Olaf Nikolay ( German: Olaf Nicolai ; born 1962, Halle-on-Saale ) - German artist - conceptualist .
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Biography
Olaf Nikolay was born in the city of Galle am Saale , but grew up in Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt) in the GDR . From 1983 to 1988 he studied German language and literature at the universities of Leipzig , Vienna and Budapest . In 1992, he received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig . His dissertation was devoted to the work of the Vienna Group - a poetic association active in Austria in the postwar years [4] . Nicholas also studied applied art at the Technical College in Schneeberg, Saxony .
The artist's works were presented at documenta in 1997 and at the Venice Biennale in 2001, 2005 and 2015. He was awarded the Villa Massimo Award, Rome (1998) and Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2007). Since the early 1990s, Nikolai took part in numerous international solo and group exhibitions of contemporary art. Some of his works can now be found in public galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Friedrich Christian Flick Gallery in Berlin.
Olaf Nikolai lives and works in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin .
Works
Olaf Nikolay is considered one of the leading contemporary artists in Germany. In his works, he touches on a number of conceptual topics, starting with the political and cultural agenda and ending with the problems of human perception. Sometimes he also turns to the topic of aesthetic appropriation of terrestrial nature on the part of human culture [5] .
In several of his works, the artist contrasts the “socialist ideals” with their immediate adversary - the “capitalist market economy”, thereby formulating the ambivalence and contradiction between the aspects of utopia, pragmatism, consumerism and aesthetics [6] .
In 2012, Olaf Nikolai won the competition for the creation of the memorial, which was held by the Vienna City Council. Nicholas presented the draft memorial to the victims of Nazi military justice. On October 24, 2014, the monument was inaugurated by the public; Austrian President Heinz Fischer delivered a speech at the ceremony. The monument itself is a concrete sculpture in the form of the letter X. At the top of the monument, only two words are written from the figured poem of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, consisting of only two words: all (repeated many times) and alone (located in the center of X) [7 ] [8] .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119081121 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Union List of Artist Names
- ↑ Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ Petra Gördüren, Dirk Luckow (ed.): Dopplereffekt. Bilder in Kunst und Wissenschaft , Kiel: DuMont 2010, 239
- ↑ Artsy , retrieved on October 26, 2014
- ↑ Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig: Die Zukunft ist nicht, was sie einmal war, 2004/2005
- ↑ Österreich: Entwurf für das Deserteurs-Denkmal präsentiert , retrieved August 9, 2015
- ↑ Die Presse : diepresse.com - Blaues X als späte Ehre für Deserteure , Oktober 24, 2014.
Links
- Nikolai, Olaf at the German National Library .
- Enjoy / Survive
- art-site.de
- Faites le travail qu'accomplit le soleil
- Die Zeit
- Archive of documenta