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NILS NORMAN
 
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Nils Norman
1966 born in Kent, United Kingdom
Lives in London, United Kingdom
Education

Central St. Martins School of Art, London, England
Sommer Akademie München, Deutschland

Solo Exhibitions

2008
"You have been misinformed", with Nils Norman, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York.

2007
"A Mystery Thing", (mit/with Stephan Dillemuth), Vilma Gold, London.

2006
"Degenerate Cologne", Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln.

2005
"The Homerton Playscape Multiple Struggle Niche", City Projects, London.

2004
"Everything in the future will necessarily come. Corporate fairytales and other sculptural maneuvers. Stephan Dillemuth & Nils Norman", Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg.

2003
"Hey Rudy!: A Phantom on the Streets of Schizz", Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin.
"Proposed Redevelopment of the Oval, Hackney E2, London Renamed: Let the Blood of the Private Property Developers Run Freely in the Streets of Hackney Playscape Complexe A", 38 Langham Street, London.
Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin.

2001
"The Geocruiser", the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden and The Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, England.
The McAllister Institute, New York.
"Dismal Garden", American Fine Arts, Co, Ltd, New York.
"Geocruiser, The Mother Coach, Zone: Earth Phase1",
The Institute of Visual Culture Cambridge, Cambridge, England.

2000
"The Topology of a proposal for a phantom experimental city school leaflet, East Dulwich", The Top Room, East Dulwich, London.
"Debut of the Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station. (European Chapter)", Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg.

1999
"The Cruel Dialectic: Decay and Opportunity", American Fine Arts, New York.

1997
"Social Surplus", American Fine Arts, New York.

1996
Das Museum Ferner Gegenden, Hamburg.
"Niche", Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln.

1992
Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln.

1991
Friesenwall 120, Köln.

Group Exhibitions

2009
"Street Art, Street Life", Bronx Museum of the Arts , Ney Yourk.

2008
Liverpool Biennale 2008, international festival of contemporary art, Liverpool (upcoming).
"STARSHIP various sketches for leaving the room", Ludlow 38 Kunstverein München Goethe-Institut New York, New York.
Folkestone Triennial 2008, Folkestone.
"STARSHIP written on spiders / Seinesgleichen geschieht", Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.
"The Geopolitics of Animation", MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo.

2007/08
"How To Cook A Wolf: TERRIBLE VIDEO", Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich.

2007
"The Geopolitics of Animation", CAAC - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla.
"Nachvollziehungsangebote", Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien.
"Global Cities", Tate Modern/Turbine Hall, London.
"Revolution is not a Garden Party", Galerija Miroslav Kralievic, Zagreb (upcoming).
"It Starts From Here", de la warr pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England.
"Tomorrow Now", Musée d ́Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxemburg.
"The Happiness of Objects", Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York.
"Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne", Henry Art Galllery/University of Washington, Seattle; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
"Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art", Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University Greencastle, Indiana.

2006
"Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne", Institute of Contemporary Art/University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; The Power Plant, Toronto.
"Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art", Museum of Arts & Design, New York; University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California.
"The Good Life", The Van Alan Institute, New York, USA.
"Big City Lab", Berlin art forum, Berlin.

2005/06
"Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art", Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illionois.
"The British Art Show 6.", Baltic, gateshead, UK (Touring).

2005
"Down the Garden Path: The Artist ́s Garden After Modernism", Queens Museum of Art, Queens.
"Gotik und Moderne im Dialog. 1500-2000", Ausstellung der Sammlung K-raum Daxer / Lorenz in der Fränkischen Galerie Kronach, Festung Rosenberg, Kronach.
"The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens Museum of Art", Queens Museum, Queens, NYC, USA.
"Counter Campus", mit / with Stephan Dillemuth, Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
"The Top Room: A Retrospective", Chelsea Space, London, UK.
"Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds", Sala Rekalda, Bilbao, Spain.
"Trichtlinnburg", Public Art Project, organisiert von Hinrich Sachs und der Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Holland.
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Dänemark.
"Art out of Place", Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK.

2004
"Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor", Kunstwerke, Berlin.
"gardenLab experiment", in Zusammenarbeit mit Lincoln Tobier, Arts Center College of Design Wind Tunnel, Los Angeles, Kalifornien.
"Fantasy Architecture", nationale Wanderausstellung, organisiert von der Hayward Gallery, RIBA and the Arts Council of England (2004/05)
"Adaptionen", Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel.
"Fantastic", MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA.
"Tales of the City", Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italien.
Adaptions, Apex Art, New York.
"The Art of the Garden: The role of the Garden in British Visual Culture: 1804-2004", Tate Britain, London.

2003
"Mapping a City: Hamburg-Kartierung", Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg.
La Biennale di Venezia (Arsenale), Venedig.
"Nebengeräusche/Ambient Sound", Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden.
The Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba.
"Homeland", Whitney Museum of American Art.
Indepentent Study Program Exhibition at The Art Gallery of The Graduate Centre, NYC, NY, USA.
"Radiant City", kuratiert von Achille Bonito Oliva, Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia.
"Hamburg Mapping", Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg.
"Fantastic", MassMoca, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA.
"Utopia Station", kuratiert von Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist und Rirkrit Tiravanija, 50th Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venedig.
"Mark Dion Collaborations", Americna Fine Arts at PHAG, New York City, USA.

2002
"TAZ", Espace Piano Nobile, Genf.
"Eigene Systeme", Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg.
"Museutopia", Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum der Stadt Hagen, Hagen.
"Visualising Geography" kuratiert von Ingrid Swenson, Royal Holloway, London.
"WAYS OUT", (with Peter Fend and Kuong Park), Stroom, Den Haag.
"Utopia Now, (And Then)", Sonoma County Museum, California.
"Passing", Fotoforum, Innsbruck.
"Potential", kuratiert von Anna Harding, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

2001
"Cities Under the Sky, 4 Free", Buero Friedrich, Berlin.
"Building Codes", The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York.
"Utopia Now", CCAC, San Francisco.
"Works on Aluminum Selected by Paper", kuratiert von Stephan Dillemuth, White Cube, Bergen.
"Trouble Shooting", Arnolfini, Bristol.

2000
"Coal by Any Other Name", American Fine Arts, Co, New York.
"Walk 2000", Succession, London.
"Urban Neighbourhoods", Künstlerhaus Bremen.
"Models of Resistance", Overgaden, Kopenhagen.
"Aquaplaning", Bad Oeynhausener Kurpark.
"Elbow Room", Kim Foster Gallery, New York.
"Home", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
"Borderlinie 1", Museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo.
"Out of Space", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln.
"Democracy!", Royal College of Art, London.
"Greater New York", PS1, Queens, New York.
"Cousins", Cosima von Bonin, Kunstverein Braunschweig.
"21st Gear", The Top Room, East Dulwich, London.
"Small World", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Kurator Toby Kamps.
"Hey International Competition Style!", Tent, Rotterdam.

1999
"Urban Islands", Cubitt, London, Kurator Stefan Kalmar.
"Hiriya in the Museum", Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv.
"Borderline 1", Museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo.
"Model Wirklichkeit", Wewerka, Münster.
"Outside In Outsiding Outsiders Outside Story Inside City", E.S.A.V. Genf.
"Simon Leung and Nils Norman. Project Wall", Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles.
"Overflow", Anton Kern Gallery, New York, Kuratoren Caroline Schneider und Meg O ́Rourke.
"Modell - Wirklichkeit", Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Hawerkamp, Münster.
"Denkpause", Die Wandelhalle e.V., Köln.

1998
"The making of", Generali Foundation, Wien.
"Nils Norman and Chris Whittey", Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY at Old Westbury, L.I., New York, Kuratorin Helen Molesworth.

1997
"Broken Home", Green Naftaly Gallery, New York, Kuratoren Caroline Schneider und Meg O ́Rourke.

1996
Ausstellung zusammen mit Dennis Balk und Simon Leung, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York.
September-Gruppenausstellung, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln.

