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Benoît Maubrey was born of French parents in Washington DC in 1952.
He graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Georgetown University.
In 1979 he moved to West Berlin and after the collapse of the former East Germany moved to the state of Brandenburg where he and his partner Susken Rosenthal founded the non-profits arts organization Kunstpflug e.V. His performance and installation work has been presented in many international art festivals, Since 1990 he lives and works in the village of Baitz (near Belzig,Brandenburg/) and Washington DC.

Since 1983 numerous performances and exhibitions (a selection):
Ars Electronica (1985), SONAMBIENTE/ Academy of Arts Berlin(1996), Tokyo City Opera/ NTT-ICC (1997), International Symposium of Electronic Arts/Chicago (1997), The Kitchen /NYC, Monaco Dance Danses Forum (2000), Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Location One/NYC, Gracia Territoria Sonor/Barcelona, (2003) , Thailand New Media Art Festival/Bangkok, Sitelines Festival/NYC (2006), Schloss Moyland/ Joseph Beuys Archive. (2007), Mostra des Artes/ Sao Paulo (2008), (2010) MuseumQuartier/Vienna, Zero1 Festival/San Jose,

Awards: Prix Ars Electronica 1991 Anerkennung , European Award for Street Theatre/Holzminden 1995, Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance NYC 2006, Palmarès du 35e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2004 (the LINE) and 2009 (CyberBirds), Grand Prix International Video Danse 2002 (Mention Speciale). Marler Video Installations Prize 2008, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl.

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