CARSTEN NICOLAI
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2014
Unlimited (exhibition catalogue). Text by Marc Spiegler. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014: 110–1, illustrated.
2013
Carsten Nicolai: Syn Chron. Texts by Ingrid Buschmann, Gabriele Knapstein, Barbara Barthelmes, Carsten Nicolai, Martin Conrads, Helga de la Motte-Haber, Finn Geipel, and Kazunao Abe. Berlin: Gestalten, 2013.
2012
Art & Music—Search for New Synesthesia (exhibtion catalogue). Tokyo: Filmart-Sha Co., Ltd, 2012.
Aus Passion. Die Sammlung Hanck im Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (exhibition catalogue). Düsseldorf: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, 2012: 326, illustrated.
Chaton, Anne-James, Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) and Andy Moor. Decade. Raster-Noton, 2011.
Groos, Ulrike and Simone Schimpf. Tracing the Grid: The Grid in Art after 1945 (exhibition catalogue). Köln: Wienand Verlag, 2012: illustrated.
Hollein, Max and Martin Engler, eds. Gegenwarts-Kunst 1945–Heute im Städel Museum. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012: 249, illustrated.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 2
2011 Carsten Nicolai: pionier (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Audroné Žukauskaité and Julija Fomina. Leipzig, Germany: Spector Books, 2011.
Cyclo (Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai) ed. cyclo. id vol. 1. Berlin: Gestalten, 2011.
2010
50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2010: illustrated.
Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Revolver, 2010.
Nicolai, Carsten, ed. Moiré Index (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Gestalten, 2010.
Rudolf Steiner und die Kunst der Gegenwart (exhibition catalogue). Köln: DuMont Buchverlag, 2010.
2009
60 Jahre 60 Werke: Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949 bis 2009 (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Wienand Verlag, 2009: 244–45, 348, 371, illustrated.
Berlin2000 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Marcus Steinweg, Gunter Reski, Ariane Müller et al. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2009: 95, illustrated.
Carsten Nicolai: Aoyama Space (exhibition catalogue). Austria: Kunstraum Innsbruck, 2009.
Nicolai, Carsten. Grid Index. Berlin: Gestalten Verlag, 2009.
Rattemeyer, Christian, ed. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. Catalogue Raisonné. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009: 205–6, illustrated.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 3
See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision (exhibition catalogue). Austria: Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, 2009. (Catalogue)
2008
Love at First Site (exhibition catalogue). Prague: FUTURA/ Goethe-Institut, 2008. Spots, Light and Media Façade: Exhibitions: City Gaze, Transition, Pop-up (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: HVB-Immobilien AG, Geschaftstelle Berlin, 2008.
2007
Carsten Nicolai: fades. Text by Daniel Klemm. Berlin: Raster-Noton, 2007: illustrated.
Carsten Nicolai: static fades (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Dorothea Strauss, Klaus Ottmann, Christoph Doswald, Britta Schroder. Zürich: Haus Konstruktiv, 2007.
The History Book: On Moderna Museet 1958–2008. Germany: Steidl, 2008.
Hollein, Max and Nicolas Schafhausen. Kunst/Art. Lufthansa Aviation Center. Ostfildern: Revolver, 2007. Say It Isn’t So: Art Trains Its Sights on the Natural Sciences (exhibition catalogue). Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 2007.
Schmidt, Hans-Werner, ed. Nullsechsnullsieben. Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Leipzig: 2008.
Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia (exhibition catalogue). Moscow: ArtChronika, 2007.
Silence: Listen to the Show (exhibition catalogue). Text by Francesco Bonami. Turin, Italy: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2007.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 4
Solo. Italy: Deutsche Akademie Rom, Villa Massimo, 2007. http://www.carstennicolai.de/d/publications/pdf/solo.pdf
Spots. Licht- und Medienfassade (exhibition catalogue). Munich: HVB Immobilien AG, 2007.
utp_: Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ensemble Modern. Texts by Julian Weber and Elke Buhr. Mannheim: Büro, 2007.
2006
Arbeiten auf Papier (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dr. Brigitte Rieger. Frankfurt: Museum Junge Kunst, 2006.
Constructing New Berlin: Contemporary Art Made in Post-Wall Berlin (exhibition catalogue). Text by Brady M. Roberts. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 2006.
