Tuesday, 08 August, 2023 - 16:29

Nicolas Wiese

*1976 in Itzehoe, Germany, is an audiovisual artist, designer and composer/performer of electroacoustic

music based in Berlin, where he has been living and working since 2006.

Wiese studied communication design, illustration and communication theory at the Uni­versity of Applied Sciences in Hamburg (completing his diploma in 2005). Apart from that, he attended Sound Studies at the University of Arts Berlin and courses in philosophy and sociology at the University of Hamburg.

Nicolas Wiese creates works in a wide range of formats and media, for various contexts: installation and spatial performance, contemporary electronic composition, relational and improvised music, graphic art, drawing, collage, radio and experimental film. His work tes­tifies to a strong interest in the deconstruction and reconstruction of found images / found sound / quotations from mass media and everyday life – centring on themes of ambiguous perception, contradiction and the suggestive use of images, of mediated communication. Speech, the written word, architecture, complex abstraction, and refraction of nostalgia all play important roles in Wiese’s aesthetic output. His stop-motion collage video techniques give rise to pieces rich in detail and layers which play with opacity and transparency, and often with the perception of time.

Performances, shows and screenings (selected):

Annual Digital Art Exhibition Teheran (Iran), Festival Sonikas Madrid (SP), Kettenreaktion 2016, Kulturnacht Solothurn, Imprimerie Basel (CH), De Witte Zaal Ghent (BE), Duotone Arts Festival Kelowna (CA), Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht, Velak-Gala Vienna (AT), De Witte Zaal Ghent (BE), Duotone Arts Festival Kelowna (CA), British Film Institute London (GB), Altera! Festival, Perditempo Naples (IT), Festival HoerenSehen / Berlinische Galerie, REM/ Museum Weserburg Bremen, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Konzerthaus Berlin, PODIUM Festival Esslingen, Blurred Edges Festival Hamburg (DE), Galerie Wohfahrt Rotterdam (NL), Urban Jealousy / Hafriyat Karakoy, Dogzstar Istanbul (TR).