Ari Níelsson is a writer and artist interested in histories of manufacture across art, design, and industry,
and in scratching at their disjuncts to consider the object not only in situ, but as a constellation of the forces involved in its production. He lives and works in Berlin.
Contact: ari nielsson (at) gmail com
'URIN' Awarded silver medal, Deutsche Photobüchpreis 2023
Lensbased, at Universität der Kunste, Berlin
'Working With Waste' artistic Research Group, hosted by Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting & Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art
King Family Fund Undergraduate Scholarship
SELECTED WRITING
2024
cashmere guest mixes - im regen austausch #2, with max parnell
2022
Urin, book made in collaboration with photographer Frauke Joana
'Remains of the Day: Looking for Kurt Schwitters’ Porridge’, for Fortified Journal, Issue 003
Optical Volume, book made in collaboration with Helena Dong and Max Saward, Network Officium
2021
'BRASSICABLOC' ‘after the orgy’ for Fortified Gazette
2020
‘To Disturb Somnolent Birds’ essay accompanying Marco Giordano at The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2019
‘Ad Paintings, Book Paintings, Genre Paintings, LaGuardia’, essay accompanying Tomáš Lahoda at FUTURA Gallery, Prague
‘Sunday Fantasy', review of Zoe Williams at Mimosa House, for MAP Magazine
2018
‘Choose Your Fighter’, for Emotional Art Magazine #1: Tory Hate
GI Reviews and Responses #6: Torsten Lauschmann at GSA, ‘i’, The Opera at The Art School,
and ‘Cabinet Interventions’ at Pollok House, for MAP Magazine
2017
‘In Memory of Now’ for the Czech National Gallery; AQNB, KubaParis
2016 ‘
A Cultural History of Saliva’, accompanying Lukas Hofmann’s ‘Retrospektiva’, part of ‘Against Nature: Young Czech Art Scene’, Czech National Gallery, Prague
SELECTED WORKS
2022
‘Paramour of the Whirlwind’, wearable puppet harnesses created in collaboration with Colin Self, performance at TraumaBar, Berlin
2020
‘Looner’, collaboration with Jenkin van Zyl, exhibited as part of ‘Toilettes Publiques’, curated by Balak Collective, Charleville-Mènziéres
2019
‘Looner’, sculpture for Jenkin van Zyl’s ‘Looners’, part of ‘Kiss My Genders’, Hayward Gallery,London
2018
‘Vorephilia’, costumes, props and set design for Waste Paper Opera Company, Junctures2 Festival, Cambridge