Kuckei + Kuckei

Nikola Röthemeyer

Works

Exhibitions

Publications
  • Nikola Röthemeyer, rthemeyerpublication9783864420221.jpg , Snoeck , 2012
    FrauenZimmer
    Snoeck, 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
    Snoeck, 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

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