biographie

GERALD NESTLER

— biography

Lives and works in Vienna, AT and London, UK

1986 - 1992
1992 - 1993
1993 - 1994
1994 - 1997
1998 - 2005
2000 - 2002
2003
2004
2007 - 2008
2008
2009
2009

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna / AT
The Thing Vienna / AT
Hilus-intermedial project analysis, Vienna / AT
Broker and Trader, Hamburg / G
Triton Association
nac - nexus.art.consulting
Austrian State Scholarship for the Visual Arts
Research grant, arts-based-research, City of Vienna Research & Science Department
Co-operation with Open Space - Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna
Austrian AIR Scholarship, Nanjing, CN
Austrian AIR Scholarship, Krumau, CZ
Kunstforum International, Co-Editor of two issues on art and economy with Dieter Buchhart
Practised-based MRes/PhD at Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, London

Selected Exhibitions and Projects:

current	The Trend Is Your Friend. A performative and interactive experimental set-up. A project by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler. Sound architecture: Peter Szely Additional graphics: Fatih Aydogdu MedienKunstLabor/Kunsthaus Graz, in cooperation with steirischer herbst 2009. Trends are all the trend. Alongside fashion and health it is analyses of economic trends and flows of finance and commodities which are shaping our environment. To what extent do they influence and change us as individuals and as a society? By recognising and relying on trends do we become part of an economisation that promises profit but at the same time absorbs us? Does the individual who opposes the trend get even socially marginalised? Is the titular "friend" in a knowledge-based society therefore an updated manifestation of what Orwell termed Big Brother? A new, if more complex uniformity of control that denies us future with its hubris of calculability? The installation "The Trend Is Your Friend" invites us to participate in an experimental set-up of markets to think through these questions for ourselves. With the aid of our senses, we dive into a playful environment in virtual space while our bodies remain in the real. Market modelling based on the double auction (Vernon L. Smith) by: Wolfgang Hoechtl. Partners: IEM - Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics , Graz ICG - Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz
2009	ASAP, Anni Gallery, 798 Art District Beijing, Breathe My Air—paradoxical conversation piece, 3-channel-video-installation, in collaboration with Sylvia Eckermann, , Curator: Karel Dudesek, Peking / CN The House is on Fire But he Show Must Go On, group show, Kunstraum Innsbruck / A
2008	Breathe My Air, with Sylvia Eckermann Project launch at CPU:798 Beijing/CN In Ninth Heaven or The Far End of Europe, Interactive Synthetic Scape, with Sylvia Eckermann Ccomposition and spatial sound by Peter Szely Permanent installation, Museum Stein, Krems/AT "Kunst im Dialog. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung „Artothek“ des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur", Ständigen Vertretung Österreichs bei der EU, group show, Brüssel / B
2007	WISSEN-SCHAFFT-FRAGEN / 24 dialogues between scientists and artists, group show, eop—emergence of projects, Vienna Yx fluid taxonomies—voided dimensions—enlitened elevation—human derivatives—vibrations in hyperreal econociety Book presentation and performance at Salon für Kunst Buch, Vienna 20 Years Serigraphy workshop Andreas Stalzer, group show, Lower Austria Center for the Documentation of Modern Art, St.Pölten Art Collections of Private Corporations. From Sponsoring to Education, symposium and 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

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	Magazine Profil 44, 2008 Kunstsammlungen privater Unternehmen/Vom Sponsoring zur Kulturvermittlung, publication of the symposium at the Museum Essl, Klosterneuburg, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna / AT
2009	Catalogue Fresh Trips: Contemporary Art Aspects. medien.kunst.tirol projects 2005-2007, Ed.: Stefan Bidner/Roland Maurmair, Folio Editors, Vienna/Bozen 2009.
	Kunstforum International, co-editor of issues 199/200 on 'Art and Economy', in collaboration with Dieter Buchhart. With text contributions by: Dieter Buchhart, Gerald Nestler and Irini Athanassakis, Antke Engel, Anna K. Hofbauer, Franz Liebl, Monika Mokre, Thomas Raab, Fritz Rakuschan, Ramòn Reichert, Doris Rothauer, Marko Stamenkovic, Felix Stalder, Axel Stockburger. Interviews with: Francesca von Habsburg, Max Hollein, Sam Keller, Sarat Maharaj, Nouriel Roubini, Julian Stallabrass, Randall Willette. Artists talks with: Alice Creischer, Maria Eichhorn, Thomas Feuerstein, Hans Haacke, Jeff Koons, Alan Sekula, übermorgen.com, Carey Young. Email panels with: Joe M. Hill, Li Zhenhua (Host), Urs Meile, Zhang Wei Isabelle Avers, Richard Barbrook, Bernhard Cella, Franziska Nori, Felix Stalder, Axel Stockburger (Host) Irini Athanassakis (Host), Sabine Folie, Johnny Golding, Oliver Ressler, Andreas Siekmann.
Kunstforum	Kunstforum International 1997, Interview by Dieter Buchhart
Publication	Yx fluid taxonomies--enlitened elevation--voided dimensions--human derivatives--vibrations in hyperreal econociety, Schlebrügge Editors, Vienna / A 2007 >>

Works in public collections (selection) Republic of Austria, Permanent Representation of Austria to the European Union, Landesmuseum Niederösterreich, Land Tirol, City of Vienna
Lectures & Talks (Auswahl) 2008 Lecturer at the Department of Image Science, Donauuniversität Krems / A Die Aktie als Bild, panel discussion and book presentation with Irini Athanassakis and Prof. Christian Reder at Salon für Kunstbuch, Wien / A Art & Economy – aspects in research and practice, lecture at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Invited by Prof. Brigitte Kowanz, Department of Transmedia Art 2007 Book presentation and performative lecture: 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 discussion with Doris Rothauer, Brigitte Kowanz, Walter Seidl, KulturKontakt Austria, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / A 2005 Economy as an artistic field of research, lecture at Webster University Vienna, Department of Visual Culture, by invitation of Dr. Monika Schwärzler-Brodesser.