Nikolai Szymanski (born 1986, Düsseldorf) is an artist living and working in Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany. He uses a wide variety of media with a focus on film/video, performance and music - whereby all areas give each other impulses. In a narrower artistic framework (exhibition, gallery) he stages his works site-specifically and installatively. Performative interventions (for example at BER - Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Summer 2019) form the soft transition to his musical work.
CV
2019
Hauntonomy, solo exhibition, ITALIC, Berlin
2018
KHM Rundgang 2018, group show at Academy of Media Arts Cologne
(contributions: Caught on Cam, video, 2018; RTR Video Proposals, installation, 2018 (w/ Manuel Boden))
Once The Beat Is Right, karaoke installation/ performance by AreWeThereYet?
(Phil Collins seminar group) for Floating University Berlin
2 min ago, (Düsseldorf Photo 2018) group show on billboards in the public space, Düsseldorf
(contribution: DuRaRaRa, digital photo, 2017)
Ghostshopping, group show / KHM booth at Art Cologne 2018, Cologne
(contribution: GHOSTSHOPPING, video, 2017)
Film Ohne Film, group show at 31st Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart
(contribution: DISSOLVE 2, performance/ installation, w/ Manuel Boden, Andreas Niegl, Karen Zimmermann)
2017
ORIGINAL SIN, performance/ concert by Susanne Sachsse and Xiu Xiu,
with contributions by the Phil Collins seminar group, Silent Green, Berlin
KHM Rundgang 2017, group show at Acadamy of Media Arts Cologne
(contribution: GHOSTSHOPPING, video, 2017)
MY LAPIS LULLABY, solo exhibition, ITALIC, Berlin
PLI SCORE PLI, group performance by Christian Jendreiko, Kunstmuseum Solingen
2016
Perlen & Korallen, group show by the KHM video art seminar group, Gold+Beton, Cologne
2015 - present
Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2015
THE GHOSTS ARE OUTSIDE, group show, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin
(contribution: I FORGOT MY MANTRA, digital poster/ print)
2014
RUNNING, video segment for Hall&Rauch’s Jugenstijl, screening at Temporary gallery, Cologne
ADIOS, music video for BAR, screening at Filmwerkstatt/ Kunstfilmtage Düsseldorf
MAMY BLUE, video installation for Quadriennale Düsseldorf, Video-Parcours (w/ Alex Wissel)
2012
Königstreffen, group performance by Christian Jendreiko, Berger Kirche, Düsseldorf
2010
Living in a Magazine, group show, Mülheim an der Ruhr
2009 - 2013
University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf (Design & Media Arts)