Ari Benjamin Meyers

Ari Benjamin Meyers (born 1972, in New York[1]) is an American artist and composer.[2]

Ari Benjamin Meyers
Born
Ari Benjamin Meyers

1972 (1972)
New York City, United States
NationalityAmerican

Biography

Meyers received his training as a composer and conductor at the Juilliard School, Yale University, and Peabody Institute. His practice includes creating musical performances for the stage and exhibition spaces. He has collaborated with artists including Tino Sehgal and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster; bands such as Einstürzende Neubauten and Chicks on Speed; and classical ensembles including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.

Performances and exhibitions

2019

  • Tacet, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel

2018

  • Kunsthalle for Music, Witte de With, Rotterdam
  • Four Liverpool Musicians (Bettie, Budgie, Ken Louisa), Liverpool Biennial
  • Staatsorchester, Public Art Munich
  • Changing of The Guard, Schauspielhaus Bochum

2017

  • The Name of This Band is The Art (Lyon), Biennale de Lyon
  • Solo for Ayumi, Esther Schipper, Berlin
  • SYMPHONY 80, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
  • An exposition, not an exhibition, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong

2016

  • Musikwerke Bildene Künstler, Hamburger Bahnhof (group show)
  • The Name Of This Band is The Art, RaebervonStenglin Zurich (solo show)
  • Memories of the Future, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art (3 day in-situ intervention)
  • Elevator Music, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Poland. Part of Sound Systems (group show), Marie-Eve Lafontaine curator.
  • Serious Immobilities, K20 Düsseldorf (performance)
  • Serious Immobilities (Workshop Version), ImpulsTanz Wien (workshop performance)

2015

  • Cairo Off Biennale, Simon Ndjami curator
  • music, Fahrbereitschaft – Haubrok Collection (group show)
  • Performance Lecture, National Gallery of Kosovo
  • Symphony X13B, Brandenburger Symphoniker, Brandenburg Theatre
  • Untitled for Choir (Beating Time), Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
  • The Verismo Project, Kunst im Kino, Kino International, Berlin (group show)

2014

  • Frost Radio, Seoul Korea (site-specific radio project)
  • Symphony X (installation version), K21 Düsseldorf (performance)
  • Symphony X (installation version), KW Berlin (performance)
  • Mutual Life Company, Theater der Welt, Mannheim (performance)
  • Supergroup, Tanzhaus NRW (workshop leader/group show)
  • Just in Time, Just in Sequence, Schauspielhaus Bochum/This Is Not Detroit
  • I Take Part and the Part Takes Me, Gallery Tanja Wagner Berlin (group show)
  • The Lightning and Its Flash (Solo for Conductor), New Initiative for Europe, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • The New Empirical, Hatje Cantz & Du Moulin im Bikini (group show)

2013

  • November 1, 2013 / 7:30 - 8:30 pm (Clock Out), ICI Berlin (performance lecture)[3]
  • Black Thoughts, Esther Schipper, Berlin (solo show)
  • Chamber Music (Vestibule), Berlinische Galerie (installation)
  • Songbook, Esther Schipper (solo show)
  • SOLO, Haus der Kunst, Munich (performance)

2012

  • Symphony X (installation version), Springdance Festival (performance)
  • I Wish This Was a Song. Music in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Norway - Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (group show)
  • SOLO, Bertolt Brecht Haus, as part of the Brecht Tage (performance)

2011

  • End of the Dream, Mica Moca Berlin (group show)
  • SOLO, Hebbel Theater, Berlin (performance)
  • Symphony Editions, Berlin Weekly (group show)
  • The Lightning and Its Flash, Gallery VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin (performance)

Collaborations

2018

  • Die Perser, with Ulrich Rasche, Salzburg Festival/Schauspiel Frankfurt

2017

  • Sieben Tore von Theben/Antigone, with Ulrich Rasche, Schauspiel Frankfurt

2016

  • Untitled Ballet, with Tino Sehgal, Paris Opera
  • Die Räuber, with Ulrich Rasche, Residenztheater München

2015

  • Das Erdbeben in Chili, with Ulrich Rasche, Theater Bern
  • Dantons Tod, with Ulrich Rasche, Schauspiel Frankfurt

2014

  • The Opera Game, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris
  • Kosmische Oktave, with Ulrich Rasche, Sophiensaele Berlin
  • Paper Poem, with Jeeun Choi, National Gallery St. Agnes Closter, Prague

2013

2012

  • Belle Comme le Jour, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (film)
  • This Variation, with Tino Sehgal, Documenta 13, Kassel
  • To the Moon via the Beach, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, LUMA Foundation, Arles
  • T.451, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tensta Konsthall
  • The Breathing Line, with Anri Sala, Irish Museum for Modern Art
  • Wide Open School, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Hayward Gallery, London
  • 32 m.ü.NHN - 114,7 m.ü.NHN, with Cyrill Lachauer, Berlinische Galerie

2011

  • The Fairytale Recordings, with Saâdane Afif, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin
  • 1395 Days Without Red (performance version), with Anri Sala, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • 1395 Days Without Red, with Anri Sala and Sejla Kameric, Artangel, London (film)
  • 25 Sad Songs, with Thomas Krupa, Schauspiel Essen
  • M.31/K.62/K.85, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Hebbel Theater, Berlin

2010

  • K.62/M.73/K.85, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Kaaitheater, Brussels
  • K.62/K.85, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Performa ’09 commission, NY
  • Sol is going home..., with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Whitechapel Gallery, London
  • Life Flag, with Sabine Kacunko, Robert Koch Forum, Berlin

2009

2008

  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, with Thomas Krupa, Theater Freiburg
  • NY.2022, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Guggenheim Museum, NY
  • Untitled, with Tino Sehgal, Hebbel Theater, Berlin

References
  1. "Official Website".
  2. "Esther Schipper".
  3. "Interstices". www.ici-berlin.org. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
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