*1982 Dinslaken, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin

Education

2014  Postgraduate Programme, HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts), Ghent

2011  Media Art, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

2006  Art and Media, University of the Arts, Berlin

Selected Solo and Duo Exhibitions

2025  Art Box, Tempesta Gallery, Rapallo (s)

2024  Within Our Shapes, Tempesta Gallery, Milan (d)

2023  Fingers and Concaves, Fiebach-Minninger, Cologne (s)

2021  Nervous Pickers, ung5, Cologne (s)

2021  Softbody, Galerie fiebach, minninger, Cologne (s)

2019  Never Wash Without Soap, Galerie fiebach, minninger, Cologne (s)

2018  Late Dawn, Mélange, Cologne (d)

2017  Tomorrow Is Obsolete, SOYUZ, Pescara (d)

2017  Collider Body, Future Gallery, Berlin (s)

2017  Hand Und Fuss, Galerie fiebach, minninger, Cologne (d)

2016  Dormant Cave, space-nowhere, Seoul (d)

2015  Evolving Masters, O'newWall, Seoul (s)

2014  Custom Utility, Future Gallery, Berlin (s)

2014  Art Rotterdam, with Future Gallery, Rotterdam (s)

2013  In Real World, Lounge Project, Artsonje Center, Seoul (s)

2013  Waiting With The Fruits, Skulpturenmuseum, Glaskasten, Marl (s)

2012  Parametric Pleasure, Future Gallery, Berlin (s)

2011  Situation Room, Moltkerei Werkstatt e.V., Cologne (s)

2010  Schaufenster, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (d)

2010  Alles Lava, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen (s)

2009  Nicolas Pelzer, glasmoog, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (s)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025  Louder, Taller, Uglier, Weirder. Learning from Weeds, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin

2025  25 years fiebach, minninger, fiebach, minninger, Cologne

2024  NAK Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

2024  Derivat, gr_und, Berlin

2023  Wannseewandeln, Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin

2022  Grid Island, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2022  stricte intimité, The Shophouse 1527, Bangkok

