Curriculum Vitae : Remco Schuurbiers
Born: September 29, 1968, Breda, the Netherlands. Nationality Dutch. Address: Schönhauser Allee 167-C, 10435 Berlin, Germany Email: [email protected] Website: www.remcoschuurbiers.com
Remco Schuurbiers lives and works in Berlin, His works makes photography, abstract compositions, short video films and installations or live video performances. In projects he works with musicians in the field of contemporary electronic music producing composed or improvised audiovisual performances. Besides he is one of the organizers of CTM - festival in Berlin and curator of the TodaysArt festival in The Hague. Founder of “The Art of Pingpongcountry".Together with director Ivan Stanev he is creating films and theater plays.
Education
1988 - 1992 Photographic Design at Royal Art Academy (KABK), the Hague, the Netherlands 1992 - 1995 Interdisciplinary Arts at Interfaculty Image and Sound, Royal Conservatorium, the Hague, the Netherlands
Interfaculty Image and Sound group projects: Electronic Music Theatre, with Dick Raaijmakers, Paul Koek, Frans Evers a.o. 1993 „Die Glückliche Hand“ (Arnold Schönberg) 1993 “School of Soundmen” 1994 “The Promenair of Mondriaan” 1995 “Schreuer im Hagh”
Curating & Organisation
Since 2008 Curator of the Soundmuseum.fm – Online Platform Since 2007 Program Director of TodaysArt festival – the Hague, the Netherlands Since 2007 Member of E.C.A.S.group – European Cities of Advanced Sound Since 2006 Pre selection transmediale Award – performing art & installations Since 2005 Member of Project Space : General Public, Berlin, Germany Since 1999 Co-Curator and Co-Director of CTM (club transmediale) - Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts
2010 “The promised city” openings evening, Warschau, Poland – in cooperation with Goethe Institute & KW Berlin Qwartz Electronic Music Awards, Jury member of Qwartz 6 – Paris, France Program advisor Berlin ruft an – the Generator in cooperation with Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands
2009 Conference production Pictoplasma Conference – Character Design, Berlin, Germany Program advisor Berlin Ruft An – the Generator in cooperation with Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands
2008 Program advisor Berlin Ruft An – the Generator in cooperation with Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands
2006 CTM at Mutek, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Conference production Pictoplasma Conference – Character Design, Berlin, Germany
2005 CTM at the cultuurnacht, The Hague, the Netherlands 10 years Art Forum celebration, Berlin, Germany
2004 Conference production Pictoplasma Conference – Character Design, Berlin, Germany CTM at Cph:dox film documentary festival Kopenhagen, Denmark Video screening “Snippets - Live at CTM”, Eletronika Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2003 CTM at Warschau Electronic Festival, Warsaw, Poland “Bug Button - The Repelling”, CTM at Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany
2002 „Berlin Hardwired: Serial Connector”, video screening, The Horse Hospital, London, UK Pre selection applications Garage festival – Stralsund, Germany
2000/01 Co-curator of the Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Talks - Panels
2010 Capital out of culture, TodaysArt, The Hague, Netherlands 50 great ideas in support of music, A-2-N conference at Berlin Music Week, Berlin, Germany How to create the perfect event, A-2-N conference at Berlin Music Week, Berlin, Germany
2009 Evolution Remixed! Die Vorgeschichte der Visual Music at Soundframe, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria Presentation of CTM [club transmediale] at Elektra, Montreal [QC], Canada Netaudio Berlin Festival – Alltogethernow – Berlins Alternative im Musikbusiness
2008 Talk: How to organize a festvial, Rokolectiv-Festivals, Museum Modern Art Bucharest, Romania
2006 "Playing with Art: Scenes from a 'Creative City'", Scape Symposium, Christchurch, New Zealand
Video / Installations / Exhibitions :
2010 Group Exhibition, Erfolgreich geführtes Real Life, General Public, Berlin, Germany
2009 Silent video, 3”00, during Field of Ears with Anne Laberge, Huib Emmer, Rachel de Boer. Etc. Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Solo Performance, Rencontres internationales Berlin, Germany Solo Performance, Pictopia Berlin, Germany
2008 Solo Performance, Rencontres internationales Centre Pompidou, Paris, France “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, O-Tannenbaum, Berlin, Germany Solo Performance, Rencontres internationales Madrid, Spain Solo Performance, Rencontres internationales Berlin, Germany
