Nina Rhode
Nina Rhode, untitled, 2020, straw, 95 x 150 x 50 cm, “Kunst am Bau”, Rummelsburger Landstraße, Berlin 2020
Nina Rhode “Die drei Schwestern” 2015 chalk on wood, paint, glass, 30 x 210 x 26 cm
Nina Rhode “Fliege” 2013 typewriter Gabriele Triumph Adler, cable, paper, 34 x 34 x 16 cm
Nina Rhode “Café Rhode” with guests, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin 2013
Nina Rhode “Café Rhode” Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin 2013
Nina Rhode “Kanzel” 2009 copper, wood, metal, wine glass, spoon, spots, 260 x 300 x 95 cm
Nina Rhode “Dreirad” 2008 wood, acrylic paint, aluminium, camera lens, motor, strobe light
Nina Rhode “Dreirad” 2008 wood, acrylic paint, aluminium, camera lens, motor, strobe light
Nina Rhode “Viens! Ne va plus” 2015, blackboard paint on wood, metal, chalk, 45 x 90 cm folded/ 45 x 300 cm open
Nina Rhode “Harmonica” 2009 16 harmonicas on acrylic glass, motor, light bulb, 140 cm dia
Nina Rhode “Kreis” drawing
Nina Rhode, “Made in Germany”, Sprengel Museum Hannover 2012 (“Säule” / “Harmonika” / “Bin” / “Teich”)
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Born in Düsseldorf, 1971
Lives and works in Berlin, guest professor at Kunstakademie Münster
1994- 2001 ‚Freie Kunst’ at UDK Berlin
since 1995 member of the Berlin based artists group Honey-Suckle Company (HSC)
since 2000 collaboration with musician Gonzales (stage shows, musical objects, drawings, photos, videos)
2001 DAAD Grant for research on rainbows in New Zealand
2003-2004 Neue Dokumente, publisher & project space in Berlin (founded with Simone
Gilges)
– collaboration on the magazine „freier“, ed. by Simone Gilges
– organisation of exhibitions, lectures, concerts in the appendent ‘Hurdy-Gurdy Raum’
– publishing of Gonzales Fanzine
2006 lectures & workshop on photography, University for Art & Architecture Yazd, Iran (invited by X-Change, culture-science, Vienna)
2008-2011 owner of Smaragd Bar in Berlin Wedding
2015-2016 Guest professor, time-based media, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
2017 “draußen ist dazwischen wind”, joint teaching, class Prof. Tina Bara, HGB Leipzig/ Academy of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2015 One Night End, with Gunter Reski, after the butcher, Berlin
Die Kachel, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2013 CAFE RHODE, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2011 Friendly Fire, DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts), Dundee, UK
4D, Fernsehturm, Berlin (S, exhibition serial curated by Juliane Solmsdorf)
2010 Solo Presentation at LISTE Art Fair, Basel (with Galerie Sandra Bürgel)
2009 Die Kanzel, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Nina Rhode (a.k.a Ninja Pleasure) & Surprise, Evas Arche und der Feminist upstairs at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, Sept. 24
SAMSA, Kollwitzstr. 10, Berlin (with Christoph Lohmann)
2008 Fantomas, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2022 Au Ciel, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2020 Kunst am Bau. Freiluftschau ohne Eröffnung, curated by Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Gunter Reski & Marcus Weber, Rummelsburger Landstraße, Berlin
2019 Starship: Die nahe Zukunst, LVX. Glaspavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin (curated by Elodie Evers/ Ariane Müller & Martin Ebner, with Judith Hopf, Christoph Keller, Henrik Olesen, Gunter Reski, Nora Schultz, Till Sperrle, Tobias Spichting, Suse Weber, Annette Wehrmann, Florian Zeyfang)
2017 Es geht voran, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (curated by Domink Eggermann)
2016 Bürde, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (10 Years Galerie Bürgel, Berlin)
Adrift on Plastic Island, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich (with Ariane Müller, G. Rowland, C. Folly, H. Shin, M. von Schlegell, Y. Kimura, D. Reuter, A. Clausen, K. Pieroth, T. Locher, A. von Wulffen, G. Bibby, M. Pfrommer; curated by Nikola Dietrich)
2015 Oblique Strategies, (with Geeske Bijker, Lutz Braun, Matthew Burbidge, Susanne Kohler & Jamie Lemoine, Thomas Schroeren, cur. by Michael Kirkham & Raaf van der Sman), nationalmuseum, Berlin
One Night End, with Gunter Reski, after the butcher, Berlin
2014 Dirk Bell. NOWhere, Kunstverein Braunschweig/ Villa Salve Hospes (with „Raum für Dirk“ by Nina Rhode)
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (with Dominik Eggermann, Christa Näher, Valerie Stahl von Stromberg, Anna Steinert, Klaus Winichner)
@ the shrink, Shanaynay, Paris (curated by Simon Dybbroe Moller)
A House Of Passive Noise. Räumliche Inszenierung in drei Akten, curated by Katja Schroeder, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
2013 Temporary Autonomous Zone, Part 1: Erogenous Zone, organised by the group ƒƒ, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Nina Rhode, ein Ereignis innerhalb der Ausstellung von Dirk Bell, capri, Düsseldorf
anderes sagen, Galerie KM, Berlin (with Quirin Bäumler, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Brunhilde Groult, Sven-Ake Johansson, Alexandra Müller, Jan Scharrelmann)
Dirk Bell, Nina Rhode, Markus Wirthmann, BQ im Pavillon der Volksbühne, Berlin
Painting Forever! Keilrahmen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin („Kanzel“)
2012 Made in Germany II. Internationale Kunst in Deutschland, kestner gesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Erkenntnis der eigenen Unfreiheit, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2011 KW69 #7 by Kalin Lindena, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (with Hanna Brandes, Michaela Eichwald, Agathe Fleury, Hella Gerlach)
You Don’t Love Me Anymore, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Old Mauritz School, Münster
Yes Or Yes, Yes Or Yes (Whoa Plato), One Night Exhibition by Lisa Holzer & Chiara Minchio, with David Jourdan & Nina Rhode, Croy Nielsen Berlin
Selbstkritik ist eine unerlässliche und ständig wirksame Waffe, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2010 Expo Valerie, Xinle Lu, Shanghai
(group show set up by Valerie Stahl von Stromberg)
The Smell of Pepper, ALP/ Peter Bergman, Stockholm (G, curated by Jakob Krajcik)
2009 On the Spot #5: freier FALL, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (G, with ‘freier, Magazin für Befindlichkeit’)
Modern Modern, Chelsea Art Museum – Miotte Foundation, New York (curated by Pati
Hertling)
Piggy Banks, SAMSA, Kollwitzstr. 10, Berlin
Wir verbessern Ihre Arbeit, group show organized by Instituto Divorciado, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
2008 Willkommen to reality, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Seinesgleichen geschieht / The like of it now happens, Excess and Sustainability, visual research project by STARSHIP magazine, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco/ Ludlow 38, Goethe Institute, New York/ Silberkuppe, Berlin a.o.p.
