About Me
André has been working for about 9 years in cultural business. starting with organizing events in 1999.
Early he was interested in the connection between brands, clubculture and contemporary arts, so he started his agency "mxplateau!" in 2000. he coaches brands like smirnoff vodka, singha beer or pilsner urquell in eventmarketing and sponsoring.
mxPlateau! is taking part in most of the important cultural events in cologne:
c/o pop (sponsoring and event production "innervisions labelnight")
Lange Nacht der Museen (sponsoring, concept "art guide")
art.fair 21 (sponsoring, concept "art guide", event production "mp7 live media club")
Kunstfilmbiennale (sponsoring, main "party" event production,catering)
Frauenfilmfestival (sponsoring, main "party" event production)In 2002 andré started his own club the "blue note" with partners from unique records.
The sound played here was jazz, (northern-)soul, funk, rare groove, indie and electro.
in the blue note, lots of small acts gave their debut in cologne.
especially from the Golden Pudel surround like Einmusik, Jake The Rapper, Girlsclub, mfoc DJ Team and the crazy Cobra Killer
a lot of international acts came by, like Joakim, Patrick Wolf, Dynamo Productions, Eddie Piller, Fat Jon, Florian Keller, Erobique, Frank Popp, Henry Storch, Malente, Ursula 1000, Crazy Cuts, John Stapleton, Nicola Conte, Alex Dallas, Mambo Kurt, Soul Rabbi,2004 André and his partners Suat Sürücü and Marco Martins opened the "Musikwirtschaft Stadt Venlo", the bar was build in the 50ies/60ies and they gave it a similiar look, just a little more clean, but still a real good german "kneipe".
here the cologne club culture found a new warm home. about 24 resident djs from cologne play in Stadt Venlo every month.As a promoter André has brought lots of djs and live acts to cologne, some of the highlights include: Egoexpress, Lindström, Prins Thomas, I:Cube, Gilb'r, The Whitest Boy Alive, Mr. White, Dixon, Ame, Hendrik Schwarz, Sonarkollektiv, Gerd Janson, C-Rock, Ark, Krikor,Robin Hoffmann and many more..His work with artists from vj scene is an important factor for all his events, which always include lots of screens for visuals. His partners in vjing are Uli Sigg, Okinawa 69, Bruno Tait, Bandbreite e.V., Viagrafik, Giraffentoast, Lichtsport, Lichtfront, Lichtfaktor and many more.A new chapter was opened in septemeber 2008 when andré opens the klubbar king georg which is a new outpost for the underground clubculture of cologne in the so called "nordstadt".
king georg stands for underground 70ies disco, detroit, chicago and modern house music. from theatre & readings to concerts from bands all over the world, playing indie, antifolk,country, electronic or experimental music.
the king georg develops an international name for bands from oversee, to play small but intense club gigs.CHECK THE WEB FOR MORE: WWW.KINGGEORG.DE
