User:ChnSt/Grischa Lichtenberger

Grischa Lichtenberger (born May 16, 1983 in Bielefeld, Germany) is a German electronic music producer, visual and installation artist based in Berlin, Germany.

Since 2009, his musical compositions have been released, among others, on the label Raster-Noton (as of 2017, raster-media), based in Chemnitz, Germany. Lichtenberger has performed audiovisual shows at internationally renowned festivals (e.g., Elektra and Mutek, Montreal, Canada; Electron Festival, Genf, Switzerland; Sou Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia; A L’ARME! Festival, Berlin, Germany) and at concerts worldwide (e.g., Austria, Canada, India, Japan, USA). In 2013, Lichtenberger received an honorable mention at the Prix Ars Electronica. In 2015, he composed the music for Ohad Naharin's choreography Last Work with the contemporary dance ensemble Batsheva Dance Company, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, which was received enthusiastically and toured internationally. Among many other collaborations, the most noteworthy are C S L M | Conversations Sur Lettres Mortes (2016), with Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, and a band project with Philipp Gropper, Gaia Mattiuzzi and Moritz Baumgärter that began after Lichtenberger's 2019 remix album Re: Phgrp (Reworking »Consequences« By Philipp Gropper's Philm).

Moreover, Lichtenberger has exhibited installations and visual works at Enjoy Art Space, Leeds, UK (2011), Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany (2012), Berlin Atonal, Germany (2013), Tokonoma, Kassel, Germany (2015), Gallery Unofficial Preview, Seoul, Korea (2016), Ex Dogana, Rom, Italy (2018), and many more. 2020, Kunstverein Gütersloh hosted, as part of their series »Mal wieder hier« (»Back again«), a first retrospective of Lichtenberger's work, entitled, so wirklich gar nicht irgendein roter faden (can a shaman amortizise coins he collected from the ground).

Work
Growing up in a remote farmhouse in Steinhagen, Lichtenberger's artistic approach developed in reference to the landscape as condition and context for the production of art. Landscape, in this sense, is understood not only as the picturesque or sublime recreational facility of nature, but as an interaction between the traces of biographical history and the material concreteness of the present surroundings. From the viewpoint of an aesthetics of production, Lichtenberger's work is not as much distinguished by singular art forms as divided into periods of work in which all art production is part of an intermedia whole. The respective titles of those periods serve as points of orientation and are associated with the landscapes. Just as landscapes with their biographical experiences, the periods blend into each other and overlap: ~treibgut originates in Bielefeld and Düsseldorf and from a larger conceptual involvement with the Rhine and the Rhineland, while andyrchie IV is an examination also of the city Berlin, where Lichtenberger has been living since 2008. In la demeure / il y a peril en la demeure, Lichtenberger turns, with reference to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, towards the dwelling (demeure) and its destructive backside, which endangers the dwelling itself. The latest period, ostranenie, focuses, with reference to Viktor Shklovsky, on the ubiquity of the internet and aims to develop artistic strategies against the insisting seduction to passive consumption.

Exhibitions

 * 2007: waldstelle/nordpol, Steinhagen, Germany
 * 2008: st. vinzenz, Düsseldorf, Germany
 * 2008: weserportfolio, Minden, Germany
 * 2009: kästchen, narthex, paradies, Theaterwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 * 2011: a bundle of measures, Enjoy Art Space, Leeds, UK
 * 2011: tragwerk – kamine und wein, Kamine und Wein, Berlin, Germany
 * 2012: not telling a joke, Krome Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 * 2012: ((U+C+I) X (10-S)) 20 X AA X 1 (1-SIN(F-10)), die frühperle, Berlin, Germany
 * 2012: [nichts] davon. demotivierte photoitive, die frühperle, Berlin, Germany
 * 2012: diorama, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
 * 2013: in|ven|tur, Team Titanic, Berlin, Germany
 * 2013: 24h szczecin, Klub Storrady, Stettin, Germany
 * 2013: 3 steel plates, scanner, sound, Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 * 2014: Kolibri Scans, Ballhaus Kolibri, Berlin, Germany
 * 2015: unterbrechung der wärmezufuhr, Tokonoma, Kassel, Germany
 * 2015: the sudden evolutionary changes in palearctic warblers, ZIF, Bielefeld, Germany
 * 2016: Gallery Unofficial Preview, Seoul, South Korea
 * 2016: Fritz Schneider bei der Gruppenausstellung Ghost in the Machine (kuratiert von Carsten Nicolai), EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany
 * 2016: 100 Drawings from the Archive, Tbilisi Archaeological Repository, Tblisi, Georgia
 * 2016: squeeze machine – fragments from a workshop, Plattenvereinigung, Berlin, Germany
 * 2017: il’y a peril en la demeure, À L’ARME Festival, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
 * 2018: 5 fenfires, Ex Dogana, Rome, Italy
 * 2019: stack overflow – nightingale, nGbK, Berlin, Germany
 * 2019: spem in alium, de DROM galerie, Kröpelin, Germany
 * 2020: so wirklich gar nicht irgendein roter faden (can a shaman amortizise coins he collected from the ground), Kunstverein Gütersloh, Gütersloh, Germany

Discography

 * 2009: ~ TREIBGUT, Raster-Noton
 * 2011: Graviton – Cx (Rigid Transmission), Semantica Records
 * 2012: and IV [inertia], Raster-Noton
 * 2015: La Demeure; Il Y A Péril En La Demeure, Raster-Noton
 * 2016: Spielraum | Allgegenwart | Strahlung, Raster-Noton
 * 2016: C S L M | Conversations Sur Lettres Mortes, Kooperation mit Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, Cosmo Rhythmatic
 * 2019: Re: Phgrp (Reworking »Consequences« By Philipp Gropper’s Philm), Raster
 * 2020: Kamilhan; Il Y A Péril En La Demeure, Raster

Weblinks
http://grischa-lichtenberger.com/

https://raster-media.net/artists/grischa-lichtenberger

https://www.youtube.com/user/lichtenbergergrischa

https://soundcloud.com/grischenka

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1467874-Grischa-Lichtenberger