Nikolaus Alexander Nessler

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Nikolaus Alexander Nessler in the installation Sharks around in the Taunusanlage S-Bahn station , 2015
Nikolaus A. Nessler, Antony Gormley, Bill Woodrow (from left to right) on the Rio Madeira near Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil, during the Arte Amazonas project , 1992
513_1979 , painted and scratched real photo on slide, 1979
Sender / Receivers_1982 , painted and scratched slide of an interior photo, 1982
roofTopGardn_1989 , scratch drawing on slide, 1989
WaysInOneSelf_1989 , scratch drawing on black slide, 1989
bgWheelKeepnTurn_1990 , scratch drawing on slide, 1989
Exhibition Oktogon II , installation "other places" by Nikolaus Alexander Nessler, Museum Wiesbaden, 1990

Nikolaus Alexander Nessler (born December 6, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German artist, graphic designer , author and curator . He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

life and work

From 1978 to 1986, Nessler studied art history and Romance studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and art education and Romance studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1986 he obtained a Master of Arts (MA) in Modern Philology and Art Studies .

From 1985 to 1986 Nessler was a founding employee of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt under Christoph Vitali and worked on the realization of exhibitions and publications, including a. The painters and the theater in the 20th century , Paul Klee and the music and masterpieces of European painting 1910-1960 from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum with. He designed and produced the cinema commercials for the Theater am Turm and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

From 1989 to 1991 Nessler lived and worked in Brazil, where, together with Alfons Hug , he conceived and realized the Arte Amazonas project - an artistic contribution to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Participants in the workshops in the three Amazon cities of Belém , Manaus and Porto Velho included a. Marina Abramovic , Waltércio Caldas , Mark Dion , Antony Gormley , Alfredo Jaar , Julião Sarmento , Tunga and Bill Woodrow .

1993 Nessler began in Brasilia during the Forum de Artes Visuais with the project Depot - Public Warehouse , where part series produced from waste objects - to installations compacted - such as mass goods were presented. Depot 2 took place in 1993 on the occasion of the Styrian Autumn in the Palais Attems in Graz. Guests at Depot 3 at Art Cologne 1994 included Christian Lapie, Peter Rösel and Friedhard Kiekeben, who showed their work in the Daeppen gallery as part of Nessler's concept. Further depot installations followed, most recently in 1997 at the invitation of the Marielies Hess Foundation in Frankfurt am Main.

Between 2011 and 2013 Nessler furnished several productions of TeAtrum VII in Frankfurt am Main : Midsummer Night's Dream in the Montez family art association , 2011, Three times life in the International Theater and stage objects for Lucrezia Borgia in the Gallus Theater , 2013.

Since 2000 Nessler has also been a painter. Strongly rhythmic ornamental flow pictures on mostly large formats form a colored counter-world to the light drawings in dark backgrounds and rooms. His greatest work in public space is the wall design of the stairs from the S-Bahn tracks 101/102 and 103/104 at Frankfurt Central Station, created in 2016.

Nessler uses a wide variety of image carriers, working techniques and materials for the implementation of his visual worlds. Surfaces, for example glass , canvas , polyester fabric , newsprint, corrugated board, cardboard, book body, floors and walls with oil paint , synthetic resin paint , Teerkautschuk , acrylic , tempera , watercolor , pencil or phosphorus processed.

The early slide scratch drawings of the 1980s and 90s

The slide scratch drawings developed by Nessler have been the starting point of his diverse oeuvre with hundreds of works in 24 × 36 mm format since the early 1980s. In the Oktogon II exhibition , which took place in the Wiesbaden State Museum in 1990 , Nessler showed 360 slides - which stand for 360 days a year - and which were on five projectors in an endless cycle with ever new combinations: "An infinite coordinate system " - the slides as "Stones of the world building". The topic is not the passing of time, but the variety of spatial and intellectual perspectives that lie in the line. "Day after day [Nessler] scratches miniatures into an exposed film strip with a fine knife, so makes a kind of diary entry [...] It is noticeable that hardly any of his circles are closed and exist as a being isolated from the world."

Experimental projection and light installations

Based on the slide scratch drawings, Nessler developed further experimental projection and light installations with manually processed film strips and colored light bulbs installed in space, such as the expanded cinema installations Nekrovision - Die Fahrt ins Blau in the Alte Oper , Frankfurt am Main (1984 ), Other places, Oktogon II in the Museum Wiesbaden (1990), Enormous reservoirs of energy in the Kunstverein Hasselbach (1998), Freudenhaus in the Kunstverein Viernheim (2003) and Terremoto - Quake in collaboration with Christiaan Tonnis (film), Nico Rocznik (light) and Manuel Stein (sound) at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden (2012). With light installations, Nessler took part in the Luminalen in Frankfurt am Main in 2004, 2008, 2014 and 2016 .

Quote

"When I work on slides, I metaphorically enter the darkness, discovering something unconscious before it becomes visible. For me, this is one of the strongest impacts of art. "

- Nikolaus Alexander Nessler

Solo exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 1993: Depot 1 , Conjunto Nacional, Forum de Artes Visuais, Brasilia
  • 1993: Depot 2 , Palais Attems, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
  • 1995: Centaur room (depot) , Fredsskulptur 1995, Skagen, Denmark
  • 1995: The victim is the sacrifice , Fredsskulptur 1995, Fjerritslev, Denmark
  • 1997: Depot 6 , Marielies Hess Foundation, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1998: Enormous reservoirs of energy I , Kunstverein Hasselbach
  • 2003: Always is forever , Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
  • 2003: Roaming in colors , test operation, (Inter-Art), Merianplatz underground station, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2003: Freudenhaus , Art Association Viernheim
  • 2004: Flagtrack , Luminale, Old Police Headquarters Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011: Stage design for a Midsummer Night's Dream , Teatrum VII, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2013: Lucrezia Borgia , stage objects, Teatrum VII, Gallus Theater, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2013: Stage design for Drei Mal Leben , Teatrum VII, International Theater, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2020: Beacon , Municipal Gallery, Mörfelden-Walldorf

Group exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 1990: Axis , with Evandro Salles, Galeria Athos Bulcao, Brasilia DF, Brazil
  • 1990: Other locations, Oktogon II , Museum Wiesbaden
  • 1992: Medium drawing , Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • 1992: Arte Amazonas , idea and concept with Alfons Hug, Goethe-Institut, Brasilia. Workshop with 24 international artists followed by exhibitions at the UN Environment Conference, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro and Museu de Arte Brasilia
  • 1993: Klima Global , Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin ; Pentagon, Dresden
  • 1994: Arte Amazonas , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen
  • 1996: Far Out / Depot 5 , Lystasavn Foroya, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
  • 1996: nature? , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn
  • 2000: The Angel's Smile , Villa Aichele, Städtische Galerie Lörrach
  • 2004: Off Course , Klingspor Museum Offenbach
  • 2010: From 18 , Kunstverein Familie Montez , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010: Blue Connection , Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011: Blue Connection 2 , with E. + R. Dorazio, M. Pauer, G. Vicente and M. Veiga, Galeria Mezanino, Sao Paulo
  • 2011: Blue Connection 3 , with E. + R. Dorazio, M. Pauer, G. Vicente and M. Veiga, MACS - Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sorocaba
  • 2012: All's well that ends well, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2012: Expanded Cinema - Terremoto , with C. Tonnis, N. Rocznik and M. Stein, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
  • 2013: Pay more attention to roots , Kunstverein Familie Montez, Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Leipzig, Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken a. a. (Traveling exhibition)
  • 2014: Les Fleurs du Mal , Taunusanlage S-Bahn station, Luminale Frankfurt
  • 2016: Les Fleurs du Mal II - Plantation, Taunusanlage S-Bahn station, Luminale Frankfurt
  • 2018: capital@art.international - OST> STERN Kulturzentrum, Frankfurt

