MARIO ASEF

Mario Asef wildpalms proudly represents conceptual artist Mario Asef, whose artistic works develop out of the illusory construction of social reality. Born 1971 in Cordoba (ARG), Mario lives and works in Berlin. Studied Architecture and Urban Development in Cordoba, and Fine Art in Karlsruhe, London and did his Meisterschuler at UDK in Berlin. Cofounder of the sound art space in Berlin Errant Sounds.

www.marioasef.net

https://errantsound.net

CV

1971 born in Córdoba, Argentina. Lives and work in Berlin

Education

1990-95 University of Architecture and Urban Development. Córdoba, Argentina.
1998-2000 Academy of Visual Art, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2003 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
2000-2004 University of the Art (UdK) Berlin, Master of Art.

Solo Exhibitions

2018 – 19 Cenit, THE DRAWING HUB, Berlin / Wildpalms, Düsseldorf / Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Kemmuna Nation, Fragmenta Malta, Malta
2017 Acousmatic Lectures Series, Errant Sound, Berlin
2015 Objekte sind operationale Relationen im Prozess des Sprachhandelns, Manière Noire, Berlin
2015 Lotería Nacional, La Miscelanea – Unarte, Puebla, Mexico
2014 Drei Anachronismen, Wildpalms at Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin
2013 Crossfade, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
2012 Prosthesis 9t, Die Raum, Berlin
2012 Crossfade, Junge Kunst Wolfsburg e.V. Wolfsburg (cat.)
2009 Raumprothesen, Arttransponder, Berlin (cat.)
2007 Die Repräsentation als Wirklichkeit, Galerie Metro, Berlin
2007 Signal Wave, Les Voutes, Paris
2006 EMPIRIEN, Brotfabrik Galerie, Berlin (cat.)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Topiate, Frontviews, Berlin
2021 Acousmatic Appearances, The Listening Biennial, ErrantSound,Berlin

2020 FESE El lenguaje de las cosas, Puerto contemporaneo Espacio. Bogotá, Colombia
2020 Sound Nodes, Bärenzwinger, Berlin
2020 Poesie Festival Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (canceled due to COVID 19)
2019 Dystopia Festival, KASA Gallery, Istanbul
2019 Future Soundscapes, Silent Green, Berlin
2019 sonomemo – Sound and Memory, Errant Sound, Berlin
2018 Crossfades, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea
2017 Rebellion, Scotty, Berlin
2017 In the Sound Field, Errant Sound, Berlin
2016 Books, wildpalms, Düsseldorf, DE 

2016 wildpalms, Untitled, Miami Beach, USA
2016 Sound Matters, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2015 The Art of Voice – The Voice Observatory, Errant Bodies – sound art project space, Berlin
2015 Manifold Mapping, Casa Imelda, Mexico City
2014 Returning to Sender, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2014 Post-Colonial Flagship Store, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2014 More than a Million, GlogauAir, Berlin
2014 Stadt als Klangtext, Sound – sound art project space, Berlin
2013 Estate of the Real, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin
2013 PREVIEW 13- Berlin Art Fair, Berlin
2013 Instrumental, Leap Berlin, a sound-performance on a sound-installation by Andy Graydon
2012 Surf+Anarchie+Alchemie, Amtsrichterhaus Schwarzenbek, curator: Frank Barth with Peter Friedl, Carsten Höller, Gregor Schneider, Susanne Klein, a.o.
2012 Dazzling & Haunted, Art Claims Impulse – Berlin Art-Week, Berlin
2012 Reality Terror, Depo-Istanbul, Istanbul (cat.)
2012 Faraway, so close, Fichte-Bunker, Berlin (cat.)
2011 Pixel Pops 2011, Nouvel Organon, Paris
2011 Abstract, Essays and Observations, Berlin
2011 Tape Modern No. 24 NAVIGATING DARKNESS
Curated by Mira O’Brien and Helen Homan Wu, Berlin
2011 Lichter Art Award, Frankfurt a. Main, curators: Saul Judd, Matthias Ulrich
2011 Emblem of Modernity, Pink Gallery, Berlin
2010 Man Son 1969, Villa Merkel, with Martin Kippenberger, Bruce Nauman, Peter Friedl, Cindy Sherman , a.o. curators: Andreas Baur, Frank Barth, Dirck Möllmann, Esslingen, Germany (cat.)
2010 10 Years at Kasa, Kasa Gallery, curators: Selim Birsel, Aslı Çetinkaya, Erdağ Aksel, Istanbul (cat.)
2010 Klondike River, Treasure Land, curator: Horst Griese, Achim Bitter, André Korpys and Markus Löffler, Bremen, Germany
2010 Weil’ auf mir, du dunkles Auge, bauer&ewald, with Jeremiah Day, Klara Hobza, Daniel Seiple, and Erik Smith
2009 Man Son 1969, Hamburger Kunsthalle, with Joseph Beuys, Max Beckman, Dan Graham, a.o. curators: Frank Barth, Dirck Möllmann, Hamburg (cat.)
2008 Architektur, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Austria (cat.)
2007 Capital 2014, curator: Caroline Lund, Lund, Sweden (cat.)
2007 Legal Tender, KASA Gallery, Istanbul
2007 Science Fiction, Galerie Metro, Berlin
2007 have to leave my STUDIO, SSamzie Space, curator: Hyunjin Shin, Seoul, South Korea (cat.)
2007 PREVIEW 07- The Emerging Art Fair, Video lounge curated by Sabine Schuetze, Berlin
2006 Urbane Legend, SSamzie Space, curator: Soohyun Park, Seoul, South Korea (cat.)
2004 Frize Art Fair, Dosensos, Resonance FM, London
2004 Der negative Horizont, Podewil, Berlin
2003 Mobile Background, Launch Option Berlin, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
2002 Evolutionäre Zellen, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
2002 Station, Kunstraum Bethanien, Kreuzberg, Berlin

