Tarek Atoui | Set of three LPs “MONO LOGS”

Tarek Atoui’s multivalent practice moves between art and music, education and performance. At its heart are instruments that the artist has created with artisans and musicians in recent years. On the occasion of his exhibitions at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Kunsthaus Bregenz, S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent and Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, between 2023 and 2025, a set of three records by Atoui is released. The LPs bring together sounds produced by a number of international musicians playing solos on the artist’s instruments in different contexts: in their respective studios, Atoui’s studio, and in the exhibition spaces of Kunsthaus Bregenz and kurimanzutto’s gallery. These records capture the life of the instruments and are also conceived as vinyls that DJs, turntablists and sound practitioners can sample and use.

“MONO LOGS” is published in conjunction with “DIALOGS,” catalog produced on the occasion of his solo exhibition “Improvisation in 10 Days,” which along with the artist’s exhibition views of his shows in the four institutions includes a poetic conversation between Tarek Atoui and curator Ute Meta Bauer.