Noto Aka Carsten Nicolai

Noto Aka Carsten Nicolai was born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin and Chemnitz.

 

EDUCATION
1984
He worked as a gardener

 

1985-90
He studies of landscape design, Dresden

 

1992
He co-founds Voxxx.kultur und Kommunikationszentrum, Chemnitz

 

1994
He founds noton.archiv für Ton und Nichtton

 

1999
label unit raster-noton

 

PRIZES
2014
17th Japan Media Arts Festival, Grand Prize (art division), (crt mgn installation)

 

2012
Giga-Hertz-Award, Zkm Karlsruhe (Cyclo. Id publication with ryoji ikeda)

 

2007
Villa Massimo, Rome
Zurich Prize, Zurich

 

2003
Villa Aurora, Los Angeles

 

2001
Prize ars electronica, Golden Nica, Linz (polar installation with marko peljhan)

 

2000
F6-Philip Morris, Graphic Prize, Dresden
Prize Ars Electronica, Golden Nica, Linz (20′ to 2000 project)

 

1990
Jürgen Ponto Prize, Frankfurt/main

 

ARTWORK IN A PUBLIC SPACE
2011
Ifo spectrum, olympic park, London

 

2010
Monitor, Siobhan Davies studios, London
Autor, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin

 

2009
Poly Stella, Kasumigaseki Building plaza, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Pionier ll, Piazza Plebiscito, Naples

 

2006
Polylit, Kleiner Schlossplatz, Kunstmuseum stuttgart

 

2005
Frequenz (milch), Tramhaltestelle, Hauptbahnhof Leipzig

 

SOLO SHOWS
2013
Empty garden, The hole gallery, Prague

Crt Mgn, Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin

Observatory, Ibid projects, London

Unidisplay/uni(psycho)acoustic, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfort

 

2012

Unidisplay, Musée d’art Contemporain, Montréal / Hangarbicocca, Milan

Schatten loop, cos store, Berlin (in collaboration with cos)

 

2011

Pionier, Cac, Vilnius / Galerie Eigen + art, leipzig / The Pace Gallery, New York

Filter, House of Art, Budweis

Unitxt mirrored, Galleria lorcan o’neill, Rome

 

2010

Polar m [mirrored] with Marko Peljhan, Ycam, Yamaguchi

Scaler, Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Rome

Maga, Museo Arte Gallarate

Autor, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin

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, Berlin

Unitxt, sketch, London

 

2008

Anti Reflex, Kunsthalle Hamburg

Tired light, Galerie Eigen + art, Berlin

 

2007

Static Fades, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich / Pacewildenstein, New York

 

2006

Inver, Frieze art fair, London

Inver, Galerie eigen + art, Leipzig

 

2005

Audio Sisual Spaces, Stedelijk Museum voor actuele kunst (smak), Gent

Anti reflex, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main

Syn Chron, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin / Bern / Yamaguchi

 

2003

Funken, Galerie eigen + art, Berlin

Modular re.struct, Poalo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & co, Milan

 

2002

Parallel Lines Cross at Infinity, Watari-um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

 

2001

Milch, London

 

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, Dresden

The New York Kunsthalle, New York

 

1995

Galerie Margrit Gass, Basel

Kunstverein Konstanz

 

1994

Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône

Kunstverein ulm

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

 

1993

Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz

 

1992

Galerie Springer, Berlin

 

1991

Magica ll, Lichtinstallation, Kunst-werke, Berlin

 

1986

Der keller, Galerie eigen + art, Leipzig

 

GROUP SHOWS
2013

Soundings: a contemporary score, MoMA, New York

Arctic, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kopenhagen

Noise, De Arte Associazione, Venice

Fragile?, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

System und sinnlichkeit, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

 

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, Toyko

 

2011

Our magic hour, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama

 

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, Naples

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, Moskow

Konstellationen ll, Städel Museum/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/New Mexico

Sonambiente 2006, Tesla, Berlin

 

2005

Künstler.archiv, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

 

2004

Densité ±0″, école nationale des beaux arts, Paris / Fribourg

 

2003

La Biennale di Venezia 50, Venice

Berlin-Moskau / moskau-berlin 1950-2000, Martin Gropius-bau, Berlin / Moscow

Echigo Tsumari Triennial 2003, Echigo Tsumari Region Niigata Prefecture

the 10th new york digital saloon, New York

 

2002

Frequenzen (hz)”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main

 

2001

Wild zone, Witte de with, Rotterdam

Perspectives, Micamoca, Milan

La Biennale di Venezia 49, Venice

Quobo, art in Berlin 89-99, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

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, London / 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 / u.a

 

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