2007 Director of Videoclip WIRE – Aux Raus by TAX-Videofunding Group exhibition, DIN 1164, Projectspace General Public, Berlin, Germany Het leren mislukken (Dick Raaijmakers), zukunfstmusikbar, Berlin Germany Video performance, DEAF-Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, , Rencontres internationales Madrid, Spain “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, , Rencontres internationales Berlin, Germany Group exhibition, Summercamp, Gallery Visite ma Tente, Berlin Germany
2006 Group exhibition Beast of Burden, Projectspace General Public, Berlin, Germany “Paranoid”, video, The Ass. of Friends and Promoters of Time-Based Media Art in Metrop. Areas – Rio, Berlin, Germany “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, , Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France Group exhibition, Projectspace NP3, Groningen, the Netherlands Audio/video performance with Balloon & Needle, Special Focus Kim Swoo-Guen, Art Center Arko, Seoul, S-Korea Group exhibition, “Life without weekend”, Gallery PAK//////T, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Group exhibition Ball of Fame, object, Berlin, Germany Video installation, “Flux d’eclairement”, Le lieu unique, Nantes, France Group exhibition Belohnungsraum, video installation, Gallery Gmuer, Berlin, Germany “Paranoid”, video, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest, Romenia “Paranoid”, video, CTM festival Berlin, Germany
2005 “The enchanted sea”, video, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France “Pulse” , with Radboud Mens, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany “Pulse” , with Radboud Mens, X-film festival, Sofia, Bulgaria “Nanuq express” video, CTM festival Berlin, Germany “Dubtrain” video, Brabants Muziekhuis Den Bosch, the Netherlands
2004 Performance with Radboud Mens, cph:dox film documentary festival Kopenhagen, Denmark “Tappo Kontakt vs. Britney Spears” video, Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France “Sichtbar Archiv”, with Remco Packbiers, Open Arch, Galerie Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany “Pulse” , with Radboud Mens, Eletronika Festival Belo Horizonte, Itaú Sao Paolo, Brasil “Pulse” , with Radboud Mens, Kunstvlaai05, Amsterdam, the Netherlands “Pan-Tilt-Zoom: The Future is Looking Good!”, video installation, CTM, Berlin, Germany
2003 Performance with Radboud Mens, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, the Netherlands “Pulse”, with Radboud Mens, Earational Festival, Den Bosch, the Netherlands Performance with Stefan Schneider, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw Electronic Festival, Warsaw, Poland Video “Merci” for Barbara Morgenstern CD/DVD „Kleiner Ausschnitt“, Berlin, Germany
2002 “Move In Slowly to Close-Up…Fade-Out”, Stichting Gras group project, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands “Priarie Gears”, with Anna Laberge , Flora Theater, Delft, the Netherlands “Dot.nu - Bewegingen in Live Cinema”, with Nathalie Bruys, V2 Institute, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Paradiso Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands “Tappo Kontakt vs. Britney Spears“, video, Automatenbar, Berlin, Gemany
2001 Performance at Exit-Festival, Créteil/Paris, France “Triptikel”, with Polyvinylbigband (PBB), Exploding Cinema, Int. Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands “Unregistered HyperCam”, Tappo Kontakt vs. Dr.Loop, video remix of X or C Project
2000 “Untitled”, video installation, Kunstkreuz, Berlin, Germany “Tenmiste Houdbaar Tot”, Walter Maashuis Stichting, De Balie, Amsterdam, Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht; de Unie, Rotterdam; 042, Nijmegen, the Netherlands “Paint Ball”, video for Gallery Maldoror with Klaar v/d Lippe, the Hague, the Netherlands Performance at Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Performance at STEIM, with Phako/EOG and Funckarma, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1999 “?Syntax Error”, video, Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain “Re-constructions”, with Blixa Bargeld and Bain Brothers, Club ´t Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands Performance with Polyvinylbigband, New Forms Festival, the Hague, the Netherlands “Live samples en levende monsters”, with Phako & EOG, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1998 “Sample Madness”, with Eboman , the Hague, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, the Netherlands “Laboratory of Plastic Sound” , club Paard van Troje, the Hague, the Netherlands Untitled video installation at Strömungskombinat98 Art Festival, Dresden, Germany
The art of pingpongcountry
