K O - H U M is a Berlin based company which curates, develops and promotes stimulating projects by artists working across sound, music, visual and performing arts.
Through close dialogue with a range of collaborators, the company supports artists in releasing their works, facilitating performances and establishing authentic ventures with cultural institutions, bookings, media outlets and venues.
At the heart of the company's practice is a process-based relationship between artist and audiences, which seeks to give the projects space to find their own rhythm, public outputs, and discourse.
Founded in 2017, K O - H U M ’s core aim is to foster a dialogue between a range of disciplines by providing a platform where adventurous minds can encounter art that contextualizes, interprets, educates and expands culture, leading us to the edges of the contemporary experience.
Since 2017, KO-HUM has advanced networked forms of promotion and circulation of ideas that encompass digital strategies, partnerships, engagement programs, and campaigns, facilitating the premiere of new works, and presenting a diverse array of artists and cultural producers working across the fields of sound, film, publishing, visual and performing arts.
As a platform, KO-HUM performs a development function in the implementation of projects that demand considered listening, reading, and viewing, placing emphasis on bringing recognition to creative practitioners that withstand the atomization of culture and, through sustained inquiry and creative research, endeavor to enrich the public sphere.
At the heart of our practice is a process-based relationship between artists, writers, media outlets, event organizers, music labels, bookings, venues, cultural institutions, and audiences, which seeks to give each project space to find their rhythm, public outputs, and discourse. We consider such a process to be a collective enterprise, a workspace for cultivating relationships with a diverse range of collaborators.
KO-HUM is dedicated to fostering a dynamic exchange of ideas across various disciplines. It provides a platform for adventurous minds to encounter creativity that contextualizes, interprets, educates, and expands culture to the edges of the contemporary experience.
WE HAVE WORKED WITH
Music Labels, Studios & Publishers
Eunoia Studio (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
NOTON (Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ryoji Ikeda, Mika Vainio)
Subtext Recordings (emptyset, James Ginzburg, Roly Porter, ZULI, Rắn Cạp Đuôi, bela, Aho Ssan & KMRU)
Die Schachtel (Alter Ego, Matmos, Pansonic, Alessandra Novaga, Stefano Pilia)
The state51 Conspiracy (Valentina Magaletti, Sara Register, Matthew Simms)
Dialogo (Ennio Morricone & Bruno Nicolai, David Tudor, Costin Miereanu)
Edizioni Ishtar / Schema Records (Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella)
Monkeytown Records (Modeselektor, Catnapp)
InFiné Music (Vanessa Wagner, Murcof)
Arc Light Editions (Ruth Anderson, Martin Bartlett)
Institutions & Event Promoters
Humboldt Forum, Berlin (Durchlüften Festival)
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
University of Art & Design Linz (Interface Cultures at Ars Electronica Festival)
Siciliano Contemporary Ballet, Berlin