1994年生于瑞典哥德堡。2021年毕业于斯德哥尔摩皇家艺术学院,现工作和生活于哥德堡。
吉奥格·诺德马克的艺术实践旨在创造一种基于并扩展自用于处理动物的工具和物品的雕塑语言。他的作品通过物品的交流属性来具体化我们“人类-动物学”现状的关系前提,揭示其局限性和未被讲述的价值。
吉奥格·诺德马克的作品视觉语言借鉴了实用工具的反美学特征,具有可识别的功能形状和实用比例。他的雕塑主要受“行为丰富”工具的启发。“行为丰富”是一种通过创建和提供设备来诱发和刺激在笼养环境中被抑制的特定行为的方法,旨在改善动物(如实验动物、宠物、家畜或动物园/保护区的动物)的生活质量。这些物品从行为系统中进行评估和设计,通过观察行为和提供刺激来定义福利。例如,一个装满食物的拼图盒可以等同于野外觅食。
每件作品通过挪用丰富工具,能够唤起动物(包括我们自己)的一系列动作、咬合、抓挠和嗅闻,这些动作被移置到艺术地位和语境中,创造出独特的触感和意图性。由于动物处理的参考框架,这些作品开始引用并转向艺术史上的前辈及其特征,如关系美学的行为导向和科学讨论、极简主义的主导空间感和工业严酷性、超现实主义的荒诞拼装和挑逗触感,以及贫穷艺术的“非高贵”材料和工艺。
通过他的雕塑,艺术家希望探讨艺术物品的功能和特殊性——从高雅的艺术品到原始的刺激和好奇心。作品的潜在和暗示功能作为艺术的代理潜力的体现,利用其内在特质来操控观者,与这些装置最初旨在对待的动物并无太大不同。
Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1994. Graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 2021. Currently works and lives in Gothenburg.
Georg Nordmark has, in his artistic practice, set out to forge a sculptural language based on, and expanded from, instruments and objects used in the handling of animals.
His works draw on the communicative properties of objects to concretize the relational preconditions of our ‘anthro-zoological’ present; its limitations and untold values. The visual language of the realised works relies on the utilitarian anti-aesthetics of practical instruments, with recognisably functional shapes and practical proportions. Nordmark’s sculptures are primarily inspired by instruments of ‘Behavioral enrichment’. ‘Behavioral enrichment’ is a method aimed at bettering the quality of life for animals (for example test animals, pets, lovestock or animals in Zoos/sanctuaries) by creating and supplying devices that evoke and stimulate specific behaviours otherwise inhibited by the artificial conditions of caged life. These objects are evaluated and designed from a behavioural system where welfare is defined from observed behaviour and provided stimuli. This reductionist reasoning allows for example a puzzle box filled with food to equal foraging in the wild.
Each work, by appropriating enrichment items, are capable of evoking movements, bites, claws and sniffs from animals aside from ourselves, which, transposed to an art status and context, creates a distinct tactility and intentionality. Owing to the referential framework of animal handling the works have come to reference and divert toward art historical predecessors and their characteristics; such as the behavioural orientation and scientific address of relational aesthetics, the dominant spatiality and industrial harshness of minimalism, the absurdist assemblages and teasing tactility of surrealism, and the ‘un-noble’ materials and crafts of arte povera.
Through His sculptures, the artist seeks to examine the function and exceptionality of the art object – from elevated pieces of fine art to raw stimuli and curiosity. The potential and implied functions of the works are as such an embodiment of the agential potential of art, manipulating the beholder with its inherent qualities, not so dissimilarly to the animals originally intended to be subjected to these contraptions.
教育 Education:
2019-2021 Royal Institute of Art Stockholm, Masters degree in fine arts
2014-2017 Royal Institute of Art Stockholm, Bachelors degree in fine arts
2016-2017 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Erasmus Exchange, Textual Sculpture Department
2013-2014 Domen Art School Gothenburg, Sculpture Department
2013 Akademi Valand Gothenburg, An Introduction to Contemporary Art and Philosophy
个展 Solo Exhibition:
2024 Creature Comfort, Simulacra Gallery, Beijing, China
2023 Housebroken, Issues Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2023 CHART Art Fair with Carl Kostyál, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 From Being Jealous of a Blind Dog’s Dreams, NSFW/Svilova, Gothenburg, Sweden
2021 Slow Feeder, MFA graduation show, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Boredom Breakers – Theatrical Progeniture, Galleri Mejan, Sweden
2015 Housebroken, Galleri Mejan, Sweden
群展 Group Exhibition:
2023 Lucky Syndrome, Study for Art Platform, Stockholm Downtown Issues II, Issues gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2023 Chart in Tivoli, Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Maximum Capacity, Odem Atelier, Stockholm, Sweden
2023 Gullringsbo Konstsamling 2.0, Hospitalet, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Gullringsbo Konstsamling, Hospitalet, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Things That Used to Feel Fun, Amazegallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Handels X Mejan, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Downtown Issues, Issues gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Transmission, MFA graduation show, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Nectar, Inter.pblc gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Panoptikon, Långholmens prison, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Survival of the Fittest, Accelerator
2019 Twelfth night, Coyote Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Ingen äger tiden, Örebro Läns Museeum
2017 Clusterfuck, Bachelor Show Royal Institute of Art
2017 20th day of knut, UB ART
2016 Phantom Pain, 13FESTIVALEN, Konstepedimin
2015 Sunday Run_up, CCAP, Svarta Huset
2015 Royal Intersectionality during Morgenröte, aurora borealis and Levantin: into your
2015 solar plexus, Kunsthalle Bern
2015 After Babel: Poetry Will Be Made by All, Moderna Museet & 89+