Nora Schultz

Biography

Born 1976 in Frankfurt/Main
Lives and works in Vienna

Since 2022
Professor for Sculpture and Installation at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

Summer 2005
MFA Studies at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York

Fall 2000
Willem de Kooning Akademie, Rotterdam, Exchange Semester

1998–2005
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt
Graduate and master student (BA and MFA), Class of Prof. Mark Leckey

 

Solo Exhibitions

2026
Schleuse, Vienna (upcoming)
Polyhymnia, series drawing exhibition, The Wig, Berlin (upcoming)
Now and The non-watch, MEYER*KAINER, Vienna
Clock-faced drum, Keijiban, Kanazawa (exhibition & edition)

2025
Now, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
While. Bernd Lohaus & Nora Schultz, organized by Olivier Foulon and Nora Schultz, Établissement d’en Face, Brussels

2024
Ganz grosse Flüsse laufen unter der Erde. major rivers running underground, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven

2023
Fished By Fish, dépendance, Brussels

2022
3 Months Later, Klosterruine, Berlin (with Mirjam Thomann)

2021
Nora Schultz: O-Ton & The O-Ton, O-Town House, Los Angeles
Two-Chambered Ears, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

2019
Would you say this is the day?, Secession, Vienna

2017
Cent Dent, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

2016
Centre Dental, dépendance, Brussels

2015
I Am Honda, Reena Spaulings, New York
Story Off the Roof, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Die Geschichte vom Countdown, Kabinett Dommuseum, Salzburg

2014
Parrottree, The Renaissance Society, Chicago

2013
Rug Import, Campoli Presti, London
Stative auf der Flucht, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

2012
Portikus Printing Plant and Portikus Sounds, Portikus Frankfurt am Main (Cat.)

2011
Figurazione, Sostituzione, Pavillon Lucca, Lucca

2010
Hebezeug, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Tunnel, Sutton Lane, Paris and Sutton Lane, London
Avere Luogo, Giuliani Foundation, Rom (Katalog)

2009
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0, Könischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Statements Art Basel with Sutton Lane, Basel
Completely Open, Open Space, Cologne

2008
As If Scales, Reena Spaulings, New York
Hidden Fox, dépendance, Brussels

2007
Zero Ruler, Sutton Lane, London
Carriers in Search of the Time-Tilted Weight, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Nora Schultz, kjubh, Cologne

2006
The Metal Magazine, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin

 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2026
Drawing exhibition (working title), initiated by Keren Cytter, New York (upcoming)
Lebt und arbeitet in Wien – Contemporary Art from Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien,Vienna (upcoming)
Ornament & Information, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
SPLENDID PLAYGROUND (after Gutai), MEYER*KAINER, Vienna (with Ei Arakawa-Nash and Nikolas Gambaroff)

2025
Erntedankfest, LLS Palais, Antwerpen
Curated by Can: The Artists Alone Decide, Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna
Curated by Josef Strau & Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen: Telepathy Curating presents: Teases and Synthesis; Empty Threats, Vienna Love and Anxiety Reality Paradoxes, City Galerie Wien & Layr, Vienna

2024
Skulptur Projekte Stockholm, Beau Travail, Stockholm

2023
Evan Jose, Nora Schultz, Julian Tromp, Can, Vienna

2022
Forming and Throwing Snowballs in (Rain), Joyfully Waiting, sound website https://www.joyfully-waiting.ch/#/joyfully-waiting-viii
Sound As Sculpture, The Warehouse, Dallas
For the People of Paris, CAMPOLI PRESTI, Paris (Cat.)

2021
SERIEN. Druckgraphik von Warhol bis Wool, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Guilty Curtain, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

2020
Four Corners of the Landscape, Gagareena, Los Angeles

2019
Group show with Casual Loops and Squiggles, Fondazione Ratti, Como

2018
Jahresausstellung der Stipendiaten Editionen, Griffelkunst e.V., Hamburg

2017
Continental Break, Raffaella Cortese Galleria, Milan (with Keren Cytter)
Artists Against Aids, Donation and Exhibition at Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Authentizität, das Authentisch Unauthentische, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Inge Mahn und Nora Schultz, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Exhibition as Image: Art Through the Camera’s Eye, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York
SP17, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Muenster (Cat.)

