Sebastian Six is a multidisciplinary Artist. Acoustic experiments, sculptural assemblages, procedural interventions and the physical component of sound are the central elements of his musical and visual compositions. In his artistic works, small interventions often trigger processes whose outcome cannot always be certain. In addition, he focuses his acoustic and artistic performances on the different ways of creating sounds. This ranges from everyday objects to self-made instruments. In this way he creates filigree improvised music that oscillates between experiment, session and concept.
Since 2004, he works together with Clemens Mairhofer, Lucas Norer in the artist collective FAXEN furthermore he is co-founder of the artist-run-gallery bb15 in Linz.
1980 Born in Vöcklabruck
1995 – 1998 HTBLA for luthier in Hallstatt /AT
2004 – 2011 Academic studies: Experimental Visual Design at The University of Art and Design Linz/AT
2011 Master’s degree: Master of fine art at The University of Art and Design Linz/AT
Since 2004 collaborating with Clemens Mairhofer and Lucas Norer as art collective FAXEN (http://faxen- collective.net)
Since 2008 founder of the record label lauthals (www.lauthals.org)
Since 2009 co-founder and organizer of the artist-run-gallery bb15 in Linz (http://bb15.at)
WS 2021 Lecture „Space is the Place“, Site-specific Art, Die Angewandte Wien
Since 2022 co-founder and organizer of VILLA NORTH Raum für Kunst, Kultur und interdisziplinäre Forschung , Residency Place (https://villanorth.at)
2024
– FAXEN – Overhear, der Hörspielabend
2023
– Schlossgalerie Schärding, 100 JAHRE 100 WERKE
– Kino Otok Filmfestival, Isola (SLO)
– Crossing Europe Filmfestival 2023 | Local Artists Shorts | Kino Central
– Im Auge der Infodemie | splace am Hauptplatz, Kunstuniversität Linz
2022
– Neu in der Maerz | Galerie MAERZ | Dezember 2022
– Les Instants Vidéo | Exhibitions Friche la Belle de Mai | 10.11.22 – 22.1.23
– Aufwärts fallen | ooe kunstverein, Linz (FAXEN)
– ELEMENTAREREIGNISSE |Public Space, Vienna (bb15)
– 10 Jahre Wohnzimmergalerie
– Langsamdreher | Eboran Galerie, Salzburg (Solo)
– Radiophrenia 2022
2021
– Die Veränderung ereignete sich mit der Heftigkeit des Übergangs vom Tag zur Nacht | QuadrART Dornbirn
– Oodaaq Festival 2021
– ibrida Filmfestival, Ibrida (IT)
– hungry eyes festival 2021
– Festival del Cinema Die Cefalu (IT)
– Festival Trailer Sound Crossing Europe Filmfestival 2021
2020
– THAT´S NEW – AND NEEDED! | Kunstsammlung OÖ | 8.10. – 19.11.2020
– forum presents | Sebastian Six – Unsought goods | Splace, Linz/AT | 2.10. – 8.10.2020
– Im Trüben Fischen | Deutschvilla Strobl/AT | 11.09 – 4.10.2020
– 2 Sides Short Filmfestival, Izmir (TUR)
– The Ensenada International Film Festival (ARG)
– Besides the Screen Festival | August 2020
– Crossing Europe Filmfestival, Local Artists Shorts, OÖ Kulturquartier (AT)
– Diagonale ’20 – die unvollendete, Graz (AT)
– Cinema Next – Young Austrian Cinema, Kino VOD Club
– Oscillation — Mayday Radio Marathon | 30.4. – 2.5.2020
2019
– Wunderkammer Oberösterreich El Dorado (ob der Enns) | OK, Linz/AT | 14.12. 2019 – 28.3. 2020
– K3 Film festival | Villach/AT | 11. – 15.12.2019
– Continental Drift | Salzamt, Linz/AT | 9.10. – 25.10.2019
– Whispering Dialogues | galerie5020, Salzburg/AT | 12.7. – 28.9.2019
2018
– A Recollection of Resonances | bb15’s 10-Years Anniversary Exhibition | bb15, Linz/AT | 7. – 14.12.2018 (Group FAXEN)
– Bregenz Biennale 2018 | Brezenz/AT | Summer 2018
– Sommerfrische reloaded 2018 | Wohnzimmergalerie, Seewalchen/AT | 14.7. – 9.9.2018
– sonic objections | Bildraum Bodensee/AT | 29.5. – 28.6.2018
– In The Works | Salzamt, Linz/AT | 18.4 – 4.5.2018
– Heimliches Arbeiten beginnt | Schaustelle, Vienna/AT | 22. – 31.3.2018 (Solo)
– minus 20 degree | Flachau/AT | 8. – 10.2.2018
2017
– A Vocabulary of Noise | bb15, Linz/AT | 23. + 26.9.2017
– Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale | Tirana/AL | 4. – 9.5.2017
– Floating Sound Gallery | Moscow/RU | 23.4.2017
– True Blue News | Salzamt Linz/AT | 5.4.2017
2016
– Rythm and Decay | Kunsthalle Linz/AT | 22.11. – 22.12.2016 (Solo)
– Notes on tomorrow | Kristiansand/NOR | 26.9. – 7.11.2016
– subnet2015 Presentation | Schmiede, Hallein/AT | 21.9.2016
– Notes on tomorrow | Kaunas/LT | 7.6. – 15.9.2016
– H:UMMMM | Hummelhofbad, Linz/AT | 9.4.2016
– MENU Festival | Hradec Králové/CZ | 31.3. – 2.4.2016
2015
– Listening Post | Lentos, Linz/AT | 23.10.2015 – 21.2.2016
– ON AIR | Science Friction, Copenhagen/DK | 30.10. – 1.11.2015 (FAXEN Solo)
2014
– Deformation der Stille | galerie5020, Salzburg/AT | 11.12.2014 – 14.2.2015
– The Memory in your Pocket | Villa Groce, Genoa/IT | 17. – 21.3.2014
– Transposition.Change | NÖDOK, St. Pölten/AT | 21.3. – 27.4.2014
– Studio (take2) | Steim, Amsterdam/NL | 7. – 8.11.2014
– (h)ear XL Festival | Signe/NL | 26.9. – 9.11.2014
2013
– FINE SOUND – keine medienkunst | Das Weisse Haus, Vienna/AT | 20.2. – 30.3.2013
– Klangmanifeste 2013 | Echoraum, Vienna/AT | 4.12 – 13.12.2013
– Let’s Overhear | Donaupark, Linz/AT | 22.7 – 4.8.2013
– Testing the Equipment | AFG, Vienna/AT | 2.7.2013 (FAXEN Solo)
2012
– III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art | Moscow/RU | 10.7. – 19.8.2012
– Alle Worte sind aus! | Kunstraum Goethestrasse xtd, Linz AT | 17.10. – 14.12.2012
– Repeat please,… | SKÁLAR Centre for Sound Art and Experimental Music, Iceland/IS | 4. – 14.10.2012
– Kunst.Messe.Linz | Landesgalerie, Linz/AT | 10. – 11.11.2012
– Use Your Illusion | bb15, Linz/AT | 13. – 23.11.2012
2011
– Keep An Ear On | EX3, Firenze/IT | 20. – 22.5.2011
– Resonate In Response To | Prima Kunst Container, Kiel/DE | 9.7. – 4.9.2011 (FAXEN Solo)
– Resonate In Response To | Interventionsraum, Stuttgart/DE | 24. – 27.2.2011 (FAXEN Solo)
– Double Layer | Projekt_Love | Vienna/AT | 18.11 – 09.12 2011 (FAXEN Solo)
– DDD – Die Dritte Dimension | whiteBOX, Munich/DE | 17.2. – 13.3.2011
– Schools of Art Vol. II | HfBK, Dresden/DE | 20.5. – 19.6.2011
– Hörstadt Krypthophone Festival | Linz/AT | 14.11. – 6.11.2011
– Parallelwelten Jung und Alt | Kunstsammlung OÖ, Linz/AT | 7.4. – 7.5.2011
– Resonate In Response To | bb15, Linz/AT | 18. – 22.10.2011
2010
– Manifesta8, Eventos Paralelos | Sala de exposiciones Muralla Bizantina, Cartagena/ES | 12.11.2010 – 6.1.2011
– TABAKFABRIK LINZ – Kunst, Architektur, Arbeitswelt | Nordico, Linz/AT | 24.9.2010 – 23.1.2011
– Flimmern & Krachen | Projekt_Love, Vienna/AT | 9. – 23.4.2010
– Reclaiming Space ATW | Tabakfabrik, Linz/AT | 2.9. – 11.9.2010
– BEST OF 2010 | Tabakfabrik, Linz/AT | 5. – 14.11.2010
2009
– Sound Characters | Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck/AT | 23.1. – 7.3.2009
– Normalzustand – Festival der Regionen | Auwiesen, Linz/AT | 9.5. – 1.6.2009
2024
– Auslandsatelier BMKÖS Tokio Juli – Sept
2022
– Ankauf Kunstsammlung Art Collection Land OÖ
2020
– Gastatelier Maltator | Gmünd/AT | Juli – August 2020
– LINZ AG KünstlerInnenatelier | Linz/AT | 2020 – 2022
2019
– Guest Atelier Egon-Schiele-Zentrum | Ceský Krumlov/CZ | November 2019
– Valley of the Possible | Curacautin/CL | 26.4. – 29.4.2019
2018
– Grant, LinzEXPOrt 2018
– Residence in Agder Kunstsenter | Kristiansand/NO | 02. – 26.08.2018
– Domus Artium – Guest Atelier Upper Austria | Paliano, Rome/IT | 01. – 31.05. 2018
2017
– Studio fellowship at Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz/AT
– Work In Common, Micro Residency | Primary, Nottingham (UK) | 6. – 10.11.2017
– BJCEM Stipend, Bundeskanzleramt, AT
2015
– Subnet AIR Stipend, Subnet Plattform für Medienkunst und experimentelle Technologien, Salzburg
– Grant, LinzEXPOrt 2015
2014
– The Future Fund of the Republic of Austria – Artist in Residency Genua (IT), Network of Cities for Artistic Creation
– Grant, LinzEXPOrt 2014
– Art Price Vereins Freunde des Lentos, Lentos, Linz (AT)
2013
– Grant, LinzEXPOrt 2013
2012
– Annual grant for graduate students, The University of Art and Design Linz (AT)
2011
– 2nd Prize Kunstsammlung Art Collection, Linz (AT)
– Grant, Linz Impuls, Linz (AT) 2010
2010
– Excellence Scholarship, The University of Art and Design Linz (AT)
– Studio fellowship at Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz (AT)
– Grant Linz Export, Linz (AT)
2021
– Various Artists – The Bat Effect | File, Compilation | Total Silence
– Various Artists – Dunkelkammer Sessions Tape/File | Wirtshaus Secrets
– Various Artists -1 minute autohypnosis #45 | Compilation | Mute Sound
2020
– Field Notes – PE CL NO IT | File, Album | Sonospace
2019
– sixbus – austastlücke | Tape/File Album | Lauthals
2018
– Various Artists – Soundmaps For the Dreamer Volume II | File, Comp. | Sonospace
2017
– Various Artists – drop & recover | File, Comp. | IFAR Musique Concrète
– Aus Tirana Austria | Catalogue | Sonderzahl 2017 | ISBN 978 3 85449 478 2
– Various Artists – overview syncopations | File, Compilation | IFAR Musique Concrète
2016
– Various Artists – Brink Compilation Life/Death | File, Comp. | Brink
2015
– bb15 exhibitions 2012 / 2014 | Catalogue
– six bus – Feldsaiten | File, Album | Lauthals
2014
– Astebianix – Apocajam | Lauthals
2013
– Repeate, Please… | edition of 400 pcs. | Catalogue
2012
– Alle worte sind aus | Catalogue
– Kracherl – Kopfresektion | File, EP | Lauthals
2011
– bb15 exhibitions 2009 / 2011 | Catalogue
– manifesta 8, Eventos paralelos | Catalogue
– DDD Die Dritte Dimension | Catalogue
– sixbus – I-L | File, EP | Lauthals
2010
– Various Artists – Playground | CD | autark Netlabel
– Astebianix – The lost denk-mal tapes | File, Album | Lauthals
2009
– Various Artists – 10 | File, Comp. | autark Netlabel, aa10
2007
– Wir müssen weiter denken als unsere Pistolen schießen | Ed. Andrea van der Straeten
– May He Hetal? – Realoase | File, Album | Autark Netlabel
2024
– Die Bühne wächst Live-Hörspiel mit Mathias Müller
2023
– Radical Sound-Walk | Rundgang 2023 | Kunstuni Linz | 30.7.2023
2022
– Oh Condor | Villa North | 2.11.2022
– Langsamdreher | Opening |Eboran Galerie, Salzburg (Solo)
2020
– Oh Condor | sense of motion | eboran Galerie, Salzburg/AT | 22.7.2020
– canceled but not canceled | Tresor, Linz/AT | 31.3.2020
2019
– Salon im Park | Vienna/AT | 15.6.2019
2018
– with Fred Frith & Gis Orchestra | Wels/AT | 19.2.2018
– Zentrale.Jetzt | Vienna/AT | 3.2.2018
2017
– ZeitEins, Happening | Altenhof/AT | 5.9.2017
– Purred Noise Soup | Signal Zirkus, Vienna/AT | 16.3.2017
– Purred Noise Soup | bb15, Linz/AT | 7.3.2017
2016
– sixbus at Offcity – Clear To Land | Pardubice/CZ | 17.12.2016
– Sushi Sounds | gruentaler9, Berlin/DE | 30.9.2016
– Interacting Art | Raumschiff, Linz/AT | 7.9.2016
– sixbus at MENU Festival | Hradec Králové/CZ | 31.3.2016
2015
– Art University Linz/AT |
2014
– Double Layer (live) at F6/Stanice Pardubice | Pardubice/CZ | 13.6.2014
– with MMMK | Perspektiven, Attersee/AT | 5.6.2014
– with Julian Day | Opening Julian Day, bb15, Linz/AT | 28.10.2014
2013
– Untitled | das weisse haus, Wien/AT | 17.3.2013
– with Couscous | Mehrkanal, Linz/AT | 6.5.2013
– with Couscous | OKH, Vöcklabruck/AT | 13.4.2013
2012
– Double Layer (live) | Rotate Festival, Innsbruck/AT | 28.7.2012
2011
– Double Layer (live) | Interventionsraum, Stuttgart/DE | 24.2.2011
– mehr kanal #5 |University, Linz/AT | 6.6.2011
2010
– May He Hetal? live @ Etappe 1.4 | Nomadenetappe Linz/AT | 7.4.2010
– Ars Electronica, Soft Bodies | Tabakfabrik, Linz/AT | 03.9.2010
– ALMOST IN PASSING
| DogzStar, Istanbul/TR | 2.4.2010
– May He Hetal? | Club Moozak #37 | Fluc, Wien/AT | 28.7.2010
2009
– autark labelnight |qujOchOE@quitch Linz/AT | 14.02.2009
– autark labelnight | Rhiz, Vienna/AT | 15.2.2009
– autark labelnight | Fluc, Vienna/AT | 19.2.2009
– Sound Characters | Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck/AT | 6.3.2009
– Appetite for Destruction | Rother Krebs, Linz/AT | 10.4.2009
– qujOchÖ im exil | Zentralcafe K4, Nürnberg/DE | 30.10.2009
– May He Hetal? | Parque del Sole Festival, St. Pölten/AT | 31.8.2009
2008
– q_trigger | quitch, Linz/AT | 18.6.2008
– May He Hetal? | p.m.k, Innsbruck/AT | 22.11.2008