Zimoun

Zimoun (* 1977 in Bern , Switzerland ) is a Swiss artist and lives in Bern. His works can be assigned to the fields of visual arts , especially installation and sound art . As building blocks for his works, Zimoun mostly uses elements and materials from everyday or industrial areas, such as fans, cardboard, motors, compressed air, cables, plastic bags or welding wire.

life and work

As an autodidact , Zimoun engaged in visual and acoustic activities such as music, composition, photography and painting from early childhood. Already at a young age he began to deal with minimalist, reductive approaches, principles and methods and to be interested in minimalism , as well as related and newly developed art forms. In an interview on Swiss Radio DRS 2 (“Zimoun - Architect for Noise and Sound” by Thomas Adank, Music of Our Time, 2011), Zimoun mentioned the American composer and artist John Cage as one of those artists whose work and thinking he was doing he was most concerned with his youth. In 2000 he received recognition at the Swiss Youth Photo Award. The first exhibitions followed, including in the Photoforum Pasquart Biel / Bienne and the Kunsthalle Bern , as well as various other awards and prizes, including the Aeschlimann-Corti scholarship (sponsorship prize 2005 and main prize 2009), the Kiefer Hablitzel prize at the Swiss Art Awards (2006), the New York Scholarship from the Office for Culture of the Canton of Bern (2007), the Sitemapping / Mediaprojects Award from the Federal Office for Culture (BAK) in 2008 or an Honorary Mention from the Prix Ars Electronica (2010).

Together with the graphic designer Marc Beekhuis, Zimoun founded the label Leerraum [] in 2003 as a platform and network for artists, architects, musicians and designers who deal with reductive principles. Since 2003, Leerraum [] has published more than 60 CDs, DVDs and objects by international artists under the direction of Zimoun.

Since 2002 Zimoun's work has been shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions, including a. at Art Basel ; at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Korea; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; Chinese National Art Museum ; Museum of Fine Arts Lugano; Ringling Museum of Art, Florida, Kunsthalle Bern ; Liechtenstein Art Museum ; Contemporary Art Museum MNAC Bucharest; Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo; Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt; Mannheim Art Association .

Performances and workshops led him a. a. to Transmediale, Berlin; Elektra Festival, Montreal; Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam; ISEA Singapore; Nuit Blanche, New York; State Gallery Stuttgart; Dissonanze Festival, Roma; Brown University, Providence; Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków; School of the Art Institute, Chicago; ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich.

He lives and works in Bern.

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Exhibitions (selection)

• Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Republic of Korea, 2018.
• Le Centquatre, Paris, France, 2017.
• Rå Hal Godsbanen, European Capital of Culture, Aarhus, Denmark, 2017.
• Museum Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy, 2016.
• Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016.
• Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago de Chile, 2016.
• BIAN Biennale, Montreal, Canada, 2016.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Thun, Switzerland, 2016.
• 21_21 Design Sight Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2015.
• Sound room, Minoritenkirche, Krems , Austria, 2015.
• Knockdown Center NYC, New York, USA, 2015.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Lugano, Switzerland, 2014.
• Beall Art Center, Los Angeles, USA, 2014.
• National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2014.
• Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany, 2014.
• Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France, 2013.
• Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, USA, 2013.
• Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013
• Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2012.
• Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, USA, 2013.
• Denise René Gallery, Paris, France, 2012.
• Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2012.
• Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil, 2012.
• Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012.
• ART Basel, Switzerland, 2011–2013.
• bitforms gallery, New York, USA, 2009 + 2012+ 2015.
• Le Centrequatre, Paris, France, 2012–2013
• BIAN Biennale, Oboro, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
• Deaf Biennale, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2012.
• The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota FL, USA, 2011.
• Contemporary Art Museum MNAC, Bucharest, Romania, 2011.
• List Art Center, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, USA, 2011.
• Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland, 2011.
• Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Swissnex, San Francisco, USA, 2011.
• Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway, 2011.
• Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland, 2011.
• Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, shift change, Liechtenstein, 2010.
• Vooruit Arts Center, Gent, Belgium, 2010.
• La Rada, Locarno, Switzerland, 2010.
• Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, 2010.
• Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, 2005 + 2009.
• Center pour l'image contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008.
• Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, 2004, 2006 + 2008.
• DDM Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2004.
• Tonus Labor, Bern, 2002, 2003 + 2004.
• Photoforum Center Pasquart, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland, 2002, 2003 + 2004.

Discography

• Oren Ambarchi + Zimoun “18.58” [leerraum.ch] (5.1 composition, 2016).
• Richard Garet + Zimoun “21.21” [leerraum.ch] (5.1 composition, 2015).
• Zimoun «feat. Helena Gough »[leerraum.ch] (5.1 multi channel dvd, 2010).
• Mahmoud Refat, Pe Lang + Zimoun “Statics III” [leerraum.ch] (4.1 multi channel dvd, 2008).
• Asher + Zimoun “Untitled Movement” [leerraum.ch] (5.1 multi channel dvd, 2008).
• Fourm + Zimoun “Primary Structures” [leerraum.ch] (5.1 multi channel dvd, 2008).
• Zimoun feat. Mik Keusen “Prepared I” [leerraum.ch] (cd, 2007).
• Kenneth Kirschner + Zimoun “July 29, 2004 (4.1)” (4.1 multi channel dvd, 2007).
• Leerraum [] «Sound Contributions I» [leerraum.ch] (5.1 multi channel dvd, 2007).
• Zimoun «Kabel 0.1 / 0.2» [leerraum.ch] (cd, 2006).
• Mahmoud Refat, Pe Lang + Zimoun “Statics II” [leerraum.ch] (cd, 2006).
• Mahmoud Refat + Zimoun “Statics I” [leerraum.ch] (cd, 2006).
• Fm3 + Zimoun «live June 19, 2004» [leerraum.ch] (cd, 2005).
• Zimoun «Nå» [tonus-music-records.com] (cd, 2004).
• Zimoun “Flachland” [leerraum.ch] (cd, 2003).
• Zimoun “Viskos” [leerraum.ch] (cd, 2003).
• Zimoun “Drums” [leerraum.ch] (cd, 2003).
• Zimoun "Momental" [ammoniac-music records] (cd, 2003).

literature

• R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, V. Hanschke (ed.). "A Touch of Code - Interactive Installations and Experiences", Gestalten, pp.42-43, Hard cover book, 256_pages, English. ISBN 978-3-89955-331-4 .
• Int. Compendium Prix Ars Electronica. «CyberArts2010», Hatje Cantz Verlag, German / English, soft cover book + DVD, ISBN 978-3-7757-2724-2 .
• Apostolos Mitsios. “Zimoun: Magician of Spatial Sound Installations”, June 28, 2011.
• Marco Mancuso. "Sound Organisms in Evolution", Digimag, No. 61, February 2011 English
• Interview from Mark Peter Wright. "Zimoun", Ear Room: Re-sounding Dialogues Across the Globe, January 1, English
• Oscar Gomez Poviña. “Noise Structures”, Vnfold Magazine, July 12th 2010

Web links

Commons : Zimoun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Artist's website
• Video archive on Vimeo
• Website bitforms gallery New York
• Website Galerie Denise René Paris
• Prize winner Prix Ars Electronica 2010
• Ulf Kallscheidt: Zimoun. In: Sikart