Nicola Unger

video - performance - installatie - autobiografisch - documentair

I am German. I am female. What is there to 'state' with or about art? What is there to manifest? Art is a personal, in my case multi-disciplinary, performative, idiosyncratic strategy to uncover what is unknown to me, to explain to myself what is going on in this world, to find out about how and which things are connected. Each project is different, I start with a sea of ​​open questions and ideas and a priori am hesitant to state a thing. Except one: without generosity, art is pointless.

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    • MY GERMAN ARBORETUM

    Performance

    Rhein - Ausflug der toten Mädchen

    Performance

    • 15-01-2024 t/m 13-03-2024
    • In samenwerking met: Tina Urban, Culture Moves Europe, CBK Praktijkbijdrage, LVR Cologne
    • Locatie: Kunstraum Christina 6, Cologne
    • Residency in order to create a performance about the river Rhein that flows through the city of Cologne. Working with folded paper, maps, autobiographic material, fotos.
    • https://www.tinaurban.de/im-kunstraum-christina-6/gaeste/

    RHEIN! – feat. Anna Seghers, The Dead Girls’ Outing

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-03-2023 t/m 15-05-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Goethe Institut Rotterdam
    • As part of the Goethe Investigating residencies I research past and future of a river. The Rhine, glorified as 'father' Rhine, romanticized by artists, abused by nationalists. How will his future look like? After drying up and making an end to transport between Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands, will he find another industrial purpose - as a resource for Lithium? Image: Sander van Wettum
    • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/kul/gin/investigating-rhine.html

    ART XL - My German Arboretum

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 17-03-2023 t/m 10-04-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Stichting Zeebelt, TENT, Gemeente Rotterdam, De Groot Fonds, Stichting Elise Mathilde, Goethe Instituut NL, Tijl Fonds (PBF)
    • Locatie: Baanhof Rotterdam,
    • My German arboretum is my family tree. Mapping the lives and deaths of my ancestors. Mapping their names, positions and characteristics. About centuries and through History. 'I have spent a lot of my life making space for the dead. Only the rigorous practice of history can help us let the dead go; you can only forget them by remembering.' Hillary Mantel
    • https://www.artcentralrotterdam.nl/baanhof.html

    Museumnight. European Break-up. Invisible Thread that connects us all

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 07-03-2020 t/m 07-03-2020
    • In samenwerking met: CBK Rotterdam, Tsjechisch Centrum, Goethe Institut Rotterdam
    • I was supposed to show my work at the Museum Night and decided to ask other fellow artists to exhibit as well. Each work had 'a thought' towards Europe: Christine Saalfeld, Paul Perry, Caio Vita and Jeanine Verloop, Robin Kolleman, Regina Wenig and Martin Lejeune, Luis Maly, Katerina Konarovská. Image: Christine Saalfeld's research
    • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/sta/rot/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21770549

    SAMTMANN

    Performance

    • 03-09-1999 t/m 30-11-2019
    • In samenwerking met: Kampnagel Hamburg, Sophiensaele Berlin, Galerie Feld+Haus Frankfurt
    • Collaboration with Regina Wenig. A long-term series of documentary theater performances. Based on interviews with a family with four young children. Over the course of 20 years we met and documented how their lives changed. Each time they entered the stage together with us. (And took a great risk). Image: mother of the family in her original wedding dress during a performance

    MERGE

    Performance

    • 02-04-2013 t/m 13-12-2017
    • In samenwerking met: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Cinedans Filmfestival Amsterdam, Camera Japan Filmfestival Rotterdam, Theater Rotterdam, Winterlicht Schiedam
    • Choreographer Sato Endo invited me to create the visuals for her piece MERGE. An indoor and outdoor performance in which dancers, video projection, sound and surroundings come together and merge. Site specific work that changes with each location. Image: Performer Angelina Deck on square 1940
    • http://kenzokusuda.com/Merge.html

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • O+O subsidie CBK Rotterdam

    • 2013
      Stipendium

    • TIJL Fonds, PBF

    • 2018
      Stipendium

    • Makersloket Stichting Droom+Daad

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • Praktijkbijdrage CBK Rotterdam

    • 2023
      Prijs

    • New Concepts Prize, Performance AUDIENCE OF ONE, International Animation/Puppetry Festival Warsaw

    • 2014
      Prijs

    • BNG Workspace, Zaal 5 Filmhuis Den Haag, Nomination

    • 2012
      Prijs

    • Publieksprijs Performance PHANTOM STORY, International Animation/Puppetry Festival Warsaw

    • 2012
      Prijs

    • Sonderpreis für die Performance PHANTOM STORY, Hessische Theatertage

    • 2009