Max Neuhaus b. 1939, Beaumont, Texas, USA
Biography
1955-57 Studied percussion at the Manhattan School of Music 1961 Diploma in music 1964 Recitals at the Carnegie Hall, New York 1967 First sound installation
List of Sound Works
1966/76 Listen, 15 sound walks, various locations in USA and Canada
1966 Public Supply I, WBAI, New York Max-Feed, New York
1966/67 American Can, New York By-Product, New York
1967/68 Drive-in Music, Lincoln Parkway, Buffalo, New York
1968 Fan Music, rooftops of 137-141 Bowery, New York Southwest Stairwell, Ryerson University, Toronto Telephone Access, New York Public Supply II, CJRT, Toronto
1970 Public Supply III, WBAI, New York
1971 Water Whistle I, New York University, New York Water Whistle II, Newark State College, Newark
1972 Water Whistle III, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis Water Whistle IV, California Institute for the Arts, Newhall Water Whistle V, University of California, La Jolla Water Whistle VI, State University of New York, Buffalo Water Whistle VII, Jewish Community Center, Buffalo Water Whistle VIII, University of South Florida, Tampa Water Whistle IX, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant Water Whistle X, Michigan State University, East Lansing
1973 Water Whistle XI, York University, Toronto Water Whistle XII, Everson Museum, Syracuse Water Whistle XIII, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Public Supply IV, WFMT, Chicago Water Whistle XIV, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester
1973-77 Walkthrough, Jay Street subway station, New York
1974 Water Whistle XV, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Water Whistle XVI, John Weber Gallery, New York Water Whistle XVII, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Listen, Editorial New York Times
1975 Drive-in Music, Lewiston State Arts Park, New York
1976 Round, Old U. S. Customs House, New York Underwater Music I, Radio Bremen Underwater Music II, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, New York (untitled), Rooms, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, New York
1977 Radio Net, National Public Radio Network, USA Underwater Music III, Radio RIAS, Berlin (untitled), Documenta 6, Kassel
1977-92 Times Square, New York
1978 (untitled), Museum of Modern Art, New York (untitled), Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam Underwater Music IV, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam Listen, postcard decal, New York
1979 Five Russians, The Clocktower, New York
1979-89 (untitled), Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1980 (untitled), Como Park, St. Paul
1983 (untitled), ARC 2, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris (untitled), Kunsthalle, Basel (untitled), Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence Time Piece 'Archetype', Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1983-90 (untitled), Villa Celle, Pistoia, Italy
1985 (untitled), Promenades, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1986-88 (untitled), Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Locmine, France
1986-93 Works for One Person I, Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva
1988 River Grove, Roaring Fork River, Aspen Sound Line, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble
1988-90 Infinite Lines from Elusive Sources I, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
1989 Two 'Identical' Rooms, Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1989-91 A Bell for St. Cäcilien, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
1989-92 A Large Small Room, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
1989-93 Time Piece, Kunsthalle, Bern
1990 Two Sides of the 'Same' Room, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (untitled), Lake Luzern, Switzerland
1990-93 Infinite Lines from Elusive Sources II, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Milan
1990-present Three 'Similar' Rooms, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin
1992-present Three to One, AOK Building, Kassel
1993-present (untitled), Collection CAPC Musée d'Art Moderne, Bordeaux
1996-present (untitled), Collection Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Art Contemporanea, Turin
