Max Neuhaus
Nationality
US
Year of birth
1939-2009
Biography
Trained as a musician at the Manhattan School of Music, Neuhaus began his career performing the percussion repertoire of musicians such as Boulez and Stockhausen on international tours. He also performed live as a solo percussionist. In 1966, he stopped giving concerts and launched Listen, his first independent project as an artist, which took the form of collective listening walks in New York. After a first sound installation in 1967, he created his most famous installation, Time Square, in New York in 1977. Since then, his work has been presented on the contemporary art circuit: documenta 6, Cassel (1977); MoMA, New York (1979); Kunsthalle, Basel; Whitney Biennial, New York (1983); CNAC Le Magasin, Grenoble; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kunsthalle, Bern (1989); La Voie Suisse, CH91 (1991); documenta 9, Cassel (1992); Capc, Bordeaux (1993); Villa Arson, Nice; Castello du Rivoli, Turin (1995); sonambiente, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (1996); Gwangju Biennial (1997); 99th Art Biennale, Venice; PS1, New York; Kunsthalle, Bern (2000); Museum of contemporary Art, Chicago (2006); The Menil Collection, Houston (2008); Ars Electronica, Linz; Performa, New York (2009); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2012); Frac Franche Comté, Besançon (2016).
Les Pianos Ne Poussent Pas Sur Les Arbres – Max Neuhaus is the first anthology in French of writings and interviews by Neuhaus, collected and presented by Daniele Balit and Matthieu Saladin. Published by Les Presses du Réel (2019).
