Born 1976 in Bolzano (IT). Lives and works in Berlin (DE)
Education
2001
Erasmus at Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (AT)
1999-2002
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan (IT)
1996-1998
Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence (IT)
Grants, residencies, awards
2013
Exhibition funding, IFA
- Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart (DE)
Production grant, Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
2012
Publication grant, Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
Premio
Terna per l`Arte Contemporanea, Second prize (IT)
2011
Shortlisted for the Premio
lo Schermo dell`Arte (IT)
"32.
Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb" (AT)
2009
Production grant, Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
2008
International Studio Program, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin (IT), financed by Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
2006
Unidee in Residence, Cittadellarte
- Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (IT)
Production grant, Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
2005
Project support, Werkleitz
Gesellschaft - Zentrum für Medienkunst, Halle/Saale (DE)
Production grant, Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
Publication grant, Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
Project support, Videographe,
Montréal (CA)
Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione
Antonio Ratti, Como (IT), visiting professor: Alfredo Jaar
2002
Production grant, Autonome
Provinz Südtirol - Amt für Deutsche Kultur (IT)
2001
Movin'up
- Program for the promotion of international mobility of young Italian Artists
(IT)
Selected solo exhibitions
2013
Christian Niccoli, L`Ozio,
Amsterdam (NL), curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
2012
Christian Niccoli - Filme, Berlinische
Galerie - Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur,
Berlin (DE), curators: Thomas Köhler and Christina Landbrecht
2008
Christian Niccoli - Auf steilen Hängen Laufen lernen, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2005
Christian Niccoli - Escalating perception, Kunstraum
Innsbruck (project space), Innsbruck (AT)
Selected group exhibitions and screenings
2013
Bouteilles
á la mer, La
Châtaigneraie - Centre wallon d’art contemporain,
Flémalle and Centre
Culturel de Marchin,
Marchin (BE) (cat.) (upcoming),
curator: Emmanuel d'Autreppe
Gewissheit, Vision, Franckesche
Stiftungen zu Halle, Halle/Saale (DE),
curator: Peter Lang (cat.) (upcoming)
2012
Premio Terna 04, Dentro
e fuori luogo. Senza rete. Il territorio dell`arte,
Tempio
di Adriano, Rome (IT), curators:
Cristiana Collu, Èric de Chassey, Gianluca Marziani and Gabriele Francesco
Sassone (cat.)
ITaliens - junge italienische Kunst aus Berlin, Autostadt
Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
(DE), curators: Alessandra
Pace and Marina Sorbello
Il limite di una proiezione, Museion
- Museum für Moderne und Zeitgenössiche Kunst,
Media
Façade, Bozen (IT),
curator: Frida Carazzato
Singolarità mobili che abitano uno spazio nomade - Identità
italiane in video, Villa
Doria Pamphili - Casa dei Teatri, Rome
(IT), curators: Collettivo Curatoriale Gruntumolani (cat.)
2011
32. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb,
Galerie
im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (AT)
(cat.)
ITaliens - Junge Kunst in der Botschaft, Ambasciata
d`Italia a Berlino, Berlin (DE), curators: Alessandra Pace and
Marina Sorbello
Facing the artwork, Werkleitz
Gesellschaft - Zentrum für Medienkunst and Zazie
Kino, Halle/Saale (DE)(cat.)
Non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto, Mole
Vanvitelliana, Ancona
(IT), curator: Andrea Bruciati
Italianitá: un moleschino Italiano, Complexul
Muzeal Arad, Arad (RO),
curators: Mario Gorni and Visualcontainer
Caos Termici, Casa
Masaccio Centro d`Arte Contemporanea,
San Giovanni Valdarno (IT), curator: Mario Gorni
Fragile: Handle with care, Lu.C.C.A.
