Nicole Bachmann

Nicole Bachmann works across video, text, sound, installation and performance, to investigate the wider socio-political impact of how meaning is made and who has access to making it.

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Her practice is grounded in writing which serves as initial material for her performances and sculptures reflecting her interest in utterance and performative text. Its circular movement from text, to audio, to sculpture and then to performance interests the artist as it highlights the relationship between poetry, voice, and the body.

Largely based on feminist and emancipatory thought, Bachmann's work thinks of the body as a place where meaning and knowledge are produced using voice and movement, to form an “embodied vocabulary” that creates narratives and stories away from dominant world concepts and beliefs. In becoming other-too, Bachmann questions the structures of social norms and inequalities through her own and others' bodies and voices. This is inspired by Rosi Braidotti's concept of how people as subjects are embodied and embedded in the world we are sharing through relational affectivities.

Bachmann's predominantly collaborative practice reflects this subversion, evoking a sense of togetherness and reciprocity to search for meaning away from the prescribed set of definitions. Activating the individual as well as the group, Bachmann questions how to become bodies of social and political change.

Working in mediums which are still underrepresented within the art market because of their non-physical, temporal aspects, Bachmann again wants to interrupt tendencies inherent to a system.

Nicole Bachmann (b. 1973, Zurich, CH) works and lives between Zurich, CH and London, UK. She holds a Diploma in Fine Art from Zurich University of the Arts (2007) and an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2010). Awards Include: Nominated for the Prix litteraire Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou 2022; Swiss Art Awards, shortlisted (2019); Freiraumstipendium, Zurich, CH (2018); Werkbeitrag, Stadt Zurich, winner (2015 & 2018); Art Prize 2008, Nationale Suisse (2008); Swiss Design Award (2003).

Bachmann has been exhibited internationally at galleries, institutions, biennials and fairs, including: 10th Edition of Whitstable Biennial, UK; Singapore Biennale 2019, SG; Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, CH; Berlin Espace Diaphanes, Berlin, DE; Manifesta 11, Zurich, CH; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; ICA, London, UK; Kunsthalle St.Gallen, CH; Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK; Darling Foundation, Montreal, CA; Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; Helmhaus Stadt Zürich, CH; Tenderpixel, London, UK; Block Universe, Performance Art Festival, London, UK; Helmhaus Museum, Zurich, CH; Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK;  Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH; Istituto Svizzero Rome, IT; Haus der Kunst Uri, Altdorf, CH; LUX Artists’ Moving Image, London, UK; Art Hall Tallinn, Tallinn, EE; Last Tango, Zürich, CH; New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, USA; Videotank, Zurich, CH; Cabinett in Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, FI; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, FR; Mimosa House, London, UK; E-Werk Freiburg, Freiburg, DE; TOPIC, Geneva, CH; VITRINE, London, UK and Basel, UK; Espace Diaphanes Zürich, CH; Performance Exchange 2022; Baloise Kunst Forum, Basel, CH.

Residencies include: LUX, London, UK (2016); Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK (2015); Escalator program, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK (2011).

Forthcoming exhibition include 'Talking Bodies’ at Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, CH.

Nicole Bachmann, hovers above the chest, 2022 (Trailer)
Trailer for Nicole Bachmann's film 'hovers above the chest' (2022).
2022
Nicole Bachmann, partly anchored, a mesh of seeds, 2021 (Instituto Svizzero Rome)
Excerpt from Nicole Bachmann's performance 'partly anchored, a mesh of seeds' (2021) as part of Sol Invictus at Instituto Svizzero Rome, IT.
2021
Nicole Bachmann, along the rims, 2020 (trailer)
Trailer for Nicole Bachmann's film 'along the rims' 2020. HD Single Channel Video. With Nandi Bhebhe, Patricia Langa and Cian McConn.
2020
Nicole Bachmann, or what is, 2019
Video documentation of Nicole Bachmann's performance 'or what is' at Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, CH, 2019.
Nicole Bachmann, A Circle Whispering Dot, 2019
Video documentation of Nicole Bachmann's performance 'A circle whispering dot' at Mimosa House, London, UK in 2019.
Nicole Bachmann, Personare Part I, 2018
Video documentation of Nicole Bachmann's performance 'Personare Part I' at Tenderpixel, London, UK on 13 January, 2018.
Nicole Bachmann, I don't want your whispers, 2017
Video documentation of Nicole Bachmann's performance 'I don't want your whispers' commissioned by Block Universe Performance Art Festival, performed at Kachette, London in 2017.
Nicole Bachmann, I Say (video excerpt), 2017
Video excerpt from Nicole Bachmann's video work 'I Say', 2017.
Nicole Bachmann, Ink on Skin (excerpt), 2020
Excerpt from Nicole Bachmann's audio work 'Ink on Skin', 2020.
Nicole Bachmann, Uncertainties, 2007 (Excerpt)
Nicole Bachmann, Uncertainties, 2007. HD single channel video, 16:9. 00:13:01.
Along A Long So Long
Aug 2021
20
Friday
6:30 pm
8:00 pm
Free

Group event

Along A Long So Long

Performance

VITRINE, Basel

Along A Long So Long
Jul 2021
01
Thursday
6:00 pm
8:00 pm
Free

Group event

Along A Long So Long

Preview

VITRINE, Basel

full stop slightly high
Mar 2020
10
Tuesday
7:00 pm
Free

Group event

full stop slightly high

Preview and Performance

VITRINE, London

Performance Exchange 2022
Jul 2022
08
Friday
Jul 2022
10
Sunday
Group show

Performance Exchange 2022

VITRINE, Fitzrovia

Fair

Along A Long So Long
Jul 2021
02
Friday
Sep 2021
05
Sunday
Group show

Along A Long So Long

VITRINE, Basel

Sounding Off 2.0
Aug 2020
09
Sunday
Nov 2020
08
Sunday

Nadim Abbas, Nicole Bachmann, Edwin Burdis, Kara Chin, Anaïs Comer, Tim Etchells, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Ludovica Gioscia, Katrin Hanusch, Candice Jacobs, Sophie Jung, Rene Matić, Campbell McConnell, Paula Pinho Martins Nacif, Milly Peck, Sam Porritt, Ralph Pritchard, Natasha Rees, Bioni Samp, James Stopforth, and Charlie Godet Thomas.

Group show

Sounding Off 2.0

VITRINE, Digital

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