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SAVE THE DATE – 8 MAY 2025
GRAND OPENING CEREMONY AT LOTHRINGER 13 HALLE
More details soon – stay tuned!
NEWS – Lothringer 13 Halle, Artistic Direction
I’m proud to announce my appointment as the Artistic Director of Lothringer 13 Halle, starting in April 2025.
I can’t wait to expand my practice into new dimensions and continue challenging the ongoing cultural doom loop through collective empowerment and progressive programming beyond institutional frameworks.
Thanks to the committee of the Kulturreferat Munich for their trust, as well as to everyone who has supported my eclectic journey over the past years.
Special thanks to Christian Kain for visiting my studio and documenting this moment of transition.
ON VIEW: ZUCKER, at Galerie Mitte, Bremen & NEBYULA, Munich
ZUCKER – artistic and curatorial alliance between NEBYULA, Munich and Galerie Mitte Bremen. Curated by Rebekka Kronsteiner & Kalas Liebfried
Munich Opening: 08 November 2024
Through 28 February 2025
Bremen Opening: 15 November 2024
Through 15 February 2025
Parallel group show with works by The Berg, Marco Fusinato, Kira Keune, Luise Marchand, Rosanna Marie Pondorf, Anna Raczynska, Renen – g.i.i.c.s:, Alexander Scharf, Lazar Stojić, Joseph Maurus Wandinger
MONEY talks, so shut the fuck up and listen.
This line from Domo Genesis’ track Power Ballad hits the core of our exploration: the unspoken relationship between money and power, the fine line between silence and confession that shapes our reality. In a system founded on the old maxim »You don’t talk about money«, change can only occur when this silence is broken and the inevitable interplay between capital and culture – both ideological and material – is dissected.
Bild: Anna Raczynska – Future Primitive
FRAGMENTS OF SONIC EXTINCTION – THIRD EDITION
CONCERTS: 15 JUNE, ZIRKA MUNICH > TICKETS
The Third Edition of Fragments of Sonic Extinction (FOSE) focuses on retrieving the processes of healing to acoustic diversity. By opening interactive paths for this recovery of reconnection to Earth’s biospheres and their interconnected sonic environments, the processes are characterised by a common and entangled notion of eco-social justice: the newly commissioned works reveal methods of response to past, current and future environmental issues and create mutual grounds of approach to the deep systemic urgencies we face as (more-than-human) communities. It’s time to rewire, to shift our perception and active awareness together as humans with (and dependent on) the vast intelligence of the non-human, which, along with other underrepresented groups, deserves justice.
WILD TERRIER ORCHESTRA
IMPERIAL ANIMISM
C-60 Cassette Tape, out via Extended Techniques / Boomkat and all digital platforms!
Last December I joined my beloved friend maestro Dimitris Papadatos aka Jay Glass Dubs and his project Wild Terrier Orchestra to collaboratively compose a score for my hybrid project IMPERIAL ANIMISM. As always sound is the first element to think and communicate through in my works: this album stands on its own and will become a soundtrack in the second place when the video work is released in 2024.
IMPERIAL ANIMISM is a de-mystification of places, narrations and artifacts connected to the intertwining of racist and ecological ideologies and the colonial animal sculptures of German sculptor Fritz Behn.
The pieces are dedicated to three animal sculptures which fueled Germanys colonial ambitions and are still out there mostly unrecognised: a lioness in Munich, an elephant in Bremen and an antelope in Cologne.
Recorded in Athens, Munich, Paris, Brussels and Milan, 2023
SOUND OF LIFE INTERVIEW
FRAGMENTS OF SONIC EXTINCTION – SECOND EDITION
1 – 12 MAY 2023: ONLINE at WWW.SONICEXTINCTION.NET
13 MAY 2023: LIVE, FESTIVAL AND EXHIBITION at ZIRKA SPACE, MUNICH
Interview with BOMB magazine
RELEASE: AMP WALL MONUMENT CONFRONTATION, 2 LP
Double LP, 12“ vinyl, including gatefold cover + booklet, 16 p., b/w, edition of 300
feat. reworks by Lamin Fofana, Elsa M’Bala, FRKTL, Cedrik Fermont and Jay Glass Dubs. Accompanied by a print insert including the related score and an essay by Australian art historian Damian Lentini (curator, Haus der Kunst, Munich).
