Christoph Korn audio and media artist
1992-1998 he studied Political Science, Philosophy and Pedagogics in Frankfurt upon Main at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University.
In the 1980’s, he was involved in political contexts and worked with street children in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo in the context of a liberation theological project in 1988 and 1989.
At the beginning of the 1990’s his first artistic works emerged.
Christoph Korn worked in Ensembles with musicians like Alfred 23 Harth, Rüdiger Carl, Wolfgang Schliemann, Joachim Zoepf, artist group TEXTxtnd (Oliver Augst/Michaela Ehinger/Marcel Daemgen), Lasse-Marc Riek, Otomo Yoshihide, or as well in different projects with visual artist Raymond Pettibon.
Christoph Korn’s solo work moves along the interface between audio and media art. To put it into practice, he has used various means of artistic expression: web- based work, film, installations, conceptual art, radioplay and composition. Essentially common among his works is his interest in minority or weak features. In the last few years, his artistic works have been based increasingly on strategies of masking, deleting or removing. Occasionally, he has used long durations to give his ideas form.
His works were exhibited and performed at numerous international festivals of contemporary music and media art: WienModern/Vienna, Ars Electronica/Linz, FILE HIPERSÔNICA/ Sao Paulo, Podewil Festival x-tract SCULPTURE MUSICALE/Berlin, Taktlos Festival/ Bern, Philharmonie/Cologne, Museum of Modern Art Serralves/Porto, Angelica Festival/Bologna, Transmediale/Berlin, Whitchapell art galery/London, MMK Sraßbourg, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Realisations for intermedium Center for Art and Media ZKM/Karlsruhe or german radiostations like HR, WDR, SFB, DLR, SDR, SWR, art radio ORF.
Awards, Stipends, Sponsorships:
2004 Barkenhoff Stipend, "Künstlerhäuser Worpswede" (D)
2005 Distinction at the international competition for radiophone audio art Phonurgia Nova (Arles, France) for the audio work “Volkslied”
2007 Project Sponsorship by “Stiftung Kunstfonds” [Endowment Art Fund] Bonn for the intermedial work “Waldstueck” .
2008 Foreign stipend from the State of North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany
2008 Phonurgia Nova Award, Distinction, in the category intermedia for “series invisible” by Christoph Korn and Lasse-Marc Riek.
2009 Prix Ars Electronia, Honorary Mention (Digital Music) for www.waldstueck.net
2011 Stipend and Residency at the German Study Centre in Venice, Italy
2013 DIVINA SONUS RURIS binaural/nodar rural art lab, nodar, Portugal
2014 year-long scholarship from “Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
Prize Participations:
1999 Hessian Filmprize for the audio-visual Brecht/Eisler work “Winterspruch” [Winter Saying]. Winterspruch was a joint project from ten film makers. The film is based on contemporary readaptions of Brecht/Eisler songs by the band “Arbeit” made up of the musicians Augst/Daemgen/Korn. 2007 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik [The German Record Critics' Award] for the CD “O bittre Zeit”, collection and new interpretations of “camp songs” 1933-1945. A comprehensive CD documentary, compiled and released by the Documentation and Information Centre (DIZ) Emslandlager. With content-based co-operation with the German Radio Archive and the Academy of the Arts, Berlin.
Curator
From 2000-2012 Christoph Korn curated togehther with Rüdiger Carl and Oliver Augst the pol-festival and later on along with Hermann Kretzschmar, the festival “ROT” for contemporary music, installations and audio art, in the “Kuenstlerhaus Mousonturm” Frankfurt, Germany.
Since 2014 together with Katharina Mayer „Reihe Löschen“ at Onomato, Düsseldorf
Teaching
1995-2013 Christoph Korn teached „free improvised music“ and Aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt.
He is guest lecturer at several universitys.
Performances/ Exibitions/Compositions/Direction/Releases (selected works)
exhibitions
2015 FILE 2015 - Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo (BR) screening of the film works „Pneuma“ and „Eingedenken“.
