Nikolaus Koliusis

Nikolaus Koliusis (2006)

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Nikolaus Koliusis (born November 2, 1953 in Salzburg ) is a visual artist. In his work he is primarily concerned with seeing as the central medium of spatial perception and, above all, the question of the viewer's relationship to physical (ot architectural) space. The transparent and reflective materials often used in his works set reflexive perception processes in motion in which the viewer is led to reflect on his identity and thus his relationship to the world. In the course of perception, these questions can be physically experienced. Thinking becomes experience.

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The biographical approach came about through architectural photography and an experimental approach to the medium of photography in general, which is constantly being questioned. Photography as the starting point of his working method returns again and again to the primarily non-photographic work as a way of guiding the viewer's gaze. In this way, reflexivity not only determines the perceptual experiences triggered by his work, but also the structure of the development of Nikolaus Koliusis' oeuvre. In the 1970s he worked as a photographer for an architecture firm. This is the reason why his work is still related to the place that is important to him today. His interventions try to influence the place where he places his objects (mostly made of glass, plastic or reflective materials) and thus to change the viewer's perception of space. The boundaries between interior and exterior, between the center and the periphery are exhibited by these works of art as something that has to be redefined over and over again. Koliusis questions apparently fixed categories such as above and below, inside and outside and thus creates an expansion of spatial parameters.

biography

• 1970 - 73 Apprenticeship as a photographer, among others with Emil and Hubert Hatt
• 1973 - 76 Photographer in an international architecture office, development of a photo corporate identity program
• 1976 Research project on simulation photography at the University of Stuttgart
• 1973 - 78 guest lecturer at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart on the subject of photography in the architectural planning process
• 1978/79 stay in New York, first collaboration with John Cage
• architecture-related projects since 1979
• 1980 Scholarship from the Kulturkreis in the Federation of German Industry
• 1989 stay in Japan, including visiting professor at Yamaguchi University
• 1989 - 92 lecturer at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart
• 1989 Documenta IX , project with Jan Hoet : "The network that protects art ..."
• 1992 stay in Australia
• 1992-93 professor at the comprehensive university in Kassel
• 1996 first stage design
• 1999 Art Prize "Freundeszeichen Artheon"
• 2004/2005 collaboration with Uwe Wiczorek, “ZwischenLicht”, Liechtenstein
• 2005 Architecture Prize "Renault Traffic Award 2005"
• 2012 First prize in the design competition for the memorial and information site for the victims of the National Socialist “euthanasia” murders at the historical site Tiergartenstr. 4 in Berlin, together with the architect Ursula Wilms and the landscape architect Heinz W. Hallmann
• 2014 Open your hand slowly in front of your eyes, Room of Silence, Stuttgart
• 2014 Beijing “PLAY THE LIGHT”
• 2015 Opposite, Berlin, Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin, memorial and information point for the victims of the National Socialist "euthanasia" murders (T4)
• 2016 Blue, Museum DKM, Duisburg (D)
• 2017 Blue relationship, retrospective, Museum DKM, Duisburg (D) 2018
• 2018 Start of the research project "What does art do in the clinic" with Susanne Ließegang
• 2018/19 Artist in Residence, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Liederhalle Stuttgarter, blue

literature

• Johann-Karl Schmidt: Glass as a symbolic form . In: Koliusis, Zwischen-Raum, Cantz, Ostfildern 1996, ISBN 3-89322-834-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Koliusis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Nikolaus Koliusis
• Line of sight 5
• T 4 monument