- Center for contemporary Art, Lucca (IT),
curator: Carolina Lio
2010
Italian Container,
ACCEA - Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
(AM), curator: Carolina Lio
Let`s play - 25 videoartisti contemporanei,
Fondazione Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella (IT), curators: Alessandra
Borgogelli, Paolo Granata, Silvia Grandi and Fabiola Naldi (cat.)
videoREPORT ITALIA 08_09, Galleria
Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone (IT), curator: Andrea
Bruciati (cat.)
Border(less), Muzeul
Tarii Crisurilor, Oradea (RO)
Timing, Centro
per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (IT), curator: Raffele
Gavarro (cat.)
Art in August Biennial,
Varna City Art Gallery, Varna (BG), curator: Maria Vassileva
(cat.)
FotoTage 2010, Stadtmuseum
Simeonstift, Bischöfliches
Dom - und Diözesanmuseum
and Viehmarktthermen,
Trier (DE), curator: Christoph Tannert (cat.)
How old are you?, PAH!
project - una plateforme pour l'échange d'expérience de la culture
contemporaine,
Fribourg (CH)
The Mobile Archive, Staction
- Center for Contemporary art, Prishtina
(KV), curator: Albert Heta
C'era una volta un futuro, Opera
Rebis, Rome (IT), curators: Antonia Alampi and Anna Simoni, (cat.)
2009
8th
Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art, Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie,
Szczecin (PL) (cat), curators: Magdalena Lewoc and Marlena Chybowska-Butler
Microwave
International New media and Arts Festival - Italian Selection,
Hong Kong (CN)
Frames from the real: 11 video investigations of society in our troubled times,
Lazna
Centre for Contemporary Art,
Gdansk (PL), Satellite event of In/out International Videoart Festival
Feigned Innocence: We All Look, Osage
Gallery, Hong Kong (CN), curators: Evangelo Costadimas, Lam Hoi Sin,
Iris Lo and Nana Euna-Seo
Warum real wenn's irreal auch geht?, Temporary
Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin (DE)
Retour de Fiav.08 / Festival d'Images Artistiques Vidéo, Galerie
ESCA pour l`art contemporaine, Milhaud (FR)
Transmediale 09, Haus
der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
Videoart yearbook 2008, Fondazione
March per l'arte contemporanea, Padova (IT), curator: Renato Barilli
2008
Fiav.08 / Festival d'Images Artistiques Vidéo, Filmatheque
Zinet, Algier (DZ)
videoREPORT
ITALIA 06_07, Galleria
Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone (IT), curator: Andrea
Bruciati (cat.)
Video
Dia-Luoghi, Velan
- Centro d'arte contemporanea and
Museo Nazionale del Cinema - Cinema
Massimo, Turin (IT), curator: Olga Gambari
Endlosschleife, Kunstverein
Göttingen, Göttingen (DE), curator: Bernd Milla
Videoart yearbook 2008, Galleria
Civica d'arte contemporanea di Trento and Dipartimento
Arti Visive -
Università di Bologna (IT,) curators:
R. Barilli, A. Borgogelli, P. Granata, S. Grandi, F. Naldi and P. Sega (cat.)
Tra-Monti, AR/GE
Kunst - Galerie Museum,
Bolzano (IT), in the framework of Manifesta7
- European Biennale of
Contemporary Art
2007
videoREPORT ITALIA 04_05, Museum
of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, (HR), curator: Andrea Bruciati
V7
- Venice Videoart Fair, Isola di San Servolo, Venice (IT)
2006
-35 / 65+ Erzählungen, Kunsthaus
Graz, Graz (AT), curators: Katrin Bucher Trantow and Katia Schurl
(cat.)
videoREPORT ITALIA 04_05, Galleria
Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone (IT), curator: Andrea
Bruciati (cat.)
Pause, Stazione
Leopolda, Florence (IT), curator: Matteo Chini
Unidee in progress, Cittadellarte
- Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (IT) (cat.)
