Lasse-Marc Riek (*1975, Germany) is a sound artist and composer whose work explores acoustic ecology, bioacoustics, and soundscapes through field recording.
Since 1997, he has been active internationally with exhibitions, concerts, publications, lectures, and workshops.
His performances and exhibitions have been presented in galleries, art museums, churches, and cultural institutions, including Museum für Kommunikation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Dialogmuseum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Palmengarten (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), ZKM – Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), Kampnagel (Hamburg, Germany), Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Akademie der Künste (Berlin, Germany), Jazzfestival Moers (Moers, Germany), FLUC (Vienna, Austria), Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction (Aarhus, Denmark), Ennukapel (Tilburg, Netherlands), CCRN (Luxembourg City, Luxembourg), GdaÅ„sk Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa Airport (GdaÅ„sk, Poland), Norsk Teknisk Museum (Oslo, Norway), Kajaani Art Museum (Kajaani, Finland), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rovereto, Italy), Art Center (Beirut, Lebanon), Gallery ONKAF (New Delhi, India), Omba Gallery (Windhoek, Namibia), and Skylight Gallery (New York, USA).
His works have been featured in public media, particularly within German-language broadcasting. Radiophonic compositions have been produced, among others, for Deutschlandradio Kultur, Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Südwestrundfunk (SWR), and Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF).
For more than two decades, Riek has been sharing his artistic and research-based approaches through workshops, seminars, and teaching engagements. In Germany, he has taught at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main), Media Campus Dieburg (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences), Robert Schumann University of Music (Düsseldorf), Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design (Halle), and Städelschule Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Frankfurt am Main). His international teaching activities include Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic) and the Goethe-Institut (Tunis, Tunisia). His courses and workshops address students, pupils, scholarship holders, and a broadly interested public alike.
He has received grants and participated in numerous artist-in-residence programs in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. His awards and nominations include, among others, the Junge Akademie of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Wildlife Sound Recording Society Competition (Great Britain), the Prix Phonurgia Nova (France), the Grand Prix Nova (Romania), and the Quartz Electronic Music Award (France).
Riek is co-founder of the label Gruenrekorder, which since 2001 has focused on soundscapes, field recordings, and electroacoustic compositions, fostering international collaboration between artists and scientists.