Nils Norman
Education
Central St. Martins School of Art, London, UK. 1986/89
Selected Solo, Collaborative Exhibitions, Commissions and Public Art Projects
Tate Britain commission. London, UK. 2021- 2023
Public Art Commission. Castrignano de’ Greci, Puglia, Italy. 2021 - ongoing
Public Art Commission. Hanstholm Harbour, Hanstholm, Denmark. 2021. (Unrealised)
The Garden Department. An outdoor classroom and garden in collaboration with students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 2020 - ongoing
Public Art Commission. Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. 2020. (Unrealised)
Three Play Pavilions. Public art commission, Munich City Council. Munich, Germany. 2019 - 2024
The Toffee Park Jack Smith Mobile Dressing Up Armoire. Public art commission in collaboration with Public Works. Kunstraum, London, UK. 2019-20
Public art commission. Clay Farm Community Garden. Cambridge, UK. 2019 - ongoing
Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, The Second Yinchuan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China, 2018
The Politics of Design – Act 1. Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, 2018
Working Hard to be Useless, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah, USA, 2018
Proposals for a Plaza, in collaboration with Fritz Haeg, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, 2018-19
City Club, an ongoing public art and design proposal in collaboration with Gareth Jones and 6a Architects, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK, 2016-2019
The New Rietveld Academie Library Design, Gerrit Reitveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2016-2018
Artist in Residence and Playground Design, St Fagins National History Museum, Cardiff, Wales, 2015-2017
Life in the Projects and the Proposals. Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, the Netherlands. 2016
City Club Presentation, with Gareth Jones. MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK. 2015
Vancouver Vernacular, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada. 2015
The Folly of George III. Public art project, Springhornhof Kunstverein, Neuenkirchen, Germany. 2015
Completion of two bird screens. Trumpington Green Corridor, Cambridge, UK.
A public design project, including the design of street furniture, three pedestrian bridges,
an allotment garden and community garden, signage and orientation. Cambridge, UK. 2011-18
Future Perfect, Public Art Commission, Bristol, UK. 2013-14
A project that includes the design of a theatre curtain, 5 play areas and a foot path for Hengrove, Bristol.
Art and the Public Realm Bristol. School playground commission, Bristol, UK. 2014
Das Kind, die Stadt und die Kunst – Aldo van Eyck, Nils Norman and Yto Barrada,
Schmela Haus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Düsseldorf, Germany. 2013
Lead Artist. Trumpington Green Corridor, Cambridge, UK.
A public design project, including the design of street furniture, three pedestrian bridges,
an allotment garden and community garden, signage and orientation. Cambridge, UK. 2011-18
Ode to Charles Fourier: towards a Phalanstery for Manchester, Cube, Manchester, UK. 2011
Edible Park, Two Permaculture urban farming projects commissioned by Stroom, the Hague, the Netherlands. 2010
Open-Assembly No:1. Loughborough. Insects, Worms, Mushrooms, Birds and Students, Radar, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK. 2010
Dave Hullfish Bailey and Nils Norman. Surrounded by Squares, Raven Row, London, UK. 2009
Public Workspace Playscape Sculpture Graz, Utopie und Monument, (Public Art Commission), Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria. 2009
The University of Trash, (in collaboration with Mike Cataldi), the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, Long Island, USA. 2009
Stockwell Underground Station Facade and rooftop garden project, Art on the Underground, London, UK. (Unrealised). 2008
Tate Public Art Commission, (in collaboration with Grimshaw-Architects, unrealised). 2008
The Golden Lane Campus, (School playground design), London, UK. 2008
Ruins, Monuments and Follies, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK. 2008
Games and Theory, exhibition structure design, South London Gallery, London, UK. 2008
Experimental Art Institutions: an ongoing survey, (in collaboration with the students of Bourges Art School), La Box, Bourges, France. 2008
You Have Been Misinformed, (in collaboration with Stephan Dillemuth), Reena Spaulings, NYC, USA. 2008
Tate Artist Commission, (for the exhibition ‘Global Cities’), Tate Modern, London, UK. 2007
Ideal City, artist commission, Art on the Underground – Piccadilly Circus, London, UK. 2007
A Mysterious Thing, (in collaboration with Stephan Dillemuth), Vilma Gold, London, UK. 2007
Artist Commission, Art on the Underground, (various posters and unaccepted Oyster card wallet design),
London, UK. 2006
Artist Commission, (public sculpture), Hayward Gallery and British Art Show 6, Baltic, Gateshead, UK. 2006
Degenerate Cologne, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany. 2006
Trekroner Bridge and Islands, art and architecture design commission, (design of pedestrian bridge and two islands), City of Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark. 2006
Artist Commission, (public sculpture), for the exhibition Beyond Green, Smart Museum, Chicago, USA. 2005
The Homerton Playscape Multiple Struggle Niche, City Projects, London, UK. 2005
The Art of Urbanomics, Bloomberg Artist Commission, (flash animation), Hayward Gallery, London, UK. 2004
Everything in the Future Will Necessarily Come: CorporateFairytales and Other Sculptural Maneuvers, (in collaboration with Stephan Dillemuth), Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany. 2004
Hey Rudy!: A Phantom on the Streets of Schizz, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany. 2003
Geocruiser, The Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, UK. 2001
Dismal Garden, American Fine Arts Co. Ltd., New York, NY, USA. 2001
The Topology of a proposal for a phantom experimental city school leaflet, East Dulwich, the Top Room,
London, UK. 2000
Debut of the Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Centre and Weather Station,
(European Chapter), Galerie für Landschafts Kunst, Hamburg, Germany. 2000
The Cruel Dialectic: Decay and Opportunity, American Fine Arts Co, Ltd, New York, NY, USA. 1999
Social Surplus, American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY, USA. 1997
Niche, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany. 1996
Romney Reborn, Das Museum Ferner Gegenden, Hamburg, Germany. 1996
Nils Norman. Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany. 1992
Nils Norman, Friesewall 120, Cologne, Germany. 1991
Lawren Maben and Nils Norman, 64-65 Guilford St, (later known as Milch), London. 1990
Selected Group Exhibitions
Illiberal Arts, with Stephan Dillemuth. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. 2021
Slavs and Tatars / Lawrence Abu Hamdan / Nils Norman / Andrea Bakketun / Sara Christensen / Allyce Wood
Curated by Martina Petrelli. Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrøm, Norway. 2019
Family Ties: The Schroder Donation. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. 2019
Die bucklige Verwandtschaft. NagelDraxler Galerie. Cologne, Germany. 2019
Sculpture Playground. (In collaboration with Public Works). Kunstraum. London, UK. 2019
The Lie of the Land, MKGallery, Milton Keynes, UK, 2019
Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge, The Second Yinchuan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China, 2018
The Politics of Design – Act 1. Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, 2018
Working Hard to be Useless, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah, USA, 2018
Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017. Curated by Sue Spaid
Museum de Domijnen, Sittard, the Netherlands. 2017
The Mere Future, American Medium, Brooklyn, NY, USA. 2017
DIE IDEE DER FREIEN FLUSSZONE, Die Galerie für Landschaftskunst im Heidelberger Kunstverein,
Heidelberg, Germany. 2017
Utopia Factory, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Canada. 2017
Hamlet, (With Stephan Dillemuth). Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany. 2016
NEXT: UTOPIA, Norrköping's Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden. 2016
Game of Life III: Juliusvariasjonene, Kristiansand Kunsthall,
Kristiansand, Norway. 2016
Participate: Think/Play/Do. The Tetley, Leeds, UK. 2015
Safety, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland. 2015
Spielräume/Freeplay, Haus der Architektur | House of Architecture, Graz, Austria. 2015
Transmission, recréation et répétition. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. 2015
Playgrounds: Reinventing the Square, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. 2014
Imaginary Friends, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA. 2013
Artists' Plans For Sustainability, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. 2013
Cultural Freedom in Europe, Goethe Institute, Brussels, Belgium. 2013
Sandfields Festival of Ideas, Swansea, Wales, UK. 2012
Cartographies Of Hope: Change Narratives, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic. 2012
Redundanz, GFLK Halle Süd, Bad Tölz, Germany. 2012
The Europa Triangle, curated by Kit Hammonds, Dyson Building Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK. 2012
Beziehungsarbeit - Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 2011
Government Art Collection: Selected by Cornelia Parker: Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain,
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK. 2011
Rituals of the Artworld, Ludlow 38, NYC, NY, USA. 2011
Scenarios About Europe, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany. 2011
PARK: a possibility, Istanbul, Turkey. 2010
The Way it Wasn’t (Celebrating ten years of castillo/corrales, Paris), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 2010
Utopie und Alltag: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kunst und Bildung, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland. 2010
European Social Forum 2010 / Radical Aesthetics, film Screening, Istanbul, Turkey. 2010
This World and Nearer Ones, Governor’s Island, Creative Time, NYC, USA. 2009
Utopia and the Everyday, Centre d’Art Contemporain, CAC, Geneva, Switzerland. 2009
Deep Green, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2009
Foodprint, Stroom, the Hague, The Netherlands. 2009
Time as Matter: MACBA collection new acquisitions, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. 2009
Assume Nothing, New Social Practice, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada. 2009
Beyond Green, The DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, USA. 2009
Future Non-Future, Architecture Association School of Architecture, London, UK. 2008
Street Art, Street Life, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA. 2008
The Geopolitics of Animation, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain. 2008
The Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK. 2008
Games and Theory, South London Art Gallery, London, UK. 2008
Beyond Green, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada. 2008
Beyond Green, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, 2008
Beyond Green, The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland,
Oregon, USA. 2008
Dear Cockettes, (with Stephan Dillemuth), UKS galleri, Oslo, Norway. 2007
Nachvollziehungsangebote, WUK - Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria. 2007
It Starts From Here, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK. 2007
How to Cook a Wolf, (with Stephan Dillemuth), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich Switzerland.
Curated by John Kelsey. 2007
Global Cities, Tate Modern, London, UK. 2007
Beyond Green, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. 2007
Beyond Green, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. 2007
Beyond Green, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA. 2007
The Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, USA. 2007
Make Your Own Life, ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 2006
Beyond Green, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, New York, USA. 2006
Beyond Green, University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, USA. 2006
The British Art Show 6, Baltic, Gateshead, UK. 2005-6
Down the Garden Path: Artists Gardens since 1960, Queens Museum, Queens, New York, USA. 2005
Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA. 2005
Fantasy Architecture, national touring exhibition, organized by the Hayward Gallery, RIBA and the Arts Council of England. 2004/05
The Art of the Garden: The Role of the Garden in British Visual Culture: 1804-2004, Tate Britain, London, UK. 2004
Fantastic, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA. 2004
The Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba. 2003
Utopia Station, 50th Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija. 2003
Museutopia, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum der Stadt Hagen, Hagen, Germany. 2002
Elbow Room, Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY. 2000
Home, Deichtorhalle, Hamburg, Germany. 2000
Democracy!, Royal College of Art, London, UK. 2000
Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA. 2000
Cousins, Cosima von Bonin at the Kunstverein Braunsweig, Braunsweig, Germany. 2000
Top Gear, the Top Room, East Dulwich, London. 2000
1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin Gallery, New York, NY, USA. 2000
Small World, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. Curated by Toby Kamps. 2000
Hey International Competition Style!, TENT, Rotterdam, NL. 2000
Urban Islands, Cubitt, London, UK. Curated by Stefan Kalmar. 1999
Hiriya in the Museum, Museum of Modern Art Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1999
Simon Leung and Nils Norman, Project Wall, Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. 1999
Overflow, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, USA. Curated by Meg O'Rourke and Caroline Schneider. 1999
Nils Norman and Chris Whittey, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY at Old Westbury, Long Island, NY, USA. Curated by Helen Molesworth. 1998
The Making of, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 1998
Broken Home, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA. Curated by Meg O'Rourke and Caroline Schneider. 1997
Summer Group Exhibition, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany. 1995
Dennis Balk, Simon Leung and Nils Norman, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, USA. 1995
Die Arena des Privaten, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany. 1993
