info

Manuel Sékou (est '91)

I am an audio/visual producer, assembler, betrachter, collaborateur, hoarder & gatherer.

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

76666
https://76666.world

mining

are.na

Exhibitions / Audio Works / Live Sets

2025

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, Galerie Adlershof, Berlin
Exhibition: Invisible Cities, group show together w/ Anna Raczyńska, Ilinca Fechete + Barbara-Rosa Siévi, Philip Nürnberger & Valentin Wedde @frappant Hamburg
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 together 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

Exhbition: in medias res, at »Genealogie der Dinge« @Kunstverein Kärnten
Exhibition: »C at the end of of a line is a whisper« audiovisual Installation by Tatjana Stürmer @ZKM Pavillon, Karlsruhe
Sound: liveset Aether, w/ Black Zone Myth Chant, Aseptic Stir & Belia Winnewisser @Dampfzentrale, Bern
Sound: live performance at First Friday, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
Sound : live performance at SAS Lancement, Les Halles du Faubourg, Lyon
Sound: live performance at Neubad, Luzern

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 / misc