Carsten Nicolai1965－

In addition to visual art, German artist Carsten Nicolai produces electronic music under the name Alva Noto. In 1999 he founded the record label "raster-noton", and has released numerous solo experimental music recordings while also collaborating with Ryuichi Sakamoto, with Ryoji Ikeda as "cyclo", and with many other musicians, to international acclaim. In addition to two comprehensive exhibitions of his work in Germany in 2005, Nicolai has taken part in many international exhibitions including Documenta X (1997) and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennale (1999, 2001). His large-scale video installation unidisplay traveled to Montreal, Milan, and Frankfurt in 2012 and 2013. In Japan, he held a solo exhibition at YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media) in 2010, as well as taking part in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in 2003 and 2012 and the 4th Yokohama Triennale in 2011. He received the Grand Prize (Art Division) at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2014.　In the Gallery, bausatz noto using four record player was exhibited together with his photo works.

Aiming to synthesize artistic formats and approaches, Nicolai applies scientific systems, mathematical patterns, and semiotics to the generation of art, including grids, codes, errors, and random or autonomously generated structures.

Biography

1965 born in karl-marx-stadt, Germany
lives and works in berlin and chemnitz, Germany

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Solo Exhibitions

2017 Carsten Nicolai solo exhibition, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
2016 carsten nicolai - bausatz noto ∞, Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo
2015 carsten nicolai-bausatz noto ∞, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
2013 empty garden, the hole gallery, prague, czech republic
2013 crt mgn, galerie eigen + art berlin, germany
2013 observatory, ibid projects, london, uk
2013 unidisplay/uni(psycho)acoustic, museum f?r moderne kunst, frankfurt/main, germany
2012 unidisplay, mus?e d'art contemporain, montr?al, canada / hangarbicocca, milan, italy
2012 schatten loop, cos store, berlin (in collaboration with cos)
2011 pionier, cac, vilnius, lithuania / galerie eigen + art, leipzig, germany / the pace gallery, new york, usa
2011 filter, house of art, budweis, czech republic
2011 unitxt mirrored, galleria lorcan o'neill, rome, italy
2010 polar m [mirrored] with marko peljhan, ycam, yamaguchi, japan
2010 scaler, hendrik christian andersen museum, rome, italy
2010 maga, museo arte gallarate, italy
2010 autor, tempor?re kunsthalle, berlin, germany
2010 moir?, the pace gallery, new york, usa
2010 anti reflex, la casa encendida, madrid, spain
2010 rota, museum der bildenden k?nste, leipzig, germany
2009 aoyama space, kunstraum innsbruck, austria
2009 rota, schering stiftung, berlin, germany
2009 unitxt, sketch, london, uk
2008 anti reflex, kunsthalle hamburg, germany
2008 tired light, galerie eigen + art, berlin, Germany

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Group Exhibitions

2022 "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale" Niigata
2021 "Oku-Noto Triennale" Ishikawa
2021 "Artists’ Breath" Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
2017 "Art Stage Singapore 2017" Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2015 "Listening to the Line" Ginza Maison Hermes, Tokyo
2015 "Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2013 "soundings: a contemporary score", moma, new york city, usa
2013 "arctic", louisiana museum of modern art, kopenhagen, denmark
2013 "noise", de arte assoziazione, venice, italy
2013 "fragile?", fondazione giorgio cini, vencie, italy
2013 "system und sinnlichkeit", kupferstichkabinett, berlin, germany
2012 "a house full of music", mathildenh?he, darmstadt, germany
2012 "rasterfahndung", kunstmuseum stuttgart, germany
2012 "sound art. sound as a medium of art", zkm, karlsruhe, germany
2012 "echigo tsumari triennial 2012", echigo-tsumari art center, tokamachi, japan
2012 "art & music. search for a new synestesia", mot, toyko, japan
2011 "our magic hour", yokohama triennale, yokohama, japan
2010 "seconde nature", fondation vasarely, aix en provence, france
2010 "rudolf steiner und die kunst der gegenwart", kunstmuseum wolfsburg, germany
2010 "biennale f?r internationale lichtkunst", unna, germany
2009 "barock", madre, naples, italy
2009 "see this sound", kunstmuseum linz, austria
2009 "4th digital art festival taipei", digital arts centre, taipei, taiwan
2009 "the kaleidoscopic eye", mori art museum, tokyo, japan

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Awards

2014 Grand Prize (Art Division) at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival

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