RUBÉN D’HERS
Rubén D’Hers was born in Venezuela and is now based in Berlin. Acoustic guitars, zithers, piano strings, cable, stones, hanging motors, pliers, waving cords, bird feathers, cages and refrigerators parts comprise his works to move between composition, sculpture and sound installations. His work operates from chord based compositions that become sound spaces exploring the vertical and the static. His recent work examines the ubiquity, the stationary and imperceptible quality of sounds in interior spaces related to ventilation & cooling systems, thus trying to unveil their potential as found musical material while inquiring into how closed spaces sound like and how they can appeal to our involuntary aural imagery.
D’Hers’ work has been awarded by Berlin Senate Deparment of Culture and Europe (2017), Cisneros Fontanals Foundation CIFO (2018) and Kunstfonds Stiftung (2020), exhibited and performed at venues like Funkhaus Berlin, Centro Cultural Metropolitano Quito (EC), Artica Svalbard (NO), Interstice - Rencontres des Inclassables (FR) Klangraum Krems (AT), Cashmere Radio (DE), Netwerk Center for Contemporary Arts (BE), Heart of Noise Festival (AT), The Empty Gallery (HK), Donau Festival (AT), Le Bon Accueill (FR), Autres Mesures - festival de musique contemporaine in situ (FR), Ohrenhoch (DE), City Sonic Sound Art Festival (BE), Kunsthaus Bregenz (AT), Kontejner (HR), Oficina #1 (VE), ZKM Karlsruhe (DE), Neues Museum Weimar (DE), SeaM Weimar (DE) & LAB 30 (DE).
He holds an MFA in Sound Studies at the Berlin University of Arts, a BFA in Media Art & Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
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