AMP WALL MONUMENT recontextualizes the Otto-von-Bismarck monument at the Deutsches Museum (Boschbrücke, Munich) using sound and performance. To call attention to the imperialistic, nationalistic, and colonial contexts, a sculpture and counter monument consisting of 21 guitar amplifiers has been installed for one day in front of the monument. Seven electric guitars were connected to the sound system. An ambient drone composition was performed on them with seven guitarists for four hours.
Fragments of Sonic Extinction – First Edition
Fragments of Sonic Extinction is an ongoing project demonstrating a subjective approach towards the extinction of natural sounds, focusing on the sonic character of endangered (and already vanished) species, along with their relationship to a variety of cultural histories. In the form of a website (www.sonicextinction.net), this project intends to shift the focus on ephemeral extinction and the complexity of the rapid changes within the sonic spheres of our world.
Contributions will be released weekly, every Friday, starting on 10 June through 29 July, 2022 via www.sonicextinction.net
works by: Nursalim Yadi Anugerah • Mitchell Akiyama • Lea Bertucci • Jay Glass Dubs • Alexander Liebermann • Kalas Liebfried feat. Rozenn le Trionnaire • Alba Vega Mulet • Laura Margaret Ramsey
Creation, Art Direction: Kalas Liebfried
Technical Implementation: Maximilian Rauh
Graphic Design: Alexander Scharf
MARCH ’22
Kalas Liebfried: Circulation et Extinction feat. Rozenn le Trionnaire (clarinette)
Sound performance in resonance to Joseph Beuys : Ligne à ligne, feuille à feuille
13 March 2022 – 4 pm
MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE DE PARIS
OUT NOW
PORTS IN TRANSITION, C-60 cassette tape, edition of 100, Molten Moods Records / AE01
Ports in Transition is an immersive one hour sound piece which explores the acoustic landscapes of the Mediterranean and makes transmission noises and a field recording of ship horns at the port of Piraeus it’s core reference.
The sound piece premiered at the Movement 1920-2020 festival (Onassis Stegi, Athens) and was commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Athens and the Onassis Foundation, in partnership with Lenbachhaus Munich.
The release marks the launch of Aether, a new Molten Moods sublabel focusing on immersive music.
OBSCURE AMBIENCE, monograph, 144 pages, 24 x 29,7 cm, 106 col. illustrations, softcover with flaps, german/english, published by Edition Metzel
ORDER VIA EDITION METZEL
LISTEN TO THE SONIC RELEASE VIA RADIO 80000
2021 – PROJECTS
READING THE AIR, solo show, GiG, Munich
19.11.2021 – 21.01.2022
NEW AGE BALKAN, solo show, Goethe-Institut Sofia
28.9.-22.10.2021
JUNE – JULY
AMBIENT DU PASSAGE, solo show, Goethe-Institut, Paris
24.06. – 18.07.2021
JUNE
AMP WALL MONUMENT CONFRONTATION
A sonic experience for 21 amplifiers, 7 guitars and 1 monument
The performance was staged on Saturday, 12 June 2021, 4 p.m. – 8 p.m., at the Otto-von-Bismarck-Monument, Boschbrücke/Deutsches Museum, Munich.
This project is funded by the City of Munich, Department of Arts and Culture, Public Art
DIGITAL SOUND EXHIBITION AND RADIO TAKE OVER
Curated by Jakob Braito, Anja Lekavski and Kalas Liebfried, hosted by Radio 80k
Together with 31 national and international artistic positions from the fields of experimental music, sound art, new radio concepts, performance and sound installation, we present a radio takeover and digital sound exhibition that interferes with the inherent linearity of conventional radio programs. Following the theme “Unset Time and Pace”, we want to focus on the digital nature of sound and the related detachment and suspension of time and tempo. In March 2021, we create a parasitic structure of co-habitation at the interface of sound and visual art.
ARCHIVE 2020
The Goethe-Institut Brussels in collaboration with KIKK Festival, its Creative Hub & Fab Lab TRAKK and the cultural center Les Abattoirs de Bomel are awarding a grant for a residency project on ECOLOGICAL FUTURES. The residency program will take place in Namur from the 2nd to the 30st of September 2020.
REVIEW
Magdalena Wisniowska on speculative realism, atmosphere and my recent work „Iconic Air“
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Interview
Questionnaire for Passe-Avant – online magazine for contemporary art
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