Dates:
born   1965
Biography: 1965 Born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin, Chemnitz, and
Barcelona


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 Edison, CCCB, Barcelona
1998 Polyfoto, Galerie Fuer
Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig
1997 Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig
Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
1996 The New York Kunsthalle, New
York
Staedtisches Kunstmuseum, Augsburg
1994 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1999 Examining Picture, Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London
Random Logo, Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Frankfurt
1998 Just about Now, Villa Albkmaer
Centrum Voor Beeldende Kunst,
Rotterdam
1997 Documenta X, Kassel
1996 Neben den Linden, Kunstverein
Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
Stadtisches Kunstmuseum, Reutlingen
1995 Selection Winter 1995, Drawing
Center, New York
Source:"Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue
Date of source:1999

Description: Carsten Nicolai was a member of a
small group of artists working through
Galerie Eigen + Art in Leipzig prior to the
reunification of Germany. Embracing
performance and installation art, as well
as more traditional media, they were an
exceptional group at a time when
figurative painting was the acceptable
norm. Since then Nicolai has continued
with his varied practice, developing a
keen interest in the psychological and
physical effects of sound. This interest
has formed the basis of his performance
work on the club scene, where he is
known as Noto.


The artist's work for Liverpool is an
extension of his research on the
possible bodily effects of vibration.
Sampled tones, modem beeps, and
telephone pops and clicks are organised
into loops to produce minimalist cycles
of abstract sound. The result is a
manifestation of the invisible energy of
electricity: the acoustic trace of an
intangible commodity. Nicolai's
drawings - which might be compared to
Duchamp's explorations of the
mechanical metaphor - form the
notations for the music he has
composed.
Description Source: "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue
Description Source Date: 1999
Gender: male
Type: person