Name    
Charly Nijensohn    
     
Profession    
Artist    
     
Grants / Awards  
2005 EMARE Fellowship  
2005 Hull (UK), Hull Time Based Art, Artist in residency  
2004

Schoeppingen (DE), Kuenstlerfdorf Schoeppingen, Artist in residency  
2003

Berlin (DE), Podewil - Zentrum fuer aktuelle Kunst, Artist in residency  
2002

Alberta (CA), The Banff Center for the Arts, Artist in residency  
2002

Konex Foundation, Prize Konex of platinum 2002 – 1992 in video art  
2001

Buenos Aires (AR), National Museum of Fine Arts, Biennial of Buenos Aires 2001, “Argentine Prize”
 
2001

Art Critics Association, Critic’s award to the video art of the year  
2000


(FR), Jury of “Interferences Festival”, Mention of honour,
Buenos Aires (AR), National Museum of Fine Arts, Prize Leonardo
 
1998 Art Critics Association, Critic’s award  
1997

Buenos Aires (AR), National Museum of Fine Arts, Leonardo Award    
1997 Art Critics Association, Critic’s award    
1996 Fund TV Award    
1995 Prize Honour Mention for video “Absence”    
       
Collections    
Since 1999

Aires (AR), Museum of Modern Art, Photographic Collection, Photographs    
Since 1998

New York City (US), Museum of Modern Art of New York, Video, “Ten men alone”    
       
Exhibition (Selection)    
2005 Hull (UK), Ferens Gallery, “The fall of a System” (Solo)    
2005

Burgos (ES), Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, Video installation, “State of Emergency”    
2005

Badejoz (ES), Museum Meiac, Video installation, “State of Emergency”    
2004

Vreden (DE), Galerie Berkelkraftwerk, Video installations, “State of Emergency” + “K-ein Weg”
   
2003

Berlin (DE), Podewil – Zentrum fuer aktuelle Kunst, „Ten Sounds For Ten Images“ (Solo)    
2003

Venice (IT), 50° Biennial of Venice, “Travel to Nowhere”, “An Act of Intensity”    
2002

Alberta (CA), Banff Center for the Arts, “Travel to Nowhere the Polar Project” (Solo)
   
2002

Buenos Aires (AR), ARTEBA - Fair of Galleries, Video installation, “Prisioners”    
2001

Valencia (ES), IVAM – Center del Carme , Biennial of Valencia, Video installation, “An Act of Intensity”
   
2000

Ontario (CA), Media Art City, Video installation, “An Act of Intensity”    
2000

La Havana (CU), Foundation Ludwig, Video installation, “ An Act of Intensity”    
1999

Buenos Aires (AR), Museum of Modern Art, “An act of Intensity” (Solo)    
1998

Buenos Aires (AR), Museums of Modern Art, “The Reflection of the Invisible” (Solo)    
1997

Lima (PE), International Videoart Festival, Video, “Ten Men Alone”    
1997

Buenos Aires (AR), Museum of Modern Art, “Retrospective” (Solo)    
1997

Buenos Aires (AR), Space Flat, “Nightmares of the Heart” (Solo)    
1996

Pompeia San Pablo (BR), VideoBrasil XI International Festival, Video, “Nightmares of the Heart”
   
1996 Porto Alegre (BR), Videofest, Video, “Wandering”    
1995

Buenos Aires (AR), Goethe Institut, Installation, 1987 – 1995 (Solo)    
1994


Madrid (ES), National Center of Art Reina Sofia, Video, “Ten Men Alone”, “Panorama of the video of creation of Latin America”
   
1993

Buenos Aires (AR), Centro Cutural Recoleta, “Retrospective” (Solo)    
1992

Ankara (TR), Sinart International, “Echo of the Silence in the World”    
1990 Buenos Aires (AR), Cemento, “Exodus” (Solo)    
1990

Buenos Aires (AR), Centro Cultural Recoleta, “Art Sacro” (Solo)    
       
Bibliography
2004

Galerie Berkelkraftwerk Vreden, Josef Spiegel, Heinz Kock, „K-ein Weg“, Vreden (DE)    
2004


1° Festical Internacional de Video y Artes Electronicas, Text by Rodrigo Alonso, “Notas para una estetica del videoarte argentine de los 90”
   
2003

Podewil, Adriana Sabugal, ”Ten sounds for ten images”, Berlin (De)    
2003

Convento de San Cosme y San Damian, Guidecca, Text by Mercedes Casanegra, “Visiones de Charly Nijensohn”
   
2003

Instituto Italo-Americano, Text by Irma Arestizabal, “Archipielago de Imagenes”, (IT)    
2003


Convento de San Cosme y San Damian, Guidecca, Text by Pierre Bongiovani, “Un acto de intensidad”, 50° Bienal de Venecia, Venice (IT)
   
2003



Convento de San Cosme y San Damian, Guidecca, Text by Sara Diamond, “Extremo norte, extremo sur. Pensamientos sobre el proyecto polar de Charly Nijensohn”, 50° bienal de
Venecia, Venice (IT)
   
2000

XI Encuentras abiertos de Fotografia, Text by Rodrigo Alonso, “Festival de la Luz” (AR)    
       
Referentiell Press Documentation    
2003


Du Kulturmedien AG, Number 735, Silvio Keller, “Extrem Kunst Existenzialisten”, Page 22, Rapperswill (CH), Du Kulturmedien AG
   
       
Biografical Notes
1966, Buenos Aires (AR), Argentina    
Lives and works in Berlin (De)
   
       
Contact
www.charlynijensohn.org