Norbert Witzgall

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Norbert Witzgall
1976 born in Münchberg, Germany
Lives in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION

2003 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna

2001 UdK, Berlin

1998 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lyon

1996 Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg, Nuremberg


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
"Public, Relations" 2015, curated by Isabel Parkes, Evans & Witt, London

2015
"Veronica" (with a contribution by Mathilde Ter Heijne), Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

2014
Mathilde ter Heijne & Norbert Witzgall, after the butcher, Berlin, Germany

2012
"Quod Lizbeth", solo presentation with Deweer Gallery at Art Brussels

2011
"Nose is a nose is a nose", Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
"A hanging at Times", Times, Berlin

2010
"alles erwin", SOUTERRAIN, Berlin, with Alex Müller

2009
"Double Fantasy", Samsa, Berlin, with Nina Hoffmann
"Francine(Leal Souvenir)", TÄT, Berlin, February

2008
"Wir", Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York, March - April

2007
"Cameron", Nice & Fit, Berlin, May - June

2006
"Dialog zu zweit", Autocenter, Berlin, with Uli Emmert

2004
"März", Projektraum Schleifmühlgasse, Vienna

2002
"Strahler", R 12, Berlin


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
"Domino", Salve, Berlin

2020
"Boutique", Mountains, Berlin
"MANIFEST", curated by Isabelle Meiffert, Uferhallen, Berlin
"Coloring Quarantine", EXILE, Vienna

2019
"Affektive Allianzen", curated by Judith Grobe and Gergana Todorova, Schloss Callenberg, Germany
"Eigenbedarf", curated by Isabelle Meiffert, Uferhallen, Berlin
"Beweggründe", curated by Birgit Megerle, Gerichtshöfe, Berlin

2018
"Out of Time", curated by Sofie Crabbé, DEWEER Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
"Shifting Points", curated by Simone Rudolph, Periscope, Salzburg
"To Pool", curated by Silke Nowak, Schneeeule, Berlin
"Räume", Berlin
"Ankst", curated by Anjalie Chaubal, Museum SPUR, Cham

2017
"Lend Me Your Ear and I ́ll Sing You a Song", Berlin
Jahresgabe, Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Berlin

2016
"Räume", Lindenstr., Berlin
"Frohe Botschaft", Botschaft, Berlin

2015
"The Drawing Room", Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
"FAKE", Exile, Berlin, Germany

2014
"Das stille Leben des Sammlers Kempinski", Exile, Berlin, Germany
"Pleasure", Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

2013
“Je t’aime...moi non plus", Musée des Beaux-Arts Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing

2012
"Invagination: Write for Life", curated by Cara Siik Benedetto, Davida Nemeroff e.a., Night Gallery, Los Angeles
"Manisensations", curated by Voin de Voin and Stephanie Ballantine, Leap Gallery, Berlin
"salondergegenwart", Elbhof, Hamburg
"HGP", invited by MADAM, H.E.N.S, New York
"reopening", Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
"IBG 2011", galerie de multiples, Paris
"Invagination: Hunger Is Real", curated by Cara Siik Benedetto, H.E.N.S., New York

2011
"Jahresgaben", Kunstverein Nürnberg in der Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg
"Voyage Voyage", curated by Oriane Durand, Kunstverein Nürnberg in der Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg
"Invagination A Seagull Presents Woman to Woman", curated by Cara Siik Benedetto, 6-8 months at Studio Kara Walker, New York
"Funeral Charades of Poses - an Evening with Friends and Basso", HAU - Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
"Hidden Parts", after the butcher, Berlin
"L ́Aura Amara", curated by Bustos Demenech, La Générale En Manufacture, Paris and CRAB (Centro Ricerche Accademia di Brera), Milan
"Er hockte in der Zeit und konnte sie nicht an sich bringen", Apartment Ariane Pauls, Auguststr., Berlin
"The Genesis", S&yM, Berlin
"The Suitcase Show",organized by Francisco Bernà, Monte Crisco Studio, Paris
"Pop Hits", organised by Manfred Peckl, Tanzschule Projects, Munich and Based in Berlin, Berlin

2010
"L ́Aura Amara", curated by Bustos Demenech, Gallery MC, New York
"Dysfashional", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
"I Put a Frame on You", TÄT, Berlin
"Jewelry", Samsa, Berlin
"Souterrain Boutique", Souterrain, Berlin
"Stampede", organized by Raul Walch, Forgotten Bar, Berlin
"Ins Blickfeld gerückt" curated by Franzisca Würz, Institut Français, Berlin
"Aka Symbol" curated by Mariechen Danz, Forgotten Bar, hbc, Berlin
"Six Days of New Media", Linienstr., Berlin

2009
"Hüttendong", After the Butcher, Berlin
"Neues Museum", Basso, Berlin
"Nördlich der Alpen:Hunger/Südlich der Alpen:Durst", Galerie Antik, Berlin

2008
"Der Autorität", Kunstverein Arnsberg
"Freuden der Jugend III", artnews projects, Berlin
"März, Vorstadtsiedlung, Musik", Praxis Koloniestr. Wedding, Berlin
"Neueröffnung", Autocenter, Berlin
"One Picture Gallery", Nice and Fit Gallery, Berlin

2007
"Imperial", curated by Elmar Vestner, Souterrain, Berlin
"Nice & Fit Temporary at ReMap KM" organized by Chloe Vaitsou, Athens
"Believers and Illusionists" curated by Lars Morell at Rasmus Hansen, Berlin

2006
"Rio", Artnewsprojects, Berlin
"Park Inn", Straßburger Str., Berlin
"24 perc", Tuzrakter, Budapest
"Visible –Invisible", curated by Adina Popescu, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin

2005
"Blencke Emmert Leykauf Neumeier Witzgall", Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nuremberg
"Christliche Kunst der Neuzeit", Galerie Antik, Berlin
"Hymenium des Zorns", Galerie Antik, Berlin

2002
"Why do I spend valuable time", Berliner Kunstherbst, Berlin
"Who ́s Afraid of Black?" Galerie Chromosome, Berlin


COLLABORATIVE AND PERFORMATIVE PROJECTS

2021
"Illiberal Arts", curated by Kerstin Stakemeier and Anselm Franke, HKW, Berlin

2011
"Funeral Charades of Poses - an Evening with Friends and Basso", HAU - Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
"Invagination: A Seagull Presents Woman to Woman", with Douglas Boatwright, (curator Cara Siik Benedetto), 6-8 months at Studio Kara Walker, New York, USA

2008
"Le Eck Lypsehöhle - an oracle", Skulpturenpark, Berlin

2006
"Lichtomis Dritter Standberg", after the butcher, Berlin, Germany
"Die Sonne", Raumerweiterungshalle, Berlin, Germany

2000
"Camping, Camping" (organized by Bernhard Martin), Volksbad Nürnberg, Germany


ART FAIRS

2014
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany, with Deweer Gallery
2012
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany, with Deweer Gallery;
Art Brussels (solo), Brussels, with Deweer Gallery
2009
Art Athina, Athens, Greece, with Nice & Fit Gallery
2008
Art Athina, Athens, Greece, with Nice & Fit Gallery;
Preview, Berlin, with Nice & Fit Gallery


TEACHING

2021
Lectures at the Kunstuniversität Graz and the Universität Potsdam

2020
Lectures at the Stockholm Royal Institute of Art and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

Since 2019
Lecturer in the foundation class at Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin

2017 – 2019
Guest Professor at Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin

2017 – 2019
Visiting Artist to the VCU Berlin summer school

2018
Co-teacher at the Salzburg International Summer Academy for Fine Art in Salzburg, Austria, with Brigitte Kovaczs and Yorgos Sapountzis

2017
Visiting Artist at the MFA program of VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University, Painting and Printmaking Department, Richmond, VA, USA

2015 – 2017
Lecturer of art history, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Ästhetik, Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin

2014
Workshop at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany


CURATION

2022
"Klassismus", Ko-Kuration, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

2018 – 19
Co-curation of the annual exhibit at the Hoffmann Collection, Berlin and Dresden

2007 - 2013
Foundation, organization and curation of the project space SOUTERRAIN in Berlin including solo shows with Cara Benedetto, Douglas Boatwright, Nina Hoffmann, Alexandra Leykauf, Alicja Kwade, Yorgos Sapountzis, Hannes Schmid, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton, e.a.

2009
Don’t you dare look at me (with Gerry Bibby, Thomas Kilpper, Angela Mewes, Anton Stoianov, e.a.), Nice & Fit Gallery, Berlin

2006
Parkhaus (with Gregor Hildebrandt, Ariane Pauls, Mathew Lutz- Kinoy, e.a.), Berlin


BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRESS

2021
HKW (ed) "Illiberal Arts", (catalogue)
Coloring Quarantine, a project with Exile Gallery, Vienna, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 24th edition
2020
Prof. Susanne Lorenz (ed.) “GRUND”, Universität der Künste, Berlin; HKW (Hrsg.): "Aby Warburg – eine erste Begegnung", with Ariane Pauls; Isabelle Meifert (ed.): ”Eigenbedarf” (catalogue), DISTANZ Verlag
2019
Nadja Abt: Bilderstrecke Gerichtshöfe, Texte zur Kunst online, 22 September; Carolin Herrmann: “Die Krallen der Vergangenheit”, Coburger Tageblatt, 29 November, p.16; Dieter Ungelenk: “Dialog mit der Geschichte”, Neue Presse, 29 November, p. 12;
2018
Leonie Claire Recksiek, “Protest an Berliner Universität der Künste”, monopol online, 29. Juni
2015
Guy Gilsoul, "L'art du portrait", LeVif.be, 8 February
"Überblendungen: Mathilde Ter Heijne und Norbert Witzgall", TAGESSPIEGEL, 6 January, p.21
2014
Francesco Correggia, Pietro Finelli, "La Pittura. Il corpore infinito", Mimesis Art Theory, p.62/63
2012
TÄT publication, p. 28
Christian Holle (Publisher), salondergegenwart, Gudberg Verlag, p.88/89
Kito Nedo, RADAR, Kunstmarkt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 22nd/23rd, p.22
Caroline Stummel, "Fotostrecke Art Brussels", artnet, April 23rd
2011
Philipp Moll, "Voyage, voyage", Abendzeitung, September 14th, p.8
Regina Urban, "Reise in die Welt innerer Bilder", Nürnberger Nachrichten, July 22nd, p.3
2010
taz – die tageszeitung, "magazine voller magazine", March 10
Martin Razhdashki, "Norbert Witzgall - Remembrance of things past", geil, p.76, spring issue
2009
Peeping Tom ́s Digest, "Norbert Witzgall", p.194/195
2008
James Wagner, "Norbert Witzgall at Venetia Kapernekas", jameswagner.com, March 12
2007
Kito Nedo, "Puzzlehafte Erkundung des eigenen Ich", Berliner Zeitung, June 12, p.29
Artnet Spotlights, artnet.de, June 7
Sofia Tachias, "Neustart in Athen, Art Athina 2007", artnet.de, June 1
Art Highlights, The EXBERLINER, June, p.52
Chris Sharp, Space Invaders, Flash Art International, March-April, p.76
2006
"Die Olafur Banane", basso magazin #3, p.45
C. Herchenröder, "Störung der Sehgewohnheiten", Kunstmarkt, 25-26-27 August, p.1
MJ, "Das nicht Sichtbare zeigen", Die Tageszeitung, May 7, p.22


LINKS

https://www.instagram.com/norbertwitzgall/?hl=de

https://www.deweergallery-estate.com/en/298-artists/view/75

https://www.udk-berlin.de/personen/detailansicht/person/show/norbert-witzgall/

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