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Alexandros Papamarkou
26-05-1979 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Nationality: Dutch
0031 6 43 88 44 85

EDUCATION/BACKGROUND:
2014 - 2015 Aesthetics/Art Philosophy classes (unsubscribed), UvA, Amsterdam
2013            Circuit Bending Workshop, STEIM, Amsterdam
2013            Electronics workshop, The Royal Conservatoire, The Hague
2013            Masterclass by artist Goodiepal, Sonic Acts 2013, Amsterdam
2012 - 2013 Institute of Sonology, The Royal Conservatoire, The Hague
2011            Film & Sound workshop, Stichting Worm, Rotterdam
2010 - 2011 Attending Modern Art History & Iconography classes (unsubscribed), UvA, Amsterdam
2010             Studing Northern Indian music, theory and practice (voice, harmonium, dholak), India
2007 - 2010 Following Studio Generaal, lectures, discussions, film screenings, Gerrit Rietveld
                    Academy (unregistered), Amsterdam
2002 - 2007 Small Business & Retail Management, Hogeschool Inholland, Diemen–Zuid

RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
2014            springhouse residency, Dresden, Germany
2011            We are landscape painters, Residency program, Tsarino, Bulgaria
2009            Tsarino Project Residency Program, Tsarino, Bulgaria

EXHIBITIONS/SHOWS
2015            Raft Blues, installation, Invitation to the Blues, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2014            Walking and staying alongside the Priessnitz in the Dresden Heath, Dresden, Germany
2014            la Fortuna, video-installation, St. Josephkerk, Amsterdam
2014            Labour, sound-installation, Jonas en de Walvis, St. Josephkerk, Amsterdam
2013            At first I went for the okra, but then I settled for the yam, sound-installation,          
                    deSERVICEGARAGE, Amsterdam
2011            Instruments, installation, Water Tower Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011            Skinning, video-installation, Water Tower Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011            Tort[n]oise, sound-installation, Water Tower Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009             InsideouT, video-installation, Tsarino Project, The Outpost Gallery, Amsterdam
2009             Tort[n]oise, sound-installation, Tsarino Project, The Outpost Gallery, Amsterdam
2009             Instruments, installation, Tsarino Project, The Outpost Gallery, Amsterdam
2009             Skinning, video-installation, Tsarino Project, The Outpost Gallery, Amsterdam
2009             Untitled, installation, The Outpost Gallery, Amsterdam
2009             Take the money and Run, temporary on site intervention, location of first De Appel       
                     gallery, Amsterdam

PERFORMANCES
2015            Raft Blues song (with François Dey), PuntWG, Amsterdam
2015            Blue Duvet, Jan van Eijck, Maastricht
2014            Finnisage performance (part of la Fortuna), with François Dey, St. Josephkerk, Amsterdam
2013            An ode to bear, Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria
2013            When man & mountains meet, Bougoumez valley, Morocco
2013            Cowboy song, (with François Dey), Groepsexpositie: Couchsurfers and A-Boys, artist        
                    Jabu Arnell’s home, Amsterdam
2013            These sounds will lead the way, Groepsexpositie: Couchsurfers and A-Boys, artist Jabu  
                    Arnell’s home, Amsterdam
2013            A walk from one domestic place to another, The Netherlands
2013            This time I went for Monsanto but ended up in another park, Lisboa, Portugal
2013            RadioActivity, MilieuServiceNederland, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2013            Vondelpark, SOTU Festival, Vondelpark, Amsterdam
2013            Untitled, Amsterdamse bos, Amsterdam
2013            Untitled, Red Light Radio, Amsterdam
2013            Free Form Improv band, Café De Pepper/OT301, Amsterdam
2013            Improvisational formation, Oorsprong/Steim, Amsterdam
2012             Band formation, with François Dey & Aditya Mandayam, NIMk, Amsterdam
2012             Untitled, with François Dey, Studio M, Amsterdam
2012             Radio performance/”interview”, Amsterdam FM/OBA, Amsterdam
2012             Systems of Order, with François Dey, GUM Studios, Torino, Italy
2012             Performance with The Harp installation, with François Dey, The Island, Fatform,     
                     Amsterdam
2012             De Pepper Free Form Improv Music Group, S.O.T.U. Festival, Café De 
                     Pepper/OT301, Amsterdam
2012             Gold, Gypsy Gold, with François Dey, Hear it! 2-Playing the Building, Stedelijk Museum   
                     @ Trouw, Amsterdam
2011            Gramophilia, BERM/DATE ART FESTIVAL, BERM, Amsterdam
2011            The Bulgarian Period of Vincent van Gogh, performance/paintings by Terry Vreeburg, 
                    Zuruncho Factory, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011            The Bulgarian Period of Vincent van Gogh, with Terry Vreeburg, We are landscape  
                     painters: Tsarino 2011, Chorbadjisko Community Centre, Chorbadjisko, Bulgaria
2011             Untitled, Water Tower Fest 2011, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011             Member of Chicago Boys coverband, Casco, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of   
                     your revolution” and Dutch Art Institute/Artez, Utrecht and Amsterdam
2011             Phonomatopee, with François Dey, Espace Challens 13, Lausanne, Switzerland
2010             Finnisage performance, with François Dey, Books ‘n’ Jokes, The Outpost, Amsterdam
2010             Untitled, Radio Rietveld mobile, Gerrit Rietveld Academy & AHK, Amsterdam
2009             Noise performance, demonstration against introduction new anti-squatting law, The Dam, 
                     Amsterdam
2009             Noise performance, demonstration against the speaking of Israeli forgein minister  
                     Lieberman on invitation by the Dutch Government, Apollo Hotel, Amsterdam
2009             Performances on Chikahome Pavilion by Chikako Watanabe, Open source Bijlmerplein 
                     and Kraaiennest, Amsterdam
2008             Performance, at installation De Fontein by François Dey, ARCAM, Amsterdam
2006             Performance, part of end exam work by Roy Speetjens, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, 
                     Amsterdam
2006            Open air, Radio Rietveld/Kunstvlaai, Westergasterrein, Amsterdam


CURATED/PROGRAMMED/ORGANIZED

2013            Waiting, Residency program, Tsarino, Bulgaria
2012            Art in post public space, Residency program, Tsarino, Bulgaria
2011            We are landscape painters, Residency program, Tsarino
                    Exhibition, Chorbadjiisko, Bulgaria
2009            Exhibition Tsarino Project, The Outpost Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
                    Start of Art-Residency project Tsarino, Tsarino, Bulgaria
2008            Palestine: the ART of Survival, Platform De Levante, Amsterdam
2006            Rap 4 Justice, United Civilians for Peace/De Melkweg, Amsterdam