Jan St. Werner is an artist and electronic music composer based in Berlin. Widely recognized as one half of the electronic music group Mouse on Mars, he has also pursued a solo career creating sound works under his own name as well as Lithops, Noisemashinetapes, and Neuter River. Starting in the mid-1990s as part of Cologne’s A-Musik collective, St. Werner has released a steady stream of records both as a solo artist and with Mouse on Mars. He has collaborated with Oval’s Markus Popp as Microstoria and contributes music for installations and films by visual artist Rosa Barba. During the 2000s, Werner acted as the artistic director for STEIM, the Dutch Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music. In 2013, St. Werner released Blaze Colour Burn, the first of a series of experimental recordings called the Fiepblatter Catalogue on Thrill Jockey Records. St. Werner has realized sound interventions and installations in art spaces such as the ICA London, documenta Athens and Kassel, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, HKW Berlin, Lenbachhaus Munich, and Ural Biennial a.o. St. Werner was a visiting professor at MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in 2016 & 2017, served as professor for dynamic acoustic research (DAF) at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg between 2017 and 2021 and was a visiting professor for sound and performance at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich 2020 and 2021.