Festivals and Screenings (selected listing)
2020 Dystopie Sound Art Festival. Berlin Brasil.
2019 Acousmatics as a Laboratory, Symposium at Kunstraum Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg
2018 How to Build an Art Biennale – Imagined Biennales, Tate Modern, London
2018 On Limits, Borders, Edges and Boundaries, Else Foundation, Mexico
2018 Tier-Bild-Ton, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2017 Fieldrecording as a Personal Practice, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2016 Lecturer by Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
2016 Lecturer by El Quijote: Diseñador de su propia experiencia, IED, Madrid
2016 Lecturer by Conversas II, Berlin
2015 Acousmatic Lecture, org. Schlegel Graduate School – Freie Universität Berlin, KuLe, Berlin
2013 Vis-à-vis / Soundgate, org. by Berliner Pool, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
2010 Port2010 / Soundgate, museum of modern art Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark
2010 SoundLAB VII , cologne global heritage of digital culture, Cologne, Germany
2010 The Other and The Self, video stream, Voges Gallery, curated by Saul Judd, Frankfurt
2009 Transmediale 09, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2009 Arte, Salud y Sociedad, Proyecto Circo, curator: Ada Azor, La Havana, Cuba
2009 Bordet, Abandoned Gallery, curator: Anna Norberg, Malmö, Sweden
2009 The Other and The Self, video stream, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Zeppelin 2009 – Sonidos del Poder – Centro de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain
2008 Zeppelin 2008 – Sorderas – Centro de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona, Spain
2008 Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Berlin, Paris
2007 Transmediale 07, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2006 Architektur und Film Festival – Out of Disaster – Brotfabrik, Berlin
2005 Art in the Age of New Technologies, Armenian Centre of Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia (cat.)

Awards and Scholarships

2015 Bezirkamt Pankow project funding, Berlin
2015 Initiative Neue Musik project funding, Berlin
2014 Quartier21 – Artist in Residence Program, Vienna
2014 Casa Imelda Artist in Residence, Mexico City, funded by IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany
2012 Crossfade, project-funding Vokswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany
2009 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Raumprothesen, project-funding Arttransponder, Berlin, Germany
2007 Stiftung-Künstlerdorf, artist in residence program, Schöppingen, Germany
2007 Signal Wave, project funding Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2006 Schinckel Progressive – SSamzie Space, artist in residence program Seoul
2006 EMPIRIEN, catalogue funding Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2006 EMPIRIEN, project funding Kulturamt Pankow, Berlin
2006 Award of the Architektur und Film Festival – Out of Disaster-, Berlin
2004 Scholarship of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin

Other activities:

2015 Workshop holder summer semester ’15
in Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
Since 2014 member of Errant Sound – a sound art project space in Berlin, where he is
organising interdisciplinary lectures for artists and scientists
2007 Co-founder of Metro Gallery
2007 Organizer and curator of KaWe – aufsicht extended a show presenting works of guards from KW
Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin in the break room for workers of KW Institute for
Contemporary Art Berlin, coordially invited by Salon Familien Kartenrecht
2005/06 Workshop presenter about Sound Art in the Universität der Künste Berlin
2010/12 Workshop presenter about Contemporary Art in Vsions of Art, online teaching

