Born 1976 in Bolzano (IT). Lives and works in Berlin (DE)
Education
2001
Ersamus at Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
1999-2002
Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan (IT)
1996-1998
Academy of Fine Arts, Florence (IT)
Grants and residencies
2009
Art fund of the Provincial Government of South Tyrol (IT)
2008
International Studio Program, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin (IT)
2006
International Artist in Residence Program, Cittadellarte
- Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (IT)
Artist grant of the Provincial Government of South Tyrol (IT)
Artist grant of the Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse (IT)
2005
Project support, Werkleitz
Gesellschaft e.V. – Centre for Art and Visual Media Saxony - Anhalt,
Halle/Saale (DE)
Artist grant of the Provincial Government of South Tyrol (IT)
Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Fondazione
Antonio Ratti, Como (IT)
2003
Art fund of the Provincial Government of South Tyrol (IT)
2001
Movin'up – Worldwide Mobility For Young Italian Artists, G.A.I.,
Turin (IT)
Selected solo exhibitions
2009
Planschen, LED-Wand
des Zeithauses - Autostadt Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE), curator:
Thomas Köhler
2008
Auf steilen Hängen Laufen lernen, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2006
Escalating perception, Haus
am Lützowplatz (studio gallery), Berlin (DE) (cat.)
2005
Escalating perception, Kunstraum
Innsbruck (project space), Innsbruck (AT)
Escalating perception, Kunsthaus
Meran, Merano (IT), curator: Valerio Dehò
Selected group exhibitions and screenings
2010
Timing, Centro
per l'arte contemporanea "Luigi Pecci" , Prato (IT), curator:
Raffele Gavarro (cat.) (upcoming)
Art in August Biennal 2010, Varna
Art Museum, Varna (BG), curator: Maria Vassileva, (cat.) (upcoming)
FotoTage 2010, Stadtmuseum
Simeonstift, Bischöfliches
Dom - und Diözesanmuseum, Viemarktthermen,
____
Historischer
Frankenturm, Trier (DE), curator: Christoph Tannert
(cat.) (Upcoming)
Stills from ceiling, PAH!
project - una plateforme pour l'échange d'expérience de la culture
contemporaine, Fribourg (CH), curator: Vincenzo Abate
(Upcoming)
Campioni solubili, LAC
- Liceo Artistico Caravaggio, Milan (IT), curated
by Mario Gorni
The Mobile Archive, Staction
- Center for Contemporary art, Prishtina
(KV)
Videoart yearbook 2010, Università
di Bologna - Dipartimento
Arti Visive, Bologna (IT), curators:
Renato Barilli, Alessandra Borgogelli,
Paolo Granata,
Silvia Grandi, Fabiola Naldi and Paola Sega
C'era una volta un futuro, Opera
Rebis, Rome (IT), curators: Antonia Alampi and Anna Simoni, (cat.)
Float: Buoyant Things, a Sinking Feeling, Program
- Initiative for Art + Architecture Collaborations, Berlin (DE), ____
curator: Caitlin Berrigan
2009
8th Baltic Bienniale of Contemporary Art, The
Museum of Contemporary Art, department of the National Museum in
Szczecin, (PL) (cat) curators: Magdalena Lewoc and Marlena Chybowska-Butler
Microwave
International New media and Arts Festival - Italian Selection,
Hong Kong (CN)
Don't talk to the drive (please), FolkUs
Festival, London (UK), curated by Anna Babini
Frames from the real: 11 video investigations of society in our troubled times,
LAZNIA
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
and Iris Lo and Nana Euna-Seo
Lago Film Fest - Festival
Internazionale di Cortometraggi, Documentari, Scheneggiature, Revine
Lago (IT) (cat.)
SerrOne Biennale Giovani, Serrone
della Villa Reale, Monza (IT) (cat)
Warum real wenn's irreal auch geht?, Temporary
Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin (DE)
Retour de Fiav.08 / Festival d'Images Artistiques Vidéo, Galerie
ESCA, 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
Acqua Riflessioni Memorie, Spazio
Acqua - Metropolitana Milanese, Milan (IT), curator: Daniele Astrologo
(cat.)
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
Privat Flat, Several
locations, Florence (IT), curator: Beniamino Foschini (cat.)
Dal corpo alla città cinque parole per il video d’autore, Sala
Nervi - Biblioteca Civica, Verona (IT), curator: Mario Gorni (cat.)
Endlosschleife, Kunstverein
Göttingen, Göttingen (DE), curator: Bernd Milla
Hamburg Short Film Festival, Filmpalais
Hamburg (DE) (cat.)
16. Rostocker Filmfest, Mau
- Club, Rostock (DE)
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.)
