Agenda

23.05 - 03.08.2025

ProtoZone19

curated by Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler, curatorial assistant Vanessa Bosch
01.08.2025

Queer Bay Day 2025

September 2025

ProtoZone20 (final ProtoZone of the current curatorium)

program tba. Curated by Lucie Tuma, Michelangelo Miccolis, Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler, curatorial assistant Vanessa Bosch

Nicholas Grafia

Nicholas Grafia (b.1990, Angeles City; based in Düsseldorf, Germany, and Paris, France, holds an MFA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (DE). He has previously studied at the School of Arts and Cultures in Newcastle (UK), the Kunstakademie Münster (DE), as well as the University of Münster (DE).

His paintings, videos and performances negotiate processes of memory formation, as well as the in- and exclusion of subjects from history writing.

His work has been recently exhibited at KW (Berlin, DE), CAPC (Bordeaux, FR), Silverlens (Manila, PH), Shoot the Lobster (New York, US), MoMa (Warsaw, PL), HKW (Berlin, DE), NS-Documentation Center (Munich, DE), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus, DK), Peres Projects (Berlin, DE), Bergen Kunsthall (Bergen, NO), K21 Museum (Düsseldorf, DE), Capitain Petzel (Berlin, DE), 7th Moscow International Biennale For Young Art (Moscow, RU), Shedhalle (Zurich, SUI), Koenig2 (Vienna, AT), Harkawik (New York, US), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, DE), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf, DE), Museum Ludwig (Cologne, DE), Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn, DE), Dortmunder Kunstverein (Dortmund, DE), Tramway (Glasgow, UK), MUDAM (Luxembourg, LU) and Steirischer Herbst (Graz, AT) amongst other venues.

Shedhalle – Nicholas Grafia

Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak - It's 10PM. Do you know where your children are? (performance, 2019, commissioned by Dortmunder Kunstverein, courtesy of the artists) photo: Roland Baege

Shedhalle – Nicholas Grafia

Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak - Rooms (performance, 2020, commissioned by Biennale Zielona Góra 2020, courtesy of the artists) photo: Paweł Janczaruk

Shedhalle – Nicholas Grafia

Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak - Rooms (performance, 2020, commissioned by Biennale Zielona Góra 2020, courtesy of the artists) photo: Paweł Janczaruk

Shedhalle – Nicholas Grafia

Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak - Rooms (performance, 2020, commissioned by Biennale Zielona Góra 2020, courtesy of the artists) photo: Paweł Janczaruk