Tilman Küntzel

Born in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße in 1959; Tilman Küntzel is a sound artist. From 1985 to 1990 he studied fine art at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg with Henning Christiansen and Claus Böhmler, and musicology at the University of Hamburg in 1992/93; in 1993 he studied with Allan Kaprow at the University of California in San Diego on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service. In his installations and multimedia works he explores the interplay between hearing and seeing. From 1992 he was an associate lecturer in aesthetics and communication at the Fachhochschule Lüneburg, and in 2007 a guest lecturer in sound art at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 1992 he was among the prizewinners of the Forum junger Kunst in Stuttgart, in 1999 he was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and in 2002 he received the Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 8 – 90 Seconds of Reality (2005) he is represented with “Crystal Bussing” (2003).