1999-present (untitled), Collection Swisscom, Worblaufen-Bern
1999- present Suspended Sound Line, Collection Kunst im öffentlichen Raum die Stadt Bern, Bern
1999 Intersection I, Venice Biennale, Venice
2001 (untitled), La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La Napoule
Drawing Exhibition
1981 Soundings, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
1982 Max Neuhaus, Drawings, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York
1983 Max Neuhaus, Sound Installation, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
1988 Max Neuhaus, Sound Line, Magazin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble
1994 Max Neuhaus, Zeichnungen, Kunstverein, Heilbronn
1995 Max Neuhaus, Sound Work Zeichnungen, Kunstverein, Kassel Evoking the Aural, Drawings and their studies from the Place works, Villa Arson, Nice Evocare l'udible, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Art Contemporanea, Turin
1997 Moment / Stund, Second Floor, Reykjavik The Drawings From Three To One, Encore...Bruxelles and Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels
2000 Max Neuhaus, Selected Drawings from the Sound Works, 1967-2000, Lisson Gallery, London Max Neuhaus, Drawings, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Max Neuhaus, Images from eight vectors 1953-2000, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
2001 Max Neuhaus, An Exhibition of Works on Paper, La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La Napoule
Max Neuhaus, Sound Works, Volumes I-X
Volume I Inscription 200 pages, no illustrations Volume II Drawings 75 pages, 40 illustrations Volume III Place 100 pages, 40 illustrations Volume IV Moment 70 pages, 35 illustrations (10 BW) Volume V Performance 60 pages, 25 illustrations (15 BW), 4 CDs Volume VI Networks 65 pages, 20 illustrations (15 BW), 12 CDs Volume VII Walks 55 pages, 10 illustrations (8 BW) Volume VIII Passage 60 pages, 30 illustrations Volume IX Sensation 55 pages, 25 illustrations (8 BW) Volume X Invention 60 pages, 35 illustrations
Totals - 800 Pages, 260 illustrations, 16 CDs
Bibliography
Books
1990 Max Neuhaus, Elusive Sources and 'Like' Spaces (Italian, English), (Turin: Giorgio Persano 1990)
1994 Max Neuhaus, sound works; volume I, inscription; volume II, drawings; volume III, place (Ostfildern-Stuttgart: Cantz 1994)
2001 Max Neuhaus, ears (Paris:Onestar Press 2001)
Catalogues
1994 Max Neuhaus, Zeichnungen (German, English), (Heilbronn: Kunstverein Heilbronn 1994)
1995 Max Neuhaus, Evocare l'udible (Italian, French), (Milan: Charta 1995)
1997 Max Neuhaus, Moment / Stund (English, Icelandic), (Reykjavik: Second Floor 1997)
Books Published on the Occasion of the Inauguration of a Sound Event
1983 Max Neuhaus, Sound Installation (German, English), (Basel: Kunsthalle Basel 1983) Max Neuhaus, Sound Installation (Providence, Rhode Island: Bell Gallery, Brown University 1983)
1987 Max Neuhaus (French, English), (Locmine: Edition du Centre d'Art, Domaine de Kerguéhennec 1987)
1988 Max Neuhaus, Sound Line (French, English), (Grenoble: Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain 1988)
1989 Max Neuhaus, Two Sound Works 1989 (German, English), (Bern: Kunsthalle Bern and Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein 1989)
1997 The Collection, Max Neuhaus (Italian, English), (Turin: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Art Contemporanea 1997) Three to One, Max Neuhaus, (Brussels: La Léttre Volée 1997)
Texts and Articles
1983 Carter Ratcliff, "Space, Time and Silence: Max Neuhaus' Sound Installations", Jean-Christophe Ammann, "Notes on Max Neuhaus", in: Max Neuhaus, Sound Installation, (cat. German, English), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland 1983
1984 Pierre Restany, Le Paradoxe des Impossibles (with English translation), in Max Neuhaus, Installations Sonores (exposition du 12 Avril au 12 Mai 1984, Marie- Louise Jeanneret Art Moderne, Geneva
1987 Denys Zacharopoulos, "Max Neuhaus" in: Max Neuhaus, (cat. French, English), Edition du Centre d'Art, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Locmine, France 1987 Carter Ratcliff, "Max Neuhaus: Aural Spaces", Art in America, New York, October 1987, pp.154-163