Wohnzimmer/Büro, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany. 1992
F-Space, K-Raum Daxer, Munich, Germany. Curated by Stephan Dillemuth and Josef Strau. 1991
Consultation Projects
Public Art Consultation. Norrköping's Inner Harbour Development. Norrköping, Sweden. (Ongoing)
External Advisor. The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva. Advisory Research Group, Geneva, Switzerland. 2017-19
https://head.hesge.ch/taag/en/
Play Consultation and Design, Mereside, Blackpool, UK. 2016-2017
Selected Bibliography
Publications
Propuestas Para Una Plaza. Proposals For A Plaza. Editorial concept Fritz Haeg, Kit Hammonds
and Nils Norman. Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico. 2018
Edible Park, Nils Norman. Eds Taco de Neef, Nils Norman, Peter de Rooden, Astrid Vorstermans. Valiz, NL. 2012
Nils Norman artists pages and front cover, Mute magazine, Vol 2,#12. June 2009
Charing Cross. Serpentine Gallery and Konig Books, London. 2008
No Fear: Growing up in a Risk Averse Society. Tim Gill with photos by Nils Norman, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London, UK. 2007
Thurrock 2015. Comic commissioned by The General Public Agency, London, UK. 2004
An Architecture of Play: A Survey of London’s Adventure Playgrounds. Four Corners, London, UK. 2004
The Contemporary Picturesque. Book Works, London, UK. 2000
Critical Articles, Reviews and Exhibition Catalogues
Akershus kunstsenter imponerer nok en gang med ny utstilling. SUBJECT. Håvard Holmefjord. 11, December, 2019
Playscape, WALLPAPER*. Nick Compton. October 2019
Familienbande. Die Schenkung Schröder. {Exhibition catalogue}. Ed, Barbara Engelbach. Museum Ludwig, Verlag de Buchhandlung Walther König. Cologne. 2019
Environmentally Aware Artists Are Turning their Gaze on the Art World. ELEPHANT. 16 May. 2019
MK Gallery, review – a building that makes Milton Keynes exciting all over again. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. Mark Hudson. 12 March. 2019
Milton Keynes Gallery goes back to plan A. RIBA JOURNAL. Hugh Pearman. 14 March. 2019
https://www.ribaj.com/culture/milton-keynes-gallery-6a-architects-hugh-pearman
Is it time to think again about Milton Keynes? Why the new MK Gallery is an architectural gem. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. Caroline Roux, 13 March. 2019
Off Grid. A Review of the new MKGallery. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW. Douglas Murphy. May. 2019 Playing with History. ART REVIEW. Mark Rappolt. May. 2019
Mirror to Milton Keynes. ARCHITECTURE TODAY. Sam Jacob. April. 2019
http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/mirror-to-milton-keynes/
MK Gallery review – utterly, thrillingly Milton Keynesian. THE GUARDIAN, Oliver Wainwright, Tuesday 5 March. 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/05/mk-gallery-review-milton-keynesLandmarks: Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, 1988-2018. Ed Katharina Blass-Pratscher, Brigitte Huck and Susanne Neuberger. Amt der NÖ Landesregierung, St Pölten, Austria. 2019
2019 Arts Preview. Masters and Machines: The Best Art and Architecture of 2019. THE GUARDIAN, 2 January, 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/02/best-art-and-architecture-2019
Dismal Garden. Interview with Nils Norman for VILLAGE PSYCHIC. May 29, 2018
http://www.villagepsychic.net/blog/dismal-garden
Jumex Museum show looks at the fall of the Utopian ideal in Latin America, Linda Yablonsky,
THE ART NEWSPAPER, 11th April, 2018
La explanada del Museo Jumex, gran laboratorio creativo y social, Ángel Vargas, REFORMA, 9 April, 2018
6a architects, adjustments, EL CROQUIS, Madrid, 2017
www.atvanishingpoint.art
http://www.atvanishingpoint.art/articles/p9.html
Text on education and the School of Walls and Space, 2017
Ecovention Europe: Art to Transform Ecologies, 1957-2017, Sue Spaid. Museum de Domijnen, Sittard, the Netherlands, 2017
L'Art A L'Épreuve De La Ville, Cahier 01, Ed Tilo Steireif, UER AT et Unité Communication, HEP Voud. 2017
Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good. Ed Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson and Dominic Willsdon. MIT and the New Museum, 2016
Nils Norman at Museum De Domijnen,
CONTEMPORARY ART DAILY,
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2016/05/nils-norman-at-museum-de-domijnen/
2016
Game of Life III. Juliusvariasjonene, {Exhibition Catalogue}, ed Jan Freuchen and Sigurd Tenningen. Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand, Norway. 2016
Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, TJ Demos, Sternberg Press. 2016
CONTEMPORARY ART DAILY, http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2016/05/nils-norman-at-museum-de-domijnen/
2016
Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good, edited by Johanna Burton, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon, New Museum/MIT Press, 2015
Architects are purposely designing uncomfortable park benches, Selena Savić. QUATRZ, March 26, 2015.
