NICOLE WENDEL

(* 1975 in Karlsruhe)

1995–1996One year stay in the USA
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

2023Processfunding with the Artist Kirstin Burckhardt, Fonds of Performing Arts, Berlin, DE
Funding for Global Water Dance, with the Choreographer Jan Burkhardt, Berlin, DE
Projectfunding, with the Choreographer Jan Burkhardt, Kulturamt Pankow, Berlin, DE
2022Sponsorship Drawing Award Valerie and Prof. Kurt M. Schulz-Schönhausen, Kunstfonds Bonn, DE
2021Scholarship Initial 1, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Berlin, DE
2020Scholarship Kunstfonds Bonn Neustart Kultur, DE
2019Research Stipend, Berlin Senate, DE
20081st Graphic Art Award, Alice Salomon Berlin, DE
2000Erasmus scholarship at the .cole des Beaux Arts, Paris, FR

Works in public collections

Collection of Federal Foreign Office, Residence German Embassy Tokyo, Japan
Collection of the Berlinische Galerie, DE
Hegenbarth Sammlung, Berlin, DE
Collection of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, DE
Collection of the Forum GEHAG, DE

Solo Exhibitions, Performances (selection)

2022No one survives a real conversation, with Kirstin Burckhardt, Haunt, Berlin
20204/4, Performance_Installation, Zentralwerk, Dresden, DE
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)

2023Charta #4, Haunt Projectspace, Berlin, DE
Communicating a sound a line, Soundperformance with Ruth Wiesenfeld, Haunt Projectspace, Berlin, DE
Wind in den Füßen, De Ruit, Rotterdam, NL
Gedanken spielen Verstecken, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin, DE
(N)ON SITE BODIES_(IN)VISIBLE, Performance with Jan Burkhardt and Students of HfMT Köln, Kai10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE
Wo gehen wir denn hin?, Gotisches Haus Spandau, Berlin, DE
(N)ON SITE BODIES_WATER, Performance Nicole Wendel in collaboration with Jan Burkhardt with Mor Demer and Franziska Dieterich in context of Global Water Dance, Gutspark Neukladow, Berlin, DE
(N)ON SITE BODIES_WEBEN UND WACHSEN, Performance Nicole Wendel in collaboration with Jan Burkhardt with Sigal Zouk, Joséphine Auffrai, Paula Illic and Pernille Sonne, Schönholzer Heide Pankow, Berlin, DE
2022SPACE BETWEEN US / RAUM ZWISCHEN UNS with Karīma Al-Mukhtarová, Kabinet T, Zlin, Czech Republic
Thinking Aesthetic Thinking through ecologies of aesthetic research practices, Conference Alliances & Commonatlities 2022 Stockholm University of the Arts in collaboration with Alex Arteaga and Emma Cocker, online
(N)ON SITE BODIES, Performance mit Jan Burkhardt und Studierenden der HfMT Köln, Kai10 Düsseldorf, ZAK Zitadelle Spandau Berlin, Expo 2022, Almere, NL
(N)ON SITE BODIES_DUETT, Performancefestival in der Kleinen Orangerie, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, DE
Über die Zeichnung hinaus, ZAK, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, DE
GULLIVER’S SKETCHBOOK, Kai10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE
FREQUENCIES, Towards Sound Festival, HilbertRaum, Berlin, DE
LifeLinien, Scotty, Berlin, DE
2021Inclusive Break – A Time Beside Many Others, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
CORHYTHM TIMELINE, MaHalla, Berlin, DE
Thinking Aesthetic Thinking through ecologies of aesthetic research practices, Conference of the German Society for Aesthetics, together with Alex Arteaga, Emma Cocker and Sabine Zahn, online
WATERWORLD, Gallery Hartwich, Selin, Rügen, DE
KUNST KANN. insights into contemporary artistic attitudes, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin und Hipphaus, St. Pölten, DE
XL/ XS, Gallery Vincenz Sala, Berlin, DE
Snitches get stitches, frontviews, HAUNT, Berlin, DE
Body of Drawing, gallery oqbo, Berlin, DE
20202020_the exhibition, Studios Kühnemannstraße, Berlin, DE
ARÉIDOLIE le Salon International du Dessin Contemporain, Dessin vidéographique, Marseille, FR
Where the Trees Have Numbers, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, DE
KUNST KANN. Insights into contemporary artistic attitudes, Engländerbau, Vaduz, LI
Slumber, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, DE
North by Northeast, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, DE
Body of Drawing, gallery oqbo, Berlin, DE
2019embodied lines, Drawing Center Diepenheim, Diepenheim, NL
RealitätsCheck, Kunstraum Potsdam, DE
Unselect, Ausstellungsfestival der Kleinen Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, DE
Canto Ostinato, Global Water Dance, Berlin, DE
Put on paper, Errant Sound, Berlin, DE
Spacescapes, Platforme, Paris, FR
Drawing Now – curated exhibition: Drawing Performance, Galerie 1214, Paris, FR
2018YES_YES, Nicole Wendel in collaboration with Audrey Rose Burdon, 10times6, 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 Körnerpark, Berlin, DE
Corhythm, Nicole Wendel in collaboration with Audrey Rose Burden, Sammlung Hegenbarth, Berlin, DE
communicative observations, in collaboration with Katja Pudor, at Wechselraum by Ulrike Mohr, Rothenburg, 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
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
2004Kontraste, Kunstverein Zehnthaus, Jockgrim, DE
2001Figurationen, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, DE
Zwischen Tür und Engel, Zionskirche, Berlin, DE
2000Boutique des Nues, Galerie Saint-Eustache, Paris, FR