1988 Calvin Tomkins, "Hear", The New Yorker, New York, October 24, 1988, pp.110- 120 Alain Cueff, "Max Neuhaus, The Space of Sound", Artscribe, London, September/October, 1988, pp.67-68 Franz Kaiser, "Creating a new place in space...", in: Max Neuhaus, Sound Line (cat., French, English), Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France 1988 Ulrich Loock, "Time Piece, Kunsthalle Bern", Wulf Herzogenrath, "Bell for St. Cacilien", Max Neuhaus, "Time Piece Series", in: Max Neuhaus, Two Sound Works 1989, (cat. German, English), Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany 1989
1990 Max Neuhaus and Ulrich Loock, "A Conversation Between Max Neuhaus and Loock, Milan, March 25, 1990", Denys Zacharopoulos, "Space and Sound: Resonance of an Aural Work", in: Max Neuhaus, Elusive Sources and 'Like' Spaces, (cat., Italian, English), Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy 1990
1991 Arthur Danto, "Max Neuhaus: Sound Works", The Nation, New York, March 4, 1991, pp.281-284
1992 Susanne Weingarten, "Brummen vor dem Tor", Der Spiegel, Hamburg, Number 37/1992
1993 Doris von Drathen, "Max Neuhaus, Invisible Sculpture - Molded Sound", Parkett, Zurich, Number 35, 1993, pp. 24-29
1994 Harald Szeemann, "Max Neuhaus", Kunstforum International, Vol.127/1994
1995 Stuart Morgan, "Disegnare in retrospettiva", Max Neuhaus, Evocare l'udible (cat. Italian, French) (Milan: Charta 1995) Yehuda Safran, "Disegnare a orecchio", Max Neuhaus, Evocare l'udible (cat. Italian, French) (Milan: Charta 1995)
1997 Zsuzsanna Gahse, "How does a sound spread", Three to One, Max Neuhaus, Brussels: La Léttre Volée 1997 Yehuda Safran, "The drawings from Three to One", Three to One, Max Neuhaus, Brussels: La Léttre Volée 1997 Pier Luigi Tazzi, "Max Neuhaus" in: The Collection, Max Neuhaus (Italian, English), (Turin: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Art Contemporanea 1997) Pier Luigi Tazzi, "Constructed Sound: Max Neuhaus" in: Carte d'Arte Internationale, Messina, November 1997, pp 101-105
1998 Doris von Drathen, "Gebaute Töne" in: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Ausgabe 41 Heft 5 1. Quartal 1998
2001 Edward Leffingweil, "Max Neuhaus at Christine Burgin and P.S.1", Art in America April 2001 p. 136
2003 Neil Robert Wenman, “Listening to the Void”, in the Art & Architecture Journal, Issue 58, June 03. P. 52-55 Neil Robert Wenman, “Invisible Space: Max Neuhaus”, in Noisegate magazine issue 11, July 03
2005 anARQUITECTURA de Andre a Zittel, ‘Max Neuhaus’ June 2005 Daniela Cascella, “Max Neuhaus”, Contemporary No.75, p 38-39
Publications
1974 "Noise Pollution Propaganda Makes Noise", New York Times, 6 December 1974
1989 "Time Piece Series", in Max Neuhaus, Two Sound Works 1989, (German, English), Kunsthalle, Bern, and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 1989
1990 "Listen", in Max Neuhaus, Elusive Sources and 'Like' Spaces, (Italian, English), (Turin: Giorgio Persano 1990) "Audium, Projekt für eine Welt als Hör-Raum", in Vom Verschwinden der Ferne, Telekommunikation und Kunst, pp. 118-128, (Cologne: Du Mont 1990)
1993 "Siren - Aural Design" (Dutch, English), Kunst and Museum Journaal, Volume 4 Number 6, Amsterdam 1993
1994 "Siren" (German), Welt auf töneren Füssen, Schriftenreihe Forum/Band 2, Göttingen 1994 "Listen" (German), Welt auf töneren Füssen, Schriftenreihe Forum/Band 2, Göttingen 1994 "Sound Design" (English, German), Zeitgleich (Vienna: Triton 1994) "The Broadcast Works and Audium", (English, German), Zeitgleich (Vienna: Triton 1994)
1997 “The Place Works", "Sound character and textures", "The drawing after", "The sound work for the Castello di Rivoli", (English, Italian), The Collection, Max Neuhaus, (Turin: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d"Art Contemporanea 1997) "Sound as a medium", Three to One, Max Neuhaus, Brussels: La Léttre Volée 1997
2000 "Sound Art?", First published as an introduction to the exhibition Volume, Bed of Sound, P.S. 1 Contemporary Center, New York, July 2000
2005 “The Sound of Space”, by Anthony Huberman, Art Review, May 2005, vol LVI “Max Neuhaus”, Daniela Cascella, Contemporary, issue75, p.38 2009 “Enduring Work”, Christopher Cox, Artforum, May 2009
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