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)
2024
ein zwei surprise, Galerie Grölle, Düsseldorf (S)
Female Gaze, Syker Vorwerk, Bremen (G)
Westerwaldpreis, Ceramic Museum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen (G)
status quo, rund3, Kambs (G)
On Edge, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen (G)
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