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Zimoun (born 1977) is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. As self-taught artist, he is most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials such as cardboard boxes, plastic bags, or old furniture, with mechanical elements such as dc-motors, wires, microphones, speakers and ventilators.

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Zimoun, born 1977, is an installation and sound artist from Switzerland and also founder of «leerraum [ ]», a label and network of artists who explore space, time, void, form and structure based on reductive principles and careful yet radical use of materials. 2005 and 2006 Zimoun presented through the label leerraum [ ] 25 sound installations of international artist in their own showrooms at the centre for culture production called “Progr” (Bern <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Zimoun">Read

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Zimoun (born 1977) is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. As self-taught artist, he is most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials such as cardboard boxes, plastic bags, or old furniture, with mechanical elements such as dc-motors, wires, microphones, speakers and ventilators.

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