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PRESS RELEASE Contact > Juan Carlos Bendana-Pinel T > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 P > + 33 (0) 6 14 71 21 81 [email protected] www.bendana-pinel.com Niklas Goldbach EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE March 21st > May 7th 2015 4, RUE DU PERCHE | 75003 PARIS | MARDI > SAMEDI 11H > 19H tél. > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 | fax > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 25 29 | mail > [email protected] | www.bendana-pinel.com PRESS RELEASE Niklas Goldbach EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE Exhibition from March 21st to May 7th 2015 Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain is delighted to present Niklas Goldbach’s second solo exhibition “EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE” at the gallery. Standardization and inimitability, containment and individual freedom, ostentation and understatement are only some of the antagonistic issues that create the kind of socio-psychological conflicts around which Niklas Goldbachs work revolves. The interaction between psychological settings and the urban as well as the natural environment shaping our contemporary living conditions and mind sets are often in the center of Niklas Goldbachs work. For the first time, the exhibition brings together two of Goldbach’s most recent work series: the video-installation cycle “The Nature of Things” (2010-2014) and a selection of his extensive photographic series “Everything In Its Right Place» (2013). With this selection, the artist’s research on the ambiguous tension between the individual’s desire for uniqueness and modern society’s tendency to enforce conformity are juxtaposed. In the video installations “The Nature of Things”, the protagonists are either tied to a tree, a metal pole or a wooden post. Dressed in the uniform of an “urban archetype” (Niklas Goldbach), the protagonists bear their misery in front of man-made cultural landscapes: the countryside of Västerbottom, a rural region of North-Sweden, the Garzweiler surface mine in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia and the German “Devilsmoor”, a former turf mining region which got re-cultivated and is now a recreation area. Referring to the representation of St. Sebastian and shot as a tableau vivant in real time, the tied young men have to suffer their bondage for hours. Goldbach records a wide variety of behaviors, attitudes and expressions that characterize some of the most aching feelings and challenges a person can experience during his existence. While in numerous of Goldbach’s previous video works his often duplicated protagonists seem to be trapped among themselves in structures of control and discipline, the extensive photo project ”Everything In Its Right Place” (2013) focuses only ostensibly on the topology of repetition and homogeneity: ”Everything In Its Right Place” is a series of 78 photographies of carob trees, taken on a plantation on the Balearic Islands in Spain. In times of modern food production, Niklas Goldbach focuses anachronistically on the aspect of biodiversity and presents individual character portraits of economical plants. Niklas Goldbach (Witten, Germany 1973) lives and works inBerlin, Germany EXHIBITIONS : « Give the Future », Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (2014) | « Paula Modersohn-Becker Jubiläumspreis- Ausstellung », Worpsweder Kunsthalle, Worpswede, Germany (2014) | « SETS, STRUCTURES, RELATIONS », Galerie Rockelmann&, Berlin, Germany (2014) | « 1825 DAYS », Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2013) | « Vidéo et Après. Les flâneurs, ou pourquoi et comment arpenter un territoire », Cinéma 1, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2013) | « Hochhaus », MUSA Museum, Vienna, Austria (2012) | « Serata Videoinsight : Nicklas Goldbach », Centro Videoinsight®, Turin, Italy (2012) | « Masterclass, », NCCA Moscow, Russia (2012) | « Lift Project », AMOA Austin Museum Of Art/ Arthouse, Texas, United States (2012) | « Video of the Month », Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (2011) | « urban topos/edge city », Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2010) | « Islands », Bendana I Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2009) | Residence : Fondation des Treilles, Tourtour, France (2013) | Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France (2012) | AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS : Jubiläumspreisträger des Paula Modersohn-Becker Kunstpreises (PMB Jubilee Award) (2014) | Grant : Projektförderung des Berliner Senats (2014) | Grant : Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst des Berliner Senats (2013) | Grant : Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany (2010) 4, RUE DU PERCHE | 75003 PARIS | MARDI > SAMEDI 11H > 19H tél. > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 | fax > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 25 29 | mail > [email protected] | www.bendana-pinel.com PRESS RELEASE The Nature Of Things No.3, 2014 Video Installation 198 min loop, Full HD, Stereo Edition : 5 PRESS RELEASE EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE, 2014 8 of 78 Photographies on Photo-Archive Paper 55 x 77,5 cm Edition : 3 PRESS RELEASE EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE, 