Bio

Dorothea Nold (*1981) deals in her sculptural and installation works with the transformation of social, physical and urban spaces and their connection and interrelation to architectural forms. It is often the experiences arising during her travels and sojourns in different countries and various socio-cultural contexts, which serve as the primary catalyst for specific working methods, a resolute response to materials, and both formal and contentual references. In 2008, Dorothea Nold experienced a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in China. In her artistic practice, she has since consciously worked with unstable components, such as materials whose properties contradict their use. 

Dorothea Nold graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 2009, is doing an PhD at the HfbK Hamburg and has received numerous grants, including a working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2020), a catalogue grant from the Senate of Berlin (2020) and a PhD grant from Cusanuswerk e.V. (2013-2016). She has been invited to residencies in China, Mali, Armenia and Switzerland, among others. Her work is shown internationally.

EXHIBITION/ SCREENING (selection)

2023

Winterschau 23, Haus der Kunst, Palermo (G)

Winterschau, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin (G)

Looking Back, Galerie Grölle, Wuppertal (G)

Hope Step the Lava Flow, Bcma, Berlin (S)

Fragile, Kunsthaus Essen (G)

Mahalla Open, Berlin (G)

Test Case XVIII, EKWC, Oisterwijk (G)

Bottom up, Kühlhaus Berlin (G)

Get Together, bcma, Berlin (G)

Haut / Skin (Dorothea Nold/ Moran Shavit), Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin (G)

The Architects, bcma, Berlin (G)

2022

Im Kreislauf der Schwerkraft, Galerie Grölle Pass Projects, Wuppertal (S)

Punkbotanik und Tresenkräuter, Salon 36, Berlin (G)

7M, Kunstpunkt Schlegl (G)

Skulpturenprojekt Hardt, Botanischer Garten Wuppertal (G)

2021 N, Things about Threads, Grölle Pass Projects, Wuppertal (G)

Bruchlinien, bcma, Berlin (G)

2020

Sculpture-Triennale, Bingen

FEM-Spatial, alpha nova & galerie futura

2019 Exhibition Kahnweiler Grant

Korean International Ceramic Biennale 2019

1046°-1205°, Schaufenster, Berlin

Chinas alte Seidenstraße – ein Kaleidoskop, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam

Stubborn Elastics, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin

Instant: Denken in der Zeichnung und im Modell. 11 Positionen, Gleimstrasse 16, Berlin

2017
Was ist Raum?, Kunstverein Raumordnung, Krefeld, Germany

International Ceramic Laboratory, Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

2016
Regionale, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse

Welcome to Futuristan, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin

De Lirio Raritätenladen, Galerie BraubachFive, Frankfurt, Germany

A Simple Task, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin

Mirrors, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

2015
the JHB Archive, Birmingham Open Media, Birmingham, UK

2013
territoriale Expeditionen, Regionale 14, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany

entwoder, alpha nova  & galerie futura, Berlin

2012
Raumtausch (screening), Goethe-Institut Bombay, India

Raumtausch (screening), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria

2011
the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers, NGBK, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin

Anbau, Weltecho, Chemnitz, Germany

2010

Feldstärke, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany

Hochzeitsnacht, Performance und Installation, Cargobar, Basel, Switzerland

Green Power (with Caroline Lejeune und Thomas Echapasse), Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Paris

Wood Fire, X-Coma, MADA s.p.a.m., Xi’ An, China

Are you adapted to the water and soil, X-Coma, MADA s.p.a.m., Xi’ An, China

Trishow, Jade Valley, Yushan, China

2008
Regionale 9, FABRICulture, Hégenheim, France

Les Quartiers libres, Quartiers Oranges, Bamako, Mali

2007
Regionale 8, Kunst Raum Riehen, Switzerland

Erdhalbkugel, bewohnbar, installation in public space, Basel, Switzerland

Visite, Manoir du Soisay, France

2006
Le PreUrbain, Galerie l`Agart, Amilly, France

2005
Chrysalide, Galerie Philippe Gelot, Paris

COMMISSION & ART IN PUBLIC SPACE

2019
Zukunftsland 2099: Treptown Visions, Princess Towers, Bethanien-Höfe, Berlin

in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg and alpha nova & galerie futura) 

2018
Cargo, Festival Art, Villes & Paysage, Amiens, Frankreich

2016
Diagonale, permanent sculpture, ceramic, Hochschule für Sozialwesen, Berlin

 

GRANTS  & NOMINATION

2023
Work Grant, EKWC (European Ceramic Workcentre), Oisterwijk, NL

2021
Neustart Kultur, VG Bildkunst

2020
Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds
Catalog Grant, Senat Berlin

2019
Nomination Kahnweiler Preis

2018
Recherchestipendium, Senat Berlin

2013-2016
PhD scholarship, Cusanuswerk

2014
Travel Stipend, Switzerland, Otto-Pfeifer-Stiftung, Luzern

2011
Research Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
DAAD- Stipend, Istanbul

2008
Travel grant, Xi´An China

2007
Work Grant for the brass foundry Fondation de Coubertin

 

RESIDENCIES/ SYMPOSIUM

2023
EKWC (European Ceramic Workcentre), Oisterwijk, Netherlands

2017
5th International Ceramic Art Symposium, Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

2010
X-COMA (mada s.p.a.m.), Xi`An, China
four month residency, invited by Ma Designers and Architects (mada s.p.am.)

2009
Art and Cultural Studies Lab (A.S.C.L.), Yerevan, Armenia

2008
Quartier Orange, Bamako, Mali, 2 month residency and exhibition project

2007
Residency, Manoir du Soisay, France

PUBLICATIONS

2022 
Im Kreislauf der Schwerkraft (monograph), Verlag für moderne Kunst, Wien

2020
Skulpturen-Triennale Bingen: Echt und Falsch, catalog

2013
Global Prayers – Contemporary Manifestations of the Religious in the City, JochenBecker, Katrin Klingan, Stephan Lanz, Kathrin Wildner (Hg.), Lars Müller Publications

2012
Faith is the Place, the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers, metroZones (Hg.), Berlin, bbooks

2011
The Urban Cultures of Global Prayers, catalog, NGBK, Berlin
ANBAU, Weltecho Chemnitz, Katalog, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2009
Catalogue des diplômés, Beaux-arts de Paris les éditions

2008
Les Quartiers libres, Catalog, Alliance Française, Paris, Bamako

PROJECTS

2016
Organisation of the symposium “Resonanzflächen. On materialities and perception”

2013
DFG- research group “New Religious Mouvements in Turkey”, Orient-Institut Istanbul

2011
Global Prayers- Redemption and Liberation in the City, Case Study Berlin Raumtausch, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Goethe Institut and metroZones. In collaboration with Magdalena Kallenberger‚

2010
AGORA 2010 / Feldstärke International, Zollverein Essen, Germany, 104 centquatre Paris

WORK PRESENTATION/ TEACHING

2012
Global Prayers Theme Days, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Studying Global Prayers

2011
globalPrayers.saloon#5, NGBK, Berlin, Making Religious Cultures Visible

2009
Charsoo Honar Arts and Cultural Institut, Tehran, Iran

2010
Center for Contemporary Art of Afghanistan (CCAA), Kabul, Afghanistan