Selected works - an Italian video art competition, Palazzo
Bonaguro, Bassano del Grappa (IT), curators: Elena Bortolazzi and
Andrea Bruciati
Tracce di un seminario, Assab
One, Milan (IT), curators: Anna Daneri and Roberto Pinto (cat.)
2005
Aesthetics of resistance, Fondazione
Antonio Ratti, Como (IT), curators: Anna Daneri and Roberto Pinto
(cat.)
2004
Dolomiten Fenster, Haus der
Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE), curators: Alessandra Pace and Shaheen
Merali
Me, without you, Biagiotti
Arte Contemporanea, Florence (IT)
Try to smell, Loop
– Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin (DE)
2003
Panorama
03. Junge Kunst - Südtirol, Ex-Edificio delle Poste Italiane,
Bolzano (IT), curators: Letizia Ragaglia and Marion Piffer Damiani (cat.)
2002
Das absurde Bekannte, Phönix Art – Harald Falckenberg Collection,
Hamburg (DE), curators: Letizia Ragaglia and Sabine Gamper (cat.)
2001
Quotidiana 01, Museo Civico del Santo, Padova (IT), curator: Guido
Bartorelli (cat.)
Radar. Lavori di Foto e Video in Alto Adige, Galleria Civica, Bolzano
(IT), curator: Letizia Ragaglia (cat.)
Selected lectures
Berlinische
Galerie - Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur,
Berlin (DE)
Museion
- Museum für Moderne und Zeitgenössiche Kunst,
Bozen (IT)
Kunstverein
Göttingen, Göttingen (DE)
Goethe
Institut, Amsterdam (NL)
Sparwasser HQ - Offensive für Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation,
Berlin (DE) (with Warren Neidich)
Künstlerhaus
Worpswede, Worpswede (DE)
Istanbul
Bigli University - Department for TV and Cinema, Istanbul (TR)
Deutscher
Künstlerbund, Berlin (DE)
Selected Co-producers and sponsors
Deutsche
Bahn (DE)
Berliner
Festspiele, Berlin (DE)
HFF - Hochschule für
Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf”, Potsdam (DE)
Institut für Neue Medien, Rostock (DE)
Weisscam
Highspeed Technologies, Munich (DE)
Kodak
Deutschland (DE)
Bogazici
University - Department for Western Languages and Literatures,
Istanbul (TR)
Staatliche
Artistenschule Berlin, Berlin (DE)
Selected collections and archives
Ursula
Blickle Videoarchiv, Vienna (AT)
Collezione Terna,
Rome (IT)
Glare media Art Resourses,
Tel Aviv (IL)
Kunstsammlung
der Autonomen Provinz Südtirol (IT)
DOCVA - Documentation Centre
for Visual Arts, Milan (IT)
Sammlung
des Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum,
Innsbruck (AT)
Pinacoteca
Civica di Monza, Monza (IT)
Selected reviews
Premio Terna. I dodici artisti scelti per la IV edizione,
Ilsole24ore.com, October 2012
Premiati i vincitori del Premio Terna, Flash Art Online, December 2012
La bella dozzina di Terna, Il giornale dell`Arte Online, October 2012
ITaliens, giovani artisti da Berlino a Wolfsburg, Il giornale dell`Arte
Online, June 2012
Terminal Zoo parte II. Berlino non stanca, Artribune, March 2012
Lighting Museion, Abitare, April 2012
Christian Niccoli e Rudolf Stingel per Museion, Flash Art Online, June
2012
Mapping, Flash Art Online, April 2012
ITaliens, cervelli in fuga, D di Repubbluca, June 2011
Caos Termici: video-defragrazioni a Casa Masaccio, Arte e Critica, August
2011
Die Botschaft der Kunst, Berliner Morgenpost, May 2011
Let´s play. 25 videoartisti contemporanei, Flash Art Italia, February
2011
Videominuto, Vogue Italia online, August 2010
Christian Niccoli - Die 90er Jahre, Franz Magazine, September 2010
Anteprima, Segno, November-December 2010
Christian Niccoli interviewed by Eleonora Chranas, Whitehot
Magazine of Contemporary Art, July 2010
Wowereits Liebe zur Toskana, Berliner Morgenpost, 20. 04. 2010
Feigned Innocence: We All Look, International Association of Art
Critics Hong Kong, June 2009
Testlauf, heiß und bunt, Berliner Zeitung, 03. 02. 2008
Kunst im Blumengroßmarkt, Berliner Morgenpost, 02. 06. 2008
30 Stunden Kunstparty, Der Tagesspiegel, 02. 06. 2008
Filmdreh mit Schwimmreifen, Schweriner Volkszeitung, 27.08.2007
Speciale Trentino-Alto Adige, Flash Art, December-January, 2006
29 Künstler – zahllose Geschichten, Krone Zeitung, 04.11.2006
Schnappschüsse aus dem Beichtstuhl, Tagesspiegel, 08.03.2006
Die Schädelvermessung der schönsten Venus von Milo, Mittelbayrische
Zeitung, 15.11.2006
CSAV – Fondazione Ratti, Tema Celeste, Nr. 112, 2005
Schwarzer Jacuzzi für Lagerfeld, Kurier, 02.09.2005
Nur Luxuriös ist zu wenig luxuriös, Tiroler Tageszeitung,
02.09.2005
Anti-Folklore aus Südtirol, Berliner Zeitung, 02.12.2004
Me without you, Flash Art Italia, August-September 2004
Try to smell, Berliner Morgenpost, 07.04.2004
Das Absurde Bekannte, Die Tageszeitung, 14.12.2002
Südtiroler Absurditäten, Hamburger Abendblatt, 13.11.2002
Absurde Kunst aus den Alpen, Hamburger Morgenpost, 11.12.2002
Selected Radio and Web presentations
Die Ö1 Grafik des Monats , Ö1
(ORF), starting August 2012
Freimauern, a virtual exhibition of miniature-videos on Gokart,
starting July 2010
The hug, weekly broadcast on
Souvenirs
from earth, starting October 18th 2009
Christian Niccoli - Lost in perception, Castyourart.com,
Dezember 2008
Galerienrundgang, RBB Kulturradio Berlin, by Claudia Weeler, 23.04.2006
Studio 3 – Das Kulturmagazin, Rai Sender Bozen, by Sonja Prieth,
15.09.2005
Publications
2012
Dentro e fuori luogo. Senza rete. Il territorio dell`arte, texts by Cristiana
Collu, Eric de Chassey, Gabriele Francesco Sassone, Gianluca Marziani, Lorenzo
Ornaghi, Antonio Zanardi Landi, Luigi Roth, Flavio Cattaneo, published by
Silvana Editoriale, Milan
Singolarità mobili che abitano uno spazio nomade. Identità italiane
in video, texts by Raffaele Gavarro, Viviana Gravano, Paolo Ruffini, Annalisa
Sacchi, Maria Rosa Sossai, published by Editoria & Spettacolo, Rome
2011
Arbeiten. Lavori in corso, texts by Toni Bernhart,
Gabriele Mackert, Carmelo Marabello, Helga von Aufschnaiter, Marion Piffer
Damiani, Pier Luigi Sacco, Nina Schröder, published by Autonome Provinz
Bozen - Südtirol, Bolzano
32. Österreichische Grafikwettbewerb,
texts by Julia Brennacher, Beate Ermacora, Jürgen Tabor, published by
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2010
Fototage Trier 2010, texts by Christoph Tannert, Published as a special
edition by Dienacht – Magazin für Fotografie, Gestaltung und Subkultur,
Trier
Let's play. Venticinque videoartisti contemporanei, texts by Alessandra Borgogelli,
Paolo Granata, Silvia Grandi, Fabiola Naldi, published by Fausto Lupetti Edizioni,
