Augustin Maurs

Maurs draws on his musical background (Paris CRR conservatory and Berlin Music Academy Hanns Eisler) to explore processes of music making as such and within their different historical, social or political components. His work consists of a body of “interplays”, located at the crossroad between performative, conceptual and collaborative practices. Current and recent works include Out of tune (2024), commissioned by Steirischer Herbst, Syncopations (2024) presented at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, The Story of the Wolf Tone (2023), for the Sound Biennale in Valais, Nothing More (2022), commissioned by Bergen the Assembly Triennale, or I Have Not Words (2018), conceived for the world’s largest propaganda loudspeaker and presented at the Busan Biennale. Augustin Maurs has also developed an important curatorial activity, notably as a curator of the music program of the Geneva artfair, artgenève/ musique, where he assembled a series of exhibitions, performances or concerts including a.o. artists Saâdane Afif, Isabel Lewis, Pierre Huyghe, Angela Buloch, Susan Philipsz, Anri Sala, Annika Larsson or Monica Bonvicini and in collaboration with a.o. the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, the Goldoni theatre in Venice or the Berlin Philharmonie.