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

2015 carsten nicolai-bausatz noto ∞, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
2013 empty garden, the hole gallery, prague, czech republic
crt mgn, galerie eigen + art berlin, germany
observatory, ibid projects, london, uk
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
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
filter, house of art, budweis, czech republic
unitxt mirrored, galleria lorcan o'neill, rome, italy
2010 polar m [mirrored] with marko peljhan, ycam, yamaguchi, japan
scaler, hendrik christian andersen museum, rome, italy
maga, museo arte gallarate, italy
autor, tempor?re kunsthalle, berlin, germany
moir?, the pace gallery, new york, usa
anti reflex, la casa encendida, madrid, spain
rota, museum der bildenden k?nste, leipzig, germany
2009 aoyama space, kunstraum innsbruck, austria
rota, schering stiftung, berlin, germany
unitxt, sketch, london, uk
2008 anti reflex, kunsthalle hamburg, germany
tired light, galerie eigen + art, berlin, Germany

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Group Exhibitions

2015 "Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2013 "soundings: a contemporary score", moma, new york city, usa
"arctic", louisiana museum of modern art, kopenhagen, denmark
"noise", de arte assoziazione, venice, italy
"fragile?", fondazione giorgio cini, vencie, italy
"system und sinnlichkeit", kupferstichkabinett, berlin, germany
2012 "a house full of music", mathildenh?he, darmstadt, germany
"rasterfahndung", kunstmuseum stuttgart, germany
"sound art. sound as a medium of art", zkm, karlsruhe, germany
"echigo tsumari triennial 2012", echigo-tsumari art center, tokamachi, japan
"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
"rudolf steiner und die kunst der gegenwart", kunstmuseum wolfsburg, germany
"biennale f?r internationale lichtkunst", unna, germany
2009 "barock", madre, naples, italy
"see this sound", kunstmuseum linz, austria
"4th digital art festival taipei", digital arts centre, taipei, taiwan
"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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