Bologna
August in Art 2010 - The big wave, texts by Maria Vassileva, Roumen
Serafimov, Edited by Daniela Radeva, Varna
C`era una volta un futuro, texts by Federica Boràgina, Giulia
Brivio, Stefano Elena, Gianni Romano, Francesca Orsi, Valentina Tanni, Chiara
Vigliotti, Claudio Zambianchi, Published by Boite, Rome
Videoreport Italia 04_05, texts by Ilaria Gianni, Antonio Grulli,
Guia Cortassa, Barbara Meneghel, Simone Menegoi, published by Silvana Edioriale,
Milan
2009
Serrone . Biennale Giovani Monza 09. 30 artisti
per 5 critici, texts by Daniele Astrologo, Valentina Gensini,
Ivan Quaroni, Michele Tavola, Marco Tonelli, published by Silvana editoriale,
Milan
Transmediale 09 - Deep North, Published by Transmediale, Berlin
8th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial - Windows upon ocean, edited
by Marlena Chybowska-Butler, Magdalena Lewoc, published by The National Museum
in Szczecin, Szczecin
Fresh Trips: Contemporary Art Aspects, edited
by Stefan Bidner, Roland Maurmair, published by Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bolzano
German Short Films 2009, edited by S. Gottlebe, J. Wille, G. Krause,
A. Reinsch, F. Richter, published by
German Short Film Association, Dresden
Acqua Riflessioni Memoria, texts by R. Bertollini, C. Portatadino,
L. Senn, G. Cozza, A. Ulivi, D. Astrologo, F. Ceccarelli, S. Revello, published
by Edizioni della Meridiana, Florence
Lago Film Fest, published by Grafiche Bernardi, Treviso
L'annuario della videoarte italiana 2006-2007-2008, texts by R.
Barilli, A. Borgogelli, P. Granata, S. Grandi, F. Naldi, published by Fausto
Lupetti Edizioni, Bologna
2008
Videoreport Italia 06_07, texte by C.Agnello, I. Bonacossa, A. Bruciati,
F. Naldi, M. R. Sossai, published by Silvana Edioriale, Milano
Kunstinvasion, texts by L. Baumann, H. Wall, published by Iniziative
Berliner Kunsthalle, Berlin
24. Internationales Kurz Film Festival Hamburg, edited by A. Kleemann,
N. Pötz, U. Seiter, published by KurzfilmAgentur Hamburg e.V., Hamburg
2007
Erzählungen -35/65+ Zwei Generationen,
texts by S. Stanisic, W. Schmied, published by Buchhandlung Walther König,
Cologne
Works - Art in Progress, published by Galleria
Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Trento
2006
Videoreport Italia 04-05, texts by A. Bruciati, E. De Cecco, M. Gorni,
G. Molinari, M. Robecchi, M. Smarrelli,
published by Silvana Editoriale, Milan
Christian Niccoli - Escalating perception, texts
by H. Lux, V. Gravano, B. Lang, K. Pott, published by Salon Verlag, Köln
Estetica della resistenza, texts by A. Daneri, R. Pinto, A. Jaar,
published by Edizioni Nero, Rome
2003
Panorama 03 - Junge Kunst Südtirol, texts by L. Ragaglia, M.
Piffer Damiani, published by Folio Verlag, Vienna/Bolzano
2002
Das Absurde Bekannte, texts by L. Ragaglia, S. Gamper, M. Piffer
Damiani, A. M. Meltzer, published by Folio Verlag, Bolzano/Vienna
2001
Quotidiana 01, texts by V. Baradel, G. Bartorelli, S. Schiavon, published
by Comune di Padova, Padova
Radar - Foto und Videoarbeiten in Südtirol, texts by E. Moroder,
L. Ragaglia, R. Repetto, published by Stadt Bozen, Bolzano
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