CURRICULUM VITAE, ARTIST MARNIX DE NIJS June 2020
Marnix de Nijs (1970) is a Dutch installation artist. Graduated as a sculptor in 1992, he focused his early career on sculpture, public space and architecture. Since the mid 90's, he has been a pioneer in researching the experimental use of media and technologies in Art. Impelled by the idea that technology acts as a driving force behind cultural change and therefore capable of generating new experiences where societal habits and communication are rethought, his work thrives on the creative possibilities offered by new media, while critically examining their impact on contemporary society and human perception.
EDUCATION
1988-1992 Arnhem Institute for the Arts, Arnhem, NL
1982-1988 Athenaeum, Marnix College, Ede, NL
PRICES
2013 Honourly Mentioned Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2005 Witteveen & Bos Art and Technology Price 2005, NL
2005 Honourly Mentioned Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2002 Honourly Mentioned Vida 5.0 Art and A-life awards, Telefonica Foundation, Madrid, SP
2001 Honourly Mentioned Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2001 Honourly Mentioned Transmediale Award, Berlin, DE
2000 First price Art Future 2000 Award, Acer Digital Art Centre, Taipei, TW
TEACHING
2017-current Practise tutor, Master Institute of Visual Cultures, AKV|St.Joost, Den Bosch, NL
2023 Artist talk postgraduate program, Transmedia, Luca, Brussels, BE
2022 Artist talk MMAC, Meta Media Art Center, Communication University of China in Beijing
2022 Artist talk postgraduate program, Transmedia, Luca, Brussels, BE
2018 Visiting artist, CAFA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, CN
2013 Visiting artist, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, AU
2012 Visiting artist postgraduate program, Transmedia, Luca, Brussels, BE
2012 Visiting artist postgraduate program, Film and New Media Department, NABA, Milan, IT
2011 Visiting artist postgraduate program, Department of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo, US
2001-2005 Senior lecturer Fine Arts department at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, NL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 'Resounding Echigo Tsumari', Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art KINARE, JP
2022 'Non Dimensional Cities', Sónar Festival, Sónar+D, Barcelona,SP
2022 'Non Dimensional Cities', Isea2022, Barcelona,SP
2022 'Autonomous Oil Reserve AOR-200', Conflux festival, Rotterdam, NL
2022 'Transnational Activation of Simultaneous Touch', V2_lab, Art Rotterdam, NL
2021 'Lost Dimensions', Hyper_Connection, 751 INT'l Design Festival, Beijing, CN
2021 'Fake me Deep', Exhibition Fake me Hard, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam, NL
2021 'Pivot Point Ishihara', Boso-Satoyama Art Festival ICHIHARA ART x MIX, JP
2020 'Lost Dimensions', Museo Zero, Tavira, PT
2019 'Ghosted Views' & 'Terra Cleanse', Museum Night, V2_Lab Rotterdam, NL
2019 'Exploded Views 2.0', Pingshan International Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen, CN
2018 'Autonomous Oil Reserve AOR-200', Device Art Festival, Zagreb, HR
2018 'Ghosted Views_Düsseldorf', Next Level Festival, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, DE
2018 'Rectilinear Displacement', ZHI Museum, Xinjin, Sichuan, CN
2018 'Exploded Views 2.0', National Museum Zurich, CH
2017 'Exploded Views 2.0', Next Level 2017, Dusseldorf, DE
2017 'Mirror Piece', Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, NL
2017 'Run Motherfucker Run', Frankfurter Kunstverein, DE
2017 'Exploded Views 2.0', Pushkin at 57th Biennale, Venice, IT
2017 'Run Motherfucker Run', A4 Museum, Chengdu, CN
2017 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', La Gaite-Lyrique, Paris, FR
2017 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', CDCC La Panacée, Montpellier, FR
2016 '15 Minutes of Biometric Fame' & 'Rectilinear Displacement', Lille3000, FR
2016 'Exploded Views 2.0', Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, DE
2016 'Rectilinear Displacement', Imagine Festival, EYE Film Institute, Amterdam, NL
2016 'Exploded Views The Video', RAM foundation, Rotterdam, NL
2015 'Exploded Views 2.0' & 'mini Scan Sweep Swipe Wipe', C-Space, Beijing, CN
2015 'Exploded Views 2.0', Gogbot, Enschede, NL
2015 Solo Exhibiton 'Alternative Displays Displaying Alternatives', MU, Eindhoven, NL
2015 'Scan Sweep Swipe Wipe' & 'Exploded Views 2.0', Dordtyart, Dordrecht, NL
2015 'Mirror Piece' & 'Exploded Views 2.0', DIAS, Vallensbæk, DK
2015 '15 Minutes of Biometric Fame' & 'Rectilinear Displacement', EXIT 2015, MAC Créteil, FR
2015 'Mirror Piece', MUHKA, Antwerp, BE
2014 'Exploded Views 2.0', Technopolis "Moscow", RU
2014 'Rectilinear Displacement', Todays Art Festival, The Hague, NL
2014 'Exploded Views 2.0', New Horizons festival, Rotterdam, NL
2014 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', l’Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes, FR
