GERALD NESTLER

 

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Lives and works in Vienna and Grillenberg, Austria

1984 - 1985 Study visits to New York and Miami, USA
1986 - 1992 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna / AT
1992 - 1993 Collaboration with The Thing Vienna / AT
1993 - 1994 Freelance at Hilus-intermedial project analysis, Vienna / AT
1994 - 1997 Broker and Trader, Hamburg / G
1998 - 2005 Triton Association
2000 - 2002 nac - nexus.art.consulting
2002 - 2004 MUMOK publication department
2003          Austrian State Scholarship for the Visual Arts
2004          research scholarship from the City of Vienna, Department of Science
2007 -        Co-operation with Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna
2008          Austrian AIR Scholarship to Nanjing, China

Selected Exhibitions and Projects:

   
2008

Breathe My Air, with Sylvia Eckermann, solo show, Beijing Art Museum of Imperial City (BAMOIC) / CN

Space.Delight with Sylvia Eckermann, permanent installation, Museum Stein, Krems / AT

2007 WISSEN-SCHAFFT-FRAGEN / 24 dialogues between scientists and artists, group show, eop—emergence of projects, Vienna

Presentation of Yx  fluid taxonomies—voided dimensions—enlitened elevation—human derivatives—vibrations in hyperreal econociety, Salon für Kunst Buch, Vienna

20 Years Serigraphy workshop Andreas Stalzer, group show, Lower Austria Center for the Documentation of Modern Art, St.Pölten

Symposium Art Collections of Private Corporations. From Sponsoring to Education, panel discussion, KulturKontakt Austria, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg

2006

ca. 1000m² Tiroler Kunst, group show, curated by Stefan Bidner-Kunstraum Innsbruck, Kaufhaus Tyrol, Innsbruck / AT

PLASTIC TRADE-OFF Meta-performative Installation in real time on global financial markets + virtual knowledge space
permanent installation at "working_world.net", Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr / AT
Gerald Nestler + Syl.Eckermann

2005 / 2006   n o w h e r e an interactive 3D-Collage on the utopian ideas of the "Crystal Chain"
-a correspondence of Bruno Taut, Wenzel Hablik, Hermann Finsterlin, Hans Scharoun and others.
GameMod / Concept: Sylvia Eckermann, Concept / Research: Gerald Nestler,
Composition: Christof Cargnelli, Interface Design / Production: Oliver Irschitz , commissioned by: The Crystal Web

2006  Sept 28 - Oct 1, 3rd International Digital Art Festival, Changzhou / CN
2006  Oct 4 - 8, 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

2005 CEOs, update, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, group show, video portrait series, a collaborative project with Toni Kleinlercher

umspannen, PLATTFORM - Raum für Kunst, Vienna, solo show
4-channel sound by Peter Szely

CEOs, Re-Act, Kopenhagen Nicolaj Art Center, group show, collaborative project Out of Place with Dieter Buchhart, Petra Schröck and Toni Kleinlercher

umspannen - drawing options, Kunstraum Innsbruck, solo show, project space
4-channel sound by Peter Szely

Mixed Double
, Kunstraum Kramsach, Audiovisuelle Installation, solo show
4-channel sound by Peter Szely

2004

Form 4: Enlitened Elevation - An Inquiry into A White Loop Expanding, Haus der Industrie, Paternoster, Vienna, solo show and performance

SexyCurves revisited - inside the data wave, Architectural Biennale Beijing, in coopertion with Norbert Brunner's Timepill Project

2003 projectfriend~ship at fluc, fluc-fluctuating images, Praterstern, Vienna, audio-visual installation and performance in public space, in cooperation with Oliver Irschitz, Cargnelli/Szely, dy:namo, Priam Givord/MartinLenclos

SexyCurves revisited - inside the data wave, Bienal de Valencia, Live Performance and Projection at the opening days, in coopertion with Norbert Brunner's Timepill Project

2002

 

 

 

Performance Outsourced, fast growing fungi coultures, with Lisa Spalt at reflected in an unmarked space, a project by Toni Kleinlercher, MUMOK Lounge, Vienna

c_bite, projectfriend~ship-intervention at the CeBIT, Hannover, in cooperation with Manfred Gübl, Jürgen Bauer and Automat, Johannes Deutsch, Oliver Irschitz, Hannes Bertolini, Szely/Cargnelli, Julian Wong, Hille Bressnik, Christine Citti and Martina Boese
2000-2002 nac, consultancy & art space, with Christof Habres and Riki Neuner, intersection between and artistic intervention into economic structures

1999-2000 sexy curves, Sozialmaschine Geld, curated by Gottfried Hattinger, O.K. Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, in cooperation with Toni Kleinlercher

CEOs, first set of the video portrait series in corporation with Toni Kleinlercher

1998 resource.future, start of collaboration with Toni Kleinlercher, project-series, which analyses the influences of global economy on social processes and individuals

1997 Auction Performance for Helena Huneke on board Mike Hentz’s Trojan Ship, Hamburg

1995-1997 Broker and Trader, Hamburg, ‘field research’ as regards global market economy

1995 electronic dust, Gallery of the City of Innsbruck, Andechshof, solo show

1994 Real Data Stampede, a multimedia project in cooperation with Thomas Feuerstein, Thomas Bergmann, Peter Chiocchetti, Elmar Schaber, Mathias Fuchs, PeterRiedelsperger, Utopia, Innsbruck

1992-1994 Collaboration with
The Thing Vienna

Hilus-intermedial project analysis
Triton Association

1993 Stadtgalerie Lienz, group show

Awarded 1st prize at the Kunsttage St. Jakob i. D.

1992 How to manage stress, in cooperation with Klaus Strickner, Theseustempel, Vienna, solo show

Jamming, Theseustempel, Vienna, solo show

1990 Ibeko, Graz, solo show

1989 Traisenpavillion, St. Pölten, group show

   

Lectures & Talks (Auswahl)

2008
Book presentation of Die Aktie als Bild by Irini Athanassakis. Panel discussion with the author and Prof. Christian Reder at Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna / A
Lecture at the University of Applied Arts, Prof. Brigitte Kowanz
2007
Book presentation of Yx_fluid taxonomies—voided dimensions—enlitened elevation—human derivatives —vibrations in hyperreal econociety,
Salon für Kunst Buch, Wien / A
2006
Symposium Kunstsammlungen privater Unternehmen. Vom Sponsoring zur Kulturvermittlung, panel Diskussion with Doris Rothauer, Brigitte Kowanz, Walter Seidl, KulturKontakt Austria, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / A

   
Selected Publications:
1995
1999
Catalogue Gallery of the City of Innsbruck, Andechshof
Catalogue Sozialmaschine Geld, O.K Linz, Austria
2000 Kunstforum International 149, Magazine, p. 54
  Kunstforum International 149, Magazine, p. 199
2003 SpringerIn Magazine 4/03
2004
2005
EIKON, Magazine on Photography and Media Arts, 46/04
Catalogue Re-Act, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 Catalogue The Crystalweb, "Colour Houses and Luminous Plants"
2006 Catalogue n o w h e r e, Beijing Cubic Art Center / 11-Art.com
  EIKON, Magazine on Photography and Media Arts 54/06
Catalogue 3rd China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival
2007 LighTech Italia, Magazine
  Touristen, Magazine
  EIKON, Magazine on Photography and Media Arts, 60/07
  Catalogue re.sonance.network.mission.007
2008

Kunstsammlungen privater Unternehmen/Vom Sponsoring zur Kulturvermittlung, publication of the symposium at the Museum Essl, Klosterneuburg, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna / AT

   
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