2014 Input / Output – Schnittpunkt Worpswede, Barkenhoff / Heinrich-Vogeler- Museum, Worpswede. With works by Nevin Aladağ, Nina Canell, Nezaket Ekici, Terry Fox, Dani Gal, Daniel Knorr, Christoph Korn, Santu Mofokeng, Anna Oppermann, Dan Perjovschi, Simone Schardt & Wolf Schmelter, Christine Schulz, Katharina Sieverding, Emmett Williams. kuratiert von Katharina Groth und Jost Wischniewski
2014 Gesicht (face), 12 hour long film work, screening, Cinemateca Lisbon, within the international Symposium Philosphy and Film
2014 stereo, sound installation, a/bove, Düsseldorf
2013 Vom Himmel hinter den Lidern, exhibition together with Peter Ewig, Institut für Skulpturelle Peripherie, Düsseldorf
2013 Gesicht (face), 12 hour long film work, Wandelweiser Klangraum 2013, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2012 Listen to your City. A tower full of sound (dedicated to John Cage), (group exhibition), Copenhagen Art Festival, Knippelbro bridge, Copenhagen (DK)
2012 SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE. Cage – 4'33'' – Stille. 1912 – 1952 – 2012, (group exhibition), Hartware Medienkunstverein Dortmund (D)
2012 Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art, (group exhibition), Center for Art and Media, ZKM | Media Museum, Karlsruhe
2011 Austerlitz Duplicate, Video Installation, Museum of Modern Art Serralves, Porto (PT)
2010 WORK MAKES THE WORK, Eisentrager Howard Gallery (group exhibition), Department of Art & Art History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2010 IN BETWEEN, Sound exhibition at The Communications Museum (group exhibition), part of RADIA LX 2010, International Radio Art Festival, Lisbon
2009 Institute for Social Research, Installation, (solo exhibition), gallery Lumiar Cité, Lisbon
2009 Waldstueck, WEB Installation, Ars Electronica (group exhibition), www.waldstueck.net , Prix Ars Electronica, Hononary Mention (Digital Musics), Linz
2009 NON Machines, (solo exhibition) Digital Art Museum in cooperation with media art Festival Transmediale, Berlin
2008 Waldstueck, www.waldstueck.net as a room based sound installation, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, (group exhibition)
2008 Waldstueck, www.waldstueck.net as a room based sound installation, (group exhibition), media art festival “File Electronic language international Festival”, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
2007 Sorge und Kapitalismus, www.sorgeundkapitalismus.de, as a room based sound installation, (group exhibition) media art festival, Transmediale Berlin, Akademie der Künste
2002 Hyperghetto , www.hyperghetto.de, as a room based sound instllation. media art festival File Hipersonica 2003 (group exhibition), Sao Paulo, (BR). media art festival Tourist City (group exhibition), Bremen (D). art space Parkhaus (solo exibition), Düsseldorf (D)
2002 Volksliedmaschine, sound installation, Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn, intermedium 2 (group exhibition), Center of Media Art and Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe
Performances
2015 Guitar solo at art space Clang, Duesseldorf (D)
2011 Several Silences, music theater, with Michaela Ehinger. Coproduction EMT Frankfurt and MUNK Duesseldorf. Premiere: FFT Duesseldorf
2009 Difference, audio performance together with Carlos Zingaro, Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto (P) and Goethe Institute Lisbon.
