MARIO ASEF

wildpalms proudly represents conceptual artist Mario Asef, whose artistic works develop out of the illusory construction of social reality.

Born 1971 in Cordoba (ARG), Mario lives and works in Berlin. Studied Architecture and Urban Development in Cordoba, and Fine Art in Karlsruhe, London and did his Meisterschuler at UDK in Berlin. Cofounder of the sound art space in Berlin Errant Sounds.

www.marioasef.net

https://errantsound.net

www.marioasef.net

Education

1990–1995 — University of Architecture and Urban Development, Córdoba, Argentina
1998–2000 — Academy of Visual Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000–2004 — University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Master of Arts
2003 — Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

Solo Exhibitions

2025 — MOTHER-BURN, duo show with Kirstin Burckhardt, MOS, Gorzów, Poland
2025 — SHELTER-BONE, duo show with Kirstin Burckhardt, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
2018–2019 — Cenit, The Drawing Hub, Berlin / wildpalms, Düsseldorf / Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
2018 — Kemmuna Nation, Fragmenta, Malta
2017 — Acousmatic Lectures Series, Errant Sound, Berlin
2015 — Objekte sind operationale Relationen im Prozess des Sprachhandelns, Manière Noire, Berlin
2015 — Lotería Nacional, La Miscelánea / UNARTE, Puebla, Mexico
2014 — Drei Anachronismen, wildpalms at Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin
2013 — Crossfade, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
2012 — Prosthesis 9t, Die Raum, Berlin
2012 — Crossfade, Junge Kunst Wolfsburg e.V., Wolfsburg
2009 — Raumprothesen, Arttransponder, Berlin
2007 — Die Repräsentation als Wirklichkeit, Galerie Metro, Berlin
2007 — Signal Wave, Les Voûtes, Paris
2006 — EMPIRIEN, Brotfabrik Galerie, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 — Shelter Bone Haunt, Berlin
2023 — Anima Mundi #3, MOSS, Poland
2023 — Electric Eden 2.0: Next Chapter of Relationship, Changing Room, Berlin
2023 — The Change in the Patterns, wildpalms, Düsseldorf
2022 — Topiate, Frontviews, Berlin
2021 — Acousmatic Appearances, The Listening Biennial, Errant Sound, Berlin
2020 — FESE: El lenguaje de las cosas, Puerto Contemporáneo Espacio, Bogotá, Colombia
2020 — Sound Nodes, Bärenzwinger, Berlin
2020 — Poesie Festival Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019 — Dystopia Festival, KASA Gallery, Istanbul
2019 — Future Soundscapes, Silent Green, Berlin
2019 — sonomemo – Sound and Memory, Errant Sound, Berlin
2018 — Crossfades, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea
2017 — Rebellion, Scotty, Berlin
2017 — In the Sound Field, Errant Sound, Berlin
2016 — Books, wildpalms, Düsseldorf
2016 — wildpalms, Untitled, Miami Beach, USA
2016 — Sound Matters, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2015 — The Art of Voice – The Voice Observatory, Errant Bodies – sound art project space, Berlin
2015 — Manifold Mapping, Casa Imelda, Mexico City
2014 — Returning to Sender, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2014 — Post-Colonial Flagship Store, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2014 — More than a Million, GlogauAIR, Berlin
2014 — Stadt als Klangtext, Errant Sound – sound art project space, Berlin
2013 — Estate of the Real, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin
2013 — PREVIEW 13, Berlin Art Fair, Berlin
2013 — Instrumental, Leap Berlin, a sound performance on a sound installation by Andy Graydon
2012 — Surf + Anarchie + Alchemie, Amtsrichterhaus Schwarzenbek, curated by Frank Barth, with Peter Friedl, Carsten Höller, Gregor Schneider, Susanne Klein, among others
2012 — Dazzling & Haunted, Art Claims Impulse – Berlin Art Week, Berlin
2012 — Reality Terror, Depo, Istanbul
2012 — Faraway, so close, Fichte-Bunker, Berlin
2011 — Pixel Pops 2011, Nouvel Organon, Paris
2011 — Abstract, Essays and Observations, Berlin
2011 — Tape Modern No. 24: Navigating Darkness, curated by Mira O’Brien and Helen Homan Wu, Berlin
2011 — Lichter Art Award, Frankfurt am Main, curators Saul Judd and Matthias Ulrich
2011 — Emblem of Modernity, Pink Gallery, Berlin
2010 — Man Son 1969, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, with Martin Kippenberger, Bruce Nauman, Peter Friedl, Cindy Sherman, among others; curators Andreas Baur, Frank Barth, Dirck Möllmann
2010 — 10 Years at Kasa, KASA Gallery, Istanbul, curators Selim Birsel, Aslı Çetinkaya, Erdağ Aksel
2010 — Klondike River, Treasure Land, Bremen, curator Horst Griese, with Achim Bitter, André Korpys and Markus Löffler
2010 — Weil’ auf mir, du dunkles Auge, bauer&ewald, with Jeremiah Day, Klara Hobza, Daniel Seiple, and Erik Smith
2009 — Man Son 1969, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, with Joseph Beuys, Max Beckmann, Dan Graham, among others; curators Frank Barth and Dirck Möllmann
2008 — Architektur, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Austria
2007 — Capital 2014, curated by Caroline Lund, Lund, Sweden
2007 — Legal Tender, KASA Gallery, Istanbul
2007 — Science Fiction, Galerie Metro, Berlin
2007 — have to leave my STUDIO, SSamzie Space, curated by Hyunjin Shin, Seoul, South Korea
2007 — PREVIEW 07 – The Emerging Art Fair, Video Lounge curated by Sabine Schuetze, Berlin
2006 — Urbane Legend, SSamzie Space, curated by Soohyun Park, Seoul, South Korea
2004 — Frieze Art Fair, Dosensos / Resonance FM, London
2004 — Der negative Horizont, Podewil, Berlin
2003 — Mobile Background, Launch Option Berlin, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
2002 — Evolutionäre Zellen, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
2002 — Station, Kunstraum Bethanien, Kreuzberg, Berlin

Festivals and Screenings

2020 — Dystopie Sound Art Festival, Berlin Brasil
2019 — Acousmatics as a Laboratory, symposium at Kunstraum Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg
2018 — How to Build an Art Biennale – Imagined Biennales, Tate Modern, London
2018 — On Limits, Borders, Edges and Boundaries, Else Foundation, Mexico
2018 — Tier-Bild-Ton, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2017 — Fieldrecording as a Personal Practice, Errant Sound Project Space, Berlin
2016 — Lecture, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
2016 — Lecture, El Quijote: Diseñador de su propia experiencia, IED, Madrid
2016 — Lecture, Conversas II, Berlin
2015 — Acousmatic Lecture, organized by Schlegel Graduate School, Freie Universität Berlin, KuLe, Berlin
2013 — Vis-à-vis / Soundgate, organized by Berliner Pool, Art Claims Impulse, Berlin
2010 — Port2010 / Soundgate, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
2010 — SoundLAB VII, Cologne Global Heritage of Digital Culture, Cologne, Germany
2010 — The Other and The Self, video stream, Voges Gallery, curated by Saul Judd, Frankfurt am Main
2009 — Transmediale 09, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2009 — Arte, Salud y Sociedad, Proyecto Circo, curated by Ada Azor, Havana, Cuba
2009 — Bordet, Abandoned Gallery, curated by Anna Norberg, Malmö, Sweden
2009 — The Other and The Self, video stream, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
2009 — Zeppelin 2009 – Sonidos del Poder, Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona
2008 — Zeppelin 2008 – Sorderas, Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Barcelona
2008 — Les Rencontres Internationales, Madrid / Berlin / Paris
2007 — Transmediale 07, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2006 — Architektur und Film Festival – Out of Disaster, Brotfabrik, Berlin
2005 — Art in the Age of New Technologies, Armenian Center of Contemporary Experimental Art, Armenia

Awards and Scholarships

2015 — Bezirkamt Pankow project funding, Berlin
2015 — Initiative Neue Musik project funding, Berlin
2014 — Quartier21, Artist in Residence Program, Vienna
2014 — Casa Imelda Artist in Residence, Mexico City, funded by IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany
2012 — Crossfade, project funding, Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany
2009 — Frankfurter Kunstverein, Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009 — Raumprothesen, project funding, Arttransponder, Berlin
2007 — Stiftung Künstlerdorf, artist in residence program, Schöppingen, Germany
2007 — Signal Wave, project funding, Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2006 — Schinkel Progressive, SSamzie Space, artist in residence program, Seoul
2006 — EMPIRIEN, catalogue funding, Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
2006 — EMPIRIEN, project funding, Kulturamt Pankow, Berlin
2006 — Award of the Architektur und Film Festival – Out of Disaster, Berlin
2004 — Scholarship of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin

Other Activities

2010–2012 — Workshop presenter on Contemporary Art, Visions of Art, online teaching

2015 — Workshop leader, summer semester, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

Since 2014 — Member of Errant Sound, a sound art project space in Berlin, where he organizes interdisciplinary lectures for artists and scientists

2007 — Co-founder of Metro Gallery

2007 — Organizer and curator of KaWe – aufsicht extended, a show presenting works by guards from KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin in the break room for workers of KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, invited by Salon Familien Kartenrecht

2005–2006 — Workshop presenter on Sound Art, Universität der Künste Berlin

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

2023 — Akusmatik als Labor. Kultur – Kunst – Medien, with Sven Königshausen & Neumann
2020 — Mario Asef: Kunst und Ökologie, w/k zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst, conversation with Peter Tepe and Till Bödeker
2019 — Mario Asef: Acousmatic Lectures, w/k zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst
2018 — Daegu Photo Biennale 2018 – Next Image, Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
2018 — Jack Lope, no. 1, Madrid
2016 — “Diagram is a Trivial Machine,” ArtMargins, MIT Press
2016 — Aquamediale 11, festival catalogue, Aquamediale, Spreewald, Germany
2015 — Voces, issue 2, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
2014 — PCFS, exhibition catalogue, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2013 — Crossfade, exhibition catalogue, Kerber Verlag, Young Art Edition, Germany
2012 — Reality Terror, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul
2012 — Faraway so Close, exhibition catalogue, NODE Berlin
2010 — Klondike River, exhibition catalogue, HfK Bremen
2010 — 10 Years at Kasa, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul
2009 — Raumprothesen, catalogue, Berlin
2009 — Man Son 1969, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2008 — Architektur, exhibition catalogue, Bregenz, Austria
2007 — Capital 2014, exhibition catalogue, Lund, Sweden
2007 — have to leave my STUDIO, studio program catalogue, Seoul, South Korea
2006 — EMPIRIEN, catalogue, Berlin
2006 — Urbane Legend, exhibition catalogue, Seoul / Berlin
2006 — II. European Month of Photography, Berlin
2005 — Art in the Age of New Technologies, exhibition catalogue, Armenia
2004 — Wo liegt Berlin?, exhibition catalogue, Berlin
2004 — Guestroom, contemporary art magazine, London / Munich
2003 — Der Film entsteht vor Ort, Labor-Sonor audio CD, Charhizma, Berlin