Manos Tsangaris

Manos Tsangaris (born 8 December 1956) is a German composer, musician, sound art installation and performance artist, and a poet.

In 1991, he was invited by the Soviet composers' association as artist-in-residence in Moscow, in the same year he received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship from the city of Cologne, in 1992/93, the scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and in 1997 the art prize of the Akademie der Künste (AdK) Berlin, of which he has been a member since 2009.

[3] In 2017, he was elected full member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste in the music section.

[4] Since the 1970s, Tsangaris has published poems, performed as a soloist and with various music groups (including Ritim Grup and MIR) and exhibited drawings, theatre machinery and sound installations.

[5] In 2016, Tsangaris took over the artistic direction of the Munich Biennale together with the Swiss composer Daniel Ott (as successor to Peter Ruzicka).