Thomas Köner
| born in 1965 in Bochum, Germany Köner attended the music college in Dortmund and studied electronic music at the CEM-Studio in Arnhem. Until 1994 he worked for the film industry as editor and sound engineer. He extended his concept of time and sound colour to images, resulting in video installations, photography and net art. His point of departure was composition of sound in which aspects of a performance and visual language were gradually integrated. At first in the collaboration with film artist Jürgen Reble and the live performance Alchemie (1992). Following this, he started to compose film soundtracks and music to accompany historic silent films for the Louvre Museum and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. 2000 the Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media awarded him the "New Media Prize". 2004 the Prix Ars Electronica awarded him the "Golden Nica", and he was awarded the "Produktionspreis WDR / Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis" (german sound art award). His media installation "Suburbs Of The Void" received the Transmediale 2005 award in Berlin and was presented at La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro La Fenice as a live performance in the same year. Köners video "Nuuk" received the Tiger Cub Award (best short film) during the International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2005. The Rimbaud Museum commissioned Thomas Köner five permanent sound installations for five rooms of the "Maison Rimbaud" in Charleville-Mezières, France. Several significant museums acquired his audiovisual works for their collection. In 2008 he was a participant of the Media Art Biennal in Seoul. 1985-1990 studies in electronic music at CEM Studio, Arnhem 1987-1992 Conservatory of Music, Dortmund 1992-1994 Avid Operator, cutter- and soundassistant, Ruhr Sound Studios, Dortmund 1995 – working as independant artist with sound, installation, film, photography, music, video, theater and radio art Permanent installations: Musée Rimbaud / Maison Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières Work in public collections: Centre Pompidou Musée national d'art moderne Paris, France Musée d'art contemporain Montreal, Canada Comunidad Pamplona Collection, Spain Comunidad Madrid Collection, Spain Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona,Spain Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Germany F.R.A.C. Limoges, France Commissioned works: 2008 25th Music Biennale, Zagreb 2007 Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas Metro Santiago de Chile 2004 Musée Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières 2001 Centre d’art contemporain, Rennes (with yann beauvais) 2000 Hayward Gallery, London (with Max Eastley) 1998 Musée National d'art moderne, Paris (with yann beauvais) Broadcasts on ORF KUNSTRADIO: 12. 07. 2009: Kontakt der Jünglinge30. 09. 2018: Echoes on AIR |
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