2014 8 of 78 Photographies on Photo-Archive Paper 55 x 77,5 cm Edition : 3 PRESS RELEASE FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH No.1, 2014 Photographie on Photo-Archive, digital pigment print, black aluminium frame, destroyed aluminated security glass 90 x 60.2 x 2 cm Edition : 3 PRESS RELEASE Niklas Goldbach 1973 Born to Witten, Germany 1994 Studies of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany 1997 Studies of Photography / video, University of the Applied sciences of Bielefeld, Germany 2000 Bachelor’s degree «Experimental Media Arts», University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany 2004 Awarded a diploma with reward(award), Experimental Media Arts, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany 2005 Master’s degree in Fine arts, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany 2006 Master’s degree in Fine arts « Integrated Media Arts », Hunter College, New York, United States SOLO EXHIBITIONS(selection) 2015 Everything In Its Right Place, Bendana|Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France 2014 Give the Future, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany Paula Modersohn-Becker Jubiläumspreis-Ausstellung, Worpsweder Kunsthalle, Worpswede, Germany SETS, STRUCTURES, RELATIONS, Galerie Rockelmann&, Berlin, Germany 2012 Hochhaus, MUSA Museum, Vienna, Austria Serata Videoinsight : Nicklas Goldbach, Centro Videoinsight®, Turin, Italy Cykles, Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, Poland Masterclass, NCCA Moscow, Russia Carte blanche : Niklas Goldbach, Khiasma, Paris, France Lift Project, AMOA Austin Museum Of Art/ Arthouse, Texas, United States The Eye of the Collector - Video works from the Collection Manuel de Santaren, LaRete Art Projects for Arte Fiera- Art First, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy 2011 Video Art at Midnight: Niklas Goldbach, Cinema Babylon Berlin, Germany IN HABITAT, Project Galleri Maskinen, Umeå, Sweden Video of the Month, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany Auxiliary Constructions, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany Plot, MK Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2010 HEAVEN, Gallery Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark 2009 Islands, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France 4 weeks – 4 sights : EMPIRE, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany All Man-Made, Videoscreening, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany 2008 Video Screening: Niklas Goldbach, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, Germany 2007 HOCHHAUS, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany MY BARRIO, Video Foyer, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, Germany 2004 GREETINGS, Mori-Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan 2003 Greetings, Gallery Taubenstrasse 13, Hamburg, Germany Stadtgalerie Kiel: Prima Kunst Container, Kiel, Germany 2002 SLOWS, R12 Project Gallery, Berlin, Germany PRESS RELEASE EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES (sélection) 2014 Parallel Universes, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, China SOUS SURVEILLANCE, Goethe Institut Paris, Paris, France ONE + ONE, Galerie Esther Donatz, Munich, Germany Monitoring, 31. Kasseler Dokumentar- und Videofilmfest, Kassel, Germany Lichte Momente, Outdoor-Media-Projekt, Osnabrück, Germany Playtime, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom Kunstfilmtage Düsseldorf, div. locations, Düsseldorf, Germany Time Equities, Inc. Art-in-Buildings Program, 55th Avenue, New York, United States Something with Performance, Kule Berlin, Germany gestern die stadt von morgen, Kunstmuseum Müheim an der Ruhr, Germany EMAF/ European Media Art Festival 2014: We, The Enemy, Osnabrück, Germany Time Pieces, Nordstern Videokunstzentrum in cooperation with Neuer Berliner Kunstverein N.B.K., Germany Give Us The Future, Stipendiatenausstellung Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst des Berliner Senats, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein N.B.K., Germany Projections, Galerie Esther Donatz, Munich, Germany What’s the Time ?, KZ/U Berlin, Germany 2013 Herbstsalon, Galerie Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany Our Darkness, Screening Program, Colony of Artists, Gdansk, Poland Picturing Places Around the World / Remix, Kronprinz Barracks, Kaliningrad, Russia DistURBANces, Fondation de l’architecture, Luxemburg Punkty Widzenia/Points of view, Video Art Festival, Lodz, Poland Schauplatz Stadt, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany 1825 Days, Bendana|Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France Vidéo et Après. Les flâneurs, ou pourquoi et comment arpenter un territoire, Cinéma 1, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 2012 Im Spiegel des Narziss, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria Apokalypse/Utopie, Galerie Pankow, Berlin, Germany House Of Cards, Grey Noise Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates DistURBANces, MUSA Museum, Vienna, Austria Arte Video Night 4, Premiere, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Arte Video Night 4, Premiere, KunstWerke Berlin, Germany La Galerie Utopia - The Forgotten Bar Project, IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA, Palais de Tokyo, Paris,