 2009 he played on the facade of Leipzig Central Station as part of the Leipzig Festival of Lights with video, light and a sound composition. In June 2011 Marek Brandt realized a light and video projection on the facade of the Wawel in Krakow , Poland. In 2012 he recorded the facade of the Thomaskirche (Leipzig) with Jürgen Meier, with a sound and video work called Hofpause, for the 800th anniversary of the Thomanerchor . In 2014 his collected film recordings of the Music for Animals were shown in the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken . In 2020, together with the audiovisual project Radiolux, he recorded the facades of the Römerberg in Frankfurt am Main as part of the Luminale , the performance had to be canceled shortly before the opening due to the restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

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literature

  • Corridor , exhibition catalog, view, view, insight, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, April 2, 2000 - May 28, 2000, edition of 500 copies
  • Shrinking Cities , Volume 1, International Investigation, edited by Philipp Oswalt, ISBN 3-7757-1481-2 , Hatje Cantz Verlag, page 399
  • Animal Music, Sound and Song in the Natural World , Edited by Tobias Fischer; Lara Cory, ISBN 978-1-907222-34-4 , Strange Attractor, London, UK, An ideal audience: The work of Marek Brandt & David Teie, page 131
  • Music and Translation: New Meditations in the Digital Age , Lucile Desblache, ISBN 978-1-137-54965-5 , Palgrave Macmillan, UK, pp. 362, 367
  • Animal Encounters: Contact, Interaction and Relationality , Alexandra Böhm / Jessica Ullrich, editors, ISBN 978-3-476-04939-1 , JB Metzler, Stuttgart, 2019, pages 391-394

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fauna Musik , Kreuzer-leipzig, accessed on December 2, 2016
  2. ^ Music for animals , Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, accessed on December 2, 2016
  3. ^ Marek Brandt: Music for Animals , exhibition catalog: Music for Animals, Saarbrücken, accessed on September 9, 2018
  4. ↑ Transformed City Dreams - Luminale 2020 - Frankfurt Main, Germany (Rehearsal) , Youtube video, accessed on July 2, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Marek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES triPhaze (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin