Noto Aka Carsten Nicolai nasce nel 1965 a Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germania. Vive e lavora tra Berlino e Chemnitz, Germania.

 

EDUCAZIONE

1984
lavora come giardiniere

 

1985-90
studia landscape design, Dresden, Germany

 

1992
co-founded voxxx.kultur und kommunikationszentrum, Chemnitz, Germany

 

1994
founded noton.archiv für ton und nichtton

 

1999
label unit raster-noton

 

PREMI
2014
17th japan media arts festival, grand prize (art division), Japan (crt mgn installation)

 

2012
giga-hertz-award, zkm karlsruhe, Germany (cyclo. id publication with ryoji ikeda)

 

2007
Villa Massimo, Rome

Zurich Prize, Zurich

 

2003
Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA

 

2001
Prize ars electronica, golden nica, linz, austria (polar installation with marko peljhan)

 

2000
F6-philip morris, graphic prize, Dresden, Germany
Prize ars electronica, golden nica, linz, austria (20′ to 2000 project)

 

1990
Jürgen ponto prize, Frankfurt/main, Germany

 

OPERE PUBBLICHE
2011
Ifo spectrum, Olympic Park, London, UK

 

2010
Monitor, Siobhan Davies studios, Londra
Autor, Temporäre kunsthalle, Berlino

 

2009
Poly stella, Kasumigaseki building plaza, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Pionier ll, Piazza Plebiscito, Napoli

 

2006
Polylit, Kleiner Schlossplatz, Kunstmuseum stuttgart

 

2005
Frequenz (milch), Tramhaltestelle, Hauptbahnhof Leipzig

 

MOSTRE PERSONALI
2013
Empty garden, The hole gallery, Praga
Crt mgn, galerie eigen + art, Berlino
Observatory, ibid projects, Londra
Unidisplay/uni(psycho)acoustic, Museum für Oderne Kunst, Frankfurt/main

 

2012
Unidisplay, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal / Hangar Bicocca, Milano
Schatten Loop, Cos Store, Berlino

 

2011
Pionier, cac, Vilnius / Galerie eigen + art, Leipzig / The Pace Gallery, New York
Filter, house of art, Budweis

Unitxt mirrored, Galleria Lorcan o’neill, Roma

 

2010

Polar m [mirrored] with Marko Peljhan, Ycam, Yamaguchi
Scaler, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Roma
Maga, Museo Arte Gallarate
Autor, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlino
Moiré, The Pace Gallery, New York
Anti Reflex, la casa encendida, Madrid
Rota, Museum Der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig

 

2009
Aoyama Space, Kunstraum Innsbruck
Rota, Schering Stiftung, Berlino
Unitxt, Sketch, Londra

 

2008
Anti Reflex, Kunsthalle Amburgo
Tired Light, Galerie Eigen + art, Berlino

 

2007
Static Fades, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurigo/ Pacewildenstein, New York

 

2006
Inver, Frieze Art Fair, Londra
Inver, Galerie Eigen + art, Leipzig

 

2005
Audio Visual spaces, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (smak), Gent
anti reflex, schirn kunsthalle, frankfurt/main, germany
syn chron, neue nationalgalerie, berlin, germany / bern, schwitzerland / yamaguchi, japan

 

2003
Funken, Galerie eigen + art, Berlino
Modular re.struct, Poalo curti/annamaria Gambuzzi & co, Milano

 

2002
Parallel lines cross at infinity, Watari-um, Watari Museum of contemporary art, Tokyo

 

2001
Milch, Londra

 

2000
Ystad Kunsthalle, Ystad
Polar, Canon artlab 10 (with marko peljan), Tokyo

 

1999
1% space, Copenhagen

 

1998
Polyfoto, galerie für zeitgenössische kunst, Leipzig

 

1996
Leonhardi-Museum, Dresda
The New York Kunsthalle, New York

 

1995
Galerie Margrit Gass, Basilea
Kunstverein Konstanz

 

1994
Espace des arts, Chalon-sur-saône
Kunstverein ulm
Neue nationalgalerie, Berlino

 

1993
Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz

 

1992
Galerie Springer, Berlino

 

1991
Magica ll, lichtinstallation, Kunst-werke, Berlino

 

1986
Der keller, galerie eigen + art, Leipzig

 

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2013
Soundings: a contemporary score, Moma, New York
Arctic, Louisiana museum of modern art, Copenhagen
Noise, de arte assoziazione, Venezia
Fragile?, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia
System und sinnlichkeit, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlino

 

2012
A house full of music, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
Rasterfahndung, Kunstmuseum stuttgart
Sound art. sound as a medium of art, Zkm, Karlsruhe
Echigo tsumari triennial 2012, Echigo-tsumari art center, Tokamachi
Art & music. search for a new synestesia, mot, Tokyo

 

2011
Our magic hour, Yokohama Triennale, Tokohama

 

2010
Seconde nature, Fondation Vasarely, Aix en Provence
Rudolf Steiner und Die Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna

 

2009
Barock, Madre, Napoli
See this sound, Kunstmuseum Linz
4th digital art festival taipei, Digital arts centre, Taipei
The kaleidoscopic eye, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

 

2008
Leben, Kunsthaus Graz
Open Space, Ntt Intercommunication Center [icc], Tokyo
Art on air, Weserburg – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen

 

2007
2nd Moskow Biennale, Mosca
Konstellationen ll, Städel museum, Frankfurt/main
Marta schweigt, Marta Herford
Space for your future, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

 

2006
Singapore Biennal, Singapore
Still points of the turning world, 6th int. Biennale Santa Fe
Sonambiente 2006, Tesla, Berlino

 

2005
Künstler.archiv, Akademie der Künste, Berlino

 

2004
Densité ±0, École nationale des beaux arts, Parigi / Friburgo

 

2003
La Biennale di Venezia 50, Venezia
Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Martin Gropius-bau, Berlino/ Mosca
Echigo Tsumari Triennial 2003, Echigo Tsumari Region Niigata Prefecture
The 10th New York Digital Saloon, New York

 

2002
Frequenzen (hz), Schirn Kunsthalle, Francoforte/Main

 

2001
Wild zone, Witte de with, Rotterdam
Perspectives, Micamoca, Milano
La Biennale di Venezia 49, Venice
Quobo, art in berlin 89-99, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlino
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Audible images, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

 

2000
Sound art, Ntt Intercommunication center, Gallery a, Tokyo
Volume”, ps 1, New York
Taktlos, Bern

 

1999
Examining pictures: exhibiting paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Londra / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Empty Garden, Watari-um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Liverpool Biennial

 

1997
Documenta x, Kassel
P.S.1 Reopening, New York

 

1996
Projektor (with Olaf Nicolai), Städtisches Kunstmuseum Reutlingen
“all+tag” (with mika vainio), industriemuseum Chemnitz

 

1994
Welt-moral, Kunsthalle Basel
Metropole und Peripherie, Museum de arte Moderna Mam, Rio de Janeiro

 

1993
Ein Jahrhundert des Holzschnitts, Kunsthalle Hamburg
Cadavre Exquis, Drawing Center, New York