https://qz.com/370163/architects-are-purposefully-designing-uncomfortable-park-benches/
Anti-homeless spikes: ‘Sleeping rough opened my eyes to the city’s barbed cruelty’, Alex Andreou, THE GUARDIAN, Wednesday 18th February, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/18/defensive-architecture-keeps-poverty-undeen-and-makes-us-more-hostile
Shooting Space: Architecture In Contemporary Photography, Elias Redstone, Phaidon Press, 2014
Contestations: Learning From Critical Experiments In Education, Ed Tim Ivison & Tom Vandeputte, Bedford Press London, 2014
Playgrounds: reinventing the square, {Exhibition Catalogue}, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. 2014
Are Anti-Homeless Sidewalk Spikes Immoral? Kristin Hohenadel, SLATE.com. 2014
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/06/12/artist_nils_norman_documents_anti_homeless_spikes_and_other_defensive_architecture.htmlThe Underdog: The Life and Times of Colin de Land, the Ultimate Art Dealer, DAZED AND CONFUSED, Spring 2014
Two Antithetical Archives Caught in a Cruel Dialectic, A project by Nils Norman, ARTFORUM, September. 2013
Mellem utopi og byens rum, Andreas Eckhardt-Læssøe ATLAS. Tema: Utopier. 2013
The European Book. ed Barbara Steiner, Jovis Verlag. 2013
Research in Progress – A Doctorate/PhD in arts, Haute école d'art et design, Genéve, Programme Master de recherche CCC, Newsletter CCC 10/11. 2013
Die Spieltheorie, Maren Keller, KULTURSPIEGEL, April, Heft 4. 2013
The Roundel: 100 Artists Remake a London Icon. ed Tamsin Dillon, Art on the Underground, Art/Books. 2012
Mobile Phenomena: Compiled by Temporary Services. Temporary Services, Half Letter Press. 2012
Architectural Inventions: Visionary Drawings. Matt Bua & Maximillian Goldfarb, Laurence King Publishing. 2012
Changing Places, a roundtable with Nils Norman, Timotheus Vermeulen, Anton Vidokle and Sharon Zukin
on the place of art in society, FRIEZE. June, July, August 2012
Thinking Europe, The Scenario Book, ed Barbara Steiner, {Exhibition Catalogue}, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany. 2012
Social Spaces. Can Altay and Dan Graham, FRIEZE. May 2012
Art After Nature. TJ Demos on the Post-Natural Condition. TJ Demos, ARTFORUM. April 2012
Locating the Producers. Paul O'Neill and Claire Doherty(eds), Valiz Antennae, 2011
Foodprint: voedsel voor de stad, voer voor de kunst. Sandra Spijkerman. K KUNSTBEELD.NL. January 2011
This Week: Artists in Manchester are Using Play to Explore Architecture. James Pallister. THE ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL. October 2011
Venice, Basel, Folkestone. James Pallister. THE ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL. November 2011
The Cat Came as a Tomato: Conversations on Play and Contemporary Art Practice.
The South London Art Gallery. London 2011
Student Aid: Nils Norman on the Copenhagen Free University. Nils Norman, ARTFORUM. October 2011
On View, World Wide, for the Month of... .Calendar published by Kunstverein NY, NYC, USA. 2011
Nils Norman. Agnieszka Gratzka. FRIEZE. April 2011
Let the Children Play, Nils Norman. CASA VOGUE, VOGUE ITALY. April 2011
Dome Culture in the 21st Century. Eva Diaz, GREY ROOM, MIT Press. 2011
Nils Norman: From bomb site to boutique: the playground and its journey from anarchy to economic development tool. Winnipeg, Arts Council, podcast, Canada. Spring 2011
Eetbaar Park, METROPOLIS M, No. 6. 2010/2011
No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City. Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry. Mute Publishing. 2010
Nils Norman online interview. Badatsports contemporary art talks. http://badatsports.com/2010/episode-253-nils-norman/
Best of 2010, Nils Norman. ARTFORUM. December 2010
Nils Norman, Public Workplace Playground Structure, Graz Austria, 2009. Playscapes: A Blog About Playground Design. Thursday, September 16, 2010.
