Manuel Sékou (est '91)
I am an audio/visual producer, assembler, betrachter, collaborateur, hoarder & gatherer.
contact: manuelsekou@yandex.com
audio
https://luxxuryproblems.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/luxxuryproblems
https://soundcloud.com/luxxuryproblems/mixxedmedia
i lost my gems
ilostmygems.net
bandcamp.com/ilostmygems
@ilostmygems
aggregator-projects
@luxxuryvibelivewire
@i_lost_my_gems
@durchschnittplus
@whytebalancz
t.me/joinchat/SPUkpufQQKkQBmq5
(Aerate Plaza↑)
76666
https://76666.world
mining
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Exhibitions / Audio Works / Live Sets
2024
- Talk: Artist talk "digital hoarding" @PH Karlsruhe & Universität zu Köln
- Talk: FREMDE ABER WIRKSAME MATERIE – in der Gruppenausstellung "Die Kids sind nicht alright" mit Anna Zett
- Exhibition: I LOST MY GEMS @Gold+Beton, Cologne
- Exhibition: etcetera 4ever as part of the exhibition "wann sind wir endlich da" @Kunstverein Eislingen, group show w/ Heidi Herzig, Ben Öztat & Corinne Riepert
- Exhibition: 5-ch composition for »My Corporeal, Cereal Phantasies« by Tatjana Stürmer, HEX @MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen
- Exhibition: MIXED FEELINGS – I LOST MY GEMS / Manuel Sekou & Christian Holze, @Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden
- Exhibition: The Big Shirt Show, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
- Sound: Live Performance @PRXXXT, Leipzig
- Sound: live performance at Night of Surprise, Cologne
- Sound: live performance at interelliptic.info, Prishtina (Kosovo)
- Sound: live performance at Nepo Baby, Berlin
- Sound: live performance at R3SiiD3 Festival x SPA Labelnight @Kapitel Bollwerk, Bern (CH)
- Sound: DJ-Set @Salon des Amateurs w/ DJ Brom, Düsseldorf
- Sound: Werkschau, LAF, Pforzheim
2023
- Exhibition: »Solar Capital« (as part of Solarity Prospects) by Hugo de Almeida Pinho, @ACUD Galerie, Berlin
- Exhibition: ILMG @Motto Books, Berlin
- Exhibition: I LOST MY GEMS @Delphi Space, Freiburg
- Sound: live performance at SPA Labelnight @JAKI, Cologne
- Sound: Set for Giga-Hertz-Festival @ZKM Karlsruhe
- Sound: Composition for »The 3rd Complementary Day of Year 13«, audiovisual Installation by Louis Hay, Frankfurt
- Sound: Composition for »Inner Join«, audiovisual Installation by Sarah Degenhardt, as part of UNESCO City Of Media Arts, Karlsruhe
- Sound: K&H Festival 2023, Bad Wildbad
- Sound: Synchron Magazine Release w/ tau contrib, Genius Aix, eleftheria & Lost Comfort @kwia, Berlin
- Sound: Isle of Coding @ZKM Karlsruhe
2022
- Exhibition: I LOST MY GEMS 002 "Stand der Ermittlungen" @BFGM, Dresden
- Exhibition: I LOST MY GEMS 002 "Stand der Ermittlungen" @TV-HIFI, Karlsruhe
- Exhibition: Platform, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
- Exhibition: »f.y.d.a.l.G« w/ Rafael Jörger, Zentrale, Karlsruhe
- Exhibition: »Fotografieren, Fotografieren« w/ Anette Kelm, HfG Karlsruhe
- Sound: live performance at Brutalism presents Puce Mary & luxxuryproblems at St. Gertrud, Cologne
- Sound: EOS-AIR w/ Lee Gamble, Zoe McPherson & Jondo @Museum Für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt
- Sound: Frühjahrsfestival Richard Wagner / Hotel Utopia @Staatsoper Stuttgart
- Sound: live performance at Soleil Rouge, w/ HAJJ @Le Chinois, Paris
- Sound: Inter Weave / Site Visit w/ Felisha Ledesma @Museum Brandhorst, Munich
2021
2020
2019
- Sound: Chiffre X, Groovestation, Dresden
- Sound: live performance at MUMA Opening 2019, Tresor West, Dortmund
- Sound: live performance at TERZ III, Sektor Evolution, Dresden
- Sound: Neoprimitive, Golden Pudel, Hamburg
- Sound: live performance at Utopia 615, NrZP, Bielefeld
- Sound: live performance at Next Generation, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien „ZKM“, Karlsruhe
- Sound: live performance at Raumexperimente, St. Franziskuskirche, Karlsruhe-Dammerstock
- Sound: live performance at SPA Day & Night, Fettschmelze, Karlsruhe
- Sound: Junge Kunstnacht, Orangerie, Karlsruhe
- Sound: live performance at Illuminale, Domfreihof, Trier
2018
- Sound: live performance at MEGATEUF, Supersonic, Paris
- Sound: live performance at Die Selektion + luxxuryproblems, Sonic, Lyon
- Sound: live performance at Every bone and muscle, Bar Babette, Berlin
- Sound: live performance at B4rke, Soyya, Köln
- Sound: live performance Support at »Die Selektion«, Fettschmelze, Karlsruhe
- Sound: live performance at Bühne1 - Intervention, Villa, Trier
- Exhibition: Composition for »Blue Room« w/ Sarah Degenhardt, Kunstakademie, Karlsruhe
- Exhibition: »Kanu Islands« w/ Sarah Degenhardt, Off site, Darmstadt
2017
- Sound: live performance at inSonic/Next Gen, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien „ZKM“, Karlsruhe
- Exhibition: »Hybridization would be the most (un)natural thing…«, Karnak, Kassel
2016
Press
- https://www.monopol-magazin.de/shows/i-lost-my-gems-manuel-sekou
- https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kunstprojekt-i-lost-my-gems-dresden-und-seine-fremdzuschreibungen
- https://archive.org/details/das-wetter-031-i-lost-my-gems
- https://archive.org/details/zks-24-soundarchives-de_202112
greetings to Jonas Grünwald