Nadine Karl
In her artistic practice, Nadine Karl explores the multi-layered interweaving of temporality and fiction. The focus is on creating analytical dialogues between sculpture and installation that critically question linear time structures. The works transform ephemeral and potential elements into interlocking time-space structures. These structures question concepts of identity and collective memories and create a dynamic, constantly changing and elusive reality. The installations create (fictional) spaces that invite viewers to experience time and space as flexible constructs and to reflect on their effects on perception and reality. Karl also works intensively with literature and film. Her works utilise various cinematic and literary vocabularies and alternate between genres.
Portrait: Anna Jocham
The video performance „Ich lasse mich nicht zwingen, was ich machen muss“ (I won’t be forced to do what I have to do) deals with psychological and physical isolation. The piece is inspired by my father’s muscular disease ALS. He progressively lost the ability to control his body and his voice. For me, the performance is an act of daughterly love in which I put myself in his position without imitating him, but presenting my own abstraction of the situation. For the documentary, I wanted to have few cuts. The sound of the video is the ticking with conversation recordings of my father, which were layered on top of each other in several tracks. The ticking is the link to real time, as the only point of connection to this reality. The next line is my father’s monologue, in which he explains why he is ill but doesn’t want to be, and why he is still mentally present. That’s why he refused any help at that time.
– Nadine Karl
CV
Meisterschülerin Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2023)
Diplom Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Gregor Schneider (2019–2024)
Wohnung Lauxtermann Vol. 7, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
Echoes of as far as i feel, Storage Museum, Düsseldorf (GS)
Stiction, E-Werk, Luckenwalde (GS)
as far as i feel – about thoughts and throughs, graduation show at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (S)
burning walls in stone (in-)cooperation, Plongee Art Space, Düsseldorf (GS)
Kristallisationspunkte, Art Museum Heidenheim (GS)
La Isla Fantasma, Langen Foundation, Raktenstation Hombroich Neuss (GS)
Touching The Source Of Estuary (Collaboration), LRRH_AERIAL, Düsseldorf (GS)
The Art of Celebration I The Playlist, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf (Film Screening)
Fire Flies V, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf (GS)
My Monster Is My Home, LIVELABSTUDIOS, DC Open, Düsseldorf (S)
the art of celebration, NKR, Düsseldorf (GS)
EVA (Experimental Video Art) – BACC – Bangkok, Thailand (GS)
Art Matters 7, Galerie Biesenbach, Köln (GS)
Building Matter, Plast Space, Leipzig (GS)
DRAWN, Sittart, Düsseldorf (GS)
KunstHoch, Selection exhibition of the Cusanuswerk, Karlsruhe (GS)
Rising Action, FFT, Düsseldorf (GS)
Wetter, Kunstverein Malkasten Jacobihaus, Düsseldorf (GS)
Iris Origo 12 km (Collaboration), Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy (GS)
Project Mayem, Atelierhaus ES365, Düsseldorf (GS)
Kunstpreis des Landtags NRW, Düsseldorf (GS)
Was bleibt?, ArtCasino, Mönchengladbach (GS)
Theater der Welt (Collaboration), Schauspielhaus D’Haus, Düsseldorf (Festival)
Reimagine Futures, Atacama, Chile (2025)
Residency Furkapass, Switzerland (2024)
DAAD research scholarship with the Royal College of Art London (2023)
Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy (2022)
Art Prize of the State Parliament of NRW, Nomination (2022)
Deutschlandstipendium (2022)
NRW Artists‘ Scholarship Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (2021, 2022)