Nadia Lichtig

Nadia Lichtig (born 1973) is an artist currently living in the South of France. In her multilayered work, voice is transposed into various media including painting, print, sculpture, photography, performance, soundscape and song.^[1] A monograph on Lichtig's work, Pictures of Nothing, was published by Kerber Verlag in 2014.^[2]

Early life and education

Lichtig was born in 1973 in Munich, Germany; her parents were of Czech and Serb descent. Lichtig studied at the University of the Arts Paris.^[3] Having grown up between several countries and languages, Nadia Lichtig studied linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, and sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France with Jean-Luc Vilmouth, where she graduated with honours in 2001, before assisting Mike Kelley in Los Angeles the same year.^[4]

Work

In her works, each medium approached not as a field to be mastered, but as a source of possibilities to question our ability to decipher the present.^[4] Visual and aural aspects entangle in her performances.^[1] Lichtig taught at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, India as a visiting professor in 2006, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of the Valence in 2007, and since 2009, is professor of Fine Arts at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts of Montpellier, France. She has collaborated with musicians who are also visual artists, such as Bertrand Georges (audible), Christian Bouviou (Popopfalse), Nicole (La Chatte), Nina Canal (Ut) and Michael Moorley (the dead C).^[1] Lichtig worked and works under several group names and pseudonyms including: EchoparK, Falseparklocation, Skrietch, Ghosttrap and Nanana.^[1]

Lichtig's collaborative work in Drift: Art and Dark Matter, was reviewed in the publication, Symmetry magazine.^[5]

Publications

• Post-Specimen, Intellect Books, Bristol, Great Britain, ed. by Ed Juler and Alistair Robinson, 2021^[6]

• Grammaires fantômes / Phantomgrammatiken, ed. by Maison de Heidelberg / Goetheinstitut, France, 2020

• Bunkern, Privater Bunkerbau an Zellen, im Kalter Krieg und in Prepper-Fanatsien by Mona Schieren in "Re-Bunkern" ed. by Kathrin von Malzahn and Mona Schieren in collaboration with Franciska Zolyorn, Argobooks, Berlin, Germany, 2019

• Phototropia, 2019, ed. by Maison de Heidelberg / Goetheinstitut, France, 2019

• Monograph: Pictures of Nothing, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany, 2018^[7][2]

Collections

• Centre Pompidou, Paris, France^[8]
• Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany
• Musée d'art Contemporain, Sérignan, France^[9]
• URDLA, Lyon, France
• Terra Art Foundation, Paris/Chicago
• Collection of the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
• Fuhlbrügge & Müller collection, Germany
• Abay Maskara collection, India
• Merkel Collection, Germany

Exhibitions

• 2022: Drift: Art and Dark Matter, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada^[10]
• 2021: Drift: Art and Dark Matter, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada^[11]
• 2021: Drift: Art and Dark Matter, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada^[1]
• 2021: Muj Utek, Zamek, Posnan, Poland^[12]
• 2019: Blank Spots, Schwankhalle, Bremen, Germany^[13]
• 2019: Memory Gardens, Hanse-Wissenschafts-Kolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany^[14]
• 2018: Catching the Light, cur. by Ludwig Seyfarth, Kai 10 / Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany^[15]
• 2018: Nachtstücke (three person solo), cur. by Dr. Heidi Brunnschweiler, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Freiburg, Germany^[16]
• 2017: Ghosttrap, cur. by Susanne Prinz, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany^[3]

Awards and public space projects

• 2021: Residency Goethe Institut Bucharest, Romania^[17]
• 2020: Residency, Center of Astrophysics, Queen's University, Canada^[18]
• 2020: Residency, Goethe Institut, Marseille, France^[19]
• 2018-19: Residency / Fellow of the Hanse-WIssenschafts-Kolleg / Institute for Advanced Research, Germany^[20]
• 2013: Institut Francais, London, French Embassy, UK
• 2012: Collection Musée d'art contemporain de Sérignan 2011, 1% artistique, Public Art Project, Sérignian, France^[9]
• 2009: Dicream, CNC Ile-de-France, France
• 2008: Biennale de Rennes, public art project, Résidence Synagogue de Delme, France^[21]
• 2001: Terra Art Foundation, Fellowship residency^[22]

References

1. "Drift: Art and Dark Matter". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
2. Dufour, Marion; Seyfarth, Ludwig (2014). Pictures of Nothing. Kerber Verlag. ISBN 9783735600288. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
3. "Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz presents from 09th February 2017 the exhibition "Ghosttrap" by the artist Nadia Lichtig". ArtBerlin. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
4. "SOME INFO". Nadia Lichtig (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-25.
5. Melchor, Stephanie. "Exhibit explores layers of SNOLAB". Symmetry magazine. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
6. "Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating". Intellect Books. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
7. "Nadia Lichtig". KERBER VERLAG. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
8. "Nadia Lichtig (1973, République fédérale d'Allemagne) Dust - The plates of the present 2018". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
9. "Créations contemporaines". Serignan. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
10. "Drift: Art and Dark Matter". Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
11. "Nadia Lichtig, Josèfa Ntjam, Anne Riley and Jol ThomsDrift: Art and Dark Matter - Announcements - Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
12. ""Můj útěk" Nadii Lichtig w CK Zamek". SZUM. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
13. "BLANK SPOTS". Nadia Lichtig (in French). Retrieved 2022-03-25.
14. "Vernissage der Ausstellung MEMORY GARDENS im HWK". Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
15. "Catching the Light". KAI10 | Arthena Foundation. 2022-03-25. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
16. "Nachtstücke: Time and Visibility, Sound and Image". E-Werk Freiburg. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
17. "Image Fantome". ArtFacts. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
18. "How did the artists create Drift: Art and Dark Matter?". Queens University, AGNES: Queens Art Gallery. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
19. "Image fantôme". Galleries Now. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
20. "Nadia Lichtig, Memory Gardens". Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
21. Jeune, Raphaele; Burdin, Jean-Paul; Fourmentraux, Jean-Paul; Bianchini, Samuel (2009). Crossing Values – Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d'art contemporain. Les Presses du Réel. ISBN 978-2-84066-288-4. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
22. "Nadia Lichtig". Terra Art Foundation. Retrieved 25 March 2022.

Further reading

• Lichtig, N., Dufour, M., Seyfarth, L., & Lebron, M. (2014). Nadia Lichtig: pictures of nothing. Kerber Verlag.
• Maltzahn, Katrin von, Mona Schieren, and Franciska Zólyom. Re:BUNKER Erinnerungskulturen, Analogien, Technoide Mentalitäten. Berlin: Argobooks, 2019.
• Juler, E., Robinson, A., & Lichtig, N. (2020). ch. 8, Nadia Lichtig: Poetry and the Pathology of the Museum: A model of difference. In Post-specimen encounters between art, science and curating rethinking art practice and objecthood through scientific collections. essay, Intellect Books.