Boris Nieslony

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Boris Nieslony (born October 2, 1945 in Grimma ) is a German performance and installation artist and curator for performance . Since 1981 he has also developed a comprehensive archive on performance art, artists-run-spaces and theoretical-philosophical foundations in the field.

life and work

Nieslony's first action in public space began in October 1966: he lived for nine months on Georgsplatz in Hanover, a chalk circle served him and the group that had formed there as a symbol of the political and temporal situation. The inner area was after October 2, 1966, and the outer area was before that. The political actions ended around 1972.

From 1970 to 1974 Nieslony studied painting in Berlin - with Herrman Bachmann and Raimund Girke at the Berlin University of the Arts - then moved to Hamburg to study with Gerhard Graubner at the University of Fine Arts and the professors Ulrich Rückriem , Georg Jappe and Bazon Brock .

The Künstlerhaus Hamburg was founded in 1977 in Weidenallee by Sternschanzenpark together with artists from other classes . Nieslony worked parallel in Paris, where he did the public rehearsals a. a. for Robert Wilson and Philip Glass ' opera Einstein on the Beach , and kept in contact with musicians and dancers of Minimal Art. From 1979 onwards, Boris Nieslony worked in the “small exhibition space” of the Künstlerhaus Hamburg as a performer and organizer of performances. At the same time, he built performance networks. In 1981 he organized the project Das Konzil together with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart , in which a total of 70 artists were involved for 30 days.

In 1983 Nieslony moved to Cologne. In 1985 the performance group Black Market International (en) was founded , which originally comprised seven artists. In 1986 the Art Service Association (ASA) was founded for performers and theorists.

In 1986 the Art Service Association (ASA) for performers and theorists was founded. [1] Nieslony developed further networks between artists and organizations. In 1993 the 100-day project “Quantum Pool Cologne” set the tone in the media. This project, launched by Van Gogh TV on the occasion of documenta 9, consolidated the expanding cooperation within the Cologne artist community, North Rhine-Westphalia and the global node. In 1995 the first Performance Art Conference was held in Cologne and at the same time the performance archive was transferred from collecting activities to generating knowledge. With the founding of the EPI Center , further settlements were made in the tense network between artists, organizations and projects in performance art.

In 2010 Nieslony initiated a performance art scene "PAErsche".

Working method

Nieslony works internationally. His work is oriented in terms of form as well as thematic and content. A key theme is the art of encounter. In this sense - not only in contrast to the classic art market - encounters and collaborations with other artists are part of his work. Many initiatives, groups and projects, some of them long-lasting, have emerged from the artist's founding and co-founding. Since 1995, this has also included the series of performance conferences that combine theory and practice. Up to 2007 fifteen events had taken place in Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Essen, Mannheim, Bern (Switzerland), Glarus (Switzerland), Bangkok (Thailand), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and Bedulu (Bali). Based on the documentation of the conferences, a branch of the international performance scene, which is networked with Asian countries, can be followed in the German-speaking area. Furthermore, a number of laboratories have been continuously organized, e.g. B. with Melati Suryodarmo in Bali and Solo / Indonesia or the art of encounter with European network nodes in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. This project is organized every two years.

The artist's own performances can be unpredictable and unrepeatable improvisations that take place at the conferences and in places more remote from the art market, sometimes in collaboration with well-known art institutions or as interventions in urban centers or interesting and extraordinary places.

In addition to the performances, Nieslony develops large-scale sculptures (Das Paradies), photographs, artist books and designs ethnographically oriented projects and shows them worldwide.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Holdings

  • 2009: A museum in motion, Prättigau, directed by Peter Trachsel
  • 2006: ART_CLIPS .ch.at.de performativ, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
  • 2000: 4th Werkleitz Biennale, Tornitz / Werkleitz
  • 2000: Model, model ..., Neuer Aachener Kunstverein , Aachen
  • 1997: time sculpture. State gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz
  • 1992: Quantum Pool Cologne - Piazza Virtuale - documenta 9
  • 1987: documenta 8, Kassel
  • 1984: Im Toten Winkel, Kunstverein Hamburg

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ blackkit.org , accessed July 2, 2018.
  2. ^ ASA - The Art Service Association from Cologne. (No longer available online.) JFF - Institute for Media Education in Research and Practice, archived from the original on October 12, 2006 ; Retrieved November 28, 2008 .
  3. ↑ www.PAErsche.org , accessed on July 2, 2018.
  4. ^ Boris Nieslony: Performance Conferences. ASA-European e. V, accessed October 10, 2008 .
  5. ^ Museum in motion.
personal data
SURNAME Sneeze, Boris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne