ARTIST NAME Karina Nimmerfall
TEAM NAME
GROUP Group XIV, May 02 - Sept 02
DISCIPLINE Art
WEBSITE www.karinanimmerfall.com
BIO Born 1971 in Deggendorf, Germany
Lives in Berlin, Germany

Education

Art History, University of Vienna, Austria
Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany

Selected Exhibitions

2013
- "Peripheries" - Film Surveys of Places on the Outskirts, Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, Austria
- "Time, Place and the Camera: Photographs at Work," The Art Gallery of Kosovo, Priština, Kosovo (Group Exhibition)

2012
- "media.art.collecting. Perspectives of a Collection," Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- "Research – Reality as Material, ratskeller," Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "Narcissism, the Real, the Fake and the Anti-Digital Impulse," Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (Group Exhibition)

2011
- "Double Location (The Ambassador Hotel)," Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, USA (Solo Exhibition)
- "km 500 4," Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- Summer Film Series (curated by Doris Berger), Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA (Filmscreening)

2010
- "Curated by_Vienna 2010: Art&Film," Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna (Group Exhibition)
- "Glück Happens," Kunstpalais, Erlangen (Group Exhibition)

2009
- "Cubatures. Media Based Contruction Of Space," Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund (Group Exhibition)
- "Curated by_Vienna 09: Inside Job," Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna (Group Exhibition)
- "Monitoring," 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kunstverein Kassel (Group Exhibition)
- "Executive Office (Contemporary Modern)," BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (Solo Exhibition)
- "Karina Nimmerfall: Double Location," Kunstverein Medienturm Graz, Folio Verlag Vienna/Bolzano (Publication)

2008
- "History Acts," Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg (Solo Exhibition)
- "The Map: Navigating The Present," Bildmuseet, Umea (Group Exhibition)
- "Vertical Villa," Galeri Stadtpark, Krems, Austria (Solo Exhibition)
- "Bucarest Biennale 3," Bukarest, Romania (Group Exhibition)
- "Videopanel 2008 - Stile der Stadt," Hamburg, Germany (Group Exhibition)
- "Seeking for a Place of Oblivion," Umjetnicki Paviljon, Zagreb, Croatia (Group Exhibition)

2007
- "Power Play," Landesgalerie am Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseum, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria (Solo Exhibition, Publication)
- "Sie befinden sich Hier / You are Here," CAMERA AUSTRIA, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- "Hollywood ist ein Verb," With Isabell Heimerdinge, Kunstverein Medienturm Graz, Graz, Austria (Solo Exhibition)
- "Karina Nimmerfall. Cinematic Maps", texts by Norman M. Klein and Raimar Stange, Editin Camera Austria, Graz, Austria (Publication)

2006
- "Double Location," Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Solo Exhibition)

2005
- “New Talents 2005,” Art Cologne Sponsorship Program, Cologne, Germany (Solo Exhibition)
- "Second Unit," Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna (Solo Exhibition)

2004
- "Karina Nimmerfall. Diamonds on Velvet", texts by Stella Rollig, Raimar Stange, Hans Joachim Lenger, Vienna (Publication)
- "... And in Between," Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna (Group Exhibition)
- "Day for Night," Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Solo Exhibition)

2003
- "Hotel-Hotel,” Landesgalerie am Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria (Group Exhibition)
- “8th Havana Biennale,” Havana, Cuba (Group Exhibition)

2002
- "Schindler Workshop," As part of "Rirkrit Tiravanija," Secession, Vienna (Group Exhibition)

2001
- "Glueck Statt Plastik," Kunstverein Glueckstadt, Glueckstadt, Germany (Group Exhibition)

2000
- “Sehnsucht nach Utopie,” Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany (Group Exhibition)

Awards

2013
- Visiting Researcher, Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Artist-in-Residence, Nordic Artists’ Center, Dale, Norway
- Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Valand Artistic Research Center, Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

2012
- Artist-in-Residence, Salzamt Studio Program, Linz, Austria

2010–11
Cultural Exchange Program for Fine Arts of the Berlin Cultural Senate, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Graduate Studies Program, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA

2010
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany

2009
- Austrian State Grant for Fine Arts, awarded by the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture

2008
- New York Grant for Photography, awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture

2007
- Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture
- Quartier21 / Kunstverein Medienturm, Artist-in-Residence Program, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria

2006
- Margret Bilger Grant of Upper Austria
- Artist-in-Residence, Fund for Art Projects with Social Relevance, Wiesbaden, Germany

2005
Talent Fostering Award for Fine Arts of Upper Austria

Publications

2012
- "Index of Livability," artist insert (with an introduction by Raimar Stange), Polar #12, Magazine for Politics, Theory and Culture

2011
"The Glass House," with a text by Doris Berger, as part of Balmoral km 500 4, ed. Danièle Perrier, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
PORTRAIT
Karina Nimmerfall portrait
© Karina Nimmerfall
FINAL PROJECT
"Palm Canyon," Installation, 2002
"Palm Canyon," Installation, 2002 image
© MAK Center / Joshua White

Project Details...
JURY
Vito Acconci
Viktor Misiano
Herbert Muschamp
Peter Noever
Hans-Ulrich Obrist