Propaganda in the Garden. Cathy Lebowitz, ART IN AMERICA. October 2009
Radical Nature. TJ Demos, {Exhibition Catalogue}, Barbican Gallery, London. 2009
The Free Soil Reader. Sarah Lewison, interview with Nils Norman, Future Farmers. 2009
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ writings. ed Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, MIT Press. 2009
Public Art Lower Austria, Vol 9. Katherine Blass-Pratscher, Springer Wein New York. 2009
The Art Season Returns. Oliver Basciano, Artreview.com. September 2009
Michael Cataldi and Nils Norman. Alex Kitnick, ART IN AMERICA. September 2009
The University of Trash. Joshua Decter, ARTFORUM. September 2009
The Art of Urbanomics. HAUS DER ARCHITETUR GAZETTE, Graz, Austria. 2008
Interview between Nils Norman and Christian Mayer. ZEUS. Issue N.14. March 2008
Thin Cities. Ed Sally Shaw and Gavin Wade, published by ART ON THE UNDERGROUND, London. 2008
Neoliberal Gothic. Yates McKee, TEXTE ZUR KUNST, No 72. December 2008
Good Social/ Bad Social: the Films of Stephan Dillemuth. Maija Timonen MUTE MAGAZINE, December. 2008
You Have Been Misinformed. Holland Cotter, NEW YORK TIMES. October 2, 2008
Folkestone Triennial. Jonathan Griffin, FRIEZE. September 2008
Games and Theory. Jonathan Griffin, FRIEZE. October 2008
Games and Theory. Coline Milliard, ART REVIEW. November 2008
Nils Norman. Jessica Lack, GUARDIAN guide. May 31, 2008
Design and Landscape for People, Clare Cumberlidge and Lucy Musgrave, Thames and Hudson. 2007
A Mysterious Thing. JJ Charlesworth, ART REVIEW. November 2007
A Mysterious Thing. Melanie Gilligan, ARTFORUM. December 2007
Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman. Andrew Hunt, FRIEZE. Nov-Dec 2007
It starts from here. Matt Price, ARTMONTHLY. September 2007
A Sketch of London. ART PRESS 2. No: 6. 2007
Shining on the trampled path: Nils Norman talks with Stephan Dillemuth. UNTITLED MAGAZINE. June 2006
Make Your Own Life. Christian Rattemeyer, ARTFORUM. Summer 2006
Cologne as Mythic Hot Spot. Roberta Smith, NEW YORK TIMES. June 2, 2006
Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism. Ed by Valerie Smith, {Exhibition Catalogue}, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NYC, USA. 2005
Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds. Alex Farquharson, FRIEZE. September 2005
The Art of the Garden: The Role of the Garden in British Visual Culture: 1804-2004. {Exhibition Catalogue}, Tate Britain, London. 2004
Fantasy Architecture 1500-2036. Neil Bingham, Clare Carolin, Peter Cook and Rob Wilson. {Exhibition Catalogue}, National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, London. 2004
Nils Norman. Gregory Williams, ARTFORUM. March. 2004
The Cruel Dialectic: On the Work of Nils Norman. T.J. Demos, GREY ROOM, Number 13. Fall, 2003
Alternative Art New York: 1965 - 1985. Ed Julie Ault, University of Minnesota Press and The Drawing Center, New York, New York, USA. 2002
Utopia Now, Face to Face. Interview with Jennifer Allen, ARTFORUM.COM. January 2002
Nils Norman. OCTOBER 100. Spring, 2002
