GERALD NESTLER
Artist and Researcher

Gerald Nestler's practice and research focus on what he terms “Econociety”—a more and more global economy that is shaping our world today, particularly in respect to the changing roles and the significance of the individual, of society and of community. He graduated from the Academy of fine arts Vienna in 1992 and has been exhibiting internationally since then. From 1994 to 1997 he was a broker and trader, to what he refers to as his 'field-work.' In 2003 he received an Austrian State Scholarship for Visual Art. In 2007 he published Yx, a reader/catalogue introducing finance and economy as fields of artistic research. 2008 he was awarded an Austrian AIR-scholarship to Beijing and Nanjing, CN, and in 2010 to Krumau, CZ.
His recent activities inlude the co-editing of two issues of the art magazine Kunstforum International (in collaboration with Dieter Buchhart), due for publishing beginning of 2010. He is a practice-based MRes/PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, London, UK.

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PROJECTS (selected)
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CURRENT SHOWS

Breathe My Air Phase II - The Paradoxical Conversation Piece >>
3-channel-video installation by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler is shown at
Mifan, group show, organised by ASAP, curated by Karel Dudesek >>
AnniArt Gallery, 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, CN >>
Nov 8 - Nov 26, 2009
Reception: Nov 7, 4-7pm


The Trend Is Your Friend! >>
A performative and interactive artistic experiment

Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler
Solo show at MKL | Kunsthaus Graz >>
Oct 26 to Nov 8, 2009
In collaboration with
The Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision (TUG)
The Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (KUG)
In cooperation with the steirischer herbst festival
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Open until midnight on November 7 for the "Long Night of Research"(Lange Nacht der Forschung)!

more info see below and at
http://syl-eckermann.net

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The Trend Is Your Friend >>
A performative and interactive artistic environment

by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler
Sound: Peter Szely

curated by Mirjana Peitler
MedienKunstLabor | Kunsthaus Graz
link
Director: Winfried Ritsch

in cooperation with the art festival steirischer herbst 09



Breathe My Air >>
Visualising the Invisible inside the Social Environment.

2008, project launch at CPU:798, Beijing/CN
2009, art intervention in public space, Beijing/CN

A project by Gerald Nestler and Sylvia Eckermann.
Curated by Li Zhenhua / produced by ChART Contemporary.



In Ninth Heaven or The Far End of Europe >>
An Interactive Synthetic Scape.

2008, permanent Installation at Museum Stein, Krems/A

A project by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler.
Composition and spatial acoustics: Peter Szely
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nowhere - ein welt raum spiel >>
3D-Gamemod.

Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Oliver Irschitz, Christof Cargnelli

upcoming:
Sept 28 - Oct 1, 2006
3rd International Digital Art Festival, Changzhou / CN
Oct 4 - 8 2006
media@terra, International Art + Technology Festival,
Fournos Centre for the Digital Culture, Athens / GR

2006 Beijing Cubic Art Center, 11-ART.com / CN
2006 aut.architektur und tirol, Innsbruck / AT
2005 Exhibition Center of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna / AT


umspannen - drawing options >>
Exhibition project on topics and practices of the globalized finance and economy,
examined and informed by methods and practices from visual and digital arts.

Audio-visual installation, drawings, neon, video at:
2005 Kunstraum Innsbruck / AT
2005 Plattform Raum für Kunst, Vienna /AT

Including a 4-channel sound by Peter Szely


form 4 enlitened elevation >>
Economy, finance and the real world. Theory and practice of global property systems.
Live-Performances, video works, sculpture, objects, sound installation.

2004 Association of the Austrian Industries, Vienna / AT


enlitenment >>
Logo.

Light Sculptures with different light materials.

Different locations.


Sexy Curves Revisited - Inside the Data Wave >>
Real Time Audio-Visual Performance + Projection

2004 Architectural Biennal Beijing / CN
2003 Biennal de Valencia / E
Both in cooperation with Norbert Brunner's Time Pill-project


CEOs >>
Video Portrait Series
Gerald Nestler & Toni Kleinlercher

Ongoing project, first started 1999
Shows:
2005 "update", Künstlerhaus, Vienna / AT
2005 "Re-Act", Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center Copenhagen / DK


Sexy Curves >>
Real Time Audio-Visual Installation
Gerald Nestler & Toni Kleinlercher

1999-2000 "Sozial Maschine Geld", group show, O.K Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz / AT


electronic dust >>
Solo exhibition, Installation, Video

1995, Gallery of the City of Innsbruck / AT


Real Data Stampede >>
Real-Data Concert for Mass Media and Computer
Thomas Feuerstein, Thomas Bergmann/Peter Chiocchetti/Elmar Schaber,
Mathias Fuchs, Gerald Nestler, Peter Riedlsperger

1994, Utopia, Innsbruck / AT