Nikolas Gambaroff

Biography

Born 1979 in Germany
Lives and works in Berlin

2007 MFA, Bard College School of Visual Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2003 University of Arts, Berlin
2003 Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin

 

Solo Exhibitions

2019
Schiefe Zähne, Berlin

2017
The Kitchen, New York

2016
Auction of Souls, with Ei Arakawa, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

2015
The truce hurts, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles

2014
Tales from the Crypt, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

2013
Quality Interiors, Gio Marconi, Milan

2012
Tools for Living, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
I Am Real Estate, The Power Station, Dallas
The 4-Hour Bodies, Art 43 Basel: Art Unlimited Basel
Bodycard Testimonials, with Ei Arakawa, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

2011
Male Fantasies, White Cube, London
Der Herrische Säugling, Balice Hertling, Paris

2010
Time is Brain, Galerie New Jersey, Basel
Art Positions, Art 41 Basel, Miami Beach

2008
8864 3362 2250 Z1 CDGRT, Balice Hertling, Paris

 

Group Exhibitions

2023
TRUE RELIGION, High Art, Arles

2021
From Almora to Amrum, Efremidis, Berlin

2019
Shane Campbell Gallery, South Loop, Chicago
United Brothers Fukushima Android Series Franchise: Worldwide Premiere, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris

2018
The Culture Collider: Post-Exotic Art, Manggha Museum, Krakow

2017
Artists against AIDS, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Lucky Draw 2017, SculptureCenter, Long Island, New York

2016
not really really – Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels
Tbilisi16., Organized by Daniel Baumann and Kunsthalle Zürich, Tbilisi

2015
PREDATOR 2, with Tobias Madison, Green Tea Gallery, Pahoa, Hawaii
Comic, with George Condo and Joyce Pensato, Galerie Clemens Gunzer, Kitzbühel
In (The Mix) and on the go (Univers) for those in the know (Wanda), Scriptings, with Ei Arakawa Berlin
Fabian Marti – G.I.F.T. – Der Tank, Basel
The Subjects of the Artist – Michael Thibault, Los Angeles
Drawing Biennial 2015 – The Drawing Room, London
Yes We’re Open – Giò Marconi Gallery, Milan

2014
Beware Wet Paint, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Beware Wet Paint, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, Clearing Brooklyn, New York

2013
Why Painting Now?, curated by Ei Arakawa, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Landpartie, with Ei Arakawa, Boltensternraum Baden
Avant De Rentrer, Il Faut Incendier La Maison, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles
In the Cut, Austrian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Merci Mercy, curated by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld and Christine Messineo, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York
Folk Devil, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
The Collection #3, 21er Haus, Vienna
Chat Jet: Painting <Beyond> The Medium, with Ei Arakawa, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz

2012
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Commuter Duplex, with Lisa Jo, The Suburban Gallery, Chicago
A House of Leaves. Second Movement, David Roberts Foundation, London
OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Art and Press, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
I am an employee of UNITED, Vol. 2, with Ei Arakawa, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
Standard Operating Procedures, curated by Piper Marshall, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
==, curated by Matt Keegan, MFC – Michèle Didier, Paris
Bodycard Testimonials, with Ei Arakawa, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art and Press, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Il Regalo, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
Lucky Draw 2012, Sculpture Center, New York

2011
Pamela Rosenkranz and Nikolas Gambaroff: This Is Not My Color/The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York
The Confidence Man, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Will Benedict, Nikolas Gambaroff, Carissa Rodriguez, Renwick Gallery, New York
Isabelle Cornaro, Nikolas Gambaroff, Oscar Tuazon, Eli Hansen, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia
After Images, curated by Fionn Meade, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels
Group Show, Galerie Balice Hertling & Lewis, New York
Nikolas Gambaroff, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Modern Art, London
Arte Flor, Balice Hertling & Gio Marconi, Villa Flor S-Chanf
Robert Barry, Peer Bode, Nikolas Gambaroff, Raymond Hains, Ryan Sullivan, Nicole Kagsbrun, New York
Eight Posses (HENXGRYK) and a Monogram (with Ei Arakawa), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2010
Nikolas Gambaroff, Michael Krebber, R.H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne, Kunsthalle Bergen
And So On and So On, Harris Lieberman, New York
Knight’s Move, Sculpture Center, New York
Held Up by Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York
Centralia, PA, Saturday Sessions, PS1, New York
Nowhere for Nothing, Dubai Stoop with Matt Sheridan Smith, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

2009
In Memory of Painting, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna
Non Solo, Non Group Show, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Mu lt il ay er di sc, as part of Speak and Spell, COCO, Vienna
Two-Alphabet Monograms, Pro Choice, Vienna
Paper Release, Passagengalerie, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
fi ve sh il li ng sf or af ur co at, Atti Democratici, Lungomare, Bolzano
The Living and the Dead, curated by Darren Bader, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Modern Modern, curated by Pati Hertling, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Maximal, Minimal, Primo Piano / Diego Cassina, Lugano, Switzerland
No Bees, No Blueberries, Harris Lieberman, New York
Tbilisi6, Never On Sunday, Tbilisi

2008
New Images/Unisex, New Images/Unisex, curated by Blake Rayne, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
Kissing the Canvas, New Museum, New York
Evas Arche, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Cube Passerby, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York
EVR (e-flux video rental), Maumaus/Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Video on View as Art of R. Tiravanijas untitled 2002 (he promised), Guggenheim, Bilbao

2007
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane, Paris
CAA Show, Hunter College Galleries, New York
Road Show, Boots Contemporary Arts Space, St. Louis
Road Show, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
Road Show, Arthur Roger Project Space, New Orleans
Nowhere for Nothing, with Matt Sheridan Smith, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York
Pawnshop, e-flux, New York

2006
Radio Bomb, Location One, in collaboration with Alterazioni Video, Whitney Biennial, New York
Peace Town Project, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Mark Di Suvero, Whitney Biennial, New York

2005
Death is an Outrage, with Ei Arakawa, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York