Artists: Jochen Becker, Christian Collet, Ahu Dural, Regine Elbers, Larissa Fassler, Herbert W. Franke, Hans G. Helms, Anton Kaun, Christina Kubisch, Michaela Melián, Josef Anton Riedl, Stefan Römer
Exhibition title: Studio Stadt. Peripherien elektronischer Kunst
Curated by: Ralf Homann and Florian Wüst in collaboration with Tim Tetzner and Jaro Straub
Venue: Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
Date: June 15 – July 23, 2023
Photography: All images copyright of Thomas Splett and Kunstraum München
Studio City looks at electronic music as an early form of digital culture and relates it to the changing urban peripheries of Munich and Berlin. Based on the history of the Siemens Studio for Electronic Music, which was founded in Munich in 1960, Studio City. Peripheries of Electronic Music mixes diverse (sound) tracks into a reflection on the automation of work and life in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Globally operating tech corporations are not only actors of industrialization but have always shaped social urban development through land ownership and company-owned real estate companies. Against this background, the artists in Studio City experiment with the potential of making invisible flows and infrastructures audible and unheard narratives visible, all of which are inscribed in the body of the city.
