Nicholé Velásquez
Nicholé Velásquez ist in New York aufgewachsen und studierte am dortigen International Center for Photography. Mit einer Mehrfachbelichtungstechnik auf Analogfilm möchte er eine inspirierende Begegnung schaffen zwischen unserem menschlichen Sehen, welches auch mit emotionalen Erinnerungen verknüpft ist, und einem maschinellen Sehen, welches unsere Wahrnehmung erweitert, weil es mehrere Bilder übereinander legt und damit mehr Eindrücke bietet, als wir in der Realität sehen können. Manche seiner hier ausgestelltenWerke sind auf einer Silberspiegelplatte aufgetragen und verändern bei aktiver Betrachtung ihre Farbe, sprich wenn man das Bild von unterschiedlichen Winkeln aus betrachtet. Vielleicht ist Ihnen das auch schon aufgefallen. Diese Technik entwickelte er völlig neu inZusammenarbeit mit Techniker.
Nichole Velasquez
c/o Kundert, Helmstrasse 3,
10827, Berlin, Germany
Velásquez is a Flâneur
Overview
Investigating the usage of Flânerie w i t h m u l t i p l e e x p o s u r e interventions on analogue film p h o t o g r a p h y. I n t e r e s t e d i n exploring poetic interfaces between Human Vision and Machine Vision through compositions engaging emotional memories. Pioneering Heuristic methods inspired by insights in Assembly Theory. This interest is about framing bridges between our Human Vision— which is constructed over time and connected to emotional memories,
e x p e r i e n c e s , a n d s c e n e
understanding— together with Machine Vision which is also constructed over time with materials and connected to our built world environments involving complex problem solving processes
that impact us, can extend our perceptions, impress new understandings and task iterations. My works engage viewers through poetic encounters to share and reveal a Possibility Space with dynamic processes which surround us during our current so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution.
I am pioneering a unique multiple exposure technique on analogue photography, where emotional compositions emerge as I develop my films. Together with my technician, Dominique Ventzke and a materials scientist from the Technical University of Berlin I have also pioneered unique silver mirror plates in Berlin. These plates change colours during active viewing.
Awarded Le Prix académique Industries et Cultures Art Faber in 2018 from the Panthéon-Assas Sorbonne Universités for my depictions of industrial processes. Art Faber, a movement is inspired by Henri Bergson’s Homo Faber, aims to reach wider audiences through publications and exhibitions in collaboration with this Paris working group. ° https://www.artfaber.org/en/art
faber ° https://www.high-end-scans.de/clients/Velasquez/vk3l34q1/ Velasquez_Nicole_Portfolio_21_1.pdf
Biographical Information
1986 – Born, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York. 2000 – Classes at Metropolitan Museum of Art, under Rika Burnham 2003 – Bard College at Simon’s Rock, focus on Anthropology 2004 – Teen Academy at the International Center of Photography, focus on b/w printing & story telling 2005 – City University of New York – Hunter College, focus on International Political Economics 2005 – Joyceln Benzakin Fellowship Award’s youngest recipient, mentored under Joseph Rodriguez 2006 – Began exhibiting, with openings in Stockholm, Sweden. 2007 – McCann Erickson, as Data Clerk for Global Headquarters, New York. 2011 – Moved to Berlin. Began to explore experimental analogue photography. 2012 – Researcher in Residence for Christiania community. 2013 – Artist in Residence for the City of Copenhagen, focused on emotional character portraits. 2014 – Artist in Residence for Danish Art Foundation at Jorn Utzon’s Can Lis, Mallorca. 2015 – Artist in Residence in City of Moscow, focused on emotional Landscapes. 2016 – Colloquium on Experimental Compositional Theory, Webster Vienna Private University, under the class of Assis. Prof. Dr. Anthony Löwstedt. 2017 – Artist Colloquium on Experimental Colour Theory, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Stevie Hanley, Contemporary Practices Department. 2018 – Awarded Le Prix académique Industries & Cultures / Art faber, under the patronage of Lourdes Arizpe, Honorary General Director of Cultures at the UNESCO. 2019 – Panama City, Private Collection, Artist in Residence. Working closely with photographers Dr.
Boris v. Brauchitsch, Wolfgang Krolow and Dr. Hans Georg Berger. French Embassy Berlin hosts Bauhaus series from Art Faber community. Closed ‘RI’ of MaRiDo collaboration with Ryszard Wasko. 2020 – Invited Deutsch-Französischer Wirtschaftspreis und Preis für Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft. 2021 – Developing “Für Unbestimmte Zeit” series exploring our 24 hour circadian time cycle. 2022 – Developing artistic exchanges and finished commission for the Bumiller Collection. 2023 – Curated One One For Tor – Never Leave together with Trevor Lloyd Morgan with Catalog Launch. Awarded Curatorial Scholarship at Otte1, inspired by Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck.
