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

EDUCATION

Meisterschülerin Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2023)

Diplom Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Gregor Schneider (20192024)

 

EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

 

2025

Blütenlese, Paper Positions Vienna, Austria (GS)

Mur Brut, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (S)

Epiphenomenon, Galerie 3AP, Frankfurt (S)

Suspension of Disbelief 2, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)

Internationaler Bergischer Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Solingen (GS)

Liminal State, Art Düsseldorf (GS)

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)

2023

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)

2022

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)

2021

Was bleibt?, ArtCasino, Mönchengladbach (GS)

Theater der Welt (Collaboration)Schauspielhaus D’Haus, Düsseldorf (Festival)

 

GRANTS

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)

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01.12.25

on view: Nadine Karl „After Unrast“

Join us for the opening on December 4 at 6 PM.
The video performance Oh my. emergent phenomenon will begin around 6:30 PM
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17.11.25

Participation: Paper Positions Vienna

We were delighted to take part in the second edition of Paper Positions Vienna, following the fair’s debut last year.
At the historic Semperdepot – once a production site for monumental stage sets – Galerie 3AP presented its curated format BLÜTENLESE. Over the course of the fair, three alternating shows unfolded, each focusing on a concise selection of works in drawing, photography, and etching.

 

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30.10.25

upcoming: participation at Paper Positions Vienna

13. – 16. November, Semper Depot | Booth 18

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25.09.25

on view: Nadine Karl „79. INTERNATIONALE BERGISCHE KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG“

As part of the 79th International Bergische Art ExhibitionNadine Karl presents a spatial installation that weaves together photography, sculpture, sound, scent, and elemental materials into a quietly immersive environment. At its center lies a mixture of fill sand and silver sand – a substance that functions both as a fragment of landscape and a metaphysical cipher.

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12.09.25

press: Galerie 3AP and Nadine Karl at the Frankfurt Art Experience 2025

Our exhibition Epiphenomenon by Nadine Karl was featured in several publications, including FAZ, FNP, Monopol, and Journal Frankfurt, as part of the Saisonstart Frankfurt/Main. Many thanks to everyone who helped make this launch so special!

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05.09.25

now open: Julian Heuser, Nadine Karl, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia, and Lara Werth „Suspension of Disbelief 2“

Suspension of Disbelief 2 continues the exploration of perception, illusion, and emotional projection initiated in July 2025 through the work of Julian Heuser, expanding the conceptual framework into a polyphonic group exhibition marking the season’s opening. Curated by Aileen Treusch, the show brings together works who examine and broaden the theme from diverse artistic viewpoints.

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04.09.25

now open: Nadine Karl „Epiphenomenon“

In her artistic practice, Nadine Karl explores the multilayered entanglement of temporality and fiction. At the core of her work are analytical dialogues between sculpture and installation that critically question conventional, linear structures of time. Her works transform ephemeral and potential elements into complex, overlapping spatiotemporal configurations that deconstruct concepts of identity and collective memory, making a dynamic, fleeting reality perceptible. A key feature of her practice is the multidimensional approach through various senses: olfactory elements and sound are purposefully used to create immersive experiential spaces that expand and destabilize perception. In doing so, eco-feminist questions increasingly come to the forefront.

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03.09.25

now open: air shelter

During Nadine Karl’s exhibition Epiphenomenon, both levels of the gallery will be activated. In addition to the main exhibition space, the air shelter in the basement will also be part of the show.

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25.07.25

upcoming: participation at DC Open

We are excited to announce our participation at DC Open 2025 with the upcoming group exhibition Suspension of disbelief II at our Düsseldorf location. The show features works by Julian Heuser, Nadine Karl, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia and Lara Werth.

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upcoming: participation at Saisonstart Frankfurt/Main

We’re excited to open Nadine Karl’s first solo show Epiphenomenon at Galerie 3AP in Frankfurt as part of Saisonstart Frankfurt/Main 2025.

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10.04.25

Art Düsseldorf

Art Düsseldorf opening today with works by Jacqueline Hen, Nadine Karl, Julie Mia, Philipp Naujoks. We cordially inviteyou to visit us at our booth (C03), where we will present a selection of young contemporary artists from our gallery program. Featuring four artistic positions that examine states of transition and transformation. In this liminal space, where nothing is certain but everything is possible, crisis and hope intersect, and past, present, and future merge.

ART DÜSSELDORF


Areal Böhler

Hansaallee 321

40549 Düsseldorf

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