Mario Asef
*born in Córdoba, Argentina. Lives and work in Berlin.
Education
1990-95
University of Architecture and Urban Development. Córdoba, Argentina. (BA)
1998-2000
Academy of Visual Art, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2003
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
2000-2004
University of the Art (UdK) Berlin, Master of Art. (MA)
Ongoing projects
Acousmatic Lectures a series of lectures on science and art in cooperation with Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin.Editor of Akusmatik als Labor, a symposium and anthology with contributions from sixteen authors exploring the acousmatic phenomenon.
Since 2014 member of Errant Sound a project space for sound art in Berlin (former Errant Bodies), where he is organizing interdisciplinary lectures and exhibitions for artists and scientists. In 2020 he co-organized and co-curated the Dystopia Festival 2020.
Since 2010 workshop holder on sound and visual art in several academies and institutions like Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Universität der Künste Berlin and others.
Solo exhibitions
2018 / 19
Cenit, THE DRAWING HUB, Berlin / Wildpalms, Duesseldorf / Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
Kemmuna Nation, Fragmenta Malta, Malta (cat.)
2017
Acousmatic Lecture Series, Errant Sound, Berlin [funded by Schering Stiftung]
2015
Statements, Manière Noire, Berlin
Lotería Nacional, La Miscelanea – Unarte, Puebla, Mexico [funded by ifa]
2014
Drei Anachronismen, WidPalms – Kühlhaus, Berlin
2013
Crossfade, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
2012
Prosthesis 9t, Die Raum, Berlin
Crossfade, Junge Kunst Wolfsburg e.V. Wolfsburg (cat.)
2009
Raumprothesen, Arttransponder, Berlin (cat.)
2007
Die Repräsentation als Wirklichkeit, Galerie Metro, Berlin
Signal Wave, Les Voutes, Paris
2006
EMPIRIEN, Brotfabrik Galerie, Berlin (cat.)
Exhibitions (selection)
2023
The Change in Patterns, wildpalms, Düsseldorf
2022
Topiate, Frontviews, Berlin
2021
Acousmatic Appearances, The Listening Biennial, Errant Sound, Berlin
FESE, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, Colombia
2020
FESE, Espacio Odeón, Bogotá, Colombia
Sound Nodes, Bärenzwinger, Berlin
Poesie Festival Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (canceled due to COVID 19)
2019
Dystopia Festival, KASA Gallery, Istanbul
Future Soundscapes, Silent Green, Berlin
sonomemo – Sound and Memory, Errant Sound, Berlin
2018
Daegu Photo Biennale 2018, Daegu, South Korea
DYSTOPIE | DISTOPYA Sound Art Festival Berlin-Istanbul
2017
Rebellion, Scotty, Berlin
In the Sound Field, Errant Sound, Berlin
2016
Wild Palms, Untitled, Miami Beach, USA
Sound Matters, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
L’Intru (Invaders), Errant Bodies, Berlin
Transitional Societies, NON, Berlin
2015
L’Intru (Invaders), Friday Exit, Vienna
Aquamediale 11, Art in Public Space Spreewald, Brandenburg (cat.)
Manifold Mapping, Casa Imelda, Mexico City
L’Intru (Invaders), Rich Mix, London
2014
Returning to Sender, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Post-Colonial Flagship Store, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
More than a Millon, GlogauAir, Berlin
Stadt als Klangtext, Errant Bodies – sound art project space, Berlin
2013
Estate of the Real, Kühlhaus, Berlin
PREVIEW 13– Berlin Art Fair, Berlin
Instrumental, Leap Berlin, a sound-performance on a sound-installation by Andy Graydon
2012
Surf+Anarchie+Alchemie, Amtsrichterhaus Schwarzenbek, curator: Frank Barth with Peter Friedl, Carsten Höller, Gregor Schneider, Susanne Klein, a.o.
Dazzling & Haunted, Art Claims Impulse – Berlin Art-Week, Berlin
Reality Terror, Depo-Istanbul, Istanbul (cat.)
Faraway, so close!, Fichte-Bunker, Berlin (cat.)
2011
Pixel Pops 2011, Nouvel Organon, Paris
Abstract, Essays and Observations, Berlin
Tape Modern No. 24 NAVIGATING DARKNESS
Curated by Mira O’Brien and Helen Homan Wu, Berlin
Lichter Art Award, Frankfurt a. Main, curators: Saul Judd, Matthias Ulrich
2010
Man Son 1969, Villa Merkel, with Martin Kippenberger, Bruce Nauman, Peter Friedl, Cindy Sherman , a.o. curators: Andreas Baur, Frank Barth, Dirck Möllmann, Esslingen, Germany (cat.)
10 Years at Kasa, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul (cat.)
Klondike River, Treasure Land, curator: Horst Griese, Achim Bitter, André Korpys and Markus Löffler, Bremen, Germany
2009
Man Son 1969, Hamburger Kunsthalle, with Joseph Beuys, Max Beckman, Dan Graham, a.o. curators: Frank Barth, Dirck Möllmann, Hamburg (cat.)
Transmediale 09, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2008
Architektur, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Austria (cat.)
2007
Capital 2014, curator: Caroline Lund, Lund, Sweden (cat.)
Legal Tender, KASA Gallery, Istanbul
Transmediale 07, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Science Fiction, Galerie Metro, Berlin
have to leave my STUDIO, SSamzie Space, curator: Hyunjin Shin, Seoul, South Korea (cat.)
PREVIEW 07– The Emerging Art Fair, Video lounge curated by Sabine Schuetze, Berlin
2006
Urbane Legend, SSamzie Space, curator: Soohyun Park Seoul, South Korea (cat.)
2004
Frize Art Fair, Dosensos, Resonance FM, London
Der Negative Horizont, Podewil, Berlin
2003
Mobile Background, Launch Option Berlin, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
2002
Evolutionäre Zellen, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Station, Kunstraum Bethanien, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Festivals and screenings
2019
Acousmatics as a Laboratory, Symposium at Kunstraum Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg
2018
How to Build an Art Biennale – Imagined Biennales, Tate Modern, London
On Limits, Borders, Edges and Boundaries, Else Foundation, Mexico
Tier-Bild-Ton, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2017
Fieldrecording as a Personal Practice, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2016
Lecturer by Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
Lecturer by El Quijote: Diseñador de su propia experiencia, IED, Madrid
Lecturer by Conversas II, Berlin
2015
Acousmatic Lecture, org. Schlegel Graduate School – Freie Universität Berlin, KuLe, Berlin
2013
Vis-à-vis / Soundgate, org. by Berliner Pool, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
2010
Port2010 / Soundgate, museum of modern art Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark
SoundLAB VII , cologne global heritage of digital culture, Cologne, Germany
The Other and The Self, video stream, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt a.M. , Germany
2009
Arte, Salud y Sociedad, Proyecto Circo, curator: Ada Azor, La Havana, Cuba
Bordet, Abandoned Gallery, curator: Anna Norberg, Malmö, Sweden
Zeppelin 2009 – Sonidos del Poder – Centro de Cultura Contemporania
de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain
2008
Zeppelin 2008 – Sorderas – CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Berlin, Paris
2006
Architektur und Film Festival – Out of Disaster – Brotfabrik, Berlin
2005
Art in the Age of New Technologies, Armenian Centre of Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia (cat.)
Awards and scholarships
2021 Recherchestipendium 2021 from Berlin Senat, Germany
2020 FESE, artist in residence program, Bogotá, Colombia
2018 Griffin Art Projects, artist in residence program, Vacouver, Canada
2017 Acousmatic Lectures Series, project funding Schering Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
2016 Errant Sound, Project Space Award, Berlin Senat, Germany
2015 Recherchestipendium 2015 from Berlin Senat, Germany
2015 IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen project funding, Germany
2015 Bezirkamt Pankow project funding, Berlin
2015 Initiative Neue Musik project funding, Berlin
2014 Quartier21 – Artist in Residence Program, Vienna, Austria
2014 Casa Imelda Artist in Residence, Mexico City, funded by IFA – Germany
2012 Crossfade, project-funding Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany
2011 Lichter Art Award, Nomination, Frankfurt a.M. Germany
2009 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurt
2009 Raumprothesen, project funding Arttransponder, Berlin, Germany
2007 Stiftung-Künstlerdorf, artist in residence program, Schöppingen, Germany
2007 Signal Wave, project funding Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2006 Schinckel Progressive – SSamzie Space, artist in residence program Seoul, South Korea
2006 EMPIRIEN, catalogue funding Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2006 EMPIRIEN, project funding Kulturamt Pankow, Berlin
2006 Award Architektur und Film Festival – Out of Disaster –, Berlin
2004 Scholarship of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin
Publications
Akusmatik als Labor –Kultur –Kunst –Medien. Spieker, Asef (Hrsg.). Königshausen & Neumann 2023 /
W/K / zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst, Interview, 2020 /
W/K / zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst, Interview, 2019 /
FRAGMENTA MALTA 2013 – 2018 Life & Art in Public Space, Malta 2019
Daegu Photo Biennale 2018 – Next Image, Daeugu, South Korea 2018 /
Jack Lope n1, Madrid, 2018 /
ArtMargins, volume 5 – issue 2, publisher MIT Press, USA, 2016 /
Aquamediale 11, festival catalogue, Spreewald, Germany 2016 /
Voces, Issue 2, publisher Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, 2015 /
PCFS, exhibition magazine, Museumsquartier Vienna, 2014 /
Crossfade, exhibition catalogue, Kerber Verlag – Young Art Edition, Germany – 2013 /
Reality Terror, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul – 2012 /
Faraway so Close, exhibition catalogue, NODE Berlin – 2012 /
Klondike River, exhibition catalogue, HfK Bremen – 2010 /
10 Years at Kasa, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul – 2010 /
Raumprothesen, catalogue, Berlin – 2009 /
Man Son 1969, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle – 2009 /
Architektur, exhibition catalogue, Bregenz, Austria – 2008 /
Capital 2014, exhibition catalogue, Lund, Sweden – 2007 /
hate to leave my STUDIO, studio program catalogue, Seoul, South Korea – 2007 /
EMPIRIEN, catalogue, Berlin – 2006 /
Urbane Legend, exhibition catalogue, Seoul – Berlin – 2006 /
II. European Month of Photography, Berlin – 2006 /
Art in the Age of New Technologies, exhibition catalogue, Armenia – 2005 /
Wo liegt Berlin? exhibition catalogue, Berlin – 2004 /
Guestroom, contemporary art magazine, London – Munich – 2004 /
Der Film entsteht vor Ort, Labor-Sonor-audio-CD, Charhizma Berlin – 2003 /
Mario Asef 