Markus Oberndorfer on the appeal of depth and the creation of emotional spaces in his art and music
between visual arts and music, why does that appeal to you? Sound and music play a key role in creating emotional spaces and can have a significant influence on our perception. Music does something to people [...] interest to deal with what is presented to them. Explained using the example of music: you can surrender to the mood of a piece of music, but you can also try to interpret it, understand the lyrics or take extracts [...] mean that I categorically exclude other media or digital music, as you can see in my artistic work and its media variety. I also often play music digitally, but it feels different on many levels. Vinyl
MQ Artist-in-Residence Zsolt Sőrés
Program fellowship in 2021. He has been teaching at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music since 2014. Among others he organized experimental music festivals and sound art series between 1995-2011 in Budapest (Pause-Sign [...] solo work MUT NAQ FO MUS (IC), which will be presented at the Venice Music Biennale - 68th International Festival of Contemporary Music in September 2024. In this work, the artist explores the problem of [...] Rogalsky, Richard Scott, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Ute Wassermann among others. He runs his own music label Hinge Thunder since 2020. Zsolt Sores, 2022 © Hajnal Szolga linktr.ee/zsoltsores Zsolt Sőrés
MQ Writer-in-Residence Kinga Toth
with the composer Silvia Rosani on “Electrical Jungles” (a project with literature, performance, music and participatory modern theater) as part of the Hannsmann Poethen Stipendium, Stuttgart. Since 2021 [...] categorized as flash fiction. Over the past few years, graphics, videos, montages, audio material and music have also been created to accompany this work, but she has still not quite achieved her goal of reaching
MQ Artist-in-Residence Ismail Myrseli
researcher, music educator and social activist. He holds a degree in archaeology from the Faculty of Anthropology at the University of Prishtina and works as a cultural worker, artist and music educator. [...] will complete an internship at mica - music austria during his two-month residency at the MQ. Myrseli would also like to present his ethnomusicological study of the music scene in Prishtina and Belgrade. This [...] in-depth retrospective look at relationships based on the first anti-fascist and socialist alternative music gatherings. The story is traced through personal narratives of the participants interviewed: five
MQ Artist-in-Residence Małgorzata Markiewicz
animate this web in any other way than wearing it and crawling. The crawl is accompanied by the trance music of musician Patryk Zakrocki and will be performed in March 2025 at the Neues Museum Nuremberg. In
MQ Artist-in-Residence Mykola Lebed
artist specializing in music and sound, working at the intersection of acoustic and electronic music. His work blends elements of minimalism, free jazz, improvisation, ambient music, and field recording [...] area: Music, Sound Art, Research Mykola Lebed © Yuri Gryaznov Mykola Lebed © Eugene Zhyvchik Mykola Lebed © Sasha Halushchak Mykola Lebed © Regina Zhelezniakov Key Facts nationality Ukraine area Music, Sound [...] recording. Classically trained as a pianist and saxophonist at Rivne Music College, Mykola has expanded beyond classical music to explore the psychedelic, metal, and free-improvisation scenes in Ukraine. He has
MQ Artist-in-Residence Joe Lyimo
works in his home country. In his work, he blends a wide range of musical styles – from hip-hop to classical, jazz, and electronic music – creating energetic and dynamic soundscapes. Throughout his career [...] Joe Lyimo area: Music, Fine Arts Goethe Talents performance (Pop-Kultur Festivals), 2023, © FYJ Nitafanya, 2024, © FYJ The Upcoming Artists Show, 2024, © FYJ Echoes of Luxuria (Poem), 2023, © FYJ Uvumbuzi [...] Uvumbuzi Residency (Sanaa Za Usawa Project), 2023, © FYJ Key Facts nationality Tanzanian area Music, Fine Arts residence Dar es salaam recommending institution Artists at Risk time period May 2025 - June 2025
MQ AiR Matea Kovač on intimacy, visibility and emotion
designer Vjeran Šalamon was also very important for Y because he had complete freedom in creating the music and sounds, and gave the film a new perspective. Collaboration is a dialogue, and the result of that
MQ AiR Hilke Rönnfeldt on closeness, interpersonal complexity and creative processes
That varies a lot, I think there is always something personal for me in it to different degrees. Music is an important part of my life, so this informs my work a lot, not only in the literal sense, but
MQ Artist-in-Residence Anton Lapov
Ukraine. He has been curating and participating in events in the field of experimental electronic music and media-art in Ukraine and abroad for more than a decade. Lapov's artistic practice combines me [...] projects and ongoing works, situating them within a broader narrative about the marginalized art and music scenes in Luhansk and Donetsk—from the early 1990s to the present day. Particular emphasis will be