Carsten Nicolai

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Carsten Nicolai (2006)

Carsten Nicolai (born September 18, 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German artist, musician and label owner. As a musician he is known by the pseudonyms noto and alva noto .

Life

Nicolai grew up in Karl-Marx-Stadt. His brother is the artist Olaf Nicolai .

From 1985 to 1990 Nicolai studied landscape architecture at the Technical University of Dresden . He had his first exhibitions as a visual artist at the EIGEN + ART gallery in Berlin / Leipzig. In 1997 he took part in the documenta X in Kassel, in 2001 in the Venice Biennale , whereupon he had solo exhibitions in the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt in 2005, in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2005, in Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich in 2007 and at PaceWildenstein (since 2010 Wildenstein & Company ) in New York in 2007.

In 1994/1995 Nicolai founded the label noton.archiv for ton und nichtton , which merged with the Chemnitz label raster music as raster-noton due to very similar content orientations . Today Nicolai lives in Berlin and Chemnitz.

As a musician, Nicolai is one of the best known representatives of contemporary electronic music . He has often worked in collaborations such. B. worked with Scanner , Thomas Knak , Mika Vainio , Michael Nyman , Ryoji Ikeda or Ryuichi Sakamoto and is part of the signal project (with Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider ). As the formation Diamond Version , Nicolai and Olaf Bender played the opening act for Depeche Mode's Eastern European tour in 2013.

Currently (2010) he is working under his pseudonym Alva Noto with Blixa Bargeld ( Einstürzende Neubauten ) on the ANBB project . So far an EP called Ret Marut Handshake and the album Mimikry have been released .

In October 2010 Nicolai presented at an event on the occasion of the exhibition Not in Fashion. Fashion and photography of the 90s in the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) in Frankfurt am Main his light and sound art together with fashion creations by the Dresden artist Kostas Murkudis . At the Ruhrtriennale 2012 he worked with Ryūichi Sakamoto and the Ensemble Modern .

In 2015, Carsten Nicolai as Alva Noto and Ryūichi Sakamoto were responsible for the film music for The Revenant . The soundtrack was nominated for Best Score at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards .

Carsten Nicolai is a member of the German Association of Artists . In 2007 he was awarded a scholarship to the Villa Massimo in Rome.

Since 2015 he has held a professorship for art with a focus on digital and time-based media at the Dresden University of Fine Arts .

Selection of solo exhibitions

Selection of group exhibitions

Discography

Radio plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saxon Academy of the Arts
  2. ↑ "It all started in Frankfurt": memories of 1990. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, January 24, 2005, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jan Küveler: Imagine Depeche Mode calling you. In: The time. 2nd June 2013
  4. ↑ New EP, published on June 21, 2010 (June 18, 2010 in the raster-noton online shop). Einstürzende Neubauten newsletter from July 1st, 2010.
  5. ↑ Minimalist fashion in the Museum of Modern Art. In: FAZ . November 2, 2010, p. 41.
  6. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "N" / Carsten Nicolai (accessed on November 25, 2015)
  7. ↑ Villa Massimo | Carsten Nicolai. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Website of the website of the HfBK Dresden, accessed on July 2, 2017
  9. ↑ Exhibition from September 28, 2019 - January 19, 2020 in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  10. ↑ Exhibition from September 21 to January 6, 2013 in Hangar Bicocca, Milan
  11. ↑ Press release  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Carsten Nicolai: “static fades”, from May 31 to August 1, 2007 in Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.haus Konstruktiv.ch  
  12. ↑ Archive 2006 ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de
  13. ↑ Audio Visual Spaces ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 12, 2005 to January 15, 2006, SMAK  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smak.be
  14. ↑ Anti Reflex ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 20 - March 28, 2005. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schirn-kunsthalle.de
  15. ↑ syn chron , Architectural Body as Interface. Exhibition and concerts, February 25 - April 3, 2005.
  16. ↑ Constellations II - New Donations in the Context of the Collection, From Gerhard Richter to Carsten Nicolai. April 26, 2007 to October 7, 2007 Exhibition archive 2007
  17. ↑ Space for Your Future ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 27, 2007 to January 20, 2008.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mot-art-museum.jp
  18. ↑ sonambiente berlin 2006
  19. ^ Catalog published by Nicolai'Sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89479-060-1 .
  20. ↑ Frequencies (Hz) ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 9 - April 25, 2002.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schirn-kunsthalle.de
  21. ↑ Wild Zone ( Memento of February 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), February 25 to April 15, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Nicolai, Carsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES noto (stage name); alva noto (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, musician and label owner
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City