2022  NAK Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

2022  Life-Size, Oneroom, Seoul

2021  High End, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden

2021  Kleinanzeigen, VERY, Berlin

2021  NAK Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

2020  əráivəl, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Goyang

2020  Journey of Eternity, Seoul Museum of Art, Bunker, Seoul

2020  possibilities on paper, fiebach, minninger, Cologne

2019  Jahresgaben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

2019  Psychedelic Nature, Art Space BOAN, Seoul

2019  Finity Mirror, Seoul Museum of Art, Nanji, Seoul

2019  Made in Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl

2019  Bad Romance, Gussglashalle, Berlin

2018  Even If It’s Jazz Or The Quiet Storm, Nest, The Hague

2018  Shotspotter 2, Bar Babette, Berlin

2018  Pane Project, Werkschauhalle Spinnerei, Leipzig

2018  The Scrap, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul

2018  Draped Extensión, Future Gallery, Mexico City

2017  Collaborations, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp

2017  Draped, Future Gallery, Berlin

2017  The Hot Wire, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl

2017  Hope, New Scenario, Altana Galerie, Dresden

2016  Reflector, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp

2016  Micro Celebrities, commissioned by Marcel Hiller, Fiebach-Minninger, Cologne

2016  On-screen And Off, Bid Project Gallery, Milan

2016  Paradise Lost, Base-Alpha Gallery, Antwerp

2016  The Image Generator II, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp

2015  Index 15, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg

2015  How My Mom Got Hacked, DASH, Kortrijk

2015  Business As Usual, Turf Projects, London

2015  Rock Steady, Future Gallery, Berlin

2015  Little Hisk, LLS 387, Antwerp

2014  Red Dawn, Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent

2014  Stipendium Vordemberge-gildewart, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf

2013  Guts And Cooperation, Euljiro, Seoul

2013  100 Ideas on Tomorrow’s Island, Art Base Momoshima, Momoshima

2013  More Or Less, WCW Gallery, Hamburg

2012  Playtime, curated by Sungwon Kim, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul

2012  Real DMZ Project, curated by SAMUSO, Cheorwon

2012  New Talents - Biennale Cologne, Cologne

2012  Montagen, SSZ Sued, Cologne

2012  Sechs Minus, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

2012  Einige Parallelen, Temporary Gallery, Cologne

2011  Sammlung Im Prozess, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl

2011  Temporary Re-visionists, Space O’New Wall, Seoul

2011  Public, Private, Corporate, Generali Deutschland, Cologne

2011  Un Problème Insoluble, Triangle France, Marseille

2011  Metrospective 1.0, Program e.V., Berlin

2010  Ideenbilder, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

2010  Junge Kunst Im Ruhrgebiet, Alte Spedition, Gladbeck

2009  Vogelsang Intervention, Internationaler Platz, Vogelsang

2008  Plan 08, public space, Cologne

2008  Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

2007  Rettung Ohne Untergang, Deutzer Brücke, Cologne

2007  Atelier, Pact-Zollverein, Essen

2006  Typo06, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Projects

2022  G-S-R, Digital Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2017  Hope, New Scenario, online project

2015  Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, A plus A Gallery, Venice

2014  Spectral Rite, multi-arts project in collaboration with Sylbee Kim,
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

2011  BYOB Bonn, Bonn University, Art History Department, Bonn

2011  39 ART DAY, performance, Asian Art Archive

Residencies

2019  NANJI Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2013  Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul

2012  Seoul Art Space Hongeun, Seoul

2011  Triangle France, Marseille, France

Talks, Workshops, Teaching

2025  Artist Talk, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul

2019  Guest Tutor, Ewha Womans University, Seoul

2019  Artist Talk, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2019  Artist Talk, RAT school of ART, Seoul

2017  Book Launch: Authenticity?, Anagram Books, Berlin

2015  Artist Talk at Civic Epistemologies Conference, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

2015  Workshop, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen

2012  Artist Talk, The Black Sheep Lecture, Artsonje Center, Seoul

2012  Workshop, Seoul Art Space Hongeun, Seoul

2011  Artist Talk, The Book Society, Seoul

2010  Artist Talk, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf

2009  Artist Talk, glasmoog, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

Bibliography

2024  SSZ Sued 2011–2017, Exhibition Catalogue, SSZ Sued, Cologne

2023  Im Orbit des Körpers Nicolas Pelzer bei fiebach, minninger, Magazine, gallerytalk.net, Nürnberg

2022  Technological Evolution: An Interview with Nicolas Pelzer, Interview, berlinartlink.com, Berlin

2021  High End, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden

2021  FORT DA Imagination und Religion, Publication, Kunstuniversität Linz

2020  əráivəl, Exhibition Catalogue, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea

2020  Journey of Eternity, Exhibition Catalogue, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2020  Nicolas Pelzer, Interview, Harper’s Bazaar, Korea

2020  Six Questions: Nicolas Pelzer, Interview, Tique.art, Antwerp

2020  Made in Marl, Exhibition Catalogue, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl

2019  Imagining a Past and a Future, Both 50 Millennia Away, Publication, NANJI, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2018  RAT school of ART, Magazine, Volume #5, Seoul

2017  Nicolas Pelzer at Future Gallery, Interview, SPIKE, Berlin

2017  Golden Record, Publication, Public Folder, Cologne

2015  Index 15, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthaus Hamburg

2015  Evolving Masters, Exhibition Catalogue, O’newWall, Seoul

2015  Artist contribution: Nicolas Pelzer, Interview, Berlin Independents Guide, Berlin

2015  The Curator as Barman, Publication, Automatic Books, Venice

2015  Win/Win, EG Null, Exhibition Catalogue, Generali Deutschland, Cologne

2014  Stipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart, Exhibition Catalogue, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf

2013  Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Exhibition Catalogue, Seoul

2012  artothek, Exhibition Catalogue, Raum für junge Kunst, Cologne

2012  Samuso Words Vol.2, Magazine, Samuso, Seoul

2012  Echoraum, Exhibition Catalogue, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

2012  New talents – biennale cologne, Exhibition Catalogue, Cologne

2011  Dislocated North Korea, Monograph, Nicolas Pelzer

2011  The Glass Line, Monograph, Nicolas Pelzer

2011  Generation, Exhibition Catalogue, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

2010  Eine Hölle Für Platon, Exhibition Catalogue, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

2009  Nicolas Pelzer, Monograph, glasmoog, Cologne

2008  Minus Eins, Exhibition Catalogue, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

2008  Plan08, Exhibition Catalogue, Cologne

2008  Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Exhibition Catalogue, Düsseldorf

2007  Page Magazine, 01/07, Hamburg