literature

  • Nikolaus A. Nessler: South America - On the way to equality . In: Kunstforum International , Volume 119, 1992, pp. 191–194
  • Nikolaus A. Nessler: The conference of silence . In: Arte Amazonas. Idea, conception, organization, catalog: Alfons Hug, Nikolaus A. Nessler, Goethe-Institut Brasilia (ed.), 1992, pp. 20–24, ISBN 3-921606-20-9
  • Nikolaus A. Nessler & Galerie Draheim (ed.): Nikolaus A. Nessler - Phenomena , Text: Alexandra Bauer, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030354-8
  • Galerie Guillaume Daeppen (Ed.): Nikolaus A. Nessler - Projector , exhibition catalog, 1988
  • enormous reservoirs of energy , exhibition catalog, text: Andreas Pohlmann, Kunstverein Hasselbach 1998
  • Christian Lapie & Nikolaus A. Nessler: Depot - Public Warehouse , exhibition catalog, text: Bettina Kirberger, Reims / Frankfurt 1995
  • Museum Wiesbaden (ed.): Oktogon II, other places - Nikolaus A. Nessler . Exhibition catalog, text: Dietrich Mahlow , Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-89258-012-X
  • Iris Maria Gniosdorsch (Ed.): Sublime Deep Cuts - Scratchings by Nikolaus A. Nessler , Text: Iris Maria Gniosdorsch, ARTatWORK, Frankfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-058388-9

Web links

Commons : Nikolaus Alexander Nessler  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Nikolaus A. Nessler & Galerie Draheim (ed.): Nikolaus A. Nessler - Phenomena ( Memento from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), catalog for the exhibition, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 54, (PDF)
  2. ↑ Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt / Cosmopress Geneva (eds.): Paul Klee and the music , authors: Christoph Vitali, Bettina Zeller, Ingo Begall, Nikolaus A. Nessler, Elisabeth Brockmann, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann GmbH, 1986, ISBN 978-3-87584 -181-7 (previously: 3875841816)
  3. ↑ Archive , German Film Museum
  4. ↑ Nikolaus A. Nessler - Arte Amazonas, 1992 (video)
  5. ↑ Carl D. Goerdeler: Tropical Myth, Magical Melos, today . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , No. 150, p. 8, July 1, 1992
  6. ↑ Goethe-Institut Brasilia (ed.): Arte Amazonas . Idea, conception, organization, catalog: Alfons Hug, Nikolaus A. Nessler, 1992, ISBN 3-921606-20-9
  7. ↑ Amine Haase: Here and there a small museum . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, No. 261, p. 37, November 10, 1994
  8. ^ Depot - Public Warehouse , exhibition hall plan / prospectus of Art Cologne 1994, KölnMesse
  9. ↑ teAtrum 7: Midsummer Night's Dream , frankfurt.teatrumvii.de, 2011
  10. ^ Nicole Nadine Seliger: Art in the Central Station - Visual Embrace for Commuters , In: Journal Frankfurt , April 11, 2017
  11. ↑ Dietrich Mahlow: The space, the inner space - the time, the outer time , in: Oktogon II / Nikolaus A. Nessler - other places , exhibition and catalog: Dr. Volker Rattemeyer, Museum Wiesbaden, 1990, ISBN 3-89258-012-X
  12. ^ Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz: Nikolaus Nessler . In: Kunst in Frankfurt, medium drawing , exhibition catalog, edited by Peter Weiermair, Frankfurter Kunstverein, p. 45, 1992
  13. ↑ FL: Traces of life that was there . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 3, 1984
  14. ↑ Nikolaus A. Nessler - Nekrovision / Die Fahrt ins Blaue, 1984 (video)
  15. ↑ Michael Hierholzer: Spacious Installations , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, p. 49, June 27, 1990
  16. ↑ Terremoto - Beben , kunstaspekte.de, March 24, 2012
  17. ↑ wk: Artful Station In: Journal Frankfurt, July 9, 2014
  18. ↑ DB press release: Light art in train stations ( memento from May 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), deutsche bahn.com, March 11, 2016
  19. ↑ Andrea Pollmeier: Focus on Brazil . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Nessler, Nikolaus Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, graphic designer, author and curator
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main