With clever references to art history, Zimoun’s sound-filled room installations or room-filling sound installations develop a strong presence in the here and now. While letting the observer actively perceive the exhibition situation in all its ambivalence, between simplicity and complexity, order and chaos, individuality and mass, they simultaneously provide a lasting experience for the eye and ear.

Zimoun was born in 1977 and grew up near Bern. He played various musical instruments as a child and started notating compositions of his own at a very young age. He presented early musical and visual works in 2010 at Tonus Labor (now Orbital Garden) – an experimental recording, teaching and performance space in Bern, where he still appears regularly today. Zimoun has realized numerous acoustic performances at music festivals and concert halls, for instance at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, DNK (2017), Dampfzentrale Bern, SWI (2015/2017), Transmediale in Berlin, GER (2009), and the Elektra Digital Art Festival in Montreal, CAN (2008). As part of a three-month artist-in-residence scholarship in the People’s Republic of China (2004), he gave 15 live performances in as many Chinese cities. He has also featured in solo* and group exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, at institutions such as Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago, CHL (2019)*, NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2019)*, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Busan, KOR (2018)*, Centquatre, Paris, FRA (2017)*, Musée des beaux-arts in Le Locle, SWI (2016/2017)*, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, TWN (2016), Kunstmuseum Bern, SWI (2013), and Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, KOR (2012).

In addition to his work as an artist, Zimoun co-runs the label leerraum [ ], a platform for artists, architects, musicians and designers who address reductive principles, together with graphic designer Marc Beekhuis. Zimoun lives in Bern.

Zimoun

295 prepared dc-motors, 39 kg wood, 825 cardboard boxes 35 x 32.5 x 32.5 cm