Peres Projects

Nicholas GRAFIA (b. 1990 in Angeles City, PH)

• Lives and works in Germany

Education

2019

• MFA, Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, DE

  2016

• BFA, University of Munster, DE

Current Group Exhibitions

• State of Flux, curated by Jeanette Bisschops, Silverlens, New York, US
• Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm, curated by Jörg Heiser and Cristina Ricupero, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
• Barbe à Papa, curated by Cédric Fauq, CAPC musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, FR
• TO BE SEEN: Queer lives 1900–1950, Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Munich, DE

Upcoming Solo Exhibitions

• Sponsorship Award for Fine Arts of the City of Düsseldorf 2020, Dusseldorf, DE
• Bars and Stripes, fiebach minninger, Cologne, DE

Upcoming Group Exhibitions

• Nicholas Grafia & Mikołaj Sobczak, Mountains, Berlin, DE
• Long Shot, GOLD + BETON, Cologne, DE

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2022

• Comeback Kid, Silverlens, Manila, PH

2021

• Nicholas Grafia & Mikołaj Sobczak: WILL, GOLD + BETON, Cologne, DE
• Free Verse Spirit, Peres Projects, coinciding with Gallery Weekend Berlin, Berlin, DE
• Soul Burner, KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna, AT
• Type / Cast / Thrill, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, EE

2020

• MVP: Most Valuable Player, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK

2019

• I Saw the Devil, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
• Prune, Shoot the Lobster, New York, US

Selected Group, Two Person Exhibitions and Performances

2022

• RAW, Vacancy Gallery, Shanghai, CN
• Protozone9 Weak - End - Opera, Shedhalle Zürich, Zurich, CH
• Dangerous When Wet, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
• THE FAIREST 01: Open Your Eyes Again, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, DE
• Dissonance. Platform Germany, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
• You’d Think By Now, curated by Rachel Vera Steinberg, Smack Mellon, New York, US
• We Meet at Dusk, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, NO
• Craving supernatural creatures, curated by Alexandra-Maria Toth, Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ), Vienna, AT

2021

• Utopia, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• Vordemberge-Gildewart Grant 2021, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Duesseldorf, DE
• Illiberal Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, DE
• Mudam Performance Season: The Illusion of the End, MUDAM - The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, LU
• steirischer herbst ‘21: The Way Out (Nicholas Grafia & Mikołaj Sobczak: Situation Report), in and around Graz, AT
• Nicholas Grafia & Mikołaj Sobczak: WILL, GOLD + BETON, Cologne, DE
• Bob’s Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
• THE FAIREST: Teaser 01, Blake & Vargas, Berlin, DE

2020

• what fruit it bears, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• I don’t know whether the Earth is spinning or not, 7th Moscow International Biennale For Young Art, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, RU
• Returning to the Future, 2020 Biennale Zielona Góra, Zielona Gora, PL
• On the Politics of Delicacy, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, DE
• Elbow Room, PE VII: Weak Links of a Strong Chain (pt. 1–3), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE
• Untitled (Molly House), Exile at “Curated by”, Vienna, AT
• Protozone: CONTAMINATION/RESILIENCE, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
• MILK ME SUGAR, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL
• In order of appearance: Graduates of the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts 2019, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, DE
• NAK Digital Benefit Auction 2020, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
• Queer Queer Casimir, Salon 14 during Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2020, Warsaw, PL
• IGNITION CYCLE, Montag Modus at Alte Münze, Berlin, DE
• Who Am I, Mélange, Cologne, DE
• side by side, fffriedrich, Frankfurt, DE
• Not Safe for Work, Welfenstrasse 6, Karlsruhe, DE
• Body Lotion, Zeller van Almsick Gallery, Vienna, AT

2019

• HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
• The Theatre of Robert Anton, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
• • Elbow Room, PE I: Hits Like an Elbow*, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE
• DISPLAY. Staging Identities, Kunstverein Dortmund, Dortmund, DE
• Jahresgaben 2019, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE
• Body Works, State Art Gallery, Sopot, PL
• In-visible Realness, PS120, Berlin, DE
• Amitié, Exo Exo at David Giroire, Paris, FR
• Sexual Intellectual, The Reference, Frankfurt, DE

2018

• The Accursed Ones, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
• Fremdkörper. Non-Normative Body and Voice Mapping, BOZAR, Brussels, BE

2017

• Akademie [Arbeitstitel], Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, DE
• Open Triennial, 8th Young Triennale in Orońsko, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL
• The Hardest Word, BLASK/BRZASK, Lodz, PL
• ARTAGON.III – 2017, Akademie Galerie, Dusseldorf, DE
• Meet me at the Metro Station, Guest Rooms, Amsterdam, NL
• Videoabend 2017, Galerie Januar, Bochum, DE
• Sociobath, Im Goldenen, Dusseldorf, DE

Selected Publications

2022

• Heiser, Jörg and Ricupero, Cristina, Ridiculously Yours?! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm, Berlin: DISTANZ Verlag, 2022
• Kühn, Karolina and Zadoff, Mirjam (eds.), To Be Seen: Queer Lives 1900–1950, Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2022
• Gisbourne, Mark and Tannert, Christoph (eds.), Dissonance:
 Platform
 Germany, Berlin: Dr. Cantz’sche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022

2021

• Franke, Anselm and Stakemeier, Kerstin (eds.), Illiberal Arts, Berlin: b_books verlag (PolYpeN Series), 2021

2017

• Bergmann, Dana, Jansen, Gregor and Seiser, Anna Lena (eds.), Akademie [Arbeitstitel], Cologne: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Verlag and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2017

Selected Bibliography

2022

• Toth, Alexandra-Maria, Craving Supernatural Creatures, KubaParis, January 2022

2021

• Kulturstiftung des Bundes Magazin, Krisenwissen, Issue 37, Autumn-Winter 2021
• Rossi, Simone, Hands on Time: The Illusion of the End, Panorama Series, Cactus Magazine, October 2021
• Grunenberg, Robert, Artist to Watch: Nicholas Grafia, Numéro Berlin, Issue 10, The Sexxx Issue, Spring-Summer 2021
• Stadel, Stefanie, Wie junge Künstler die Pandemie erleben, Welt, June 9, 2021
• Pofalla, Boris, Auf der Reise, Spezial: Gallery Weekend, Monopol, May 2021
• Rieger, Birgit, Tipps zum Gallery Weekend: Kunst durchs Schaufenster, Der Tagesspiegel, April 30, 2021
• Bukuts, Carina, The Best Show’s to See During This Year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin, Frieze, April 28, 2021
• Känd, Maria-Helen, Pop-folklore tricksters smashing stereotypes, Arterritory, March 30, 2021
• Altamura, Francesca, Nicholas Grafia in Conversation with Francesca Altamura, KubaParis, March 26, 2021
• Superfacesurface/ Malerei in Düsseldorf #4, KubaParis, January 21, 2021

2020

• Lang, Colin, New Fauves, Spike Art Magazine, #62, Winter 2020
• Del Prete, Luisa, fffriedrich gallery in Frankfurt: An exhibition in three acts, the ARTicle, September 20, 2020

2019

• Performance: Mikołaj Sobczak und Nicholas Grafia, Dortmunder Kunstverein, June 14, 2019
• Fauq, Cédric, PRUNE: Cudelice Brazelton & Nicholas Grafia, Shoot the Lobster, September 14, 2019