Nicole Wendel

(* 1975 in Karlsruhe)

1997–2004Fine Arts Study at the Berlin University of the Arts (MFA)
2004Master‘s student with Professor Leiko Ikemura, Berlin
20071st Staatsexamen Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts

Grants and awards

2022Valerie and Prof. Kurt M. Schulz-Schönhausen, sponsorship award
2021 INITIAL, scholarship by Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2020Neustart Kultur, scholarship by Kunstfonds Bonn
2019Research scholarship, Berlin Senate, DE
20081st Graphic Art Award, Alice Salomon Berlin, DE
2000Erasmus scholarship at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, FR

Works in Public Collections

Collection Federal Foreign Office, Residence German Embassy Tokyo, Japan
Hegenbarth Collection, Berlin, Germany
Collection GEHAG Forum, Berlin, Germany
Collection Berlinische Galerie, Germany
Collection Land Rheinland Pfalz, Germany

Solo Exhibitions, Performances (selection)

20204/4, Performance_Installation, Zentralwerk, Dresden
2019bebop, galerie1214, Berlin (T)
2017Présence, Espace d’Art Contemporain Andr. Malraux, Colmar, FR (c)
2016schwarze Füsse, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, DE (c)
2015Des images en mouvement, Goethe-Institut, Paris, FR
on and on and on, Galerie Graphem, Paris,FR (c)
Drawing Now 2015, Galerie Graphem, Paris, FR
2014s/w, Scotty Enterprises, Berlin, DE
2013Panorama, Galerie weisser elefant, Berlin, DE (c)
2010Staubfinger, Galerie weisser elefant/first floor, Berlin, DE
Fünf, Installation-Dance-Project, in collaboration with Johanna Devi, Munich, DE
2009Say a body. Where none., Walden Kunstausstellung, Berlin, DE
Fünf, Installation-Dance-Project, in collaboration with Johanna Devi, Berlin, DE
2008Zwischenräume / paradoxe Berührungen, Objektperformance, Ausland, Berlin, DE
2007Berührung, object performance, Ausland, Berlin, DE

Group Exhibitions, Projects, Performances (selection)

2022Über die Zeichnung hinaus (Beyond Drawing), ZAK (Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst), Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
Gulliver‘s Sketchbook, Kai10, Düsseldorf
Die Obiger Galaxis, Gallery Axel Obiger, Berlin
LifeLinien, Scottys, Berlin
FREQUENCIES, Collaboration with the composer Ruth Wiesenfeld, Towards Sound Festival, HilbertRaum, Berlin
2021Inclusive Break_a time besides many others, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
Thinking Aesthetic Thinking, conference of the German Society for Aesthetics, with Alex
Arteaga, Emma Cocker and Sabine Zahn, online
WATERWORLD, Galerie Hartwich, Selin, Rügen
KUNST KANN. insights into contemporary artistic attitudes, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin and Hiphaus, St. Pölten
XL/ XS, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin
Snitches get stitches, frontviews, HAUNT, Berlin
Body of Drawing, galerie oqbo, Berlin
20202020_the exhibition, Studios Kühnemannstraße, Berlin
PARÉIDOLIE le Salon International du Dessin Contemporain, Dessin vidéographique, Marseille
Where the Trees Have Numbers, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin
KUNST KANN. insights into contemporary artistic attitudes, Engländerbau, Vaduz
Slumber, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin
North by Northeast, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
2019embodied lines, Drawing Center Diepenheim, Diepenheim
Drawing Now_curated exhibition: Drawing Performance, Galerie 1214, Paris, FR
Spacescapes, Platforme, Paris, FR
Put on paper, Errant Sound, Berlin
Canto Ostinato, Global Water Dance, Berlin
Unselect, Ausstellungsfestival der Kleinen Humboldt Galerie, Berlin
RealitätsCheck, Kunstraum Potsdam
201810times6, 10 pieces each 6 minutes, YES_YES, Nicole Wendel in collaboration with
Audrey Rose Burdon, ADA Studio, Berlin, DE
L‘Art pour l‘Art, Prolog (journal for text and drawing), Berlin, DE (c)
on painting #2, Galerie Bridget Stern, Hamburg, DE
Anonymous Drawings, Galerie im K.rnerpark, Berlin, DE
Corhythm, Nicole Wendel in collaboration with Audrey Rose Burden, Sammlung Hegenbarth, Berlin, DE
2017TRAJECTORIES #01, Stella Geppert, Nikolaus Gansterer, Nicole Wendel, Haus am
Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE
TRAJECTORIES #02, Stella Geppert, Nikolaus Gansterer, Ulrike Mohr, Nicole
Wendel, Drawing Hub, Berlin, DE
2016Harald Gnade, Lothar Seruset and Nicole Wendel, GEHAG Forum, Berlin, DE
2015U-Topien , Prolog (journal for text and drawing), Berlin, DE (c)
2014Lieber Künstler, zeichne mir! Part 2 , Galerie Semjon Contemporary, Berlin, DE (c)
Anonymous Drawings , Based in Berlin, Pavillion am Milchhof, Berlin, DE
2012Lucide , Kunstraum t27, Berlin, DE
2010Grundton , with Daniel Kupferberg, K-Salon, Berlin, DE
2009Anonymous Drawings #10 , Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Zeichnungen , tmp 5/2, Berlin, DE
nichts ausser zeichnungen VOL. III , Rondeel Art Space, Maastricht, NL
2008clips , Goethe-Institut, Toulouse, FR
Positionen of contemporary drawings # 2 , Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, DE
2007Zeichnung , Jikisiten Gallery, Nagoya, JP
clips , Kunstverein Tiergarten / Galerie Nord, Berlin, DE
2005performance collaboration , k77, Berlin, DE
2004Kontraste , Kunstverein Zehnthaus, Jockgrim, DE
Fensterwald (with U. Siebert, R. Raue), Galerie Fine Arts con.tra., Berlin, DE
Zimmer mit Ausblick (with C. Klatt, U. Siebert), Galerie weisser elefant, Berlin, DE
2001Figurationen , Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, DE
Zwischen Tür und Engel , Zionskirche, Berlin, DE
2000Boutique des Nues , Galerie Saint-Eustache, Paris, FR