Thomas Köner successfully combines techniques from the fields of video art, sound art, live performance, music production and cinema. He is active as video and installation artist, sound artist, live performer and music producer.
Personal information:
– Born 17.06.1965. in Bochum, Germany
– Languages: German (native speaker), fluent in English, French, Dutch
Education:
– 1985-90 Studied composition and electronic music at the CEM-Studio, Arnhem
– 1987-92 Music Academy in Dortmund
– 1992-94 Editor and sound assistant at Ruhr Sound Studios Dortmund (Postproduktion TV, Film & Video)
Awards and residencies:
– Artist in residence Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto 2016
– Nomination for Nam June Paik Award, 2012
– MuVi-Preis for best German Music video, 55. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 2009
– Off Screen Award Best New Media Work, Images Festival Toronto 2007
– Artist in residence Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2006
– ARCO Award Best Young Artist at Arco, Feria International de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid 2005
– Transmediale.05 Award, International Media Art Festival, Berlin 2005
– Tiger Cub Award, Best Short, International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2005
– Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz 2004
– German Sound Art Award Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis / Produktionspreis WDR, Marl 2004
– Laureate, BBI Creation Contest, Fribourg 2004
– Norman Award Best Film/Video, Filmwinter Stuttgart 2004
– Artist in residence Cité International des Arts, Paris 2001
– New Media Prize FCMM, Montreal 2000
Selected audiovisual works:
2003 / BANLIEUE DU VIDE, Ars Electronica Linz 2004
2004 / SUBURBS OF THE VOID, transmediale Berlin 2005
2005 / NUUK, International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2005
2006 / PÉRIPHÉRIQUES, Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios, Santiago de Chile 2006
2007 / PNEUMA MONOXYD, Media Art Biennale, Seoul 2008
2008 / PASAJEROS PEREGRINOS PILOTOS, International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2009
2009 / LA BARCA, Videomusique Musée d’art contemporain Montreal
2010 / CAN YOU BEAT OUT THE SKY, Isea2010 International Symposium on Electronic Art Ruhr/Germany
2011 / IM TABORSCHATTEN (In The Shadow Of Tabor), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
2012 / THE TOWER OF WINDS CosmoCaixa Museum Barcelona
2013 / THAUMATURGICAL TOPOGRAPHY: PLACE, SOUND AND NON-THINKING, Sonic Thinking Conference, Frankfurt / Published in “Sonic Thinking: A Media Philosophical Approach”, Bloomsbury, 2017
2014 / EXPANDING LUMINANCE Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
2015 / CINE-CONCERT “Faust”, Audi Festival of German Film – Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne/ Canberra/Hobart, Australia
2016 / EVACUATION Installation at Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen, Germany
2016 / DARK LANDSCAPES, Music for the ballet, Croatian National Theatre
2016 / TOPOGRAFIA DEL VUOTO Individual exposition, Museolaboratorio, Citta Sant ́Angelo, Italy
2017 / INDESIERTO – Entre limites, Museo de Arte contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexico