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SHORT VITA
Johannes Winkler ( 1984, Black Forest) is a German composer and media artist based in Essen. His work unfolds at the intersection of contemporary music, text, image, and code — creating hybrid forms that trace a transmedial narrative of sensual perception, rhythm, and hypercultural resonance. He engages artistic disciplines and traditions with conceptual clarity and a distinctive expressive audiovisual language.
Winkler has won the international sound art prize 'Karl Marx' BCMG (Birmingham/ London/ Trier), the ZKM Supercollider Code Marathon and is the initiator and lecturer of the South-Indian/-German Network Konnakol Germany. With hundreds of 'slide compositions' on social-media accounts, he influences his future works. Portrait in WDR 3 Radio Studio Neue Musik.
CONCERTS & LECTURES | 2010 - 2025
Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier, Tamil Culture Fine Arts Academy Germany, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen, ZKM Karlsruhe, Fournos Center Athen, Musica Acoustica Peking, Musikhochschule Mannheim, Pact Zollverein, Dreifaltigkeitskirche Borbeck, Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen, JOE Festival Zeche Karl, C.A.R. - Contemporary Art Ruhr, Neue Musik Zentrale Essen, Atelierfrankfurt, Musikakademie Rheinsberg, Landesmusikakademie NRW
AWARDS
winning soundart-piece at Karl Marx - wilde Lieder' international composition competition, 2018 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, UK | Trier, GER 'tetralemmatic roses for a birthday' - with Elisabeth A. M. Kaiser (vocal performance)
First prize Supercollider-Code-Marathon, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2013 - (live-coding community)
CURRENT PROJECTS (2025)
see projects on:
www.johanneswinkler.de
www.konnakol.de
www.deconstructed-stories.de
PORTRAIT - WDR 3 STUDIO NEUE MUSIK - 2022
'Slide Compositions' (2020-22+) für Instagram
STUDIES
Composition (Dipl.) | Folkwang Udk Essen - Klasse Prof. Dirk Reith, Prof. Thomas Neuhaus, Roman Pfeifer | TCFA Germany - Grade 4
Impressum / Datenschutz
Johannes Winkler, 2025