Thomas Köner

Thomas Köner's works are audiovisual meditations that explore our notion of time, memory, and location. He invites audiences to enjoy impressions of depth, distance, and disappearance, and to fathom the qualities of the space around our limits of perception.

Thomas Köner (b. 1965 Bochum, Germany) studied at Musikhochschule Dortmund and CEM Studio Arnhem. As a media artist, Thomas Köner is a distinctive figure in the fields of contemporary music, techno, and multimedia art, working across the spheres of composition, visual arts, installation work, and music production. For more than three decades his work has been internationally recognized, and he excelled in all the areas of his artistic activity, receiving awards such as Golden Nica Ars Electronica (Linz), Transmediale Award (Berlin), Best Young Artist at ARCO (Madrid), and many more.

His familiarity with both the visual and sonic arts resulted in numerous commissions to create music for silent films for the Auditorium du Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, and others. Likewise, he created installations for diverse situations, including ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago de Chile, to name a few. His works are part of the collections of significant museums, such as Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou Paris, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal.