Max Neuhaus
1939
born in Beaumont, Texas
died in 2009
ACTIVE SOUNDWORKS
since 1990 Three 'Similar' Rooms, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
since 1992 Three to One, AOK Building, Kassel, Germany
since 1993 (untitled), Collection CAPC Musée d'Art Moderne, Bordeaux, France
since 1996 (untitled), Collection Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
since 1999 (untitled), Collection Swisscom, Worblaufen-Bern, Switzerland
since 1999 Suspended Sound Line, Collection Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Bern, Switzerland
since 2002 Times Square, Collection: Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
since 2002 La Barma, Collection: Pierre Huber, Saint Luc, Switzerland
since 2002 Promenade du Pin, Collection: Fonds Contonal d'Art Contemporian, Geneva, Switzerland
since 2003 Time Piece Graz, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Austria
since 2006 Time Piece Beacon, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, Collection: Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
since 2007, 2007 Collection: Conrad-Eybesfeld, Eybesfeld, Austria
since 2007 Time Piece Stommeln, 2007 Collection: City of Pulheim, Germany
since 2008 Sound Figure, 2007 Collection: The Menil Collection, Houston, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Max Neuhaus, Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italy
2014
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
2013
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2008
Max Neuhaus: Circumscription Drawings, The Menil Collection, Houston, USA
2004
Treble, The Sculpture Center, New York, USA
2002
Max Neuhaus: Three to One, Drawings from the sound work, Lawrence Markey, New York, USA
2001
Max Neuhaus: An Exhibition of Works on Paper, La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La-Napoule, France
2000
Max Neuhaus: Images from eight vectors 1953-2000, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, USA
Max Neuhaus: Drawings, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Max Neuhaus: Selected Drawings from the Sound Works, 1967-2000, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1997
Moment / Stund, Second Floor, Reykjavik, Iceland
The Drawings from Three to One, Encore...Bruxelles and Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
1995
Evoking the Aural: Drawings and their studies from the Place works, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Evocare l'udible, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turi, Italy
Max Neuhaus: Sound Work Zeichnungen, Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
1994
Max Neuhaus: Zeichnungen, Kunstverein, Heilbronn, Germany
1988
Max Neuhaus: Sound Line Magazin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenogle, France
1983
Max Neuhaus: Sound Installation, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1982
Max Neuhaus: Drawings, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, USA
1981
Soundings, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Sounds of the World, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
2019
Sound Art?, Fondació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
2014
Analog, Blain Southern, Berlin
2013
Denys Zacharopoulos, MOMus Contemporary, Thessaloniki, Greece
2012
Silence, The Menil Collection, Houston, USA
| WRITINGS AND RECORDINGS BY THE ARTIST 1968 Zyklus for One Percussionist. Wergo WER 60010 (LP), 1963. Electronics and Percussion: Five Realizations by Max Neuhaus. Columbia Masterworks MS 7139 (LP), 1968. Liner notes by Max Neuhaus. Fontana Mix–Feed: Six Realizations of John Cag 1965/1968.
Cycle for One Percussionist (In Two Different Versions). Heliodor 2549 016, 1970. Featuring Christoph Caskel, Max Neuhaus, Frederic Rzewski, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Liner notes by Hanspeter Krellman.
“BANG, BOOooom, ThumP, EEEK, tinkle.” New York Times, December 6, 1974, p. 39. Program Notes. Toronto: York University, 1974. Excerpted in Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
“Lecture at Seibu Museum Tokyo,” 1982. In Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription. Full text at http://www.max-neuhaus.info/bibliography/Tokyo.htm.
Max Neuhaus: Sound Installation. Providence, R.I.: Bell Gallery, Brown University, 1983.
“Lecture at University of Miami,” 1984. In Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription. Full text at http://www.max-neuhaus.info/bibliography/Miami.htm. Max Neuhaus: Installations Sonores. Geneva: Marie-Louise, Jeanneret Art Moderne, 1984. Text by Pierre Restany.
Max Neuhaus. Locminé: Centre d’art contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, 1987. Text by Denys Zacharopoulos.
Max Neuhaus: Sound Line. Grenoble: Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, 1988. Text by Franz Keiser
Max Neuhaus: Two Sound Works 1989. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern and Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1989. Texts by Wulf
“Audium, Projekt für eine Welt als Hör-Raum.” In Vom Verschwinden der Ferne: Telekommunikation und Kunst. Cologne: DuMont, 1990, pp. 119–28. “Listen.” In Max Neuhaus: Elusive Sources and “Like” Spaces. Turin: Galleria Giorgio Persano, 1990. Max Neuhaus: Elusive Sources and “Like” Spaces. Turin: Giorgio Persano, 1990. Text by Denys Zacharopoulos;
“Notes on Place and Moment,” 1992. In Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription. Full text at http://www.maxneuhaus.info/soundworks/vectors/moment/notes/.
“Siren—Aural Design.” Kunst & Museumjournaal 4, no. 6 (1993), pp. 12–18.
“Situation Esthetics: Impermanent Art and the Seventies Audience: Max Neuhaus.” Artforum 18, no. 5 (January 1980), pp. 27–29. Reprinted as “Modus Operandi,” in Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription, 1994. “The Broadcast Works and Audium.” In Zeitgleich: The Symposium, the Seminar, the Exhibition. Vienna: Triton, 1994. “The Institutional Beast,” 1994. In Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription. Full text at www.maxneuhaus.info/bibliography/InstitutionalBeast.htm. “Sound Design.” In Zeitgleich: the Symposium, the Seminar, the Exhibition. Vienna: Triton, 1994. Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription. Ostfildern- Ruit, Germany: Cantz, 1994. Original interview with Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 2, Drawings. Ostfildern- Ruit, Germany: Cantz, 1994. Texts by Yehuda Safran andMax Neuhaus. Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 3, Place. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz, 1994. Max Neuhaus: Zeichnungen. Heilbronn: Kunstverein
Max Neuhaus: Evocare l’udibile. Milan: Charta, 1995. Texts by Ida Gianelli, Gregory des Jardins, Stuart Morgan, et al.
Max Neuhaus: La Collezione, The Collection. Milan: Charta, in association with Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Max Neuhaus: Moment / Stund. Reykjavik: Second Floor, 1997. Three to One: Max Neuhaus. Brussels: Encore, in association with La Lettre Volée, 1997. Texts by Zsuzsanna Gahse, Max Neuhaus, and Yehuda Safran.
“Sound Art?” Liner notes for Volume: Bed of Sound. P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, July 2000. Audio CD.
Max Neuhaus: Ears. Paris: Onestar Press, 2001.
Alga Marghen, Milan, plana-P 18NMN.044, 2003. Liner notes by Donald J. Henahan, Max Neuhaus, and Theodore Strongin.
The New York School: Nine Realizations of Cage, Feldman, Brown. Alga Marghen, Milan, plana-N 22NMN.052, 2004. Liner notes by Malcolm Goldstein, Max Neuhaus, John Rockwell, and Theodore Strongin. Zyklus: Stockhausen, Neuhaus. Alga Marghen, Milan, plana- P 23NMN.054, 2004. Liner notes by Max Neuhaus and John Rockwell. “Netzwerke.” Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, no. 5 (September–October 2004).
“Vortrag Neuhaus.” In End of Art—Endings in Art. Ed. Gerhard Seel. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2006. Online at www.max-neuhaus.info/bibliography/IAPA.htm. Max Neuhaus: Sound Installation. Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1983. Texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Max Neuhaus,and Carter Ratcliff. Ammann and Ratcliff texts reprinted in Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
Max Neuhaus: Time Piece Stommeln. Pulheim: Der Bürgermeister, 2007. Texts by Max Neuhaus and Ulrich
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SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Strongin, Theodore. “Concert Is Given By Percussionist.” New York Times, June 3, 1964, p. 36.
Goldstein, Malcolm. “Neuhaus Realizations.” Village Voice, June 1964.
Strongin, Theodore. “Artist ‘Realizes’ Taped Music and Plays Piano from Inside.” New York Times, March 23, 1965,
p. 34.
Saltzman, Eric. “Max Neuhaus’s Electronics and Percussion.” HiFi Stereo Review (November 1968).
Monson, Karen. “Neuhaus’s Submerged Premiere.” Christian Science Monitor, January 19, 1972, p. 6.
Hiffner, Amy. “Interview avec Max Neuhaus.” Artitudes International, nos. 9–11 (April–June 1974), p. 70.
Brunelle, Al. “Deep Float: Neuhaus’ ‘Water Whistle.’” Art in America 62, no. 5 (September–October 1974), p. 91.
Johnson, Tom. “Creating the Context: Max Neuhaus.” Village Voice, December 6, 1976. Reprinted in Max Neuhaus:
Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
Rockwell, John. “Whistle While You Tune In to Avant-Garde Radio.” New York Times, January 2, 1977, p. 73.
La Barbara, Joan. “Max Neuhaus: New Sounds in Natural Settings.” Musical America (October 1977). Reprinted in
Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
Lorber, Richard. “Max Neuhaus, Times Square.” Artforum 16, no. 5 (January 1978), p. 64.
Foster, Hal. “Exhibition Reviews.” Artforum 18, no. 5 (January 1980), p. 70.
Princenthal, Nancy. “Sounds of Violence: Max Neuhaus’ Siren Project.” Artforum 20, no. 9 (May 1982), pp. 70–71.
Rockwell, John. “Environmental Composers & Ambient Music: Max Neuhaus.” In All American Music. New York:
Knopf, 1983. Reprinted in Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
Javault, Patrick. “Max Neuhaus: Noises in the Corridor.” Art Press, no. 100 (February 1986), p. 55.
Restany, Pierre. “Max Neuhaus: concetto e metodo di una architettura Sonora.” Domus, no. 684 (June 1987), p. 3.
Ratcliff, Carter. “Max Neuhaus: Aural Spaces.” Art in America 75, no. 10 (October 1987), pp. 154–63.
Cueff, Alain. “Max Neuhaus: The Space of Sound.” Artscribe International, no. 71 (September–October 1988), pp. 66–67.
Reprinted in Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
Tomkins, Calvin. “HEAR.” New Yorker (October 24, 1988), p. 110. Reprinted in Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1,
Inscription.
Danto, Arthur. “Max Neuhaus: Sound Works.” Nation 252, no. 8 (March 4, 1991), pp. 281–84. Reprinted in Max
Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
Weingarten, Susanne. “Brummen vor dem Tor.” Der Spiegel (September 7, 1992), pp. 276–79. Reprinted in Max
Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
von Drathen, Doris. “Max Neuhaus: Invisible Sculpture—Molded Sound.” Parkett, no. 35 (March 1993), pp. 18–29.
Reprinted in Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
Szeemann, Harald. “Max Neuhaus.” Kunstforum International, no. 127 (July–September 1994), pp. 176–77.
Reprinted in Max Neuhaus: Sound Works, vol. 1, Inscription.
Schwarze, Dirk. “Max Neuhaus und Karel Malich.” Kunstforum International, no. 131 (August–October 1995),
pp. 404–6.
Tazzi, Pier Luigi. “Constructed Sound: Max Neuhaus.” Carte d’Arte Internazionale (November 1997).
Tarantino, Michael. “Two Passages.” www.maxneuhaus. info/soundworks/vectors/passage/twopassages/,
1998.
von Drathen, Doris. “Gebaute Töne.” Künstler: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 41, no. 5 (1998).
Leffingwell, Edward. “Max Neuhaus at Christine Burgin and P.S. 1.” Art in America 89, no. 4 (April 2001), p. 136.
Zuckerman, Alicia. “Max Neuhaus: Times Square.” Arts Electric. www.arts-electric.org/stories/2002/
020530_neuhaus.html. May 30, 2002.
Ryan, David. “Max Neuhaus.” Art Monthly, no. 275 (April 2004), p. 42.
Safran, Yehuda. “Shaping Sound.” Domus, no. 876 (December 2004): pp. 72–77.
Cascella, Daniela. “Max Neuhaus.” Contemporary, no. 75 (2005), pp. 38–39.
Loock, Ulrich. “Times Square, Max Neuhaus’s Sound Work in New York City.” Open: Cahier on Art in the Public
Domain 4, no. 9 (2005).
Traub, Peter. “Auracle.” www.max-neuhaus.info bibliography/PeterTraub.pdf, 2005.
LaBelle, Brandon. “Tuning Space: Max Neuhaus and Site-Specific Sound.” In Background Noise, Perspectives on
Sound Art, pp. 154–66. New York: Continuum, 2006.
Davila, Thierry. “Max Neuhaus, Times Square.” Art Press 2, no. 5 (June 2007).
Reust, Hans Rudolf. “While Walking.” www.maxneuhaus. info/bibliography/HansRudolfReust.pdf, 2007.
Carter, Kabir. “Houston; New York; and Beacon, New York.” Modern Painters 20, no. 6 (July–August 2008), pp. 82–83.
Cox, Christoph. “Enduring Work: On Max Neuhaus (1939–2009).” Artforum 47, no. 9 May 2009