Daniel, Noel, ed. Broken Screen: 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken: Expanding the Image Breaking the Narrative. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2006
Frieze Art Fair 2006 (exhibition catalogue). London: Frieze, 2006.
[Grid < > Matrix] (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick. St. Louis, Missouri: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2006.
New Space (exhibition catalogue). Kiev: Pinchuk Art Centre, 2006.
Resonance: Electromagnetic Bodies (exhibition catalogue). Budapest: Ludwig Múzeum, 2006.
The Singapore Biennale: BELIEF (exhibition catalogue). Singapore: The National Museum of Singapore, 2006.
Site Santa Fe Sixth International Biennale: Still Points of the Turning World (exhibition catalogue). Santa Fe, New Mexico: SITE Santa Fe, 2006.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 5
Sonambiente Berlin 2006, Festival Für Hören und Sehen, Klang Kunst Sound Art (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: 2006.
Tannert, Christoph. New German Painting. Remix. Munich: Prestel, 2006: 186-191.
Twenty Years of Schirn. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2006.
2005
Artist Archives–New Ones of Works to Historical Existence (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2005.
Carsten Nicolai—Anti Reflex (exhibition catalogue) Texts by Max Hollein, Magnus Haglund, and Yuko Hasegawa. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle, 2005.
Carsten Nicolai: Audio Visual Spaces (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Philippe Van Cauteren, Ive Stevenheydens, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Antonio Somaini. Gent, Belgium: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), 2005.
Carsten Nicolai: Syn Chron , Architectural Body as Interface. Space. Light. Sound (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Neue Nationalgalerie, 2005.
Conversations with Snow and Ice. Observation/Imagination in Art and Science (exhibition catalogue). Riga,Latvia: The Natural History Museum of Latvia, 2005.
Künstler.Archiv: Neue Werke zu historischen Beständen. Carsten Nicolai - Sub Vision, Vol. 6 (exhibition catalogue). Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005: illustrated.
Open Nature (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC], 2005.
Schmidt, Petra ed. Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2005: 210–213.
Schrift. Zeichen. Geste. Carlfriedrich Claus im Kontext von Klee bis Pollock (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, 2005: 456–457, illustrated.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 6
Sounds like Drawing (exhibition catalogue). Text by Anthony Huberman. London: The Drawing Room, 2005. Transatlantic Impulses –10 Years of Villa Aurora (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau, 2005.
2004
Densité ±0 (exhibition catalogue). Paris: École nationale des beaux arts, 2004.
.ipeg.bild.ton.maschine (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2004.
Verdrame, Simona, ed. Carsten Nicolai: Diary # 03. Milan: Tema Celeste Editions, 2004: illustrated.
2003
50th Venice Biennale: Dreams and Conflicts, The Dictatorship of the Viewer (exhibition catalogue). Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 2003: illustrated.
ABSTRACTION NOW (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Sandro Droschl, Christian Höller, Lev Manovich, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Marc Ries, Marie Röbl. Vienna: Künstlerhaus Wein, 2003. Actionbutton: Neuerwerbungen zur Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2000–2002 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Stefan Heidenreich and Veit Loers. Bonn: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, 2003.
Berlin Moskow/ Moskow Berlin, 1950-2000 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Pawl Choroschilow. Berlin: Martin Gropius-Bau, 2003.
Cream 3: Contemporary Art in Culture. London: Phaidon, 2003: illustrated.
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (exhibition catalogue). Echigo-Tsumari Region, Japan: Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers, 2003.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 7
Intervista con la pittura. Colllettiva di artisti internazionali a cura di Gianni Romano (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Postmedia, 2003. The Moderns (exhibition catalogue). Turin, Italy: Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, 2003. Nano (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Galerie Fraîch’ Attitude, 2003.
2002
Aussendienst: Kunstprojekten in öffentlichen Räumen Hamburgs (exhibition catalogue). Freiburg: Modo, 2002.
Carsten Nicolai: Auto Pilot (exhibition catalogue). Text by Takashi Ikegami, et al. Berlin: Raster–Noton, 2002: illustrated.
Frequencies [Hz]: Audio–Visual Spaces (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Knut Asdam, et al. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2002: illustrated.
