ARTIST NAME Nico King
TEAM NAME
GROUP Group XLIII, Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
DISCIPLINE Architecture
WEBSITE www.nico-king.com
BIO Born 1984 in Vienna, Austria
Lives in Vienna, Austria

Education

Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Landscape Architecture, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences BOKU Vienna, Austria
Art, Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Landscape Architecture, Cornell University, USA
Landscape Architecture, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands

Professional Experience

since 2016
- Artist & Researcher. Feminism, Landscape & Utopia in Israel

2015
- Mediator. Memory Games - Wien Woche Project by Visual Artist Nina Prader

2012-2015
- Research Assistant. Institute of Landscape Architecture (ILA) BOKU Vienna

2014
- Outreach. Wien Museum. Curator-led guided tours and city expeditions

2012 - 2013
- LA Project Assistant. zwoPK. | Researcher. OPK - offenes PlanerInnenkollektiv.

2012
- Assistant. X-LArch IV: LANDSCAPE 100. Conference by ILA + ÖGLA
- Editorial Trainee. dérive - Magazine for Urban Research

2011
- Studio Assistant. atelier le balto, Berlin

2010 - 2011
- Teaching Assistant. Research Methodologies of Social Sciences for Landscape Architecture

2010
- Participant. Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts. Workshop with atelier le balto

2009 - 2010
- Teaching Assistant. Digital Visualization Techniques (3ds Max and Visual Nature Studio)

2009
- Participant. Workshop w/ Angelika Fitz. “Bellevue Citydating - Relationships on the Highway”
- Conference Staffer. X-LArch III: LANDSCAPE - GREAT IDEA! Conference by ILA + ÖGLA
- Assistant. Design Workshop with key-speaker Helen Armstrong at X-LArch III

Exhibitions

2016
- Graduation Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

2014
- “Think Global, Build Social. Architectures for a Better World,” Vienna Architecture Center Az W, Vienna, Austria

2012
- “Architectures and Archeologies of the Production Landscapes 2001>2011,” IUAV, Venice, Italy

2010
- “Ausstellung der Int. Sommerakademie der Bildenden Künste Salzburg,” Alte Saline, Hallein, Austria

2009
- “BELLEVUE STÄDTEDATING – Beziehungen auf der Autobahn,” Das gelbe Haus, Linz, Austria
- “As Artes no Jardim/Art in the Garden,” International Garden Festival, Ponte de Lima, Portugal

2008
- "Kunst. Landschaft. Architektur." raumimpuls, Waidhofen/Ybbs, Austria

Curated Exhibitions

2014
- “WIG 64 - Die grüne Nachkriegsmoderne,” Museum der Geschichte der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria
- “Sabelo Mlangeni: Postapart/heid Communities,” Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

2009
- “BELLEVUE STÄDTEDATING – Beziehungen auf der Autobahn,” Das gelbe Haus, Linz, Austria

Grants and Awards

2016
- Cultural Department of the City of Vienna MA7, thesis scholarship

2015
- UdK Berlin Summer University of the Arts, scholarship

2014
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, project grant: partial funding of Master’s project and field study in Israel

2011
- BOKU Vienna, research scholarship to support Master’s Thesis trip to Johannesburg

2010
- Culture Fund of Salzburg, scholarship to participate in the Summer Academy of Fine Arts
- Cornell University / BOKU Vienna, tuition waiver for joint study waiver

Selected Publications*

*Publications prior to 2016 bear former family name Raab

2015
- Denkmalwürdiger Park ohne Denkmalschutz. Lilli Lička, Nicole Theresa Raab, Ulrike Krippner, in: Garten + Landschaft 2/2015, Munich: Callwey.

2014
- The Wilderness Downtown. The Indeterminate Nature of Johannesburg’s Mine Dumps. Nicole Theresa Raab, edited by Christiane Sörensen, Karin Liedtke: SPECIFICS. Discussing Landscape Architecture; Berlin: jovis.
- “Let’s get down to some serious training”. Jakob Krameritsch, Nicole Theresa Raab, Johannes Siegmund, in: Sabelo Mlangeni. Postapart/heid Communities, Catalog; Vienna: Academy of Fine Arts.
- Das Wunder von Wien. Mediale Sentimente und Sensationen einer Gartenschau. Nicole Theresa Raab, edited by Ulrike Krippner, Lilli Lička, Martina Nußbaumer: WIG 64. Die grüne Nachkriegsmoderne; Vienna: Metroverlag.
- Blütenträume aus der Pflanzenfabrik. Der moderne Freizeitgarten im Spiegel der WIG 64. Nicole Theresa Raab, edited by Ulrike Krippner, Lilli Lička, Martina Nußbaumer: WIG 64. Die grüne Nachkriegsmoderne; Vienna: Metroverlag.

2012
-Looking for Gold. Mapping the Johannesburg Gold Mine Dumps into the Contemporary Urban Condition. IUAV Giornale dell’Ateneo, Venice.
- [YOUR] RIGHT TO THE CITY. Recht und öffentlicher Raum. Edited by Nicole Theresa Raab [Managing Editor] Willi Hejda, Karin Held, Elke Rauth. dérive - Verein für Stadtforschung, self-published, Vienna.

2009
- Incursões de Êxtase/Raids of Bliss. In: As Artes no Jardim/Art in the Garden. Catalog for the Fifth International Garden Festival in Ponte de Lima.
PORTRAIT
Nico King portrait
© Joshua White
FINAL PROJECT
outside, forgotten
outside, forgotten image
© MAK Center / Joshua White

Project Details...
JURY
Andreas Fogarasi
Gabu Heindl
Catrin Lorch
Beatrix Ruf
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein