Brand Jens
Jens Brand (DE) studied fine arts at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts (1988–1994). Inspired by Phill Niblock and the artistic environment at Paul Panhuysen’s Het Apollohuis, he turned to experimental music and sound art. Since then, he has created a large number of installations, music performances and cross-media works. In 1992, he began an intensive collaboration with Waldo Riedl and founded mex e.V., an initiative promoting cross-media and experimental music and media projects. Jens Brand has been awarded numerous fellowships and has received many commissions to create compositions. He was a fellow at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles in 2003 and taught at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. Since 2013, he has been a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Jens Brand lives and works in Berlin since 2010.