Anger is an Energy. Niru Ratnam, ID MAGAZINE, Issue 231. April, 2003
Between Ikea and the Südstadt. Gareth James, UNTITLED, Issue 29. Winter/Spring, 2003
Geocruising: Nils Norman. Matt Price, FUSEDMAGAZINE 9, January, 2002
Drawings made for NiFCA catalogue. Populism. 2/02. 2002
Nils Norman. Malik Gaines, ART&TEXT, November, 2001
Nils Norman. Gregory Williams, ARTFORUM, October, 2001
All Aboard the Big Yellow Eco-fun Bus. David Bussel, i-D MAGAZINE, March, 2001
Free Radical. Jan Verwoert, FRIEZE, October, 2001
Listed, Iwona Blazwick. VOGUE, May, 2001
Nils Norman, Dismal Garden. Holland Cotter, THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 15, 2001
Urban Islands. JJ Charlesworth, ART MONTHLY, February, 2000
Elbow Room, THE NEW YORKER, August 7, 2000
Tiny Worlds Create Grand Illusions, Leah Ollman, LOS ANGELES TIMES, January 23, 2000
Nils Norman. Jan Verwoert, SPRINGERIN, April, 2000
1999 Drawings, THE NEW YORKER, January 17, 2000
This Headline Could Be a Piece of Interventionist Art. Michael Bracewell, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, 14 May, 2000
Nils Norman. Ken Johnson, THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 9, 1999
Nils Norman. THE NEW YORKER, April, 1999
Nils Norman: Mission Impossible. Interview with Mark Dion, DOCUMENTS, winter, 1998
Nils Norman at American Fine Arts. Grady T. Turner, ART IN AMERICA, February, 1998
Broken Home, Owen Drolet, FLASH ART, Nov/Dec, 1998
Nils Norman and Chris Whittey. Helen A. Harrison, THE NEW YORK TIMES ON SUNDAY, April 12, 1998
Plane Schmieden. Isabelle Graw and a neighbour on Gladbacher St, TEXTE ZUR KUNST, March, 1997
Communists and Radicals. Nils Norman. SUPER UMBAU, Nr 2. 1997
Nils Norman, Roberta Smith, THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 11, 1997
Nils Norman: Social Surplus. Susanne Reichling, SPRINGER, Band III, Heft 2, 1997
Nils Norman. VILLAGE VOICE, April 8, 1997
Nils Norman. Dean Inkster, BLOCKNOTES, #14, Jan/Feb, 1997
Nils Norman. Helen Molesworth, FRIEZE, Summer 1997
Fiktionen zur vermieten. André Butzer, SPEX, December, 1996
Stoffsammlung. Isabelle Graw, ARTIS, July/Aug, 1992
Poser und Tartaren. Jutta Koether, SPEX, July, 1991
Nils Norman. Jutta Koether, ARTFORUM, November, 1991
Recent Teaching and Public Speaking
Recent positions
Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark, Head of studio – the School of Walls and Space. 2008-2017
http://wallsandspace.org/
Visiting lecturer, CCC, Research-based Master Programme,
Geneva University of Art and Design. HEAD. Geneva Switzerland. 1999-2015
2021
Mentor, Fine Arts Department, the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, the Netherland
The Garden Department, a garden classroom at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Meeting Grounds Edition 4: The Garden Department, a garden classroom at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
Talk/lecture, Workshop. Onomatopee, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
The Garden Department/Studium Generale/Centraal Museum Utrecht present:
Fritz Haeg 'Salmon Creek Farm, 1971-2021' and Jonny Bruce 'Wallflower'.
