Olaf Nicolai

♂ *1962 / Germany

Works

Solo exhibitions

I never look at you from the place from which you see me

Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin (DE)
27 Apr 2023 – 27 May 2023
Z. POINT

Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York (US)
3 Oct 2013 – 16 Nov 2013
Blondes

Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin (DE)
4 Mar 2005 – 7 May 2005
Blondes

BASE - Progetti per l'arte, Firenze (IT)
18 Oct 2003 – 10 Dec 2003

Group

Messengers From Above

Meteoriten – mysteriöse Boten aus dem All

ERES Stiftung, München (DE)
5 Dec 2024 – 27 Sep 2025

with Yael Bartana, Bogomir Ecker, Rodney Graham, Sonia Leimer, Regine Petersen, Julius von Bismarck
Join the Dots

Unire le distanze

Salone degli Incanti dell'ex Pescheria, Trieste (IT)
29 May 2018 – 2 Sep 2018

with Vito Acconci, Uli Aigner, Uli Aigner, Nika Autor, Alfredo Barsuglia, Ecke Bonk, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Ernst Caramelle, Christo & Jeanne-Claude , Jasmina Cibic, Martin Fengel, Thomas Feuerstein …
More Than Just Words [On the Poetic]

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (AT)
8 Mar 2017 – 7 May 2017

with John Baldessari, Elisabetta Benassi, Natalie Czech, Michael Dean, Joao Maria Gusmao og Pedro Paiva, Ketty La Rocca, Fernando Ortega, Jenny Perlin, Olve Sande, Erica Scourti, Michael Snow, Mladen Stilinovic …
Deutscher Pavillon. La Biennale di Venezia 2015

Venice Biennale - DE, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Jasmina Metwaly / Philip Rizk, Hito Steyerl, Tobias Zielony
The Venice Biennale - 56th International Art Exhibition

All the World's Futures

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Adel Abdessemed, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Abounaddara, Boris Achour, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Kutluğ Ataman, Maja Bajevic, Ernesto Ballesteros, Sammy Baloji, Rosa Barba …
SUMMER OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York (US)
12 Jul 2013 – 21 Sep 2013

with Doug Aitken, Darren Almond, Nobuyoshi Araki, John Baldessari, Uta Barth, Peter Blake, Chuck Close, Anne Collier, William Eggleston, Fischli & Weiss, Adam Fuss, Robert Gober …
Schenkung Herbert Lange

Fotografien 1925-2009

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz (DE)
3 Mar 2013 – 20 May 2013

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, Boris Becker, Joachim Brohm, Robert Haeusser, Candida Hoefer, Matthias Hoch, Bertram Kober, Duane Michals, Dieter Münzberg, Olaf Rauh, Timm Rautert, Albert Renger-Patzsch …
Aneignung der Gegenwart

Sammlungsausstellung 2012, Teil 1

GfZK, Leipzig (DE)
6 Oct 2012 – 9 Dec 2012

with Tina Bara, Sibylle Bergemann, Alba D'Urbano, Peter Riedlinger, Erasmus Schroeter, Thomas Struth
A Blind Spot - Berlin Documentary Forum 2

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
31 May 2012 – 1 Jul 2012

with Eric Baudelaire, Elisabetta Benassi, Marguerite Duras, Jean Eustache, David Goldblatt, Straub/Huillet, Hassan Khan, Thierry Knauff, Joachim Koester, Vincent Meessen, Melik Ohanian, Efrat Shvily …
Arkadien

Städtische Galerie, Villingen-Schwenningen (DE)
13 Jun 2010 – 29 Aug 2010

with Joerg Sasse, Yvonne Trapp
Journeys With No Return

London - Berlin - Istanbul

A Foundation, London (GB)
18 Feb 2010 – 14 Mar 2010

with Nevin Aladag, Kiran Kaur Brar, Ergin Cavusoglu, Adam Chodzko, Melanie Manchot, Olaf Metzel, Zineb Sedira, Asli Sungu, Nasan Tur, Clemens von Wedemeyer
UNDERDOX 03 - dokument und experiment

Filmmuseum, München (DE)
2 Oct 2008 – 8 Oct 2008

with Antoni Abad, Jordi Colomer, Manon de Boer, Cora Piantoni, Oliver Pietsch, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Liang ZHAO
Kopf an Kopf

