Kuckei + Kuckei

Nikola Röthemeyer

Works

exhibitions

publications
  • FrauenZimmer
    Snoek, 2012

    Nikola Röthemeyer

    FrauenZimmer

    Nikola Röthemeyer’s works negotiate the margins of many different styles. In the series »FrauenZimmer«, she initially devotes herself to the supposed reality of life for women, placing them in relation to their environment and present­ing aspects of their identity. When it comes to housework, home­- mak­ing or moments of quietude, she chooses scenes from genre painting. In a second part of her series, Nikola Röthemeyer expands her thematic palette, leaving the private sphere behind and moving into a kind magic realism, akin to the world propagated by the ­Argentine fabulist, Jorge Luis ­Borges. Be that as it may, the ­pe­culiarity of Nikola Röthemeyer’s work actually resides in the fact that it doesn’t charge this realism with a decidedly erotic momentum à la Balthus and Klossow­ski, but instead builds using transformative stylistic ­features, such as extreme focus, pictorial perspective, viewer’s ­perspective and format in the smallest shifts in reality and de­familiarization. A fine example graces the dust jacket of the book: the male peacock on the chair arm has let down his tail feathers, out of which the protagonist in the picture has woven a majestic train.

    124 pages
    18 × 14 cm
    Snoek, 2012
    ISBN 978-3-86442-022-1
    Euro 24,80

Biography

Nikola Röthemeyer was born in Braunschweig in 1972.
She studied at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and graduated with honors in 2003.
Nikola Röthemeyer lives and works in Berlin.

Grants and Awards

  • 2013

    sommer.frische.kunst, Artist-in-Residency program, Bad Gastein, Austria

  • 2008

    Projektgrant, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany

  • 2003

    DAAD-grant for Buenos Aires

  • 2002

    First prize for the book Ambleside, Birkner-Stiftung, Leipzig, Germany

  • 2000

    Erasmus-grant for Glasgow

Solo Shows

  • 2018

    Schwarmfänger, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (with Annika Sailer)

  • 2017

    Urban Landscapes, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2013

    Beyond Interiors II, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2012

    FrauenZimmer – Drawings 2006-2011, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    FadenSpiele II, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2011

    FadenSpiele I, Kunstverein Krefeld, Germany

  • 2009

    Beyond Interiors, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2008

    Gravenhorst PillowBook, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany

  • 2007

    Nikola Röthemeyer, Galeria Panta Rhei, Madrid, Spain

  • 2006

    Mi Buenos Aires Querido, Moritzbastei, Leipzig, Germany

Group Shows

  • 2020

    Paula Modersohn-Becker Kunstpreis 2020, Barkenhoff und Große Kunstschau, Worpswede, Germany

  • 2019

    100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht – 19 + 1 Künstlerinnen, Deutscher Bundestag

  • 2018

    Fragments of Belief, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2017

    Zeichensprachen. Zeichnerinnen und Zeichner aus Weißensee, Galerie Parterre, Berlin
    Rorschach – an Experiment,Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2016

    Höhenrausch, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin

  • 2015

    Die Gabe (Teil I), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Christliche Kunst, Munich, Germany

  • 2014

    Eleven, Neuer Wall 71, Hamburg, Germany
    Entrelacs, Galerie Trois Points, Montréal, Canada

  • 2013

    An Anatomical Chart of Love Pains, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
    six memos for the next… Vol. 1: Verhau – 50 Werke, 50 Künstler, Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
    sommer.frische.kunst, Altes Wasserkraftwerk, Bad Gastein, Austria

  • 2012

    Rethinking Reality, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    Losito Kunstpreis, Großes Waisenhaus zu Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

  • 2011

    Schräge Sache, Kunsthalle Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany

  • 2010

    Grosse Klasse – MeisterschülerInnen der Klasse Nanne Meyer,
    Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany

  • 2009

    Raum.inhalt, Haus für die Kunst | im Tal – Stiftung Wortelkamp, Hasselbach, Germany
    unerreichbar ist gerade nah genug, Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin

  • 2008

    Homezone, Studiogalerie Kaditzsch, Grimma, Germany

  • 2006

    Studium & Karriere # 2, Galerie Post, Leipzig, Germany
    5 Años Panta Rhei, Galeria Panta Rhei, Madrid, Spain

Public Collections

  • Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg
    SØR Rusche Art Collection, Oelde/ Berlin