Enkidu rankX | new media artist
Franco-German new media artist Enkidu rankX was born 1972 in Saarbrücken / Germany. After his studies in Belgium he settled down in Berlin in 1996 where he is working and living up to this day. The studied film-director works as an independent artists with activities in a variety of fields such as digital-art, video-art, sound-installation, music and cooperation in dance & theatre. In 2002 he co-founded the art company Einheit_7 e.V. where he regularly teaches defavorized children and teenager.
In his artworks Enkidu rankX deals with issues such as post-privacy, relational miscommunication, the effect of technology on the human condition and the loss of identity that comes with the advent of virtualization an simulation. Alienation is a relevant keyword to understanding his often-times bleak and unsettling work.
In most recent times, Enkidu rankX has exhibited his open-art complex „the code is cold“ and is currently finishing his video-art series „DOGS“. His filmography is comprised of more than 50 films and experiments with projections, screenings and installations in Berlin, New York & Amsterdam.
Artistic Vita
Musical Projects
- SONDAGE — solo project for electronic & electroacoustic music, radio play (Hörspiel), and sound collage. „Tonale Archäologie der Zwischenwelt … Nicht Komposition. Befund.“ (tonal archaeology of the in-between world … not composition. Finding.)
- NARKON: Situ 2 / Stratum 7–11 (July 2026, Berlin) — an archaeology of the abyssal strata of human consciousness, excavating layers 7 to 11. Composition, arrangement & production: Enkidu rankX; trumpet: Uri Killisch. Part of the NARKON series, published within the SONDAGE edition.
- Hintergrundstrahlung / Background Radiation (2015–2022) — a soundscape built from intercepted broadcast signals, military and civil frequencies, recorded in a moment of global uncertainty. Collaboration with photographer Sulamith Sallmann. Archive unit of the SONDAGE corpus.
- mono étude en dix parties (2014) — ten electroacoustic études for Monotron and electronics. Archive unit of the SONDAGE corpus.
- the code is cold — audio version (2013/2026) — sound installation from the 2013 exhibition at Krankenhauskirche im Wuhlgarten, Berlin; atmospheric material composed for 45 text fragments drawn from a manifesto on machine consciousness, post-privacy, and the mutual evolution of man and technology. Originally spatial. Now a single listening object. Documentation: thecodeiscold.wordpress.com.
- Ur.X — Berlin-based unit with Uri Killisch. Album „no w here“
- MK_ultra — solo project for pop & IDM. Albums „The Rift“ (2007) and „MIND THE GAP“ (album/DVD); 1 CD & DVD.
- Mr. & Mrs.T — former band project with Mr.T (Enkidu as Mrs.T), 2001–2006, 4 CDs.
- REDOX — Bild · Text · Klang. Kunst hinterm Eisernen — 29 April 2026, Staatstheater Cottbus (Großes Haus), in cooperation with the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst (BLMK). Ur.X: electronics, sampling, video.
- DOGS — video-art series (DOGS I–XII+), currently ongoing.
Exhibitions / Vita List
- 2026 REDOX Staatstheater Cottbus (with BLMK)
- 2025 Ur.X live @ Onkan-音間, Synesthesia, Bushwick, NYC
- 2017 WERTE_GEMEINSCHAFT @ Galerie Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin
- 2017 RAUSCH @ Das Arty / Schau Fenster, Berlin
- 2013 the code is cold @ Krankenhauskirche im Wuhlgarten, Berlin
- 2012 Apokalypse | Utopie @ Galerie Pankow
- 2012 ZWISCHENSPIEL @ Galerie Parterre, Berlin
- 2010 RE.flexion – Real Time Dance Visuals @ Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
- 2009 „And what happens after…“ — dramaturgy, Pottporus Festival
- 2009 RE.flexion @ Waschhaus / Fabrik Potsdam
- 2009 la Rate Blanche @ OBA (Openbare Bibliotheek), Amsterdam
- 2009 Live visuals for the opening of the exhibition „Weimar 1919 – Chancen einer Republik“
- 2008 Live visuals for the Alcatel convention „NMI2008“ @ Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- 2005 Live visuals for „Navigating Democracy“ with Jean-Paul Bourelly @ Public Theatre NYC / Joe’s Pub
- 2004 Live visuals for „Congo Square“ with Jean-Paul Bourelly, Black Atlantic Festival @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
- 2002 Stipend and realisation of the multimedia performance „CONSUME!“ @ Simultanhalle Köln
- 1996 Diploma, IAD Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) — director for film, TV and radio
Co-op
- toshh2c (with Uri Killisch) — live @ Dieselkraftwerk / BLMK Cottbus, 2022
- phaenos (with Klaus Killisch) — „tempus fugit“ (live 2017, release 2022), „Oath of Stone Oak“ (2018/2022), „in/ebriate“; phaenos.bandcamp.com
- KaiSaR / KAISAR (with Klaus Killisch & Richard Sylvarnes) — „but where is the audience“, 2-CD set (live Berlin 2018, release 2019)