P_A_U_S_E: Gwangju Biennale 2002 (exhibition catalogue). Korea: Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2002.
2001 7th International İstanbul Biennial (exhibition catalogue). Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 2001.
49th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: Plateau of Humankind (exhibition catalogue). Venice:La Biennale di Venezia, 2001.
Acquired II: Acquired 1996-2000. Painting, Diagram, Three-dimensional One Work, Photographies, Videos (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden, 2001.
Art>Music: Rock, Pop, Techno (exhibition catalogue). Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 8
Cyberarts 2001: Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Austria: O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, 2001.
Media Connection (exhibition catalogue). Rome: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 2001.
2000
00: Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery (exhibition catalogue). Text by Klaus Kertess. New York: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2000: 65, illustrated.
Bildwechsel: Aktuelle Malerei aus Sachsen und Thüringen, Städtisches (exhibition catalogue). Bonn: Weidle Verlag, 2000. Frieling, Rudolf, and Daniels, Dieter. Medien Kunst Interaktion – Die 80er und 90er Jahre in Deutschland. New York: Springer, 2000.
iHOP (exhibition catalogue). Lund: Lunds Konsthall, 2000.
Malkunst: Painting Today in Berlin (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Fondazione Mudima, 2000.
Nicolai, Carsten. Milch: Heft 2. Berlin: Noto/Carsten Nicolai, 2000.
Nicolai, Carsten. Prototypen: Heft 1 (exhibition catalogue). Luckenwalde: Kunsthalle Vierseithof, 2000.
Premio Michetti 2000, Painting in Europe: Different Perspectives (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Gianni Romano, Martin Maloney, Wim Peters, Lane Relyea, and Barbara Casavecchia. Italy: Mumi–Michetti Museum Francavilla al Mare, 2000.
Raster–Noton.Oacis (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Raster–Noton, 2000.
QUOBO: Art Berlin 1989–1999 (exhibition catalogue). Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., 2000.
Sound Art: Sound as Media (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], 2000.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 9
1999
After the Wall: Kunst und Kultur im postkommunistischen Europa (exhibition catalogue). Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1999.
Empty Garden (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: WATARI–UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999.
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Judith Nesbitt and Francesco Bonami. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1999: illustrated.
FORMULE 2 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Cornel Bierens, Gerrit Gohlke, Iris Dik, Peter Henkens, Christoph Tannert,Susanne Witzgall, Ijsbrand van Veelen. Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 1999.
Kraftwerk Berlin (exhibition catalogue). Text by Heike Föll. Denmark: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1999.
TRACE: The Liverpool International Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Liverpool: Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art/ Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1999.
1998
13 Konstellationen mit Holzdrucken un Stanzungen. Gotha/Berlin/Chemnitz: Edition Balance; Galerie EIGEN + ART, 1998.
Carsten Nicolai: Polyfoto (exhibition catalogue). Nürnberg: Verlag fr Moderne Kunst, 1998: illustrated.
Noto. Endless. Berlin: Raster–Noton, 1998: illustrated.
The Singuhr Sound Gallery in Parochial: Sound Art–Exhibitions 1996-1998, Symposium 1998 (exhibition catalogue). Saarbrücken: PFAU-Verlag, 1998.
1997
Atlas Mapping (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Paolo Bianchi and Sabine Folie. Linz: Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, 1997.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 10
Cartografia (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Marion Piffer-Damiani, Sabine Folie, Christoph Doswald. Bolzano: AR/GE Kunst, Galerie Museum, Galleria Museo Bozen, 1997. Politics, Poetics : Documenta X (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Catherine David and Jean-François Chevrier. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz, 1997: illustrated.
1996 Carsten Nicolai: Nerv +Spin (exhibition catalogue). Text by Günther Gercken. Augsburg: Städtische Kunstsammlungen, 1996: illustrated.
In Concerto (exhibition catalogue). Palmero, Italy: Goethe-Institut, 1996.
Projektor: Olaf Nicolai, Carsten Nicolai (exhibition catalogue). Reutlingen: Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, 1996.
1995
Carsten Nicolai: SPIN & KÄFIG Material (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Kunstverein Konstanz, 1995: illustrated.
