Person Benoît Maubrey

Benoît Maubrey was born of French parents in Washington DC in 1952. He graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Georgetown University. Since 1990 he lives and works in Berlin/Germany and Baitz/Brandenburg His performance and installation work has been presented in many international art festivals (a selection): Ars Electronica (1985), SONAMBIENTE/ Academy of Arts Berlin(1996), Tokyo City Opera/ NTTICC(1997), International Symposium of Electronic Arts/Chicago (1997), The Kitchen /NYC, SeoulPerforming Arts Festival, Location One/NYC, Gracia Territoria Sonor/Barcelona, (2003) ,Sitelines Festival/NYC (2006), Mostra des Artes/ Sao Paulo (2008), MuseumQuartier/Vienna(2010) , Zero1 Festival/San Jose, (2012) ZKM/Karlsruhe, SOUND ART , 2014 MaerMusik/ BerlinerFestspiel, 2015 (2015) Kobe Biennale, Brno International Music Festival. Marl, Kobe Biennale 2015, Tokushima LED Festival 2017, Cafka Festival / Kitchener , Canada 2018, Cairotronica Festival, Cairo/ Egypt. Awards: Prix Ars Electronica 1991 Anerkennung , European Award for Street Theatre/ Holzminden 1995, Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance NYC 2006, Palmarès du 35e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2004 (the LINE) and 2009 (CyberBirds), Grand Prix International Video Danse 2002 (Mention Speciale). Marler Video Installations Preis 2008, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, 2015 Kobe Biennale, 2017 1st Prize for HUK (Hacking Urban Furniture) from Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik . 2018 Media Architecture Biennale Prize for "Participatory Architecture & Urban Interaction”.