BIOGRAPHY

(curated by Jan Flemming)
Heinrich Nicolaus was born in Munich in 1955 and attended the Academy of Fine arts at Kiel during the nineteen-seventies - a decade of intense critical analysis of the state of contemporary art. Though he became involved in the Neo-Expressionist movement, his cultural references point rather to strong Neo-Dadaist roots. Since he left Germany for Italy in 1981, his works have brought to bear a range of different but complimentary disciplines: over and above painting he uses sculpture, publishing, graphics and video so as to create those dynamic and mutating developments that have defined his artistic route. Nicolaus works at a multitude of levels, in a refined and thoughtful artistic quest that allows the viewer to immerse himself in what amounts to an eclectic and independent vision. Nicolaus started to practice a systematic research as a method of art production in the early 1990.
In 1992 he oversaw Tirania 9, a publishing project on Marcel Broodthaers and the production of a book entitled Madras, with Francesco Clemente.
The artist became a cultural ingeneer In 1996, when he coordinated ICECOCU, a project for an international cultural foundation for the SsanYong Corporation in Seoul, South Korea. Since 1999 he has been involved in the Dormice Department of Research project. In 2005 he took up his own work again with the cycle of works entitled Clante, in collaboration with the art historian Wolf Guenter Thiel, and also founded MOMAP (Museum of Modern Art Panzano, 2005). Since 2007 he is developing ToM as a collaborative work of art based on the “Teatro della Memoria” by Giulio Camillo. In 2010 – after 30 years, he leaves Italy in order to live and collaborate with the Dutch Designer Karin Draaijer in Belgium. 2010 foundation of V.A.M.P project space in Peer, Belgium.

He has been a member of the Accademia degli Incolti in Rome since 1994.

Nicolaus' work can be found in the following collections: The Uffici, Florence, the Albertina, Vienna; Museum moderner Kunst, Linz, the Deutsche Bank Collection Fankfurt and Singapore, the Chase Manhattan Collection, New York; the Leopold Hoesch Museum, Dueren; the Wuerth Museum, Kuenzelsau; the City of Munich Collection, the City of Kiel Collection; the FRAC Collection Burgundy and Strasbourg; the Toulouse Museum; Palazzo Forti, Verona (with Dormice); the Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art, Arizona; the University of Graz; the Kunstkolletion Bouw Fonds, Hoevelaken; the Griesbach Collection, Graz; the Frieder Burda Collection, Baden Baden; the Amsler Collection Aarau, Suisse, Greve in Chianti (open-air sculpture) and Civitella d’Agliano (open-air sculpture). He has been the subject of published work by: Sandro Candreva, Fabio Cavallucci, Viana Conti, Andrea B. del Guercio, Maria Luisa Frisa, Siegfried Gnichwitz, Wolfgang Hilger, Wolfgang Längsfeld, Karl Heinz Schmidt, Friedhelm Mennekes Norbert Messler Giandomenico Semeraro Martin Stather, Wolf- Günter Thiel, Elda Torres, Thomas Veit, Frank Günter Zehnder, Alessandra Galletta, Gabrielle Perretta, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Luca Marziani, Luca Beatrice, Victor Fleming

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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BIBLIOGRAFY