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
Press
2020 Mario Asef: Kunst und Ökologie, w/k zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst. Ein Gespräch mit Peter Tepe und Till Bödeker 
2019 Mario Asef: Acousmatic Lectures, w/k Zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst  
2018 Daegu Photo Biennale 2018 – Next Image, Daeugu, South Korea
2018 Jack Lope n1, Madrid
2016 Diagram is a Trivial Machine in Art Margins, MIT Press
2016 Aquamediale 11, festival catalogue, Spreewald, Germany
2015 Voces, Issue 2, publisher Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
2014 PCFS, exhibition catalogue, Museumsquartier Vienna
2013 Crossfade, exhibition catalogue, Kerber Verlag -Young Art Edition, Germany
2012 Reality Terror, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul 
2012 Faraway so Close, exhibition catalogue, NODE Berlin 
2010 Klondike-River, exhibition catalogue, HfK Bremen
2010 10 Years at Kasa, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul 
2009 Raumprothesen, catalogue, Berlin
2009 Man Son 1969, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle 
2008 Architektur, exhibition catalogue, Bregenz, Austria
2007 Capital 2014, exhibition catalogue, Lund, Sweden
2007 have to leave my STUDIO, studio program catalogue, Seoul, South Korea 
2006 EMPIRIEN, catalogue, Berlin 
2006 Urbane Legend, exhibition catalogue, Seoul – Berlin 
2006 II. European Month of Photography, Berlin 
2005 Art in the Age of New Technologies, exhibition catalogue, Armenia 
2004 Wo liegt Berlin? exhibition catalogue, Berlin 
2004 Guestroom, contemporary art magazine, London – Munich 
2003 Der Film entsteht vor Ort, Labor-Sonor-audio-CD, Charhizma Berlin 

 


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Mario Asef, Argentinian Artists, resident in Germany, at wildpalms
SELECTION OF WORKS

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Series Cenit

Mario Asef Cenit science drawing wildpalms
Eclipse. 2017. Unique. Ink, pencil and marker on paper, 31,3 x 20,9cm. Framed 34 x 44,2 cm
Mario Asef Cenit art science drawing wildpalms
Nadir, 2017. Unique. Ink, pencil and marker on paper, 31,3 x 20,9cm. Framed 34 x 44,2 cm. From the Series Cenit.
Mario Asef Cenit art science drawing wildpalms
Sombras. 2017. Unique. Ink, pencil and marker on paper, 31,3 x 20,9cm. Framed 34 x 44,2 cm. From the Series Cenit.
Mario Asef Cenit conceptual art science drawing wildpalms
Moon. 2017. Boosk sheet, posted, paint. 31,3 x 20,9cm. Framed.

Series Three Anachronisms

Mario Asef conceptual art science drawing wildpalms
Drawing. 2017.
Mario Asef videoart wildpalms
Three Anachronisms. 2014. Video.
EXHIBITION VIEWS (selection)
Mario Asef argentinian artist, exhibition view at wildpalms Berlin. Video
3 Anachronisms/3 Anachronisms. Installation view. wildpalms, Berlin, 2014.
Mario Asef argentinian artist exhibition view at wildpalms Berlin
3 Anachronisms/3 Anachronisms. Installation view. wildpalms, Berlin, 2014.
Mario Asef exhibition view at wildpalms Berlin
Cenit II. Installation view. wildpalms Düsseldorf, DE. 2018.
Mario Asef exhibition view at wildpalms Berlin
Cenit II. Installation view. wildpalms Düsseldorf, DE. 2018.
Mario Asef exhibition view at wildpalms Berlin
Cenit. wildpalms / Drawing Hub, Berlin, DE. 2017.
Kemmuna Nation blockchain Mario Asef wildpalms
Kemmuna Nation. 2018. Installation view St. Marija Tower, FRAGMENTA, Comino, Malta.
Crossfades. Installation view. Daegu Photo Biennale, Korea, 2018.
Crossfade Mario Asef wildpalms Biennale Daegu
Crossfades. Video installation view. Daegu Photo Biennale, Korea, 2018.
Lotteria Nacional. 2015. Unarte, Puebla, Mexico.
Lotteria Nacional. 2015. Unarte, Puebla, Mexico.