2007 O debuxo por diante, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostella
2004 Freier, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris (with ‚freier, Magazin für Befindlichkeit’)
2001 We Berlin, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
2000 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella followed by the exhibition Proxecto de Arte e
Peregrinacion, Santiago de Compostella
1997 Rock the city down, Hybrid Work Space, Documenta X, Kassel (performance with Galerie Berlin Tokyo)
Maisalon in Köpenick, Galerie Vostell, Berlin
1996 Schauplatz HDK, Nothelfer, Vostell, Raab & Giefller, Berlin
… With Gonzales (selected projects)
2005 „Organism“, a 12 hours life installation of a church organ amplified into a light organ, St Jean de la Montmartre, event for ‚nuit blanche’, Paris, with Gonzales & John Dekron, travelling to Music Festivals in Montreux, Lausanne, Tel Aviv
2002 debut performance of „Pianovision“ (Life-Video-Installation), Volksbühne Berlin, travelling to Hurdy Gurdy Raum, Berlin/ Centre Pompidou, Paris/ Palais du Tokyo, Paris/ music festival in Montreal & Toronto (Libanon was cancelled)
2001 1st Price for Music Video (Gonzales, “Take me to Broadway”), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Backup-Filmfestival, Weimar
… With Honey-Suckle Company (selected exhibitions)
2019/2020 Omnibus, (retrospective survey exhibition), ICA, London
2019 Groups, Kunstverein Braunschweig / Villa Salve Hospes
2016 Das Buch, Galerie für moderne Fotografie, Berlin
2014 Klöntal Triennale – A Place Like This, Kunsthaus Glarus, CH (G)
2008 Experimenta FOLKLORE, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt (G)
2007 Reihe Ordnung sagt Liebe, Kunstverein Hamburg Harburg
2006 Eau d’Ohn End, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Non Est Hic, Kunsthalle Basel, in cooperation with Konrad Sprenger
2005 OHN END, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart presents HSC & Konrad Sprenger, Cubitt Gallery, London
2004 Herzblut, lecture on HSC, ACC Weimar
2003 Eswerde, part of exhibition serial Reigen, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
2002 Einstellung, Museumsquartier- found for you, Vienna
2000 NeuBand, Re-present Berlin, Sonar Festival, Barcelona
1999 Neon for a better Crack, galerie berlintokyo, Berlin
Neuwestend, Childrens of Berlin, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1998 HSC3D, 1st Berlin Biennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Text
2016 Honey-Suckle Company, Spiritus, Bierke Verlag, 270 pp.
contribution to Starship Magazine, A Plastic Island of the mind, Berlin, issue # 14, spring
2013 Café Rhode Plakat Editionen
2009 contribution to freier, Magazin für Befindlichkeit, # 5, Neue Dokumente, Berlin
2007 contribution to Starship Magazine, Berlin, issue # 10
Iran, ein Wintermärchen (Ed. X-Change culture-science), Fotohof Salzburg
2006 NON EST HIC, 10inch record, in collaboration with Konrad Sprenger, Kunsthalle Basel
Manifest freier, freier, Neue Dokumente, Berlin
2005 From Major to Minor (DVD), documentary film on Gonzales
2004 88 Pages, a Gonzales Fanzine, Neue Dokumente, Berlin
2003 Der cosmische Orgasmus (Text) & Heute war Jesustag (Text), freier,
Neue Dokumente, Berlin
2002 Melodika (music piece), Presidential Suite Gonzales, Delabel Edition, Paris
Das tolle Schaf, Kinderbuch, photographed and produced in New Zealand
2001 Sehprothese, Vergangene Zukunft, Kunsthalle Krems
2016 Honey-Suckle Company, Berlin’s Interview, May
2012 „MADE IN GERMANY ZWEI Internationale Kunst in Deutschland“, kestner gesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, exhibition catalogue, text on Nina Rhode by Ellen Blumenstein
2011 Rodney Latourelle, „Nina Rhode at Alex-4D“, www.akimbo.ca/akimblog, October 18
Jonathan Blackwood, “Read Thou Art and read Thou Shalt Remain/ Friendly Fire”, a-n Magazine (reviews), September, p 29
Giles Sutherland, “Moving, impenetrable and well-grounded”, The Times, Tuesday July 26, p 17
Susan Mansfield, “Many Hands Make Great Art”, The Scotsman (Reviews), Tuesday July 5, p 37
Sarah Urwin Jones, “A Twist In The Tale”, The Harald (Glasgow), Saturday June 11, p 6
Neil Cooper, „Nina Rhode: Friendly Fire/ Cara Tolmie: Read Thou Art And Read Thou Shalt Remain“, The List, Issue 682, June 23 2011
Amy Fung, “Nina Rhode, Friendly Fire, Dundee Contemporary Arts”, The Huntly Review (http://huntlyreview.tumblr.com/), May
2007 O debuxo por diante, exhibition catalogue, collection CGAC, Santiago de Compostella