Artist in Residence for Christiania community, returning after a decade to revisit Eternal Return themes and new experimental compositional landscapes.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2005
“The City, Curated by Annie Leibovitz” , ICP at the Point, NY “Vantage Point 13 ICP”, ICP, NY 2006
“Vantage Point 14 ICP”, ICP, NY “The Barber Shop and Personal Family Portraits” solo show in Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden 2007
“Vantage Point 15 ICP”, ICP NY “Building a Home“, solo show at Art Concept, Stockholm, Sweden 2009
“Art Basel Miami”, The Gitana Rosa Gallery, Miami
2011
“Fragile Heros”, Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt, Germany “A Private View”, solo show at Garbergs, Stockholm, Sweden 2013
“Back to the Roots to Find the Future”, Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
“Montefiore Permanent Photo Exhibit”, Montefiore Bronx, NY
2014
“Crossing Horizons”, Rääf Galerie, Stockholm, Sweden, hosted by Efrain Lopez Gallery, USA
“Nudes” The Ballery, Berlin “Juicy”, Gitana Rosa Gallery, NY
2015
“The New Wave UNCUT” MSK EastSide Gallery, Moscow, Russia “PIN UP!”
Pavlov’s Dog, Berlin, Germany
“a rose is a rose is a rose”
Curated by Dodi Reifenberg, Berlin, Germany.
“Einmal ist Keinmal”
Kunst unter Kiefern, Café K, am Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
2016
“Cool Waves Flow Over My Mind” Glogauer A.I.R. Berlin, Germany ‘A Rose is a Rose’ Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin, Germany
2017
„We all love Art“ by Ryszard Wasko
2018-2020
Private presentation by the Pantheon, Paris. 2018
Private presentation in Panama City. 2019
Private Presentation at Under den Linden 39, Berlin. 2020
2021
“Für Unbestimmte Zeit”, The Remise, Berlin,
“a rose is a rose” by Dodi Reifenberg & Artist Against FGM Berlin, Germany.
2022
“The Dream” Hohenthal und Bergen, Arsenal Venice, Italy
2023
“One One For Tor, Never Leave” curated by Velásquez-Morgan, Berlin Zossenerstr 33.
“Art meets Science:Transition” at FGK Clinical Research Offices in Internationales Handelszentrum, Friedrichstrasse 95, Berlin
2005
AWARDS, COLLOQUIUMS AND RESIDENCIES 2017
International Center for Photography (ICP) Fellowship, Scholarship Fellow of Jocelyne Benzakin (JB) Fellowship, under the supervision of Joseph Rodriguez
2012
Artist-in-Resident, “Christiania Researcher in Residence”, Christiania, Denmark
2013
Artist-in-Resident, “City of Copenhagen”, CPH AIR, Denmark with Colloquium at Fabrikken for Kunst og Design
2014
-Invited Participant of the “portfolio walk” for the German Academy of Photography (Der Deutschen Fotografischen Akademie) in Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany. Supported by Ingo Taubhorn.
-Jorn Utzon’s Can Lis Residence,
“Committee of Danish Architects at the Danish Art Foundation/Jorn Utzon Foundation”, Mallorca, Spain -Colloquium, Dusseldorf Kunst Akademie (lecture for master class of Christopher Williams)
2016
Colloquium on Experimental Compositional Theory, Webster Vienna Private University, under the class of Assis. Prof. Dr. Anthony Löwstedt.
Colloquium on Experimental Colour Theory, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Stevie Hanley, Contemporary Practices Department.
2018
Prix ART FABER, Paris, inspired by ‚Homo Faber’ of Henri Bergson. Panthéon Sorbonne Assas
2022
Colloquium on Human Vision, Kunster der Gegenwart, junge Generation, Kassel University
2023
Artist-in-Resident, “Christiania Researcher in Residence”, Christiania, Denmark. Revisiting.
Bibliography
2013
– Rouanm Benamin, ‘Queer Vulture’ TTTMagazine, October 2014 – Musée Magazine No. 2 ‘The Fear Issue’ March
2015
– Collective Magazine 18, Feature, July
– Luca Mattia Danelzik, ‘Art & Idée’ Feature Review in TTTMagazine, no. 3, Fall
2022
-Painting, as another method for a meeting, You Hyeon Kyeong Korean Art Museum exhibition catalogue, Forward written by me.
2023
-One One For Tor, Never Leave exhibition catalogue, epilogue with Windows on the World.