2010 Pongress Berlin 2010, Berlin, Germany The Knot / The promised city, Warschau, Poland The Knot / The promised city, Berlin, Germany
2008 Exhibition, Gallery SMP, Marseille, France Theaterform, Braunschweig, Germany
2007 Installation, La Quinzaine de l'Entorse, Lille, France Estuaire – Art Biennial, Nantes, France Theaterformen, Hannover, Germany At.tension Festival, Theaterfestival, Flügplatz Lärz, Germany
2006 Installation, SCAPE Biennial of Art in Public Space is don’t misbehave!, Christchurch, New Zealand Group exhibition Ball of Fame, Berlin, Germany Group exhibition Belohnungsraum, Gallery Gmuer, Berlin, Germany
2005 Installation “Western Redux”, I.D.E.A.L.-Festival, Nantes, France “Sport Frei!”, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany „Electric Campfire“, Voxxx Gallery– Raster Noton, Chemnitz, Germany CSW/Zamek Ujazdowski - Centre for Contemporary Art, Warschau, Poland
2004 Installation “Berlin – Texas”, Champ Libre Festival, Montreal, Canada Volkstheater München, München, Germany Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen, Germany
2003 Ausstellung in Gallery Aroma, Berlin, Germany
2002 Ausstellung at Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany
Photography
2006 Group exhibition Gästeliste +1, Galerie General Public, Berlin, Germany
2005 Group exhibition Kabinett der fiktiven Realitäten, Galerie Visite ma tente, Berlin, Germany Pitch : Steirische Herbst, Graz, Austria Series “Iraque Embassy”
2004 Postcard Series #04 “Urban Desert”, Champ Libre Festival, Montreal, Canada Postcard Series #03 “Misled Decisions”, CTM04, Berlin, Germany
2003 Postcard Series #02 “Play Global”, CTM03, Berlin, Germany
2002 Photography for publication “Luxor Las Vegas”, written by Ivan Stanev, Konkursbuch Verlag Berlin/Tübingen Postcard Series #01 “Unexpected Encounters”, CTM02, Berlin, Germany
2000 Photo series “Eldorado“, Kirchentage, Frankfurt Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
Projects with Ivan Stanev
2009 “Moonlake“,feature film 35mm, Varna, Bulgaria
2006 “Luxor Las Vegas“, feature video film , Berlin, Germany
2004 “Hollywood Forever”, theatre / video production at Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
2003 „Villa dei Misteri“, feature video film, presented at Filmfest München, Munich, Germany
2002 “Luxor Las Vegas“, theatre / video production, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany
2001 “Villa dei Misteri”, theater/video production at Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany; Théatre de la Bastille, Paris, France; La Rose des Vents, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France ; Théatre Antoine Vitez, Aix en Provence, France ; Forum Freies Theatre, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 “Das Blau des Himmels“ (George Bataille), theater/video production, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany
Datenreport (Remco Schuurbiers [video] and Huib Emmer [Sound]
2008 “Unreal cities” Dag in de Branding Festival, The Hague, the Netherlands
2003 “Loopstate”, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands “20 Years Loos Ensemble”, Korzo Theater, the Hague, the Netherlands “Fatalis Machina”, Opening of Club Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands Performance at Cimatics Festival, Brussels, Belgium Performance at Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany
2002 “Dutch Electronic Invasion Tour”, with Luc Houtkamp and Gilius Bergeyk, Brno, Czech Republik; Juana Muzika Festival / National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania “Modern Impulses”, Floratheater, Delft, the Netherlands
2001 “Rorschach Audio”, with Loos Ensemble, Text by Ken Hollings, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Ijsbreker, Amsterdam; Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam; Floratheater, Delft, the Netherlands "Spirito dello Scambio", Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Performance at Gaudeamus Music Bienniale, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2000 Performance at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Performance at Club Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany Performance at Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Performance at Worm, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Performance at the occasion of record release of Rechenzentrum, Berlin, Germany
1999 Performance at Audio Art Festival, Goethe Institute, Krakow, Poland Performance at Audio Art Festival, Warsaw, Poland Performance at NYYD Festival Estland, Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia
1998 “Metal Zombie”, Unlimited Territories Festival, Club Paard, the Hague, the Netherlands