Nina Lola Bachhuber

Nina Lola Bachhuber's ssculptures can be read as three- dimensional representations of psychological states in which varying levels of abstraction and figuration are oscillating.
By combining materials associated with the body such as hairs, fur, bones and horns with elements of the furnished interior, the work reveals an ambivalence of rationality and mystery. The inclusion of mirrors attributes an aspect of narcissism to these fetish-like objects.
The work centers in a rather absurd, non-linear narrative: Mood, gender and behavior associations permeate the arrangement of the object (s) in space. A certain eeriness and uncanny humor undermine issues of color, material and scale, creating what could be called a kind of "surreal minimalism".
The artist is working equally in drawing and sculpture. The drawings are never studies for sculptures, but instead are independent works on their own. What connects them to the three- dimensional work is their premise: the body at large, human and animal, and their fluctuation between figuration and abstraction.

ONE - PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2010 “Nachtschatten”, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Die Königin verneigt sich und tötet”, Kunstverein Glückstadt, G
2008 “Locust Plague”, Gallery Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen, Germany
2007 “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Glasgow Sculpture Studios (with Stuart Gurden)
2005 “Not yet a widow”, Gallery Antje Wachs, Berlin
2005 “Yesterday I ate a lizard”, Space Other, Boston
2005 Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan
2003 "The social life of mussels", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2003 Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan
2002 "Greyscale (Wall for two rockers)" Künstlerhaus Hamburg, Germany
2001 "Bist lieb", Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany
2000 Goethe Haus, New York City
1999 "Coexistence", DG Kunstverein, Munich (Cat.), Germany
1999 Schloss Elmau, Germany
1998 Kunsthaus Essen (Cat.), Germany
1998 "Badewonnen", Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst, Baden-Baden, G
1996 Kunstverein Furth


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2011 "An Exchange with Sol LeWitt", Curated by Regine Baisha, MASS MoCA, North Adams
2011 “The Last Book”, ...