The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the Netherlands
2020
Mentor, Fine Arts Department, the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The Garden Department, a garden classroom at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Outside the Box, Public Art in Qatar. Two day conference National Museum of Qatar and Qatar National Library, organised by
Future Everything in collaboration with the Qatar Foundation and the British Council in Qatar. Doha, Qatar
2019
The Art of Play Work. Conference. Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales
Talk on Playgrounds. Graphic Design Department, the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Keynote Speaker. MRes student symposium, the Royal College of Art, London
Mentor, Fine Arts Department, the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Guest lecturer, Program Art & Public Space, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway
Guest lecturer, Graphic Design Department, the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Guest lecturer, Architecture MA, Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
2018
Fritz Haeg and Nils Norman in conversation with Julieta Gonzáles. The Rouse Visiting Artist Conversation. Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Fritz Haeg and Nils Norman in conversation with Aldo Solano. Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
The Library talks. Artist talk, Rietveld Library, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Convivial Tools, symposium on the legacy of Ivan Illich's concept of conviviality, the Design Museum, London, UK
2017
Architecture & National Identity: The Centennial Projects 50 Year On. Artist talk and panel discussion. Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, Canada
The Art of Being Civic, symposium, Tate Modern, London, UK
Nils Norman on Utopia. Artist Talk, Public Art St Paul, St Paul, Minnesota, USA
Next Utopia: Conference. Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden
All Teachers are Cops. Nils Norman's talk on alternative pedagogy and libertarian education, Kunsthalle Charlottenburg,Copenhagen, Denmark
Workshop: TRANS MFA, HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland
Workshop: Institute for Contemporary Art, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
In conversation with Dustin Eriksen, The Exchange Floor, Croydon Arts Store, Croydon , London
2016
Artist Talk. Wimbledon College of Art, Wimbledon, London, UK
A conversation between Sidsel Meineche Hansen and Nils Norman, 'A Partition' Event at The Old Operating Theatre, Curated By Rebecca Lewin, London, UK
Workshop in collaboration with Kristian Byskov and Margarita del Carmen, Asterisk Summer School, Tallinn, Estonia
2015
City Club Presentation with Gareth Jones, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Guest speaker. Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Workshop leader. Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
Guest speaker and workshop leader. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Guest speaker and outside observer. Teachers symposium.The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Guest teacher. Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK
Teaching mentor. Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
Guest lecturer.The Royal College of Art, London, UK
Workshop leader and guest speaker. HDK School of Design and Crafts/ University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Seminar and guest speaker.The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Guest seminar leader. École supérieure d’art de Grenoble, France
Guest speaker. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
Guest speaker. D-ARCH Department Architektur, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Guest speaker. Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
MA Seminar guest speaker. School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Guest teacher. Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK
Guest lecturer. Sandberg Instituut,Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Artist talk. Flat Time House, London, UK
Artist talk with Anna Minton, Auto Italia, London, UK
External evaluator. Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Guest lecturer.The Slade School of Art, London, UK
2013
Guest speaker. The Secret Life of Plants conference.The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program
in the Humanities at Princeton (IHUM), Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Workshop leader. Mildred’s Lane, Narrowsburg Pennsylvania, USA
Artist talk, CASCO, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Guest lecturer. Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Artist talk. Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2012
Artist talk and away day facilitation. Design Museum, London, UK.
Guest speaker. Robert Smithson symposium. The Royal Art Academy the Hague, the Netherlands
Artist talk. Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Guest lecturer.Transart. Online art school
Guest speaker. The Penzance Convention, Penzance, UK
Workshop leader. Land Arts of the American West, University of New Mexico. Wendover, Utah, USA
2011
Guest lecturer. Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
Artist talk. Grimshaw and Partners, London, UK
Guest lecturer. Royal College of Art, London, UK
Guest lecturer. Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
Guest lecturer. SOMA Summer School, Mexico City, Mexico
Guest lecturer. Selforganised Summer School in my London studio, UK
Guest speaker. Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, UK
Guest speaker.Art History Department, University College London, London, UK
Guest speaker.The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, London, UK.
Guest speaker. Geography Department seminar, Roskilde University (RUC), Roskilde, Denmark
Guest speaker. Utopia Revisited conference. Arken Museum of Art, Arken, Denmark
2010
Guest lecturer. The Slade School of Fine Art. London. UK
Guest lecturer. Portland State University. Portland. USA
Guest speaker. Deschooling Society conference. Hayward Gallery, London. UK
Keynote Speaker. Open Engagement conference. Portland State University, Portland, USA.
Keynote Speaker.The Edible Park, Stroom, the Hague, the Netherlands.
Guest speaker. Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Guest speaker. My City is Still Breathing conference. Winnipeg Arts. Winnipeg, Canada
2007
Mark Dion and Nils Norman Present: Travel the World and the Seven Seas. Tue, May 1, 2007
LIC Bar. 45-58 Vernon Boulevard at 46th Avenue. Long Island Cily, NY. USA