Volkmar Klien

Growing up in Vienna Volkmar Klien (*1971, Hollabrunn, A) spent his childhood engulfed in the city’s rich musical life with all its glorious traditions and engrained rituals. Working from this background Volkmar Klien today strives to extend traditional practices of composing, producing and listening far beyond the established settings of concert music. He works in various areas of the audible and occasionally inaudible arts navigating the manifold links in-between the different modes of human perception, the spheres of presentation and the roles these play in the communal generation of meaning.

Mumok Wien / Belvedere (Wien) / Martha Graham Company (NY) / EMPAC (Troy, USA) / Habitación del Ruido (Mexico City, MX) / Ars Electronica Festival (AT) / Hayward Gallery (London) / Transitio_MX (Mexico City, MX) / Wien Modern (Vienna, A) / Nweamo (Morelia, MX) / Kunstradio (ORF Ö1) / Visiones Sonoras (Mexico City, MX) / Dublin Fringe Festival/ev+a (Limerick, IRL) / Daghdha Dance Company (Limerick, IRL) / Ballett Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main, D) / Volksoper Wien (Vienna, A) / Hoxton Hall (London, GB) / Futuresonic (Manchester, GB) / Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, GB) / En Red (Barcelona, E) / Portobello Festival (London, GB) / Sound Escape Festival (Peterborough, CDN) / Musikverein Wien (Vienna, A) / ICA (London, GB) / Send+Receive (Winnipeg, CDN) / Futura (Crest, F) / Grabenfesttage (Vienna, A) / Beckonings (Stanford, USA) / New Music North West (Olympia, USA) / Corfu Electronic Music Festival (Corfu, GR)

Solo Shows:

2021
Belvedere Wien / Oberes Belvedere Carlone Contemporary
Wien Modern / Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

2018
Raum Lentos (Linz)

2016
Mariendom, Ars Electronica Festival (Linz)

2015
Galerie Schallform (Wien)
Ohrenhoch (Berlin)

2013
Stift Melk (Melk, Austria)

2011
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, NY)

2009
Habitación del Ruido (Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico DF)

2008
Klangraum Krems (Krems, Austria)

2004
Permanent Breakfast Gallery (Vienna, Austria)

2002
IDEA (Manchester, UK)

2001
Hoxton Hall (London, UK)

Group Shows:

2021
Eremitage St.Petersburg, „Ethereal Aether“
Digital Arts Zurich DA-Z

2020
Digital Arts Zurich DA-Z

2019
Ars Electronica

2015
Social Glitch (Tonspur, Wien)
Out of phase (Moë, Wien)

2014
Intime Räume (IMA, Hainburg, Ö)

2013
Niederösterreichisches Dokumentationszentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst

2012
reheat – Kleylehof
listening comprehension – Paraflows 2012

2011
Mantisfestival / Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama (Manchester, UK)
Pushfestival (Gävle, Sweden)

2010
Filament (EMPAC, Troy, NY)

2009
Transitio MX (Fonoteca Nacional, Mexico City)
ars electronic (Linz, Austria)

2007
Semperdepot / Wien Modern (Wien, Österreich)
NWEAMO (Morelia, Mx)

2004
Eva+ (Limerick, Ireland)

2002
TEST Kirklees New Media Centre (Huddersfield, UK)

2000
The Lowry (Salford, UK)

Media Arts Prize of the City of Vienna / Austrian State Scholarship for Composition / Ars Electronica – Honorary Mention / Media Arts Prize of the State of Lower Austria / Theodor Körner Prize for Relative Realities / Max Brand Prize for Aural Codes / Commissions for Einem and Duplex by Ballett Frankfurt / Commission for Nodding Dog by Volksoper Wien / Commission for Padded Perception by The Lowry / Scholarship of Alban Berg Foundation / Composition Scholarship of Vienna Symphonic Orchestra / Composition prizes of the City of Vienna, the City of Klagenfurt (Gustav Mahler Prize) and the State of Lower Austria