The "Monheim Triennale" is an international music festival that aims to document pioneering artistic positions in contemporary music. It is to take place every three years starting in 2023 at the "Kulturraffinerie K714", an industrial monument located directly on the Rhine, which will then be converted into an event venue. In 2020, the first edition of the festival will be held in several venues along the Rhine. The artistic director is

Reiner Michalke Reiner Michalke (born 1956) is the artistic director of the concert venue ''Stadtgarten'' in Cologne/Germany. From 2005 to 2016 he served as artistic director of the Moers Festival. Since October 2018 he is managing artistic director of the Monhe ...

, who was artistic director of the

Moers Festival The Moers Festival is an annual international music festival in Moers, Germany. The festival has changed from concentrating on free jazz to including world and pop music, though it still invites many avant-garde jazz musicians. Performers at Moer ...

from 2006 to 2016 and is now programme director at the Stadtgarten in Cologne.

History

After a one-year planning phase, the city council of

Monheim am Rhein Monheim am Rhein ( li, Monnem) is a town on the right (eastern) bank of the river Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Monheim belongs to the district of Mettmann – with the southern suburbs of Düsseldorf to the north, and the Bergisches ...

unanimously decided on 10 October 2018 to hold the Monheim Triennale. The first edition will be held from 1 to 5 July 2020 in various venues such as the not yet completed industrial hall "Kulturraffinerie K714", the socio-cultural centre "Sojus 7", the Marienkapelle, the new event ship of KD - the MS Rhein Galaxie - and the Deusser Garten. In February 2019, a five-member board of trustees was appointed to jointly select the artists for the first edition. Among them are performance artist and professor for aesthetic practices Swantje Lichtenstein from

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, music curator Louis Rastig from

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, Managing Artistic Director Rainbow Robert from

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, Creative & Brand Consultant Meghan Stabile from

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and music journalist and co-editor of Kaput magazine for Insolvency & Pop Thomas Venker from

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

Artist in Residence

At the beginning of 2019,

called the musician Achim Tang to

to convey the festival content. Tang has already worked for Michalke as ''Improviser in Residence'' at the

in 2011.

Festival Design

The festival design of the Monheim Triennale was created by the Greek graphic artist Vasilis Marmatakis. Marmatakis created the graphic design for

Yorgos Lanthimos Georgios "Yorgos" Lanthimos ( el, Γιώργος Λάνθιμος, Giórgos Lánthimos, ; born 23 September 1973) is a Greek film director, film producer, screenwriter, photographer, theatre director and former professional basketball player. Sin ...

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" (2017), "

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" (2018) and "Nimic" (2019), among others. The design concept is based on the visualization of physical and typographic elements through the experience of sound. Vasilis Marmatakis has designed a series of images with patterns like those found on "Mesh Covers" - patterns of perforated fabric or metal used to cover loudspeakers. He transfers these onto solid material and then works them with ink. The resulting traces visualize the acoustic resonance between source and receiver.

External links

Official website of th
''Monheim Triennale''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Monheim Triennale Music festivals in Germany