Julian Zehnder
Drawn to biodiverse soundscapes, Julian Zehnder is an artist and composer whose work centres on the intersection of installation, performance and composition.
Among others, Zehnder’s works have been shown at Jewish Museum New York, Kunsthalle Basel, De Appel Museum Amsterdam, Swiss Art Awards, Arsenal Contemporary Arts Gallery New York, Crash Club Warsaw, Festival Electroacoustique Monaco and Creative Media Center Hong Kong. He won several competitions such as the Bronze Award at 3D Audio Production Competition in Ambisonics 2021, the ZHdK Grant Award 2022 and the Nicati – De Luze Scholarships 2023/24. After graduating in Music Composition with a BA of honours at Zurich University of the Arts in 2022, he completed a MFA in Sound Art at Columbia University New York in May 2024.
Awards/Grants/Residencies
→2024
Monte Residencia
Chaco, Argentina
Grant for Arts, Photography, Architecture
Canton of Bern Switzerland
→2023
Nicati - De Luze Scholarship
Switzerland
Grant of the Dean
Columbia University New York
→2022
Nicati - De Luze Scholarship
Switzerland
ZHdK Grant Award
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
→2021
Honors for Bachelor’s Degree,
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
→2019
Education
→2024
MA Sound Art
Columbia University, New York
→2022
BA CMP — Electronic Music Composition
ZHdK, Zürich
→2020
BA Computermusic
University of Arts Graz
→2019
Summer School Fabrication of Relics
City University of Hong Kong
→2017
Precollege Sound-Arts
HKB, Bern
Exhibitions/Concerts
→2024
Monte
Fundatión Andreani, Buenos Aires
Donnerwetter / Erd-Lied / Wind
various locations, Switzerland • Vokalensemble chorosonor
Der Mond ist aufgegangen
SK Gallery New York
→2023
Defender
Fridman Gallery New York
Beyond Dissolving Limits
Open Studio Columbia University New York
Spiral Cadence Series in Bbmaj7
theBlanc Gallery New York
Midsummer Dreams
Chaos Computer Club New York
Serenity in Turbulence
Jewish Museum New York
togetherness can be lonely and difficult too
Wallach Art Gallery New York
→2022
Degrees of Being
Open Studios Columbia University New York • collaboration with V. Vivas
Pleasure
Backslash Festival Zürich
Autopoiesis - The Auralisation of Connectivity
Projektraum Dietikon • collaboration with M. Hottarek
365 I'm alive
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste • collaboration with S. Becker
Post Millennium Flowerfield
Rhizom Festival Rote Fabrik, Zürich
→2021
Diacycles
School Spiegel, Köniz • collaboration with I. Schärer
sphere 1 (cancelled due to covid19)
Tonhalle Maag, Zürich
→2020
Surroundings
Schausammlung, LTK4 Köln
oh mia bambina cara
collaboration with S. Scherini
Dear D, sun has gone, night has come. Are you full of hope too?
Binz39 Zürich • collaboration with J. Etter
cats
Unanimous Consent, Zürich
Post Millennium Flower Field
From Noise To Silence, Künstlerhaus Bregenz
behind the curtain
Winkel, Luzern • collaboration with N. Bussien
→2019
Nevermore — Remix
Lange Nacht der Zeitgenössischen Musik, ZHdK Zürich
grenzen
Cantonale Bern, La Nef, Le Noirmont • collaboration with N. Bussien
Autopoiesis
Pleasure Zone, Summe Basel • collaboration with M. Hottarek
Autopoiesis
Lokal Int, Biel • collaboration with M. Hottarek
Surroundings, DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER
Sattelkammer, Bern
A Beautiful Summer
Milieu, Bern • collaboration with M. Almusibli
Die Nachricht
KEINRAUM, Neubad Luzern • collaboration with O. Abächerli
grenzen
JKON Olten • collaboration with N. Bussien
Advertisement
videokunst.ch, Houdini Kino Zürich • collaboration with P. Ortelli
cats, Fabrication of Relics, R.R.S.
Creative Media Center, Hong Kong
intones with a voiceless song
Swiss Art Awards Basel • collaboration with M. Almusibli
beats.001
Festival Electroacoustique Monaco
innere Chor
Aussteigen auf Zeit, Kloster Dornach • collaboration with N. Bussien / I. Schärer
beats.001 Uraufführungsabend
ZHdK Zürich
A Story of Love and Violence
Platform CACY, Yverdon-les-Bains • collaboration with M. Almusibli
→2018
Live Set
Schwobhaus, Bern
3 Stücke für Roboter und Klavier
ZHdK, Zürich