2014 'Exploded Views 2.0', National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW
2014 'Exploded Views 2.0', Meta.Morf biennale, Trondheim, NO
2014 'Mirror Piece', Droog Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2013 'Beijing Accelerator', U2_Kulturelle Bildung, Dortmund, DE
2013 'Mirror Piece' & 'Exploded Views 2.0', V2, Rotterdam, NL
2013 'Mirror Piece', Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, NL
2013 'Run Motherfucker Run', Cofa UNSW Galleries,Isea 2013 Syndey, AU
2013 'Spatial Sounds', K11, Shanghai, CN
2012 '15 Minutes of Biometric Fame', DEAF_festival V2, Rotterdam, NL
2012 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, US
2012 'Mirror Piece', Bouillants festival in Rennes, FR
2012 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', EMAF, Osnabruck, DE
2012 'Mirror Piece', Mois Multi, Quebec City, CA
2011 'Exploded Views 2.0 preview', STRP festival Eindhoven, NL
2011 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', Gogbot, Enschede, NL
2011 'Spatial Sounds', Expérience Pommery # 9, Reims, FR
2011 '15 Minutes of Biometric Fame”, Translife, National Art Museum China, Beijing, CN
2011 'Mirror Piece', Shong Zhuang Art Center, Beijing, CN
2011 'Mirror Piece', OFF matica, Sonar, CCCB, Barcelona, SP
2011 'Mirror piece', Issue Art Space Beijing, CN
2011 'Beijing Accelerator', Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshaven, DE
2011 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', EXIT 2011, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Paris, FR
2011 'Mirror Piece', Transmediale 11, Berlin, DE
2010 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', Technology Requested, NIMK, Amsterdam, NL
2010 'Mirror Piece', (ISMAR) COEX/Art Center Nabi. Seoul, Korea
2010 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', STRP_festival , Eindhoven, NL
2010 'Beijing Accelerator', as soon as possible, CCCS Strozzina, Firenze, IT
2010 Pilot presentation of the new work "15 minutes of Biometric fame", TASML, Beijing, CN
2009 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), HyperSounds, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, SP
2009 'Exploded Views', GLOW festival Eindhoven, NL
2009 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', opening cultural season, V2_organisation, Rotterdam, NL
2009 'Exploded Views', Fluid Architecture, NIMK, Amsterdam, NL
2009 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Woodstreet Gallery, Pittsburg, US
2009 'Run Motherfucker Run', ENTER ACTION, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, DK
2008 'Physiognomic Scrutinizer', Touch Me festival 2008, Feel Better!, Zagreb, HR
2008 'Beijing Accelerator', Sonarmatica 08, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, SP
2008 'Beijing Accelerator', Synthetic Times, National Art Museum China, Beijing, CN
2008 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
2008 'Exploded Views', Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Firenze, IT
2007 'Beijing Accelerator', STRP_festival , Eindhoven, NL
2007 'Beijing Accelerator', Moca, Museum of contemporary Arts Taipei, TW
2007 'Exercise in Immersion 4', DEAF07 Festival, V2_organisation, Rotterdam, NL
2006 'Push/Pull' & 'Spatial Sounds', DAF festival, Tokyo, JP
2006 'Beijing Accelerator', Emergence festival, Paris, FR
2006 'Run Motherfucker Run', 6th Shanghai Bienale, Shanghai, CN
2006 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Alta Tecnología Andina, Lima, PER
2006 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), CODE BLUE, China Millennium Museum, Beijing, CN
2006 'Beijing Accelerator', Electromagnetic Bodies,Tent & V2 organisation, Rotterdam, NL
2006 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Elektra Festival, Montreal, CA
2006 'Run Motherfucker Run', Urban Explorer Festival. Dordrecht, NL
2006 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h) & 'Run Motherfucker Run', STRP, Eindhoven, NL
2005 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h),TodaysArt, The Hague, NL
2005 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Audioframes, Lille, FR
2005 'Run Motherfucker Run', Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2005 'Run Motherfucker Run', In The Line of Flight, China Millennium Museum, Beijing, CN
2005 'Run Motherfucker Run', Kapelica Gallery. Ljubljana, Sl
2005 'Run Motherfucker Run' & 'Spatial Sounds', Transmediale Festival 05, Berlin, DE
2004 'Run Motherfucker Run', DEAF04 Festival, V2_organisation, Rotterdam, NL
2004 'Run Motherfucker Run', Internationale keuze, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, NL
2004 'Autonomous Oil Reserve', Tracer, Tent & Witte de With Rotterdam, NL
2004 'Push / Pull', Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2004 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Kontejner. Zagreb, HR
2004 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Kapelica Gallery. Ljubljana, Sl
