AKMAR  
Born 25-12-1976  

Education  
1996-2001 BA Academie Minerva – Interior Architecture - Groningen/ NL  
2001- 2002 MA Frank Mohr Institute – Time Based Media -Groningen/ NL  

Course  
2024 Moestuinschool - Amsterdam / NL
2009 3D World, George Snow - Florence/ IT  
2003 Workshop Micha Klein - Amsterdam /NL  


Ancillary activities  
board member, secretary, project space On The Inside - Amsterdam  2024
chairman advisory committee Chamber Art and Culture NTR 2022-2026  
chairman provincial advisory committee culture Province of Drenthe 2024-2026  
member advisory committee culture note 25-28 Municipality and Province of Groningen  
advisory committee province Drenthe 2021-2023  
member advisory committee culture note 21-24 Municipality and Province of Groningen  

Prizes  
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  Jury: Petra Joos, Chief conservator of the Guggenheim Bilbao/ Cristóbal                        Gabarrón , Sculptor /  Joel Shapiro, Sculptor/ John Keenen & Terry Riley, K/R Architect/ Kosme Barañano, Director de  la Cátedra de Metodología  
2002 First prize Best of 3D Film, Noordelijk filmfestival - Leeuwarden/ NL  
2003 Third prize Short Film, Videolandscape - Groningen/ NL  

Stipends  
2023 Mondriaanfonds internationalisering  
2023 Fund Dutch Embassy Japan  
2023 Fund Dutch Embassy Duitsland  
2022 Fund AFK/ Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten – Project  
2020 Fund Stichting Stokroos – Coaching traject  
2020 Fund Creative Industry – Digital projects  
2020 Fund Mondriaan - Project  
2018 Fund Dutch Embassy China–Landart Biennial Mongolia  
2014 Fund Creative Industry - Project  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  
2024 (forthcoming) outdoor sculpture- Van Gogh huis Zundert NL  
2024 ​ALMOST, BUT DEFINITELY- Omstand – Arnhem /NL  
2024 Boring...but Exciting, Vishal – Haarlem /NL  
2023 The Alchemy of Abstraction, Bradwolff Projects – Amsterdam /NL  
2023 UNSEEN, sectie UNBOUND – Amsterdam /NL  
2023 Nakanojo Biennale 2023 – JP  
2023 Kijken dan Zien – Veenhuizen/ NL  
2023 Abstract Industrialism – ESTE art Foundation – Leiden/ NL  
2023 restlessness – kunstraum 34 – Stuttgart/ GER  
2023 Zingende Tangerine 100 – Tilburg/NL  
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 INACT Festival – Strassbourg/ FR  
2022 Matter over Mind – EICAS museum – Deventer/NL  
2022 NOORD NU – Frederiksoord/NL  
2021 Le Guess Who? – Utrecht/ NL  
2021 Seven year it(ch)!– melklokaal- Heerenveen/NL  
2021 On empirical grounds- Bouwput – Amsterdam/NL  
2021 This Art Fair – Amsterdam/NL  
2021 ECHO (solo) – melklokaal- Heerenveen/NL  
2020 Then as Now (solo) – Pictura - Dordrecht/NL  
2020 UNCLOUD – Utrecht/ NL  
2019 Bookfair – WIELS – Brussel/BE  
2019 Lust – Melklokaal- Heerenveen/NL  
2019 Ortung 11 – Schwabach - Nurenberg / DE  
2019 Commercial Crosses – Melklokaal- Heerenveen/ NL  
2018 VOLUMES edition 
2018 - Independent Art Publishing Fair - Kunsthalle Zürich/ CH  
2018 LAM 360 Landart Biennial Mongolia  
2018 (Un) Conrtollable teritorities – Expoplu Nijmegen/ NL  
2018 Listening to the Waters – Lisboa/ PRT  
2018 how do i (solo) - 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 This Art Fair - Amsterdam/ NL  
2017 Foam Fusion – Patty Morgan Internet café – 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 This Art Fair - Amsterdam / NL  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  Film Festival / selection  
2016 CYNETART – international festival for Computer Based Art - Dresden / GER  
2015 Kriterion - Amsterdam / NL  
2010 Holland Animation 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  
2024 Grote Amsterdamse Kunstkalender - print  
2021 Publication Then as Now  
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 Pavillion  
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