Studio grant holder in Malmö March-May 2021

Paolo Thorsen-Nagel (b. 1985, Chicago) is a German-American musician and artist, based in Berlin and Basel. His sound, performance, and moving image works evoke different forms of listening and in turn question their relationship to physical and psychological space, as well as their visual dependency.

Photo: Paolo Thorsen-Nagel

Recent projects include Transparent Things at twenty years and One Slice of the Landscape at Art Berlin (2019), The Place at the Edward Krasinski Studio, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw and Windowlicker at Balice Hertling, Paris (2018); Interiors II (Athens), Listening Space, documenta 14, Athens (2017). Ongoing collaborations include the works Fire on the Mountain at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and SUN DOWN MOON UP at Serpentine Galeries (2019) with Megan Rooney, as well as performances with Tobias Spichtig, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015). He was Sound and Music Advisor for documenta 14, as well as the curator of Listening Space, Athens, and co-curator of the documenta 14 concert series at Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall (2017).