Serielle Porträtfotografie

Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen (DE)
15 Sep 2007 – 25 Nov 2007

with Valerie Belin, Christian Boltanski, Luc Delahaye, General Idea, Alexander Honory, Alfredo Jaar, Noah Kalina, Juergen Klauke, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Jonathan Monk, Ken Ohara, Ralf Peters …
Shake Your Money Maker

Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (DE)
20 Jan 2007 – 3 Mar 2007

with Bettina Allamoda, Jens Haaning, Helmut Kandl, Johanna Kandl
Landschaft

Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin (DE)
1 Jul 2006 – 26 Aug 2006

with Annelies Strba, Maix Mayer, Carsten Nicolai, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
Urban Creatures

curated by Dorothee Bienert

Pori Art Museum, Pori (FI)
27 Jan 2006 – 30 May 2006

with Ulf Aminde, Sergio Belinchon, Shahram Entekhabi, Remy Markowitsch, Bjoern Melhus, Maya Roos, Michaela Schweiger, Mathilde ter Heijne
The Venice Biennial - 51st International Art Exhibition

Directors: María de Corral and Rosa Martínez

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
12 Jun 2005 – 6 Nov 2005

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pilar Albarracin, Helena Almeida, Vasco Araujo, Ahmed Askalany, Miriam Baeckstroem, Rebecca Belmore, Guy Ben-Ner, Blue Noses, John Bock, Candice Breitz, Tania Bruguera …
Changes of Mind: Belief and Transformation

Haunch of Venison, London (GB)
7 Jul 2005 – 25 Aug 2005

with Nathan Coley, Roberto Cuoghi, Douglas Gordon, Mariko Mori, Magda Tothova, Bill Viola
Sharjah International Biennial 7

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
6 Apr 2005 – 6 Jun 2005

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Maja Bajevic, Ursula Biemann, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Sonia Boyce, Miguel Calderon, Claude Closky, Phil Collins, Com & Com, Minerva Cuevas, Pio Díaz …
Model Modernisms

Artists Space, New York (US)
9 Mar 2005 – 23 Apr 2005

with Carol Bove, Nathan Coley, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Florian Pumhösl, Bojan Sarcevic
Now’s the time

Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (AT)
29 Jan 2005 – 5 Mar 2005

with Doug Aitken, D-Fuse, Christoph Draeger, Alexander Györfi, Michel Majerus, Maix Mayer, Sarah Morris, Daniel Pflumm, Richard Prince, Johannes Wohnseifer
Die Zukunft ist nicht, was sie einmal war

GfZK, Leipzig (DE)
28 Nov 2004 – 16 Jan 2005

with Josef Dabernig, Dorit Margreiter, Deimantas Narkevicius, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Roman Ondak
Art hypermarkets. Contesting consumerism

Palazzo delle papesse, Siena (IT)
9 Oct 2004 – 9 Jan 2005

with Anette Baldauf, collectif_fact, Minerva Cuevas, Jan Fabre, Michel Francois, Raymond Hains, Kristof Kintera, Barbara Kruger, Eva & Franco Mattes, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Erwin Olaf, Marco Papa …
Die Zehn Gebote

Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (DE)
19 Jun 2004 – 2 Jan 2005

with Adel Abdessemed, Francis Alys, Yael Bartana, Marc Bijl, Janet Cardiff, Thomas Demand, Harun Farocki, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Sylvie Fleury, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Andreas Gursky, Stefan Höller …

Events

Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023

Gallery Weekend Berlin, Berlin (DE)
28 Apr 2023 – 30 Apr 2023

with Sibylle Bergemann, Aenne Biermann, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, CAO Fei, Jitka Hanzlova, Aziz Hazara, Hiwa K, Barbara Klemm, Lucia Koch, Bjoern Melhus, Lucia Moholy, Hito Steyerl
The Venice Biennale - 51st International Art Exhibition

Directors: María de Corral and Rosa Martínez

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
12 Jun 2005 – 6 Nov 2005

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Pilar Albarracin, Helena Almeida, Vasco Araujo, Ahmed Askalany, Miriam Baeckstroem, Rebecca Belmore, Guy Ben-Ner, Blue Noses, John Bock, Candice Breitz, Tania Bruguera …
Sharjah International Biennial 7

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
6 Apr 2005 – 6 Jun 2005

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Maja Bajevic, Ursula Biemann, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Sonia Boyce, Miguel Calderon, Claude Closky, Phil Collins, Com & Com, Minerva Cuevas, Pio Díaz …