Die Neuaufteilung der Welt (exhibition catalogue). Text by Frank Eckart. Germany: Kunstverein Göttingen, 1995. Elsen, Thomas. “Weiße Leere.” In Von Baumeister bis Balkenhol–Die Sammlung Lühl. Germany: Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, 1995.
Junge Künstler aus Sachsen (exhibition catalogue). Frankfurt: Museum Junge Kunst, 1995.
Junge Kunst International (exhibition catalogue). Lübeck, Germany: Overbeck-Gesellschaft, 1995
Leipziger Künstler (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, 1995.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 11
Preis der Pfalzgalerie Für Klassische Verfahren der Orginalgrafik (exhibition catalogue). Text by D. Höfchen, Germany: Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, 1995.
1994
Carsten Nicolai: Schwarz Holz (exhibition catalogue). Text by Peter Guth. Reutlingen, Germany: Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, 1994: illustrated.
Carsten Nicolai: Twin Twin (exhibition catalogue). Text by Manfred Tschirner. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1994.
Georgius Agricola. Bergwelten 1494–1994 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Thomas Elsen. Germany: Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, 1994.
Eckart, Frank. Ansichten eines Raumes. Leipzig: Edition EIGEN + ART, 1994.
Leipzig Kommt (exhibition catalogue). Text by Johannes Janssen. Munich: Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Straße, 1994.
Welt-Moral: Moralvorstellungen in der Kunst heute (exhibition catalogue). Switzerland: Kunsthalle Basel, 1994.
Zeitblilck (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Kunstlandschaft Sachsen, Schloß Dresden, 1994.
1993
Carsten Nicolai: Corpus (exhibition catalogue). Text by Heiner Stachelhaus. Stuttgart: DACO-Verlag, 1993.
Carsten Nicolai: Morbus (exhibition catalogue). Leipzig: Editions Galerie EIGEN + ART, 1993.
Ein Jahrhundert des Holzschnitts (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Hanna Hohl and Günther Gercken. Germany: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1993.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 12
Philbrick, Jane, ed. The Return of the Cadavre Exquis (exhibition catalogue). Text by Ann Philbin. New York: The Drawing Center, 1993: illustrated.
We Are in New York: Rainer Görss, Jörd Herold, Kaesberg, Uwe Kowski, Maix Mayer, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, Cornelia Parker, Annelies Stroba (exhibition catalogue). Leipzig: Editions Galerie EIGEN + ART, 1993.
1992 Cartsten Nicolai: Aug & Labyrinth (exhibition catalogue). Leipzig: Editions Galerie EIGEN + ART, 1992.
Carsten Nicolai: Running Sap (exhibition catalogue). Leipzig: Editions Galerie EIGEN + ART, 1992.
Druckgraphische Mappenwerke, 1960–1991. Germany: Museum Schloß Morsbroich Leverkusen, 1992.
Eckart, Frank. Die Weiße Leere. Austria: Edition Galerie Hilger, 1992. Thomas, Karin. “Utopie und Menetekel des bildnerischen Eigen–Sinns.” In Jenseits der Staatskultur. Munich/ Wien: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1992.
1991
981: Carsten Nicolai, Thomas Schliesser. Leipzig: Galerie EIGEN + ART, 1991.
Galerie EIGEN + ART 1983–1991 (exhibition catalogue). Leverkusen, Germany: Bayer AG, 1991.
Leipziger Bildermesse (exhibition catalogue). Leipzig: Ed. Lebensretter, 1991.
1990
Der Block. Leipzig: Edition Galerie EIGEN + ART, 1990. Ebersbach, Hartwig. “Er ist es–Carsten Nicolai.” In Kunst in der DDR. Köln: Kiepenheuer & Wirth, 1990. Gross von Trockau, Irma. “Carsten Nicolai.” In Zwölf Chemnitzer Künstler. Munich: A1 Verlag, 1990.
Carsten Nicolai: Selected Bibliography—Books 13
II Chemnitzer Künstler (exhibition catalogue). Munich: Praterinsel, 1990.
Tradition + Innovation (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, 1990.
ZWEI PLUS EINS (exhibition catalogue). Germany: Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, 1990.
1987
Rennbahnobjekt (exhibition catalogue). Dresden, Germany: Galerie Fotogen, 1987.