Born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1970. Marc Behrens works on several cerebral and physical levels. His works mainly consist of concrete electronic music, installations, the occasional photograph or video. Recent activities include field recording trips to remote western China and the Amazon rainforest, founding an incorporated company as a social art work, and staging a rite of passage for an investment banker. Behrens has performed and exhibited extensively across six continents, and developed collaborations with Atom™, Jeremy Bernstein, Ana Carvalho, Bernhard Günter, Nikolaus Heyduck, Francisco López, Paulo Raposo, Achim Wollscheid, among others. 2006–2010 Marc Behrens was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken, Germany (HBKSaar), and 2007–2009 at the University of Applied Arts Darmstadt-Dieburg, Germany.He is a member of the German Association for Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM), Granular (Lisbon), subscriber to the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), and a citizen of The Kingdoms of Elgaland~Vargaland. 2003–2007 he was co-director of the Portuguese music label Sirr. Selected solo shows2010 «Phonebox 9/12, Apparatus» IMO, Copenhagen, Denmark2009 «GGAAFFISEC» Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche, Frankfurt a.M., Germany2005 «Video Works» Space–Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovak Republic2004 «Of Mouths and Explosions», Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, U.K.2003 «Correnti Sonore», with Alessandro Fogar, Centro europeo di arte e cultura Luciano Ceschia, Tarcento/UD, Italy2003 «Foto- und Videoarbeiten», with Stephen Fenton, Galerie Station/Mousonturm, Frankfurt a.M., Germany2002 «tenyearsofart», Wacker Kunst Galerie, Mühltal, Germany2001 MAMÜ Galéria, Budapest, Hungary2000 «Tokyo Circle», Galerie t-u-b-e, Munich, Germany1999 «Experiment in Scale», Kunst.verladehalle, Rüsselsheim, Germany1999 «Keyholes», INM-Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt a.M., Germany1994 «Objekte», with Ho. Turner, Galerie Gartners, Frankfurt a.M., Germany1989 «Virgo», Kunstfabrik Arheilgen, Darmstadt, Germany Selected group shows2012 «God Factor», Mosteiro de Tibães, Braga, Portugal2011 «Paivascapes #1», Binaural, along the Paiva river, Portugal2010 «SoundArt 2010», Praetorium, Cologne, Germany2010 «Deutscher Klangkunstpreis 2010», Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany2008 «The Third Guangzhou Triennial», Time Museum/Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China2007 «Sleppet», Galleri 3_14, Bergen and Møllergata 13, Oslo, Norway2006 «Weather in my Brain», eslite Gallery, Taipei and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan2005 «Mülheimer Profile 2005», Kulturbunker Mülheim, Cologne, Germany2005 «B!AS International Sound Art Exhibition», Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan2004 «Observatori 2004», Museu de las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain2003 «Electrograph», Athens Sound Media 03, Bios, Athens, Greece2003 «Stazione di Topolò», Grimacco/UD, Italy2002 performance with Achim Wollscheid, at «Frequenzen», Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany2001 «Sound in Art», Space–Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovak Republic2000 «Erlanger Hörkunstfestival», Markgraphentheater, Erlangen, Germany2000 «hEXPO – International Festival of Self-Organized Forms», Ljubljana, Slovenia2000 «Hörgänge», Völksen, Germany2000 «Sound Art – Sound as Media», ICC-InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan1998 «Stazione di Topolò», Grimacco/UD, Italy1998 «Salon Vireal», INM-Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt a.M., Germany1992 «Slaughterhouse», Wiesbaden, Germany Residencies2010 Binaural, Nodar, Portugal2008 Mamori Artlab, Brazil2008 Qinghai Province (Goethe-Institut China), China2004 Hull Time-Based Arts, Hull, U.K.2002 Lampo, Chicago, USA1999–2000 INM-Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt a.M., Germany Awards2013 Atmosphären, ZKM | Institut für Musik und Akustik, Karlsruhe2010 Production Award of WDR 3 Culture Radio (featured in German Sound Art Award 2010)2009 nominated for Qwartz 6 Music Award (Anthologies category)2006 «Broadcasting Art I» (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, MUSAC & Radio Nacional de España – Radio 3) Selected publications2013 Queendom Maybe Rise – CD/mp3/FLAC (Crónica/PT)2013 Irregular Characters – CD/booklet (Serralves/SOOPA/PT)2012 Unit/Cutting Qinghai – CD/book (and/OAR/USA)2012 Final Final Ballet – 12"/mp3 (Entr’acte/U.K.)2011 Apparatus – CDR (ΑΓΧΙΒΑΤΕΙΝ/GR)2011 20 Zonen – CD (Auf Abwegen/D)2009 Sleppet – CD/mp3/FLAC (Crónica/PT)2009 A Narrow Angle – CD (Entr’acte/U.K.)2009 Compilation Works 1996–2005 – mp3/m4a (Crónica/PT)2007 Architectural Commentaries 4&5 – CD (Entr’acte/U.K.)2007 Entity Mülheim – double DVD (Auf Abwegen/D)2006 Hades, with Paulo Raposo – CD (and/OAR/USA)2005 Kosovski Rekvijem-Requiem i Kosovës-Kosovo Requiem – 3″CDR (Oblast/USA)2005 Plastic Metal, with Nikolaus Heyduck – double CD (Antifrost/GR)2004 Further Consequences Of Reinterpretation, with Paulo Raposo – CD (Crónica/PT)2004 Animistic (for Donatella) – CD (Auf Abwegen/D)2004 A Szellem Álma, with Francisco López – double CD (.absolute.[koblenz]/D)2003 Security vs. Freedom – double 3″CD (edition.../USA)2002 Architectural Commentaries – CD (CMR/NZ)2001 Elapsed Time – CD (intransitive/USA)2001 Transition – double 3″CD (edition.../USA)2001 Integração – CD (Sirr/PT)1999 Contraction – CD (Digital Narcis/JP)1998 Final Ballet – CD (Rastermusic/Noton/D)1995 Advanced Environmental Control – CD (trente oiseaux/D) Selected productions for radio2013 «Progress» – Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst2012 «Bauteile» (Atom™ & Marc Behrens) – Deutschlandradio Kultur, Klangkunst