Honorary German Sound Art Award 2008 for Christina Kubisch

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The German Sound Art Award has been presented every two years since 2002 for artistic works that specifically address radiophonic and spatial sound art. The award is now being presented for the fourth time by cultural radio station WDR 3, the Glaskasten Sculpture Museum in Marl and INITIATIVE HÖREN. The German Sound Art Award promotes not only sound art as a form of artistic expression but also its research and documentation. In addition, communicating it is intended to raise awareness of the importance of the acoustic environment and acoustic space, and, in the broadest sense, listening competence.

Alongside the three main prizes, the jury of the German Sound Art Award also presents an honorary award for lifetime artistic work This year’s honorary award goes to the internationally known and renowned artist Christina Kubisch, who has represented the teaching area of sculpture and audiovisual art at the Saar College of Fine Arts since 1994.

Christina Kubisch was born in Bremen in 1948. After studying fine arts, music and composition at various colleges in Germany and abroad, she began developing her first concerts and performances in the early seventies, including work with Fabrizio Plessi. At the beginning of the eighties, she created the first sound installations with UV light that are typical of her working method. Following various teaching assignments and subsequent visiting professorships at the UdK in Berlin and the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris, she took up a professorship in sculpture and audiovisual art at the College of Fine Arts in Saarbrücken in 1994, which she still holds today. Christina Kubisch is one of the first female artists in Germany to have worked with the media of sound and light. Both her unmistakable, sensuous “signature” and her teaching have provided inspiration and a model for many younger media artists who followed.

On July 15, 2008, a solo exhibition entitled “Electrical Drawings” opens at the Kunsthalle Bremen, showing the range of her work from 1973 to the present in the form of scores, drawings, texts and film documentation.

The presentation of the German Sound Art Award takes place on June 15, 2008 as part of the Marl Media Art Award ceremony at Marl Town Hall.

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  German Sound Art Award