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RAFTSIDE is Filip Markiewicz’s electrovisual pop rock project that is always connected to his visual work. The performances are film and musical experiences, that analyze in a poetic and way our digital society of the spectacle. After a european tour with with his latest LP « Ultrasocial Pop » (Grzegorzki Records / Berlin) and presenting a visual performance in 2020 for the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Mudam Luxembourg, Konschthal Esch, the RAFTSIDE performance was presented at this year’s NRW Forum in Düsseldorf for the opening of the AR Biennale and at Filip Markiewicz’s solo exhibition « Liquid Poem » at the Stadtgalerie Kiel (D). Over the last 15 years RAFTSIDE shared also the stage on different pop rock festivals with bands like Daft Punk, Metronomy, Flavien Berger… www.raftside.com www.filipmarkiewicz.com

Filip Markiewicz (born in 1980, Esch / Alzette, Luxembourg) is a visual artist who expresses himself through various media such as drawing, painting, music, video and installation. Filip Markiewicz represented Luxembourg at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 with the Paradiso Lussemburgo project (Sternberg Press Verlag catalog). His long-term project Celebration Factory on contemporary Europe began in 2016 at the NN Contemporary Art Northampton and at the Theater Basel before it was continued in 2018 at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain and in 2019 at the Center for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry and the Kunsthalle Osnabrück (catalog Hatje Cantz Verlag). In 2017 Markiewicz staged his performance Fake Fiction with diary texts by Oskar Schlemmer (publication Hyde Éditions) at Theater Basel for the official Art Basel program. Markiewicz received the Art Prize Bourse Bert-Theis in 2019 for his art music project Ultrasocial Pop. In 2020 his theater film project Fake Fiction was presented for the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin festival at the Musée du Louvre in Paris and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In the same year Markiewicz shows his monographic exhibition Ultraplastik Rhapsody at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. For the Lausitz Festival 2020, Markiewicz directed, created the scenography and composed the music for the play ANTIGONE NEUROPA (Sophocles) in collaboration with the Staatstheater Cottbus. In february 2021 Filip Markiewicz presented the performance Ultrasocial Pop  in the frame of the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin. In August 2021 Markiewicz directed, created the scenography and composed the music for the installation and theater performance Euro Hamlet at the Lausitz Festival. From 2021-2023 Filip Markiewicz presented the Ultrasocial Pop solo exhibition through european Art Institutions like Konschthal Esch, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Meno Parkas Kaunas 2022, Mudam Luxembourg. In 2023 he participated at the AR Biennale at NRW Forum Düsseldorf and most recently he presented the soloshow « Liquid Poem » at the Stadtgalerie Kiel. A catalogue presenting the body of work Ultrasocial Pop was released by Hatje Cantz. Filip Markiewicz has been composing music for film, theater and installation under the name RAFTSIDE since 1999, with which he has also appeared in several international festivals.