私の作品は、コンピューターで生成するビデオから、物理的な彫刻までさまざまな分野に及びます。共通するのは、現実とは何かという問いです。目に映るものは確実ではありません。それは時間とともに変化する、さまざまな素材の寄せ集めです。物質は、時間や活動によって別の形となることができます。私は次のことを発見するために、あらゆる兆候について調べます。もし、物質がそれ自体であること以外の機能を持たないとしたらどうでしょう。それ自体、とはどう見えるのでしょう？
omnia mutantur, nihil interit, ‘Everything changes, nothing perishes’. – Ovidius
My work is multidisciplinary, from video (computer generated) to physical sculpture. Common is the question; What is reality? The observable is not unambiguous. It is a mishmash of all kinds of different materials that changes over time. Matter can take other forms, through time, through actions. I investigate the different manifestations to discover: What if matter has no function except being itself. What does that itself look like?
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Education
1996-2001 BA Academie Minerva – Interior Architecture – Groningen/ NL
2001-2002 MA Frank Mohr Institute – Time Based Media -Groningen/ NL
Course
2009 3D World, George Snow – Florence/ IT
2003 Workshop Micha Klein – Amsterdam /NL
Awards & Nominations
2016 Finalist International CYNETART competition – Dresden/ DE
2016 Grant Winner – Best in Show – Ionion Art Center – Kefalonia/ GR
2016 Winner « TALENTS CONTEMPORAINS » Fondation François Schneider – Wattwiller / FR
2016 Shortlist Laguna Arte Prize – Venice / IT
2015 Nomination Blooom Award – Koln / DE
2015 Nomination Prix de Rome – Amsterdam / NL
2015 Nomination Strabag Art Award – Vienna / AUS
2014 First prize, International Sculpture Competition for the future Parque de Levante .- Murcia/ ESP
2002 First prize Best of 3D Film, Noordelijk filmfestival – Leeuwarden/ NL
2003 Third prize Short Film, Videolandscape – Groningen/ NL
Grants
2022 Fund AFK – Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten – Project
2020 Fund Stichting Stokroos
2020 Fund Creative Industrie – Digital projects
2020 Fund Mondriaan Fund – Project
2018 Fund Dutch Embassy –Landart Biennial Mongolia
2014 Fund Internationalisation Creative Industry – Stimuleringsfonds
Residence
2018 artist-in-residence, Stichting IK- funded by Mondriaan fonds/ NL
2017 artist-in-residence, Athens (Grant by Ionion Art Center)/ GR
2013 artist-in-residence, Art Masters – St Morritz / CH.
Exhibitions / selection
2023 (forthcoming) Nakanojo Biennale – Nakanojo / JP
2023 (forthcoming) restlessness – Kunstraum 34 / Stuttgart /GER
2022 Recharge – Galerie Onrust – Amsterdam / NL
2022 Big DaDa – Arti et Amicitiae – Amsterdam / NL
2022 Le geste est la parole – De Bouwput – Amsterdam / NL
2022 ALLE WOLKEN WAAIEN WEG (solo) – Voormalige Rechtbank – Amsterdam/ NL
2022 Matter over Mind – EICAS Museum – Deventer/ NL
2022 INACT Festival – Strassbourg/FR
2022 NOORD NU – Frederiksoord/ NL
2021 Le Guess Who? – Utrecht/ NL
2021 HIP AWARDS – Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / NL
2021 Seven year it(ch)!– melklokaal- Heerenveen/NL
2021 On empirical grounds- Bouwput – Amsterdam/NL
2021 ECHO (solo) – Melklokaal- Heerenveen/ NL
2020 THEN as NOW as Now – Pictura- Dordrecht / NL
2020 UNCLOUD – Utrecht/ NL
2019 Lust – Melklokaal- Heerenveen/ NL
2019 Ortung 11 – Schwabach – Nurenberg / DE
2019 Commercial Crosses – Melklokaal- Heerenveen/ NL
2018 LAM 360 – Landart Biennial Mongolia
2018 (Un)Controllable Territories – Expoplu Nijmegen/ NL
2018 Listening to the Waters– Lisboa/ PRT
2018 how do i – Stichting Ik – Zeeland/ NL
2018 Eaux Vives – La Lune en Parachute – Épinal/ FR
2017-2018 The Wrong Digital Art Biennale – The Quickest Via Pavillion/ online
2017 Foam Fusion – Patty Morgan Internetcafé – Foam Museum – Amsterdam/ NL
2017 «TALENTS CONTEMPORAINS» Fondation François Schneider – Wattwiller/ FR
2017 Documenta 14 Athens – A-Letheia / Athens / GR
2017 Hope my legs don’t break – A-dash project Athens / GR
2016 Sea(s) – curated by Haytam Nawar & Ghalia Elsrakbi (Foundland Collective) – Kefalonia / GR
2016 Art Yellow – CICA Museum – Seoul / KR
2015 WG Art Gallery – Amsterdam / NL
2015 Telephone- New York / USA
2014 TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE / collateral event of Venice Architecture Biennale – Venice / IT
2013 Ciudad de Murcia – Murcia / ESP
2013 TINA B. Festival Gask Gallery – Prague / CZ
2011 Gemeente Museum Den Haag – Den Haag / NL
Fairs
2021 This art Fair – Amsterdam / NL
2019 Bookfair – WIELS – Brussel / BE
2018 VOLUMES edition 2018 – Independent Art Publishing Fair – Kunsthalle Zürich/ CH
2017 This Art Fair – Amsterdam/ NL
2015 This Art Fair – Amsterdam / NL
Film Festival / selection
2016 CYNETART -international festival for Computer Based Art – Dresden/GER
2015 Kriterion – Amsterdam / NL
2010 Holland Animatie Festival , selection: Best Dutch Productions – Utrecht / NL
2010 NPS , New Arrivals – Dutch Television
2010 AVRO Rough Cut – Dutch Television
2010 SESIFF, selection: Best International Productions -Seoul / KR
2010 Cinekid Festival – Amsterdam / NL
2009 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival – Toronto / CA
2006 Noordelijk film festival – Leeuwarden / NL
2006 Gorcums film festival – Gorcum / NL
2005 Fair Food festival – Utrecht / NL
2005 Noordelijk film festival – Leeuwarden / NL
Books & Publications
2021 publication THEN as NOW text by Thomas van Huut
2018 Book – how do i – About the work of Akmar during the residency period at Stichting IK – ISBN 978- 90-825344-3-6 140 pages.
2018 Catalogue exhibition – The Wrong Digital Art Biennale – The Quickest Via Pavilion
2017 Catalogue exhibition – « TALENTS CONTEMPORAINS » Fondation François Schneider
2016 ART YELLOW BOOK – CICA MUSEUM – distribution USA & Korea
2016 Grote Amsterdamse Kunstkalender – print
2016 dsign-magazine.com – web
Ancillary activities
Member advisory council – chamber art and culture NTR 2022-2024
Advisor province Drenthe 2021-2023
Advisor municipality & province Groningen 2021