1994
Sommer Akademie, München.
Poster Studio, London.
Sarah Staton ́s "Supastore", Laura Genillard, London.
The Ideal Place, HCAK, Den Haag, Kuratorin Renée Green.

1993
"Die Arena des Privaten", Kunstverein München.
"London Photo Race", Friesenwall 120, Köln.
"Meet you by the Stragne Twisted Old Oak Tree on the Secluded Knoll at Dawn in Your Swimming Trunks, and I ́ll Tell You Something Secret, (Don ́;t Be Late).", zusammen mit Merlin Carpenter, Galerie Z, Göttingen.
"Galerie Fettsack", Friesenwall 120, Köln.

1992
Ausstellung zusammen mit Kiron Khosla und Merlin Carpenter, London.
"Wohnzimmer/Büro", Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln.

1991
"F-Space", K-Raum Daxer, München, Kuratoren Stephan Dillemuth und Josef Strau.

Projects

2008
"Visible Virals - Transport & Parks", 03.06.2008, Croxteth Hall & Country Park, Croxteth Hall Lane, Liverpool.

2004
Design of Camden Arts Centre ́s education centre.
"The Hoardings Projekt", Artist Commission, Tate, Modern, London.
"City Surplus", a special commission by General Public, London.
"The Homerton City Playscape Proposal", Artist Commission, City Projects, London.

2003
"Nils Norman arbeitet als Berater für die Stadt Roskilde, Dänemark, um ein Feuchtgebiet mit See und Brücke für die neue Stadt Trekroner außerhalb von Roskilde zu entwerfen.

2002
"Ecology/Art Expedition Survey: Phase 1.", Tagestour zu experimentellen Landwirtschaftskommunen, Institutionen und Höfen. Organisiert durch das Sonoma County Museum und in Zusammenarbeit mit Scott und Ene Constable.
"The Edible Playground and Classroom", ein andauerndes Garten Projekt an der Snowsfields Grundschule, London Bridge, London, zusammen mit Simon Bill, Nils Norman, Emily Pethick und Sarah Staton.
"Lebensreform Tour", ein Forschungsprojekt zusammen mit Stephan Dillemuth über
die europäischen Lebensreform Bewegung der späten 1880er, einschließlich Besuche des Monte Veritas, Ascona, Italien, der Hellerau, Deutschland und des Goetheaneum, Schweiz.
"The Adventure Playgrounds of London", Erforschung der Geschichte und Architektur der Londoner Aenteuerspielplätze
"Urbanomics", ein aktuelles fotografisches Archiv der Stadtmöblierung und vorbeugenden Urbanen Designs.

2001/02
The Geocruiser Tour,
Orte und Haltestellen des Geocruisers:
Institute of Visual Culture Cambridge: The Cambridge University Botanic Garden, England;
Ikon Birmingham:Ladywood Community Centre, Oozells Sq, Baggeridge Country park,Bewdley Library and the Market Place, Leek, Birmingham, England;
Spacex Exeter: Bedford Square, Exeter, England;
South London London Gallery and Bookworks: Peckham Square, Peckham Library, London;
Buerofriedrich, Berlin;
Museum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn;
Snowsfields, Primary School, London Bridge, London;
Roots and Shoots, garden school, Lambeth, London.

2000
"The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station. (European Chapter)", Foyer der Universitätsbibliothek, Lüneburg.

1997-98
"Parasite", an artist organised institution, New York City, zusammen mit Andrea Fraser, Mark Dion, Renée Green, Fred Wilson, Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Florian Zeyfang, Ben Kinmont, J. Morgan Puett, Simon Leung, Lincoln Tobier, Dan Wiley, John Menick, Julia Fisher und Silvia Kolbowski.

1994-96
"Poster Studio", gemeinsames experimentelles Projekt mit Merlin Carpenter, Dan Mitchell, Josephine Pryde und Sean Kimber, London.

1990-92
"Friesenwall 120", ein alternatives Schaufensterprojekt organisiert von Stephan Dillemuth in Zusammenarbeit mit Joseph Strau, Köln.