2009 Blank plays Duden, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn, Angelica Festival, Bologna
2007 Blank plays Duden, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn, sound art series at la casa encendida, Madrid
2006 KOMET, electronic music theater , (Augst/Daemgen/Dézsy/Ehinger/Korn), commissioned by Schumannfeste Düsseldorf, Altes Kesselhaus, Böhlerwerke , Düsseldorf
2005 Blank plays Duden, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (D)
2005 JUGEND. Volume 01: Freud, electronic music theater, Augst/Daemgen/Dézsy/Korn, Festival Forum Neue Musik, Deutschlandfunk Cologne and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm/Frankfurt
2004 Blank plays Duden, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. TAKTLOS Festival, Bern. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
2003 blank meets Pettibon, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn/Raymond Pettibon, Taktlos Festival, Bern (CH), pol Festival, Frankfurt (D) Podewil Festival x-tract Sculpture Musicale, Berlin (D), Philharmonie Cologne (D)
2003 Marx, electronic music theatre, Augst/Daemgen/Dezsy/Korn, "Ars Electronica", Linz
2002 Marx, electronic music theatre, Augst/Daemgen/Dezy/Korn, Festival for contemporary music, Vienna Modern/Vienna
2002 check mate, Audioperformance. Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn, art radio ORF, Vienna
intermedia work and radioplay
2014 Eingedenken, intermedia radioplay for Audio, Video und Web, www.eingedenken. de, Production Südwestrundfunk 2014
2012 “I speak this text”, Version for 2 speakers, The Mews Radio Program (London), Resonance FM (London), Mobile Radio Project (at the 30th Bienal Sao Paulo)
2010 Jossgrund Oberndorf, radioplay, Production and premiere broadcasting by Hessischer Rundfunk 2010
2010 Arbeit, Live Radioplay, by Burkhard Beins, Christoph Korn, Christian Reiner, Marion Wörle, premiere ZAM Labor Cologne, premiere broadcasting radio art Festival RadiaLx 2010, Lisbon
2009 Difference, electroacoustic composition in cooperation with Carlos Zingaro, Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto (P) and Goethe Institut Lisbon, premiere broadcasting Sept. 2010, DeutschlandRadio
2009 I speak this text, audiomodel, Production and premiere broadcasting by Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
2009 series invisible, audio model, Christoph Korn/Lasse-Marc Riek, Phonurgia Nova Award (Distinction).
2008 Waldstueck, radioplay and web work, www.waldsteuck.net, Hessischer Rundfunk/Deutschlandfunk, with funding by Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn and in cooperation with wemove digital solutions, Berlin. premiere broadcasting January 2009 by Hessischer Rundfunk. Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention (Digital Musics), 2009
2008 Transforming John Cages piano piece „For M.C. and D.T.“ into silence by not playing it, composition for piano solo, premiere by: Hermann Kretzschmar „Chiffren“ silent music, University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt/M.
2005 Sorge und Kapitalismus, radioplay and wen work. www.sorgeundkapitalismus.de, produced by: Hessischer Rundfunk.
2004 Volkslied, radioplay, Production: DeutschlandRadio Berlin, 2004, Phonurgia Nova Award (Distinction)
2004 LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF THE REVOLUTION, radioplay, by Oliver Augst and Christoph Korn, Produktion: Hessischer Rundfunk. with: Oliver Augst (electronics, vocals), Rüdiger Carl (accordion, clarinet, vocals), Christoph Korn (e-guitar, vocals), Raymond Pettibon (vocals), Otomo Yoshihide (turntables)
2003 Eisler Prospekt, electroacoustic composition, Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn, Production and premiere broadcating by Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
2002 Hyperghetto, radioplay and web work, www.hyperghetto.de, Production: Hessischer Rundfunk.
2002 Volksliedmaschine, self-generating radioplay, Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn, Production: Hessischer Rundfunk, intermedium 2, Center of Media Art and Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe
2000 Eisler Prospekt, radioplay, Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn, Production: Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
1999 Shelomos. 12 Lieder, radioplay, premiere: 3/2001, Sender Freies Berlin/international, digital radio art
Direction
2003 "One Million Years" by On Kawara, directed by Oliver Augst and Christoph Korn. 32 CDs, production: Hessischer Rundfunk, published by "Der Hörverlag", Munich 2002, audio installation at Podewil Festival x-tract SCULPTURE MUSICALE, Berlin (D), and permanently at the Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt (D), Live at Documenta 11.
releases
Web Installation:
Christoph Korn (2014): Eingedenken, intermedia radioplay for Audio, Video und Web, www.eingedenken.de, Production: Südwestrundfunk 2014
Christoph Korn (2008): Waldstueck. www.waldstueck.net. Production: Deutschlandfunk/Hessischer Rundfunk/Stiftung Kunstfonds/wemove digital solutions.
Christoph Korn (2005): Sorge und Kapitalismus. www.sorgeundkapitalismus.de. Production: Hessischer Rundfunk.
Christoph Korn (2002): Hyperghetto. www.hyperghetto.de. Production: Hessischer Rundfunk.
CD:
Christoph Korn/Lasse-Marc Riek (2014): series invisible, Collection II, Gruenrekorder, Hanau
Christoph Korn (2014): Eingedenken. Doppel CD and DVD Video. Onomato Verlag Duesseldorf
Christoph Korn (2013): SIMEON, Edition Wandelweiser, Haan
Christoph Korn/Lasse-Marc Riek (2007): series invisible, Collection I, Revolver Books/Frankfurt.
Oliver Augst/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn (2007): Jugend, TEXTxtnd/Deutschlandfunk Frankfurt.
Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn (2005): Post Blank. Cover Art by Albert Oehlen. GROB, Cologne.
Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn/Raymond Pettibon (2002): Blank meets Pettibon. Live from Philharmonie Cologne, Cover Art by Raymond Pettibon, GROB, Cologne.
Oliver Augst/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn (2001): An den deutschen Mond. Revised german Folk Songs, Deutschlandfunk/TEXTxtnd Frankfurt.
Michaela Ehinger/Christoph Korn (2001): Das Hohe Lied Salomos/Shelomos 12 songs. Book and CD. TEXTxtnd, Frankfurt.
Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn (2000): Eisler Prospekt, radioplay. TEXTxtnd, Frankfurt.
Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn (1999): Blank, Cover Art by Günther Förg. FMP, Berlin.
Günter Bozem/Marcel Daemgen/Alfred 23 Harth/Christoph Korn (1999): Alfred Harth´s Secret of development, Blue Noises, Frankfurt
Günter Bozem/Marcel Daemgen/Alfred 23 Harth/Christoph Korn (1999): Alfred Harth´s Trialectrique, rec out 1999, Frankfurt
Alfred 23 Harth/Christoph Korn/Bertram Ritter (1999): Imperial Hoot, rec out 1999, Frankfurt
Christoph Korn/Wolfgang Schliemann/Joachim Zoepf (1999): AQTRZ, NUR/NICHT/NUR, Gnadenthal
Peter Antony, Bülent Ates, Günter Bozem, Marcel Daemgen, Alfred 23 Harth, Christoph Korn, Martin Lejeune, Stefan Lottermann, Harry Petersen (1998): Alfred Harth´s Die Flyby No Net plays Cassini, rec out Frankfurt.
Oliver Augst/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn (1998): Brecht/Eisler, TEXTxtnd, Frankfurt.
Alfred 23 Harth, Christoph Korn, Vladimir Tarasov (1994): CA NaDa dry & 20, rec out, Frankfurt
CD/Compilation:
Christoph Korn (2006): „Wenn alles grünt und blüht auf Emslands Fluren“, „Wo das Lager steht“. In: O bittre Zeit, revised german Lagerlieder 1933 bis 1945, Papenburg. Awarded „Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2006“ [The German Record Critics' Award]
On Kawara (2003): One Million Years, 32 CD Box. directed by: Christoph Korn/Oliver Augst. Der Hörverlag, Munich. Live at Documenta XI.
Christoph Korn (1998): Ritornell. In: Roma Modulare, with Haberer, Kucharski , Lopez , Rüsenberg , di Scipio, Stein, Toop, Zingaro, Goethe Institut Rom/noteworks
LP:
Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn (2005): LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF THE REVOLUTION, cover art by Raymond Pettibon, with Raymond Pettibon, Otomo Yoshihide, Rüdiger Carl, eventuell/A-Musik Cologne.
Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn (2005): DUDEN. Cover Art by Tobias Rehberger, eventuell/A-Musik Köln.
Film/DVD Video:
Christoph Korn (2014): Eingedenken. Doppel CD and DVD Video. Onomato Verlag, Duesseldorf
Christoph Korn (2011-2013): Gesicht, Production: C.R.I.M., Museum of Modern Art Serralves, Duration of the film: 12 hours
Jürgen Heiter (2009): Long live the people of the Revolution. 90 minutes, Essay Film. Book: Jürgen Heiter/Christoph Korn. with: Raymond Pettibon, Marianne Rosenberg, Rüdiger Carl u.o, WDR/Hessische Fernsehförderung/Hessische Filmförderung
Jürgen Heiter (2007): Der Photograph. with: Benjamin Katz, Georg Baselitz, Oliver Augst, Rüdiger Carl, Christoph Korn, Joachim Blüher, Anna und Bernhard Johannes Blume, Jan Hoet, Ora Katz, Walther König, Ralf Küpper, Markus Lüpertz, Jonathan Meese, Werner Nekes, Rudolf Springer, Maria Anna Tappeiner, Cony Theis, Rosemarie Trockel, Verdi-Quartett, Andreas Walther
Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn (2006): Blank plays Duden. Covert Art by Günther Förg and Tobias Rehberger, TEXTxtnd/Revolver, Frankfurt
Christoph Korn (2005): Stern. In: Lisboa.Reloaded. With: Carlos Alberto Augusto, Michael Rüsenberg, Hans Ulrich Werner, Carlos Zíngaro. Real Ambient, Cologne
Filmmusic:
Christine Reeh (2006): Waiting for Europe. Dokumentarfilm, 58min. music: Christoph Korn. Portugal. “Best international documentary” at: New York International Independent Film and Video Festival ’07. Grand prize- Erasmus EuroMedia Award 2007 (Austria).
Christine Reeh (2002): Requiem for my mother. 38 min., Essay-film. music: Christoph Korn. Co-production Asterisk/ESTC, Lisbon
Christine Reeh (2000): Exile. 43 min. Documentary. music: Christoph Korn. ESTC/HFF Munich. Awarded with: “Prémio RTP” beim: XI Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental da Malaposta, Loures, Portugal 2000.
Oliver Hardt/Peter Rippl (Produzenten) (1999): Winterspruch. Music: Oliver Augst/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn. Hessischer Filmprice 1999.
Catalogues
2014 Katharina Groth und Jost Wischnewski (Hrsg.): Input / Output – Schnittpunkt Worpswede. exhibition catalogue, Worpswede 2014
2013 Copenhagen Art Festival: Copenhagen 2013
2012 Dieter Daniels/Inke Arns (Hrsg.): 4´33´´, Sounds like Silence, Dortmund 2012
2012 Parkhaus 1997-2011, Karl Heinz Rummeny und Jost Wischnewski (Hrsg.), Düsseldorf, 2012
2009 Hannes Leopoldseder/ Christine Schöpf/ Gerfried Stocker (Hrsg.): International Compendium – Prix Ars Electronica 2009. Ostfildern 2009.
2008 10 Jahre Kunsthaus AG 1998-2008, Wiesbaden 2008
Texts:
Christoph Korn (2012): I speak. In: Unneeded Texts Vol I, Miguel Leal and Fernando José Pereira (Eds.), Porto (PT), 2012
Christoph Korn (2011): Das Geräusch, book, german and und hebrew, in: Radix Verlag, Düsseldorf (D)
Christoph Korn (2008): Musik machen. In: Winfred Kaminski (Hrsg): Medienkompetenz in der Sozialen Arbeit. Schwalbach/Ts. 2010
Christoph Korn (2007): Writings on sound. In: Field Notes, Gruenrekorder Online Magazin, First Issue. www.gruenrekorder.de. Frankfurt.
Christoph Korn/Lasse-Marc Riek (2007): series invisible, Revolver Books/Frankfurt and Selektion
Christoph Korn (2006): Sprache der Disziplin. In: Dieter Nittel/Cornelia Maier (Hrsg.): Persönliche Erinnerung und kulturelles Gedächtnis, Opladen.
contact: Christoph Korn, Cranachstr. 34, 40235 Duesseldorf, Germany Tel.: 0049 163 2 86 83 67, mail: info / at / christophkorn.de