Is it real? 91mq
- artist project space, Berlin (DE)
Tra-Monti, AR/GE
Kunst - Galerie Museum,
Bolzano (IT), in the framework of Manifesta7
- European Biennale of
Contemporary Art
Lezioni di paesaggio, Ex Colonia Montana, Savignone (IT), curator:
Emanuele Piccardo
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), curated by Matteo Chini
Catodica 2 – Rassegna internazionale di video-arte, Galleria
Lipanje Puntin and Teatro Miela, Trieste (IT), curators: Mario
Gorni and Maria Campitelli
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.)
Objektiv Südtirol – Das Medium Fotografie in den Werken Südtiroler
Künstler, Viennese
Parliament, Vienna (AT)
2005
Aesthetics of resistance, Antonio
Ratti Foundation, Como (IT), curators: Anna Daneri and Roberto
Pinto (cat.)
Sommerfest, Werkleitz
Gesellschaft e.V. - Centre for Art and Visual Media Saxony-Anhalt,
Halle/Saale (DE)
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
Empty human spaces – Young Italian Art, Semper Depot, Vienna
(AT)
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
2008
Christian Niccoli - Recent projects, Kunstverein
Göttingen, Göttingen (DE)
2006
Dialogues of winter, discourses of spring, Sparwasser
HQ, Berlin (DE) (with Warren Neidich)
Escalating perception, Künstlerhaus
Worpswede, Worpswede (DE)
2005
Escalating perception, Bogazici
University - Department of western language and literature, Istanbul
(TR)
Escalating perception, Istanbul
Bigli University - Department for TV and Cinema, Istanbul (TR)
Escalating perception, Deutscher
Künstlerbund, Berlin (DE)
Co-productions and collaborations
Berliner
Festspiele, Berlin (DE)
Institut für Neue Medien, Rostock (DE)
HFF
- Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf”,
Potsdam (DE)
Bogazici
University - Department of western language and literature, Istanbul
(TR)
Istanbul
Bigli University - Department for TV and Cinema, Istanbul (TR)
Videographe,
Montreal (CA)
Collections
Pinacoteca Civica di Monza (IT)
Private Collections
Videodestributors and archives
The
Israeli Center for Digital Art / Mobile & Video Archive, Holon
(IL)
DOCVA
- Documentation Centre for Visual Arts, Milan (IT)
Visual
Container - Italian Videoart destributor, Milan (IT)
Glare
media Art Resourses, Tel Aviv (IL)
Arche
Vidéo - FIAV, Milhaud (FR)
Reviews
Christian Niccoli - Planschen, KoolSchrank -
Fashion Magazine, June, 2008
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
Bitte beachten Sie die Leserichtung, Kleine Zeitung Ennstal, 05.11.2006
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
Magliette ed adesivi per Como, La Provincia, 21.07.2005
Anti-Folklore aus Südtirol, Berliner Zeitung, 02.12.2004
Me without you, Flash Art, 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
La famiglia vista da Niccoli, Alto Adige – Corriere delle Alpi,
14.02.2001
TV/Radio/Web
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
Videoart Yearbook, Edition Fausto Lupetti, Bologna, texts
by R. Barilli, A. Borgogelli, P. Granata, S. Grandi, F. Naldi, 2009
Videoreport Italia 06_07, texts by C.Agnello, I. Bonacossa, A. Bruciati, F.
Naldi, M. R. Sossai, published by Silvana Edioriale, Milan, 2008
Kunstinvasion, published by Initiative Berliner Kunsthalle, Berlin, 2008
Work. Art in progres, edited by Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento,
Edition n°20, 2008
Narratives -35/65+ - Two generations, texts by P. Pakesch, K. Bucher Trantow,
S. Stanisic, ed. Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne, 2007
Escalating perception, texts by H. Lux, V. Gravano, B. Lang, K. Pott, ed.
Salon Verlag, Cologne, 2006
Traccie di un seminario, texts by A. Jaar, R. Pinto, A. Daneri, ed. Nero,
Rome, 2006
Videoreport Italia 04_05, texts by M.Gorni, A.Bruciati, E.DeCecco, G.Molinari,
M. Robecchi, M. Smarrelli, published by Silvana Edioriale, Milan, 2006
Panorama 03, texts by L. Ragaglia, M. Piffer Damiani, ed. Folio Verlag, Bolzano/Vienna,
2003
Das Absurde Bekannte, texts by L. Ragaglia, S. Gamper, M. Piffer Damiani,
A. M. Meltzer, edition Folio Verlag, Bolzano/Vienna, 2002
Quotidiana 01, texts by G. Bartorelli, S. Schiavon, V. Baradel, edition Grafiche
Turato, Padova, 2001
Radar - Foto- und Videoarbeiten in Suedtirol, text by L. Ragaglia, edition
Fliri Editore, Merano, 2001
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