Portrait Painting

Sound and visual artist, composer and performer Machajdi­k [pronounced 'makh-eye-deek']. Since 2012, he has been the curator of the Sound City Days festival in Košice, Slovakia, and the Music at Fulla concert series, and he is a founding member of Simach Art Foundation that has organized events of contemporary art, music and poetry in Slovakia. Teaching at the Faculty of Arts in Košice, Slovakia. _____________________________________ More about visual works .html _____________________________________ In the 1980's he was refused admittance into the Music Academy of Bratislava because his concept of art and music, at that time, was heavily influenced by the Western avant-garde. 1989 Prize in the International Luigi Russolo Competition in Varese ~~ 1992 Berliner Künstlerprogramms des DAAD ~~ 1999 Artist in Residence at Schloss Wiepersdorf, Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin ~~ 2003 Artist in Residence in Worpswede, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, ~~ 2004 Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin ~~ 2005 Jan Levoslav Bella Prize, Slovakia ~~ 2011 Artist in Residence, Prague, International Visegrad Fund ~~ 2013 Artist in Residence in Judenburg, Austria ~~ 2017 recipient of a grant from the Slovak Arts Council