NIKOLAS GAMBAROFF
( biography ) ( works )
Born 1979, Germany
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Der Herrische Säugling, Balice Hertling, Paris
2010 Time is Brain, Galerie New Jerseyy, Basel
Art Positions (with Balice Hertling), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
2008 8864 3362 2250 Z1 CDGRT, Balice Hertling, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 The Confidence Man, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Will Benedict, Nikolas Gambaroff, Carissa Rodriguez, Renwick Gallery, New York
Isabelle Cornaro, Nikolas Gambaroff, Oscar Tuazon, Eli Hansen, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
After Images (curated by Fionn Meade), Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Group Show, Galerie Balice Hertling & Lewis, New York
Nikolas Gambaroff, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Modern Art, London
Arte Flor, Balice Hertling & Gio Marconi, Villa Flor S-Chanf, Switzerland
Robert Barry, Peer Bode, Nikolas Gambaroff, Raymond Hains, Ryan Sullivan, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
Eight Posses (HENXGRYK) and a Monogram (with Ei arakawa), MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA
2010 Nikolas Gambaroff, Michael Krebber, R. H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne, Kunsthalle Bergen, Bergen, Norway
And So On and So On, Harris Lieberman, New York
Knight’s Move, Sculpture Center, New York
Up by Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York
Centralia, PA, Saturday Sessions, PS1, New York
Nowhere for Nothing (Dubai Stoop) (with Matt Sheridan Smith), Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
2009 In Memory of Painting, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna
Non Solo, Non Group Show (with Ei Arakawa, Nick Mauss and Nora Schultz), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
Mu lt il ay er di sc (with Ei Arakawa) as part of Speak and Spell, Coco, Vienna
Two-Alphabet Monograms (with Ei Arakawa), Pro Choice, Vienna
Paper Release (with Ei Arakawa), Passagengalerie, Künstlerhaus K/Haus, Vienna
fi ve sh il li ng sf or af ur co at (with Ei Arakawa), Atti Democratici, Lungomare, Bolzano, Italy
The Living and the Dead (curated by Darren Bader), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Modern Modern (curated by Pati Hertling), Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Maximal, Minimal, Primo Piano / Diego Cassina, Lugano, Switzerland
No Bees, No Blueberries, Harris Lieberman, New York
Tbilisi6, Never On Sunday, Tbilisi, Georgia, USA
2008 New Images/Unisex, New Images/Unisex (curated by Blake Rayne), Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
Kissing the Canvas (Performance with Ei Arakawa), New Museum, New York
Evas Arche (with Matt Sheridan Smith), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Cube Passerby, GBE at Passerby, New York
EVR (e-flux video rental), Maumaus/Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Video on View as Art of R. Tiravanijas untitled 2002 (he promised), Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
2007 For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane Paris, Paris
CAA Show, Hunter College Galleries, New York
Road Show, Boots Contemporary Arts Space St. Louis, Finesilver Gallery San Antonio, Arthur Roger Project Space New Orleans
Nowhere for Nothing (with Matt Sheridan Smith), GBE at Passerby, New York
Pawnshop, e-flux, New York
2006 Radio Bomb, Location One (in collaboration with Alterazioni Video), Whitney Biennal, Whitney, USA
Peace Town Project (by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Mark Di Suvero), Whitney Biennal, Whitney, USA
2005 Death is an Outrage (screening with Ei Arakawa), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2004 Disappearances, Opel Medien und Kommunikationszentrum, Berlin
EDUCATION
2007 Bard College MFA, School of Visual Arts MFA, New York
2003 University of the Arts, Berlin
2003 Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin
GRANTS
2010 Visual Art grant Award, Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2005/7 Bard College MFA Scholarships
2006/7 SVA MFA and SVA Alumni Association Scholarship
2004 Fulbright Commission Awarded, Scholarship for Study in the USA
PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2010 Solveig Øvstebø (Ed.), “Gambaroff, Krebber, Quaytman, Rayne”, Catalogue
Fionn Meade (Ed.), “Knight’s Move”, Catalogue
Nick Mauss, Interview, Mousse, April/May
Simon Baier, “Non-Solo, Non-Group Show“, Texte zur Kunst, March
Quinn Latimer, “Nikolas Gambaroff”, Artforum, December
2009 Pati Hertling (Ed.), “modern modern”, Catalogue
Aimee Walleston, “modern marvels”, vmagazine.com, April
Adam Kleinman, “Nikolas Gambaroff”, Texte zur Kunst, March
Brigitte Ulmer, “Speed-Dating unter Künstlern”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December
“fi ve sh il li ng sf or af ur co at”, Paper Magazine, Fall 2009
“Tbilisi6 Never on Sunday”, Catalogue 2009
“CB, Abstrakte Vor-Bilder”, Der Standard, 15.10.2009
2008 Judicael Labrador, “Review: Nikolas Gambaroff”, Les Inrockuptibles, December
A. C., “Review: Nikolas Gambaroff”, Connaissance des Arts, December
Week in Review, “Nikolas Gambaroff at BaliceHertling”, December, contemporaryartdaily.com
2007 “Centralia”, PA, Catalogue
“For the people of Paris”, Catalogue, January
Vision Magazine China, June
2006 “Recipes for Downtown”, LMCC Publication, Fall |