Timo Kahlen

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Timo Kahlen (* 1966 in Berlin ) is a German media and sound artist from Berlin.

life and work

Timo Kahlen has been creating sound sculptures and sound installations , wind and light works as well as experimental net art, photo and video works for more than 25 years . His interdisciplinary and intermediary work on the limits of perception, especially with immaterial, ephemeral materials such as wind and steam, light and shadow, noise, vibration and sound, was nominated for the Prize for Young European Photographers (1989), the Kahnweiler Prize for Sculpture (2001), the German Sound Art Prize (2006), a working grant from the Art Fund Foundation (2010) and numerous other grants, including a. in Washington, Berlin, Paris and on Guernsey.

His work has been presented internationally in more than 140 exhibitions of contemporary media art since the mid-1980s, including Sound Art (ZKM Karlsruhe, 2012–2013), Mediations Biennale: The Unknown (Poznań 2012), Tonspur expanded: The Loudspeaker (Vienna, 2010– 2011), Noise & Beauty (Stiftung Starke Berlin 2010), 60 × 60 (New York 2010), Manifesta 7: Scenarios (Italy 2008), Sound Art: German Sound Art Prize 2006 (Sculpture Museum Marl, art cologne, Traumzeit Festival Duisburg ), Wireless Experience (Helsinki 2004), Time Sculpture: Volume as Event (Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie Linz 1997) and the solo exhibition Timo Kahlen: Working with Wind (1991) for the foundation of Kunst-Werke Berlin .

Timo Kahlen is a master student at the Berlin University of the Arts (1993) with Dieter Appelt . He lives and works in Berlin. He is the son of video artist Wolf Kahlen and has been supporting the work of the Ruine der Künste Berlin , a place for material and immaterial arts , since 1985 . From 1993 to 1998 Kahlen was given a teaching position at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Humboldt University in Berlin in the fields of visual media and video art.

Timo Kahlen is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Berlin.

Exhibitions

  • 1989: Timo Kahlen: First works , Ruin der Künste Berlin, Berlin
  • 1989: Prize for Young European Photographers , Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1991: Timo Kahlen: Working with Wind , Kunst-Werke Berlin
  • 1991: Objects in original size , Berlin University of the Arts
  • 1991: Photography as Object , Ghislave Gallery, Paris
  • 1991: The Ruin of the Arts Berlin , Kunsthalle Palazzo, Basel
  • 1992: German Association of Artists , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen
  • 1992: Art students exhibit , Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn
  • 1992: (over time) at the Bauhaus , Bauhaus Dessau , Dessau
  • 1993: Immaterialien , Voges + Deisen Gallery , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1994: Art (s) d'Europe: Emerging Artists in Europe Today , Goethe-Institut Paris
  • 1994: 3 Germany , DC Arts Center, Washington DC
  • 1995: Lichtstaub , Voges + Deisen Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1995: Leerraum , Ruin der Künste Berlin, Berlin
  • 1995: Scholarship holders of the Karl Hofer Society , Westend station, Berlin
  • 1997: Strömung , Soma project gallery, Berlin
  • 1997: Time Sculpture: Volume as Event , Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz
  • 2000: Liquid Light , gallery in the parking garage, Berlin
  • 2000: Light.Time.Sound.Room , Schwartzsche Villa , Berlin
  • 2001: Dust noise , Galerie Pankow, Berlin
  • 2001: Timo Kahlen , the gallery / International artist in residence program, Guernsey
  • 2002: Zewidewit Zizidäh , Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin
  • 2004: Wireless Experience , ISEA 2004 / Kiasma National Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
  • 2005: Media Dirt , Ruin der Künste Berlin, Berlin
  • 2006: 40jahrevideokunst.de - what's missing? , German Association of Artists, Berlin
  • 2006: German Sound Art Prize 2006 , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten, Marl
  • 2006: Timo Kahlen: Earcatcher , Ruin der Künste Berlin, Berlin
  • 2006: Sound Art: German Sound Art Prize, 40th Art Cologne , Cologne
  • 2007: Strictly Berlin , GDK Berlin
  • 2007: Sonic Image: Totally Huge New Music Festival , Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts , Perth / Australia
  • 2008: Sample # 1 , Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
  • 2008: Manifesta 7 Biennale, Franzensfeste (Fortezza) / Italy
  • 2009: naturasnaturans , Casello delle Polveri, Certosa, Venice
  • 2010: SIGHT.SOUND (INTERACTION) 5 , Maryland Institute College of Art , Baltimore
  • 2010: Tonspur_expanded: The loudspeaker , freiraum Quartier21 , Vienna
  • 2011: Air art , Zeppelin Museum , Friedrichshafen
  • 2011: An Exchange with Sol LeWitt , MASS MoCA, Massachusetts
  • 2011: Ruido de Fronteira: Eletronika Festival , Belo Horizonte / Brazil
  • 2012: Directors Lounge , Berlin
  • 2012: Mediations Biennale: The Unknown , Poznań / Poland
  • 2012: Sound Art , ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe
  • 2013: Media Art Histories: Renew , International Conference, Riga / Latvia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "K" / Timo Kahlen (accessed on September 4, 2015)
  2. ↑ klangkunstpreis.de: German Sound Art Award 2006 (nomination)
  3. ↑ manifesta7.it: Timo Kahlen - Swarm, 2008 Sound installation (accessed September 4, 2015)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kahlen, Timo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sound and media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin