Curriculum Vitae

Thom Kubli (*1969) works as artist and composer in Berlin. His practice is multidisciplinary, blending elements of composition, sculpture, and conceptual approaches. His installation pieces oscillate between spectacle and contemplation, exploring the boundaries of physical space and viewers behavior by inventive use of digital technologies.

His performances and installations have been shown internationally, amongst others at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, Ars Electronica, Linz , Transmediale, Berlin, Eyebeam, NYC, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, FILE, São Paulo, LABoral, Spain and in numerous art galleries. His composition pieces and experimental radio plays have been widely broadcasted through public radio stations as WDR/Ars Acustica, DLRK, ORF, SRF and others.

Education

2004 MFA, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Grants/Awards

2015 Artist in Residence SCALAR, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2012 Artist in Residence EMPAC, Troy, New York
2010 Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts, EMPAC, Troy, NY
2009 Project Stipend, Kunststiftung NRW, Cologne
2007 Project Stipend, Filmförderung NRW, Cologne
2006 Artist in Residence, TESLA, Berlin
2005 Artist in Residence EMPAC, Troy, New York
2005 Honorable Mention Category Interaction, Transmediale Festival, Berlin
2003 First Price Category Interaction, Viper Festival, Basel
2003 Honorable Mention Category Interaction, Transmediale Festival, Berlin

Selected Solo-Exhibitions

2015 Black Hole Horizon, Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt
2008 Record Attempt, Figge Von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
2012 Black Hole Horizon, EMPAC, Troy, New York
2006 Global Contentifier, Open Studio, TESLA, Berlin
2005 Monochrome Transporter, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne
2004 Determinale Verschweifungen, New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York City (in collaboration with Sven Mann)

Selected Group-Exhibitions

2017 Bubbling Universes, FILE Sáo Paulo
2017 Humansbeingdigital, The Lowry, Manchester
2016 Alchemists Of Our Time, Ars Electronica, Linz
2016 More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, Futura, Prague
2014 Marler Medienkunstpreis 2014, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl
2012 ACTIVE PRESENCE: Action, Object and Audience, LABoral, Gijon, Spain
2010 Float! Thinktank 21, Marian Spore, New York
2010 Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity, EMPAC, New York
2009 INSIDEOUT, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
2008 Sonic Acts XII: Future Cinema, De Balie, Amsterdam
2005 What Sound Does a Color Make?, Eyebeam, New York
2005 BASICS, Transmediale 05, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2003 Unter Strom, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
2003 Fly Utopia!, Transmediale 03, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2003 Zeitnah, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Audio Compositions

2016 Children of the Convolution, Center for Contemporary Art Futura, Prag
2015 New York INSIDE, Ars Acustika, WDR Cologne
2014 Labortag (with Lynn Hershman), ZKM Karlsruhe
2013 Exrotasound, Akademie der Künste/Berlin
2012 Record Attempt, LABoral, Gijon Spanien und MARCO Vigo, Spanien

Radio Play Compositions

2015 Die Wupper, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf
2015 Choco Be, Saarländischer Rundfunk
2014 Nicht Genug, Saarländischer Rundfunk
2014 Dancefloor Memories, Saarländischer Rundfunk
2013 Drei Menschen und das Salz im Meer, Deutschlandradio Kultur
2013 Das Hibernat, WDR
2012 Cici-Letters, WDR
2010 Zwang. Eine Haft. Eine Notiz, WDR
2009 Das Haus, WDR

Selected Bibliography/Print Media

Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker, Radical Atoms and Alchemist of our Time, (Hatje Cantz 2016), S110
Georg Elben, Marler Medienkunstpreise 2013/2014, (Wienand, 2015), 160-161
Marcel Marburger, Thom Kubli, Black Hole Horizon (Kunstverein Ingolstadt, 2015)
Peter Kiefer, ed., Klangräume der Kunst (Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2010), 366-367.
Kathleen Forde, ed., Dancing on the Ceiling: Art and Zero Gravity (New York: EMPAC, 2010), 22-23, 43.
Umi, The Politics of Sound: Thom Kubli´s Sound Installations, CASE DE HABITARE China, No.34 (2010), 61-63, 130-131.
Alan Licht, Sound Art: Beyond Music, between Categories (New York: Rizolli, 2007), 119.
Kathleen Forde, What Sound Does A Color Make? (New York: Independent Curators International, 2005) 23.
Christian Huther, Unter Strom: Klangskulpturen, Roboterplastiken, multimediale Installationen, Kunstforum No. 172 (2004): 359.
Jürgen Kisters, Genlaboratorium, Kunstforum No. 155 (2001): 383.

Selected Interviews

Vanessa Graf, Black Hole Horizon, Interview with Thom Kubli, Ars Electronica Blog (2016)
Emily Berçir Zimmerman, Interview with Thom Kubli, Contemporary Performance (2012)

Selected Online Media

Silas Marti, Festival de arte eletrônica troca videogames por obras esculturais, Folha De S.Paulo (2017)
Dominique Moulon, Ars Electronica, Bits and Atoms, MediaArtDesign.net (2016)
Roman Gerold, Ars Electronica: Und die Topfpflanzen gehen doch spazieren, derStandart.at (2016)
Alan Licht, The Complete Collection: Marian Spore, Rhizome (2011)
Ralph Gardner, Primordial Fear and Politics, The Wall Street Journal (2010)
Roberta Smith, What Sound Does a Color Make? Art in Review, The New York Times (2005)