2003 'Panoramic Acceleration', 8ème festival Bandits-Mages, Bourges, FR
2003 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Mois Multi. Quebec-city, CA
2002 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Nuit Blanche, Paris, FR
2002 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, BR
2002 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Sonar, Barcelona, SP
2002 'Cross-Connected' Hotel Mosaic, Tent, Rotterdam, NL
2001 'Spatial Sounds (100 dB at 100 km/h), Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2001 'Cross-Control', Cell, Rotterdam Cultural Capital Europe, Rotterdam, NL
2001 'Spatial Sounds', Artfuture 2000, Acer Digital Art Centre,Taipei, TW
2000 'Panoramic Acceleration', DEAF 00, V2_Organisation, Rotterdam, NL
2000 'Intervention mit drei Hunden', Gothaer, Koln, DE
1999 'Panoramic Acceleration', New Forms Festival, The Hague, NL
1999 'Panoramic Acceleration', 17th World-Wide Video Festival Amsterdam, NL
1998 'Closing the Loop' pseudo-scientific experiments, Time's Up_org Linz, AU
1998 'Open Head', Montevideo_TBA, Amsterdam, NL
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2005 'Vibrating Zagreb_the Trillmachine', Kontejner. Zagreb, HR
2002 'Machine Winks', Christina de Chatel Dance Company, Low-Lands festival, Biddinghuizen, NL
2001 'Machine Winks', Christina de Chatel Dance Company, Korzo, The Haque, NL
2001 'Machine Winks', Christina de Chatel Dance Company, Dutch Dancing Days, Maastricht, NL
2001 'Super Eva', Christina de Chatel Dance Company, Frascati, Amsterdam, NL
2001 'Super Eva', Christina de Chatel Dance Company, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, NL
2001 'Super Eva', Christina de Chatel Dance Company, Ludwig forum, Achen, DE
2001 'Intervention With Four Pneumatic Cylinders', Begane Grond, Utrecht, NL
1999 'Inflatable', Re-constructions, CELL, Het Paard, The Hague, NL
1997 'Trill', Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
1996 'Trill', Update Festival, Copenhagen, DM
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2020 On the Basis of Face, Devon Schiller, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Art Beyond Digital, Dominique Moulon, Scala 2018, Paris, F
2018 Man as Bird. Images of Journeys, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, RU
2016 Möglichkeit Mensch, Neofelis verlag, Zeppelin Museum, De
2014 Lost in Transition 2014, Meta.Morf, NO
2014 From Me to All of Us and Back Again, Marijke Goeting, Journal of Art Theory and Practice, KR
2014 IN ITINERE Arte contemporanea in trasformazione, Raffaele Quattrone, EQUIPèCO , IT
2013 data snooping – what is really going on, Michael Shanks, www.mshanks.com, US
2011 La Fabrique Sonore, Expérience Pommery #9, Beaux Art éditions, FR
2011 Wasser-Strasse-Schiene-Luft, Zeppelin Museum Friendrichshaven, DE
2011 Aspect 17, The Chronical Of New Media Art, Boston, US
2010 Singuhr, Hoergalerie In Parochial, Sound Art in Berlin, DE
2009 Enter Action, Digital Art Now, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, DK
2008 Art Contemoprain Nouveaux Médias, Dominique Moulon, Scala, FR
2008 Boekman 75, Kunst en Digitalisering, Boekmanstichting, NL
2008 The Keywords on Visual Arts in the Netherlands, Ideafriend Studio, Taipei, TW
2008 Touch Me, Feel Better, Kontejner, Zagreb, HR
2008 Deep Screen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
2008 Synthetic Times, National Art Museum China, Beijing, CN
2007 Contempory Art of Science And Technology, Sciencep, CN
2007 Unstable Media, Act Interact, Moca, Taipei, TW
2007 Interact or Die, DEAF 07,V2_Organisation, Rotterdam, NL
2006 DAF, Digital Arts Festival Tokyo 2006, JP
2006 Hyper Design, 6th Shanghai Bienalle, CN
2006 Code Blue, Confluence of Currents, 3rd Beijing International New Media Arts festival, CN
2005 Marnix de Nijs, Witteveen & Bos Art and Technology Price 2005, NL
2005 Cyber Art 2005, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2005 In The line of Flight, 2rd Beijing International New Media Arts festival, CN
2004 Feelings are always local, V2_organisation, Rotterdam, NL
2004 Ars 2004, Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2004 Tracer 1 & 2, Tent & Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
2003 Future cinema_the cinematic imaginary after film, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
2002 Emoção Art.ficial, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, BR
2002 Sonar 2002, 9th International Festival Of Advanced Music And Multi-Media Arts, SP
2001 Cyber Art 2001, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, AU
2001 Review, Frieze, GB
2000 Machine Times, DEAF 00,V2_Organisation, Rotterdam, NL
1999 13th festival Rencontre Video Art Plastic, Herouville, FR
1999 17th World-Wide VideoFestival Amsterdamdam, NL
1999 Closing the Loop '98, Time's Up_org, Linz, AU
1999 Review, Zingmagazine, New York, USA
1998 Review, BLVD magazine, NL
1997 Review, BLVD magazine, NL