Erik Niedling
Erik Niedling (born October 18, 1973 in Erfurt ) is a German artist.
Life
Erik Niedling grew up in Erfurt. At the beginning of his artistic career, Niedling dealt with the “ construct of history ” in his work and the traces it leaves behind in “collective consciousness”. Examples of this are the large-format photographic works that can be found in the volume Photographs / Photographs (2006). Later works are also characterized by questions about collecting, archiving and organizing, whereby the preservation and (fictional) disappearance of one's own identity come to the fore.
Since the mid-2000s, Niedling established himself as a concept artist . He has worked with the writer Ingo Niermann since 2006 . In 2010, Niedling produced the documentary The Future of Art together with Niermann . In it, Niermann developed the idea of a pyramid mountain as a work of art, which is also the individual burial site of a collector. In the art project My Last Year , Niedling lived for a year from March 1, 2011 to February 29, 2012 as if it were his last. This was followed by exhibitions and publications that deal with his artistic and biographical legacy as well as the further realization of the Pyramidenberg . In this context, on May 8, 2017, Niedling carried out a ritual seizure (“seizure”) of the mountain Kleiner Gleichberg in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia, where the “Burial of the White Man” festival has been held on the mountain every 8 May since takes place. A critical reflection of his activities took place through diary publications, interviews and in the novel Burial of the White Man published in 2019 .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2002 "5x5" - New Saxon Gallery, Chemnitz G
- 2004 "Extreme" - Gallery Station Mousonturm , Frankfurt am Main G
- 2005 "Archive" - Goethe Institute , Bratislava E
- 2006 “What is German?” - Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg G
- 2007 “Overview - Constructions of Truth” - Darmstadt Days of Photography, Darmstadt G
- 2008 "Formation" - Hamish Morrison Gallery, Berlin E
- 2009 "Guest performance" - Hetjens Museum , Düsseldorf G
- 2010 "Status" - Angermuseum , Erfurt E
- 2010 "Redox" - Hamish Morrison Gallery, Berlin E
- 2011 “Elective Affinities III” - New Museum Weimar , Weimar G
- 2011 “My last year” - Tobias Naehring Gallery, Leipzig E
- 2012 "October 18, 1973 - February 29, 2012" - Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar E
- 2013 "Chamber" - Exile, Berlin E
- 2014 “A pyramid for me” - House on Lützowplatz, Berlin E
- 2018 "EXILE X Summer Camp: May the bridges I burn light the way" - Manifesta 12, Palermo G
- 2018 "The Future of Art: A Camp" - House on Lützowplatz, Berlin E
literature
- Erik Niedling, Wolfram Morath-Vogel : Photographs . Schaden.com, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-932187-54-7 , p. 127 .
- Erik Niedling: Erik Niedling - status . Ed .: Austrian Institute for Photography & Media Art. EIKON , Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-902250-30-5 , p. 56 .
- Erik Niedling, Bernd Stiegler : Formation . Ed .: Zern. Hatje Cantz , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2269-8 , pp. 96 .
- Ingo Niermann, Erik Niedling, Amy Patton: The Future of Art: A Manual . Sternberg Press, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-1-934105-63-4 , pp. 320 .
- Erik Niedling, Amy Patton: The Future of Art: A Diary . Sternberg Press, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-943365-02-3 , pp. 255 .
- Nils Schumann, Erik Niedling, Ingo Niermann: The pace of life . Find your own rhythm in everyday life and sport. Herder Verlag , Freiburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-451-34995-9 , pp. 317 .
- Erik Niedling, Ingo Niermann: Burial of the White Man . Sternberg Press, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95679-426-1 , pp. 280 .
Collections
- Angermuseum , Erfurt
- Sal. Oppenheim , Cologne
- Free State of Thuringia , Erfurt
- Weimar New Museum , Weimar
- Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp
Web links
- Literature by and about Erik Niedling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erik Niedling at the Exile Gallery
Individual evidence
- ^ Dörte Fiedler: Lists for a last year. In: Deutschlandfunk Nova . March 27, 2015, accessed August 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Frauke Adrians: Erik Niedling processes a year of intense life. In: Thuringian General . June 22, 2012, accessed August 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Erik Niedling: Pyramid Mountain - A Video Diary :. In: YouTube. November 29, 2018, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
- ^ Burial of the White Man | EXILE. Retrieved May 16, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Ruth Schneeberger: "I am no longer embarrassed". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 23, 2014, accessed August 11, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Niedling, Erik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th October 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |