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Feiko Beckers (1983) was born in Witmarsum, the Netherlands, he currently he lives and works in Amsterdam.

 

Education  
2010-2011 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten | Amsterdam
2002-2006 Academie Minerva voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving | Groningen
2005 Californian College of the Arts | San Francisco, USA
   
   
Exhibitions and Screenings
2011 RijksakademieOpen 2011 | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
  Mijn vriend en ik | 21Rozendaal, Enschede
  Abstraction Surface Air | Bureau des Videos, Paris, France
  New Video Kids | White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg, Germany
  Making a birthday cake with my mother | Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
  Opening Event | Motel de Nowhere, Londen, UK
   
2010 VideoProsjkekter | Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
  RijksakademieOpen 2010 | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
  Deja-Vu | De Fabriek, Eindhoven
   
2009 CAS Zuidas Urban Screen Festival | CAS Zuidas, Amsterdam
  Long Distance Call | Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn
  Hendrik de Vries Grant | Galerie Pictura, Groningen
  NOK | Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
   
2008 7a*11d Performance Festival | Toronto, Canada
  Kunstvlaai 2008 | Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
  DISplay | NP3, Groningen
  NP3's Grande Biennale Concours Neerlandais | Kunsteyssen, Alkmaar
   
2007 The Consciousness of the Human Being in the Mind of an Almost-Human being | Galerie Zoete Broodjes, Amsterdam
  Painkilers for Redheads/the Artist and other works | Hedah Centre for Contemporary Art
  Act of Faith | Noorderlicht/Stichting Circuit. Eenum
  Nieuwe Uitleenschatten | Der Aa-kerk, Groningen
   
2006 Wondering About (What, Where and Why) | Moving Maastricht, Maastricht
  Who Gives a Fuck About Art in Public Space!? | Medium Gallery, Groningen
  Wildbeaming | Galerie Sign, Groningen
  Media Art Festival Friesland |Museum Smallingerland, Drachten
  Graduation Show|Academie Minerva, Groningen
  Sex and Sadness | Platform Garanti Center for Contemporary Art, Istanbul,Turkey
  Exploding Television | Witte de With/Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam
  Videoskoop | P ///AKT, Amsterdam
   
2005 Videoskoop | Galerie Sign, Groningen
  Feiko ≠ Josine, Josine ≠ Feiko | Medium Gallery, Groningen (in collaboration with Josine Siderius)
  Skin | Galerie het Langhuis, Zwolle
   
   
Performances
2011 Three Options | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
  Making sense of my horoscope | Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
  A story about my fathers heart attack... | Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
   
2010 Cracker #1 Performance Festival | Self Service Art Space, Stuttgart, Germany
   
2008 International Prize for Performance | Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
   
2007 Audiobusstop | NP3, Groningen (in collaboration witht Wouter Sibum)
  Art Child | Platform GRAS, Groningen (in collaboration with Wouter Sibum)
   
2006 Steamboat Bill Jr. or a practice in sincerity | Galerie Sign, Groningen
  The History of Performance Art | BAK25, Almelo (in collaboration with Serge Lammerts)
  A Lecture Considering a Foldable Spoon | Academie Minerva, Groningen
   
2005 Dropping a hammer on my head in thirty minutes | Galerie het Langhuis, Zwolle
  Another bloody attempt to experience pain | California College of the Arts, Oakland, USA
   
   
Awards/Grants
2011 dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds | Den Haag
   
2010 dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds | Den Haag
   
2009 Hendrik de Vries Stipendium | Groningen (nomination)
   
2008 Starters Stipendium | Dutch Foundation of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture.
  International Prize for Performance | Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (joint second prize)
  Klaas Dijkstra Fonds | Groningen