2016
Secret Surface, Kunstwerke, Berlin
Eins, Zwei, Wechselschritt, curated by Stella Lohaus and Ellen de Bruijne, Art Cologne 2016, Cologne
Life of Forms, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
See Sun, and Think Shadow, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Exhibition by 31 Women, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main
The People’s Cinema, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Exhibition for the Nomination for the Artprice Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Corner of the Eye, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Physical Fiction, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2015
Green Tea Gallery Presents: The Radiants, Bortolami, New York

2014
Nature After Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel
Body, with Manuel Raeder, Michael Beutler and the students of      the HEAD, Haute École d’Art et de Désign, Genève
And Life Goes On… I Woke Up Like This, Between Bridges, Berlin
Chat Jet Part 2, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz
2d23d, Ostlicht, Vienna

2013
Some Redemptions, curated by Josef Strau, Soloway, New York
Some End of Things, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
The Problem of Everything, ETCAMA, Amsterdam
The Enormous Speed of Change, Call of the Mall, Utrecht
Utopie beginnt im Kleinen, 12. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach
Future Perfect. The Future as it Will Have Been, travelling exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Relations, 1: Frankfurter Kunstverein
Present Future, Artissima, Turin
Work, curated by Daniel Lefcourt, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Version Control, Arnolfini, Bristol

2012
Ecstatic Alphabets, MoMA, New York
Hints and Gleams, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Etna Carrara, Final exhibition of the Villa Romana Fellowship recipients, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
A Wave of Certain Needs, After the Butcher, Berlin
Nora Schultz, Anita Leisz, Curated By Will Benedict, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

2011
Exhibition from the winners of the Villa Romana Fellowship, Florence
Comma 35, Bloomberg Space London, London
So Machen Wir Es, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Faces, Galerie Dependance Brüssel, Brussels
Mousse Magazine Project, Art Brussels, Brussels

2009
Non-Solo- / Non-Group-Show with Ei Arakawa, Nick Mauss, Nikolas
Gambaroff, Klara Liden, Kerstin Brätsch and Das Institut, Carissa Rodriguez, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
Nora Schultz / Pernille Kapper Williams, Kunstverein Graz, Graz
Collaterale, Artists of Gallery Sutton Lane, Centre de l’Arts Contemporaire‚ Confort Moderne, Poitiers

2008
Non-Solo- / Non-Group-Show with Ei Arakawa and Henning Bool, Gallery Franco Soffiantino, Turin
On Interchange, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve (Cat.)
Idealismusstudio, Kunstverein Graz, Graz
One Season in Hell, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin

2007
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane Paris, Paris (Cat.)
The New Domestic Landscape 2007, kjubh, Cologne
24 Nov – 22 Dec, Sutton Lane Paris, Paris
Tension, Sex, Despair, Wow/So What?, curated by Christian Egger, WUK, Vienna
Dépendance at NEU, Galerie Neu, Berlin
No Ideas without Bodies, Egypted, Vienna
The Last Show, Flaca, London
The Four Color Contingency, The Approach, London
The Copy Performance, invited by Ei Arakawa, NGBK, Berlin

2006
Experiments in Pop, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (Cat.)
Societe des Nations…, Circuit, Lausanne
Back and Forth, Duisburger Akzente, Duisburg
Blows into the Microphone…, curated by A. Lengerer, WUK, Vienna

2005
Nora Schultz and Marcelline Delbeque, Galerie Johann König, Berlin
Wer von diesen sieben(…), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig

2004
Ripples, Interim Projekte, Hafen2, Offenbach
Sommerfotogruppenausstellung, Gallery Meerrettich, Berlin

2003
Recycling the Future / Vivere Venezia 2, Venice Biennale, Venice
Blaupausen, NASPA, Wiesbaden
Filmschau “Hessenschau”, Mal Seh´n cinema, Frankfurt
Anker aus Kork – Künstler aus Frankfurt, Kunstraum Galerie Arcade, Mödling
Heute, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wiesbaden

2002
Frontflipping, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel

 

Curated Exhibitions

2025
While. Bernd Lohaus & Nora Schultz, exhibition of works by Bernd Lohaus and Nora Schultz, organized by Olivier Foulon and Nora Schultz, Établissement d’en Face, Brussels

2024
Christine Kozlov, Solo exhibition of works by Christine Kozlov, organized by Rhea Anastas and Nora Schultz, Arts and Letters, New York

2019
Maryanne Amacher: Perceptual Geographies, Installation, performances and workshop, contributed as part of Supreme Connections in collaboration with Bowerbird and Blank Forms, Philadelphia

 

Performances

2017
River, Whitney Museum, New York (solo)

2014
Parrot’s Mind Model Magazine, Performance for Parrottree, The Renaissance
Society, Chicago (solo)
Terminal+, Performance Room, Tate London (solo)

2013
Performance for Some End of Things, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Performance for The Problem of Everything, ETCAMA, Amsterdam

2012
Series of 3 Performances in Portikus Printing Plant and Portikus Sounds, Portikus Frankfurt am Main (solo)
Countdown Performance, Performance for Words in the World, MoMA, New York (solo)

2008
Performance for As If Scales, Reena Spaulings, New York (solo)

2006
Performance in The Metal Magazine, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin (solo)