Italienische Briefe, testo di Wolfgang Längsfeld, ed. Galerie Immanuel, 1982
Heinrich Nicolaus. Neue Arbeiten 1982-1984, testi di Maria Luisa Frisa e Norbert Messler, ed. Galerie Maier, Kitzbüel, 1984
Heinrich Nicolaus, testo di Maria Luisa Frisa, ed. Galerie Stahlberger e Galleria Peccolo, 1985
Nicolaus, Bilder fuer Skulpturen, die Morgenlandfahrt, testo di Andrea B. del Guercio, ed. Galerie Kremer 1986
Heinrich Nicolaus, testo di Wolfgang Hilger, ed. Galerie Hilger, Vienna 1986
Böcklin – Zyklus – Prolog, testo di Heinrich Nicolaus, Edition Muehlfeld & Hilger, Vienna/ Francoforte, 1987
Wie man Böcklin vergisst, testo di Viana Conti, ed. Galerie Hilger, Vienna/Francoforte, in collaborazione con Galerie Kremer-Tengelmann, Colonia, 1987
Heinrich Nicolaus, testo di Siegfried Gnichwitz, ed.Galerie Tengelmann, 1987
Heinrich Nicolaus. Monolog, ed. Galerie Hilger, Vienna/Francoforte, 1989
Re vera, testo di Sandro Candreva, ed. Carini, Firenze, 1990
Ich will das innere Feuer, testi di Heinrich Nicolaus, ed. Carini, Firenze, 1990
Ürberfahrt – Ankuft – Die Atlantikueberquerung, testo di Friedhelm Mennekes, ed. Galerie Hilger, Vienna/Francoforte, 1990
Heinrich Nicolaus, testo di Elda Torres, Ediciones Der Brücke, Buenos Aires, 1991
Tibet, testo di Viktor Fleming, ed. Galerie Hilger, Vienna, 1992
Heinrich Nicolaus, testo di Thomas Veit, ed. Galerie Brigitte Wagner, Bonn, 1992
Kopf und Figur, testi di Martin Stather e Thomas Veit, ed. Kunstverein Mannheim, 1993
Meisterwerke von Turner zur Gegenwart, ed. Galerie Brigitte Wagner, Bonn, 1994
Der Blick der Figuren und Köpfe, testo di Martin Stather, ed. Galerie HIlger, Vienna, 1995
Quando l’oro parla, ed. Galleria Fallani Best, Firenze, 1995
Lemniskatische Prozesse, ed. Galerie Stahlberger, Weil am Rhein, 1995
Dal progetto all’ opera, ed. Jospeh d. Carrier Art Gallery, Toronto e Gallery Dominion, Montreal, 1996
Nicolaus on Clemente, ed. Fondazione ICECOCU, Seoul, Corea, 1996
Artisti internazionali in Toscana, testo di Fabio Cavallucci, ed. Tuscia Electa, Hopefull Monster, Torino, 1996
Toxic Soup, ed. Vancouver Contemporary Artworks, Vancouver, 1997
Ovunque posa l’occhio c’è l’incanto, WEA, Milano, 1997
Das Zimmer der Malerei, testi di Ernst Hilger e Heinrich Nicolaus, ed. Museo Wuerth, Kuenzelsau, 1998
Diario 1992-1994, testo di Heinrich Nicolaus, Glaskasten Intermedia, Budapest/Leonberg, 1998
Sammlung Infled I, ed. Galerie Hilger, Vienna, 1998
Nicolaus. Dream House, testo di Wolf-Günter Thiel, ed. Venice Design Art Gallery, Venezia, 1999
Manuale n° 1 Lo stato del mondo, AAVV, ed. MOMAP, 2005
“Principesse in fuga” text by Lionello Puppi, ed. Venice Design, Venice, 2005
TOMagazine N. 1, Text by Heinrich Nicolaus, MOMAP Editions, 2009

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CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albertina, Wien, Deutsche Bank Frankfurt und Singapur, Chase Manhatten New York, Leopold Hoesch Museum Dueren, Museum Wuerth, Kuenzelsau, Sammlung der Stadt Muenchen, Sammlung der Stadt Kiel, FCRAC de Bourgogne, FRAC de Strassbourg, Mueseum der Stadt Tolouse, Museum Palazzo Forti Verona (mit Dormice), Scottsdale Center for Contemporary Art, Arizona, Sammlung der Universitaet Graz, Sammlung Bouw Fonds, Hoevelaken, Holland, Griesbach Collection, Sammlung Frieder Burda, Offenburg, Stadt Greve in Chianti (Skulptur im oeffentlichen Raum), Stadt Civitella d’Agliano (Skulptur im oeffentlichen Raum).

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