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
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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