Michael Nitsche

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Michael Nitsche (* 1961 in Lüneburg ) is a German artist. His main focus is sculptural work.

“Kindvogel”, 2015, height: approx. 100 cm, various materials
"Harlequin two macaws", 2015, height: approx. 205 cm, various materials

Education and career

From 1981 to 1988 Michael Nitsche studied fine art at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig , from 1987 as a master student with Peter Voigt . In 1991 Nitsche received a DAAD scholarship for London and completed postgraduate studies at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. In 1992 he returned to Braunschweig. From the late 1990s onwards, Nitsche's exhibition activities in public institutions and galleries, as well as his participation in trade fairs (Preview Berlin, Parkfair Vienna, Viennafair Vienna) increased.

Works by Michael Nitsche include a. owned by the Jena City Art Collection and the City of Salzgitter Art Collection.

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After predominantly painting and printmaking in the late 1980s and early 90s, Michael Nitsche's artistic work shifted to plastic forms of expression from the mid-90s. In the late 1990s, objects of hybrid beings were created for the first time from rags, (artificial) furs and stuffed animals, often in processional constellations, persisting in a situational rigidity through a coating of paraffin. Linked together in groups of figures, they formed their own, hermetic cosmos. Beginning in the 2000s, antlers and bones were added, and from the 2010s on, preparations from animals or parts of them were increasingly added. In terms of content, Nitsche refers to old folk tales, archaic rites and myths of indigenous peoples and their holistic view of the world in a drastic, often crude language of form, in order to counter the mechanized everyday life of modern industrial societies with an intuitively comprehensible world order. His mythical creatures act as representatives from another world, which, displayed in the traditions of the earlier chambers of curiosities, withstand the public gaze and defy the present with their existence.

He lives and works in Braunschweig.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014: A little piece of me is a little piece in you , einRaum5-7, Braunschweig
  • 2013: It hurts me so beautifully , Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna (exhibitions also 2010/11, 2009)
  • 2012: HARRY'S HAFENCITY BASAR living in art (with monsters) , cato jans art-lounge projects, Hamburg
  • 2009: Demon Darlings , Jena Municipal Museums, Jena
  • 2008: Milchdäumer , Kunstverein Würzburg, Würzburg
  • 2008: Exile in Dreams , Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund
  • 2006: Animal Reloaded II , Henrike Höhn Galerie, Berlin (exhibition also in 2005)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014: Ubique - New Art from Lower Saxony , Salon Salder, Salzgitter (catalog)
  • 2013: Appassionata - The Selinka Collection in Dialogue , Ravensburg Art Museum, Ravensburg
  • 2012: Ideal images, new acquisitions by the Jena Art Collection, Jena Municipal Museum, Jena
  • 2011: sensitiv EXTRA , Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), Zagreb
  • 2008: Best before… , Klagenfurt City Gallery, Klagenfurt
  • 2008: Lustwarande 08 - Wanderland , Fundament Foundation Tilburg, Tilburg
  • 2008: Tier + Mensch , Galeriehaus Nord, Nuremberg (catalog)
  • 2008: Michael Nitsche (sculpture) with Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir (painting) , Kunstverein Uelzen, Uelzen
  • 2007: Best before ... , Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg
  • 2004/05: Don't be afraid of beauty , Museum van Bommel van Dam , Venlo / Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen
  • 1991: Young West Art Prize , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen (catalog)
  • 1987: 3rd Int. Biennial Print Exhibit , Taipei / Taiwan (catalog)

Literature / catalogs

  • Stephanie Borrmann: Between dream and reality . In: Ubique - New Art from Lower Saxony , Salon Salder, Salzgitter 2014.
  • Berthold Ecker: A hell of a ride through life . In: Michael Nitsche. It hurts me so beautifully , Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902768-25-4 .
  • Erik Stephan: Between the principle of life and the invention of form . In: Michael Nitsche. Demon Darlings , Städtische Museen Jena, Jena 2010, ISBN 978-3-942176-02-6 .
  • hybrid and muse , Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna 2009.
  • Laurie Cluitmans: From the Chambers of Wonder of the 21st Century . In: Michael Nitsche. No Sleep 'til Ragnarök , Michael Nitsche (Ed.), Braunschweig 2008.
  • Laurie Cluitmans: No Sleep 'til Ragnarök . In: Lustwarande 08 - Wanderland , Fundament Foundation Tilburg, Tilburg 2008.
  • Tier + Mensch , Galeriehaus Nord, Nuremberg 2008.
  • Bernd Reiss: Affekäfer - Between mystery and discomfort. Michael Nitsche's sculptures . In: Best Before ... , Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg 2007.
  • Lukas Gehrmann: Ice Flowers on Pink Skin , Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna 2007.
  • Arie Hartog: Don't be afraid of beauty - (art historical) considerations for an exhibition . In: No fear of beauty , Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen 2004, ISBN 978-3-924412-49-4 .
  • Arie Hartog: The recapture of dreams . In: Michael Nitsche. Milchdäumer - Plastic Works 1997-2004 , Michael Nitsche (Ed.), Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 978-3-00-014833-0 .

Awards / grants / grants

  • 2014: Project grant idea , NORD / LB Public Foundation
  • 2010: Working grant Vienna, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna and City of Vienna
  • 2008: Project grant: Exhibition Church of Animals and artist book No Sleep 'til Ragnarök , Foundation NORD / LB Public, Foundation Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz and City of Braunschweig, Braunschweig
  • 2004: Project grant : Catalog book Milchträumer , Foundation NORD / LB Public and United Braunschweig Monastery and Study Fund , Braunschweig
  • 2001: Project grant: Photography with Sandra Munzel , NORD / LB-Public Foundation, Braunschweig
  • 1991–1992: DAAD scholarship in London
  • 1987: 1st prize at the 3rd International Biennial Print Exhibit 1987 ROC , Taipei / Taiwan

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jena Municipal Art Collection.
  2. ^ Internet site Salon Salder, art collection of the city of Salzgitter.
  3. ↑ quoted from Jessica Reintjes: Michael Nitsche. A little piece of me is a little piece in you , text for the exhibition einRaum5-7, Braunschweig.
personal data
SURNAME Nitsche, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg