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Nüans. Artist Collective

Project by nüans (Anna Heidenhain, Elmar Hermann, Maki Umehara)

2006-16

Based in: Rheinland (Germany), Istanbul, Berlin, Tokyo, etc.

A talk event was held at the project space nüans (Düsseldorf, Germany, 2006), where nüans' idea along with German artists' intentions was presented. Since then artist collective nüans pursues a conceptual approach that is the cornerstone of the projects. Nüans does not try to represent the same way as individual works by each of nüans/ members. The framewok of projects by nüans as follows:

《Concept and text will be highlighted. Other artists will be invited. The projects will be formed by using concept much rather than material.》Thus, while working together with artists, nüans had been exploring curatorial projects as well as collaborative works.

Exhibition’s view: Turtle Project by Michael H. Shamberg, nüans / wall painting by Kim Schoenstadt, "stair good" / nüans, Düsseldorf / curated by: Michael H. Shamberg, nüans / Turtle Project in:PROP:Proud to Be a V.I.P., exh. cat. & artists' book, nüans, 2007

Most of the artists in the artists' book PROP participated in the exh. of nüans project.

September, 2006 - March, 2007〈Project space nüans; divers places in Düsseldorf〉

Exhibitions〈project space nüans〉 (#01-06)
Curated by
nüans

#01 First 3 Sec.
Oct. 21., 2006 - Nov. 11., 2006

#02 Straight Stories
Nov. 18., 2006 - Dec. 3., 2006

#03 Szpilman Award
Dec. 7., 2006 - Dec. 10., 2006

#04 Love, Cables and Voices
Dec. 17., 2006 - Jan. 7., 2007

#05 The Fit
ーA Collaboration with Michael Shamberg's Turtle Salon
Feb. 4., 2007 - Feb. 25., 2007

#06 The Centre of Attention
Mar. 3., 2006 - Mar. 24., 2006

Artists / Exhibitions

Christian Aberle
Markus Ambach
Yukako Ando
Oleg Burjan
Lisa Busche
Martin Flemming
Frido Evers
The Centre of Attention
Discoteca Flaming Star
Arpad Dobriban
Christiane Fochtmann
Silvia Götz
Curt Hergarden
Django Hernández
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Gabriele Horndasch
Gilta Jansen & Britta Ebermann
Marietta Kersting
Dieter Kiessling
Martina Klein
Lederlust
Dirk van Lieshout
Jen Liu
Pol Matthé
Ruan MES 56
Rita McBride
Christopher Muller
Pathetic Sympathy Seekers
Sun-Min Park & Sun Hun Choi
Anne Pöhlmann
The Raincoats: Gina Birch & Ana da Silva
Glen Rubsamen
Michael H. Shamberg
Monika Stricker
Mouse on Mars
Stephanie Trojan
Jörn Stoya & Anton Corbijn
Kristina Stoyanova
Katja Stuke
Szpilman
Tasogare World
Sven Weigel & Christine Moldricks
Natsuko Tamba Wyder

Guest: Michael H. Shamberg

Turtle Salon within the group exh. The FIT
February 3., 2007 - February 25., 2007
Works by

Etel Adnan
John Baldessari
Anna Blessmann & Peter Saville
Wynn Dan
Imi Knoebel
Stef Kolman & Selene Kolman
Louise Lawler
Piper Mavis
David Pears
The Raincoats: Gina Birch & Ana da Silva
Maya Ramsay
Kim Schoenstadt
Leah Singer
Lawrence Weiner

Films〈Filmstudio Bambi, Düsseldorf〉

37 Uses for a Dead Sheep / directed by: Ben Hopkins / 2006 [UK] digital (collage of Super-8 film, 16mm and digital footage) / 85 min
Wittgenstein / directed by: Derek Jarman / 1993 [UK] 35mm / 75 min
Film ohne Titel / directed by: Rudolph Jugert / 1946-47 / [DE] 35mm / 96 min
Souvenir / directed by: Michael H. Shamberg / 1998 [UK, FRA, NL] 35mm / 78 min

[Notes] Michael H. Shamberg
Michael H. Shamberg initiated the project 'Turtle Salon', by which one of the motivations was having developed mitochondrial disease, an incurable nervous disease. This exhibition, Turtle Salon was donated to Shamberg by his friends, the collaborators, the artists, and the members of nüans.

Talk events / Screening / Reading
September, 2006 - March, 2007

With
Markus Ambach / a talk event
Lutz Becker / a talk event
Ralf Brög / a talk event
Arpad Dobriban / "Die ewige Wanderung nach Westen" a talk event / full course
Tom Dreibrodt / "Lets get physical!"〈films by David Cronenberg〉a talk event / screening
Thomas Flor / a talk event
Elke Kania / "Let's get physical!"〈films by David Cronenberg〉a talk event / screening
Haure Madjid / "Nord-Irak" screening
Christopher Muller / "What we talk about when we talk about love"〈stories by Raymond Carver〉a reading
Kathleen Rahn / A talk event
Glen Rubsamen / "Planetscapes"〈sci-fi mag. and image〉a talk event
Martin Scherfenberg / a talk event
Mark von Schlegell / "High wichita"〈Mark von Schlegell, Venusia, Semiotexte, 2005〉a talk event
Maya Ramsay / a talk event
Michael H. Shaberg / "The turtle and the butterfly"〈poetry in image, music and text〉a talk event / "Upside down turtles"〈morning swim〉sound sketch with Mouse on Mars, screening
Thomas Schmidt (Inges Idee) / "Growing Gardener" a talk event
Dr. Gerhard Schurz / "Kulturelle Evolution" a lecture
Jörn Stoya / "Ich bin gefangen" a talk event
Susanne Titz / "A woman who..."〈works by Yvonne Rainer〉a talk event / screening
Oliver Kunkel / "Mosquitobox" a talk event

September, 2006 - March, 2007

Many thanks to anonymous people whose advices on every side made this public program possible.
With the cooprtation of / Supported by
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Aquazoo, Düsseldorf
Ballhaus, Düsseldorf
Filmstudio Bambi, Düsseldorf
Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf
Junges Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf
National bank of, Andi Toma (Mouse on Mars), studio in Düsseldorf
Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (Germany) [PROP (Vierwände Festival, Hofgarten, Düsseldorf; The FIT / Turtle Salon)]
Pola Art Foundation (Japan) [Overseas Research Fellowship]

PROP〈proud to be a v.i.p.〉Tour

April, 2007 - January, 2008

#01 PROP1
Apr., 2007
Junges Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Germany
Before a print, for the proposal of the artists' book PROP
Exh., Curt Hergarden; Sven Weigel & Christine Moldricks; Dirk van Lieshout

#02 PROP2
Summer, 2007
Künstlerverein Malkasten (Malkastenpark), Düsseldorf, Germany
Before a print, for the proposal of the artists' book PROP
Event / performance with: Pathetic Sympathy Seekers

#03 PROP3
Sep., 2007
Vierwände Festival, Hofgarten, Düsseldorf, Germany
Before a print / for the proposal of the artists' book PROP
Group exh., Lisa Busche; Christiane Fochtmann; Gabriele Horndasch
Concert with: The Raincoats: Gina Birch & Ana da Silva; Lederlust; Tasogare World

#04 PROP Magazin Präsentation
Oct., 2007
Kölnerstraße; Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Düsseldorf, Germany
Published / book launch with: Jörn Stoya & Anton Corbijn

#05 PROP Magazin Präsentation
Dec., 2007
Bonner Kunstverein, Germany
Event / performance with: Elke Kania, Hugo Schneider

#06 PROP Magazin Präsentation
Dec., 2007
Stedefreund, Berlin, Germany
Group exh. nüans / event with: Discoteca Flaming Star

#07 Tasogare doki
Jan., 2008
Ballhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
Exh., Kristina Stoyanova / concert with: Tasogare World

PROP ▷

Documental

A curatorial work shown at nüans, Düsseldorf in 2006-07 read the first meeting with artist Kim Schoenstadt (based in Los Angeles) alongside Turtle Project by Shamberg / Schoenstadt's wall painting that was the starting point for this video exchange. The video exchange that Kim Schoenstadt, Micol Hebron and nüans one year later realized includes:

#01, 02 Documental
June, 2008
Pilot project für Kunst e.V.; Künstlerverein Malkasten (screening, Malkastenpark), Düsseldorf, Germany
Works by:

Angela Ellsworth
Nancy Popp
Summer Shiffman
Kevin Young & Kent Young
[USA / digital]

#03 Documental

October, 2008
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, USA
Works by:

Anina Brisolla
Eli Cortiñas
Marcus Herse
Kao Okada
[DE / digital]

Curated by: Kim Schoenstadt, Micol Hebron, nüans
Photo: exh., entrance, Documental (#01)

[Notes] URL: www.nuans.de

There was a problem with nüans' website at the maintenance. In 2016 we (nüans by: Anna Heidenhain, Elmar Hermann, Maki Umehara) have accidentally lost the website and its data.

At nüans' projects, there are the photographs, books, booklets and works produced by nüans (2006-16). Unless stated on this website otherwise the works produced / written at nüans' projects.