GERALD NESTLER
Artist and Researcher
De Sign Your Self-Colonisation as Human Resource Micro Brand and Consume Your Awareness You are Not as Rare as Reality
Gerald Nestler, exerpt from "Deriviative Bond Emissions", collection of ongoing text works
In his artistic practice and research, Gerald Nestler focuses on the impact of global finance and economy as it is shaping our world today—for what he coined the term “Econociety”—particularly in respect to the changing roles and the significance of the individual, of society and of community. He is developing a reading of financial stretegies, methods, and practices as a world-producing apparatus in which "human derivatives" are exploited but at the same time opportunity arises for revolutionising inter-active and relational practices.
He graduated from the Academy of fine arts Vienna in 1992 and has been exhibiting internationally since then. From 1994 to 1997 he did 'field-work' as a broker and trader. From 1997 on he has been engaging in artistic research. In 2003 he received an Austrian State Scholarship for Visual Art. In 2007 he published Yx, a reader/catalogue introducing finance and economy as fields of artistic research. 2008 he was awarded an Austrian AIR-scholarship for Beijing and Nanjing, CN, and in 2009 for Krumau, CZ.
His recent artworks inlude The Trend Is Your Friend. A performative and interactive artistic experiment (with Sylvia Eckermann and Peter Szely), Breathe My Air. A paradoxical conversation piece (with Sylvia Eckermann). In 2010 he edited the issues 200 and 201 of the German art magazine Kunstforum International on art and economy (with Dieter Buchhart). He is a practice-based PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College, London, UK and was awarded the Department of Visual Cultures Research Bursary in 2010.
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CURRENT PROJECTS
BUSINESSLUNCH. Lunch break. Colleagues. Reduction dish with gravy.
Gerald Nestler and Gerald Straub
VIENNA ART WEEK. November 15-21, 2010
Breathe My Air Phase II - The Paradoxical Conversation Piece >>
Four Zero Space, Hangzhou in cooperation with Shanghai eARTS, CN >>
Curated by Li Zhenhua >>
Opening: September 8, 2010
RECENT NEWS
TIYF! was nomminated for the FILE PRIX LUX 2010, File Electronic Language Internationl Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Trend Is Your Friend!
A performative and interactive artistic experiment
Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler. Sound by Peter Szely
Kunstforum International 200 and 201 issues on Art and Economy published by Dieter Buchhart and Gerald Nestler (German only)
Issue 201 >>
Issue 200 >>
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For collabrative projects with Sylvia Eckermann please also see:
http://syl-eckermann.net
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The Trend Is Your Friend >>
A performative and interactive artistic environment
by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler
Sound: Peter Szely
curated by Mirjana Peitler
MedienKunstLabor | Kunsthaus Graz link
Director: Winfried Ritsch
Credits >>
in cooperation with the art festival steirischer herbst 09
see movie >>
Breathe My Air >>
Visualising the Invisible inside the Social Environment.
Next show:
2010, eARTS SHANGHAI 2010 media art festival
A project by Gerald Nestler and Sylvia Eckermann.
Curated by Li Zhenhua / produced by ChART Contemporary.
Previous shows:
2009, Mifan, group show Anni Art Gallery >>, Danshanzi 798 art district, Beijing/CN, organised by ASAP, curated by Karel Dudesek >>
2009, Mifan, group show babu art gallery, Shenzhen/CN >>
With Lukas Birk, Karel Dudesek, Sylvia Eckermann, Kerstin von Gabein, Nikolaus Gansterer, G.R.A.M., Michael Hoepfner, Ulrike Johannsen, Ronald Kodritsch, Jasmin Ladenhaufen, Ralo Mayer, Matthias Meinharter, Gerald Nestler, Rainer Prohaska and Kamen Stoyanov
2008, project launch at CPU:798,
Beijing/CN
In Ninth Heaven or The Far End of Europe >>
An Interactive Synthetic Scape.
2008, permanent Installation at Museum Stein, Krems/A
A project by Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler.
Composition and spatial acoustics: Peter Szely.
Yx fluid taxonomies--enlitened elevation--voided dimensions--human derivatives--vibrations in hyperreal econociety
Publication, 2007 >>
With contributions by:
Dieter Buchhart - Thomas Feuerstein - Anita Gantner - Wolfgang Hoechtl - Li Zhenhua - Gabriele Michalitsch -
Monika Mokre -
Oskar Negt - Doris Rothauer - Julie Ryan - Leslie Sklair - Otto Steiger - Beat Weber
SCHLEBRUEGGE.EDITOR, Vienna >>
ISBN 978-3-85160-110-7
Meta-Performative Installation on global financial markets in Real Time and Virtual Knowlegde Space.
Gerald Nestler +and Sylvia Eckermann
working_world.net
Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr / AT
permanent installation 2006 - 2011
nowhere - ein welt raum spiel >>
3D-Gamemod.
Sylvia Eckermann, Gerald Nestler, Oliver Irschitz, Christof Cargnelli
upcoming:
Sept 28 - Oct 1, 2006
3rd International Digital Art Festival, Changzhou / CN
Oct 4 - 8 2006
media@terra, International Art + Technology Festival,
Fournos Centre for the Digital Culture, Athens / GR
2006 Beijing Cubic Art Center, 11-ART.com / CN
2006 aut.architektur und tirol, Innsbruck / AT
2005 Exhibition Center of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna / AT
umspannen - drawing options >>
Exhibition project on topics and practices of the globalized finance and economy,
examined and informed by
methods and practices from visual and digital arts.
Audio-visual installation, drawings, neon, video at:
2005 Kunstraum Innsbruck
/ AT
2005 Plattform Raum für Kunst, Vienna /AT
Including a 4-channel sound by Peter Szely
form 4 enlitened elevation
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Economy, finance and the real world. Artistic research on the theory and practice of global property systems.
Live-Performances, video works, sculpture, objects,
and sound installation.
2004 Association of the
Austrian Industries, Vienna / AT
enlitenment >>
Logo.
Light Sculptures with different light materials.
Different locations.
Sexy Curves Revisited - Inside the Data Wave
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Real Time Audio-Visual Performance + Projection
2004 Architectural Biennal
Beijing / CN
2003 Biennal de Valencia / E
Both in cooperation with Norbert Brunner's Time Pill-project
CEOs >>
Video Portrait Series
Gerald Nestler & Toni Kleinlercher
Ongoing project, first
started 1999
Shows:
2005 "update", Künstlerhaus, Vienna / AT
2005 "Re-Act", Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center Copenhagen /
DK
Real Time Audio-Visual Installation
Gerald Nestler & Toni Kleinlercher
1999-2000 "Sozial Maschine Geld", group show, O.K Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz / AT
Solo exhibition, Installation, Video
1995, Gallery of the City of Innsbruck / AT
Real Data Stampede >>
Real-Data Concert for Mass Media and Computer
Thomas Feuerstein, Thomas Bergmann/Peter
Chiocchetti/Elmar Schaber,
Mathias Fuchs, Gerald Nestler, Peter Riedlsperger
1994, Utopia, Innsbruck / AT
