Nadia Lichtig is an artist living and working in the South of France, where she is professor for painting, experiment, and sound at the Montpellier Academy of Arts (MOCO Esba). Lichtig's artistic practice is based on the collecting of voices and their visual and sonic interpretations.

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https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/nadia-lichtig/

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Podcast Radio Divergence

https://divergence-fm.org/podcasts/de-fil-en-artistes-nadia-lichtig/

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My name is Nadia Lichtig (pause)  I and grew up between several countries and languages (extended pause) I studied linguistics in Munich and Berlin (pause) and sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Paris at Jean Luc Vilmouth’s studio (extended pause) Subsequently (pause) I assisted Mike Kelley in Los Angeles (extended pause) I now live and work in the South of France (pause) where I teach at the MOCO in Montpellier (pause) an academy of Fine Arts (pause) attached to a museum and exhibition spaces (extended pause)  and research at the University of Aix-Marseille in the field of Germanic and Slavic Linguistics (pause)  Arts and Civilizations (light clack of the tongue, extended pause)

As an artist (pause) I'm navigating between several mediums (pause)  such as photography (pause) voice (pause) prose poems (pause) stories (pause) glass (pause)   drawing (extended pause) and painting  (clack of the tongue, extended pause) I want my works to instore a form of (pause) referencelessness (clack of the tongue, extended pause)  and resistence (pause)  toward (pause)  categorization (extended pause)  Each of my series (pause)  deal with making inadequacy (pause) and insufficency (pause) of language (pause) as well as  loss (extended pause)  of country (pause)   (pause)  of memory (extended pause) and of time (light clack of the tongue, extended pause) 

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The series develop in parallel (pause) over several years (pause) or decades (extended pause) They shift from one medium to another (pause) from voice to painting (extended pause) from painting to photography (extended pause)  to voice again and vice versa (extended pause) Their content lies in the ambivalences (pause) the loss or the gain (extended pause) the unexpected (pause) that appears during these processes of translation (light clack of the tongue, extended pause)  Rather than finality (extended pause again) my research is calling for questions such as (pause) How through successive shiftings (pause) 'empty language' (rising intonation of the voice, extended pause) How (pause) this thus created 'voids' generate language in turn (rising intonation of the voice, extended pause)

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Exhibitions (selection):

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2022 Reflecting Nature Part I, Kunsthalle Erfurt (Germany) ; Histoires de Silences, Galerie Anne +, Paris (France) ; Drift:Art and Dark Matter, Art Museum Toronto (Canada) ; Drift: Art and Dark Matter, Carlton University Art Gallery, CUAG, Ottawa (Canada)

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2021 The Body of Drawing #3 Trace / Spur, Montpellier (France) ; Drift: Art and Dark Matter, Belkin gallery, British Columbia University, Vancouver (Canada), Image fantôme (solo + group), Goethe Institut + Galerie Anca Poterasu, Bucarest (Romania), Muj Utek (solo), Zamek, Posnan (Poland)

Grenzenlos/borderless (group) Goethe Institut, Bucarest (Romania), Drift: Art and Dark Matter, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (Canada)

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2020 Sensory Orders (group), Art Center Laznia, Gdansk (Poland), Dust, Plates of the Present (group), Centre Pompidou, Paris (France), Staying in the trouble with painting (group), Building Canebière (Marseille)

2019 Mistral (group), SiteSiteParasite, Marseille (F) ; Grammaires fantômes (group), Maison de Heidelberg, Montpellier, (F) ; Blank Spots (solo performance), Schwankhalle, Bremen, (G) ; We are in this together, we are not one and the same (group), Espace Artaud, Lyon (F) ; Phototropia (group), Maison de Heidelberg, Montpellier (F) ; Drawing Storage (group), Institut Français, Bologna (I) ; Memory Gardens (solo), Hanse-Wissenschafts-Kolleg, Delmenhorst (G) 

2018 It smells like... flowers and fragrances (group), Me Collectors Room / Olbricht Foundation, Berlin (G) cur. by Dr. Heike Fuhlbrügge ; Catching the Light (group), Kai 10 / Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf (G) cur. by Ludwig Seyfarth, ; La mémoire est l'avenir du passé (group) , Galérie Boisanté (F) cur. by Clémence Boisanté ; Nachtstücke (three person solo), Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Freiburg (G) cur. by Dr. Heidi Brunnschweiler,

2017 Unfinished Sympathy (group), Maison de Heidelberg, Montpellier (F) ; A scientific encounter: on interobjectivity (group), Faculté de Medecine, Montpellier (F) cur. by Alistair Robinson ; Ghosttrap (solo), Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (G) cur. by Susanne Prinz

2016 Salon du Salon #10 (group), Marseille (F) cur. by Philippe Munda; French Connections — Perspectives on Support/Surface (group), Kunstsaele, Berlin (G) cur. by Dr. Heike Fuhlbrügge,  Art & Anthropology (group), Galerie im Körnrpark, Berlin (G)

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Recent performative lectures (selection):

2022 Blank Spots Choral Performance for Six Voices, Belkin Gallery, Vancouver (Canada), in collaboration with the British Columbia University 2021 (Un)unframed performative lecture, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, GaK Bremen (G), on invitation of Felix Dreesen 

2020 Ghosttrap performative lecture, Institut Marc Bloch, Berlin (G)

Ghosttrap performative lecture, Agnes Etherington Art Centre / Queens University, Kingston (Canada)

2019 Blank Spots Choral Performance for One Voice, Schwankhalle, Bremen (G)

2018 Blank Spots Choral Performance for One Voice, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst (G),

2017 Ghosttrap performative lectureGalerie für Gegenwartskunst, Freiburg i.Br. (G),

Gossip as Testimony live, Klanggarten, Jardin de la Reine, Heidelberghaus, Montpellier (F)

2016 Gossip as Testimony live, La Panacée, Montpellier (F) 

Gossip as Testimony live, Miss China, Rue Française, Paris (F) 

Gossip as Testimony live, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (F)

Gossip as Testimony live,Université Paris 8 (F)

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Recent publications (selection):

Pictures of Nothing, Editions Voix/Richard Meier, France, 2023

Post-Specimen, Intellect Books, Bristol (GB), ed. by Ed Juler and Alistair Robinson, 2021

Grammaires fantômes / Phantomgrammatiken, ed. by Maison de Heidelberg / Goetheinstitut (F), 2020

Bunkern, Privater Bunkerbau an Zellen, im Kalter Krieg und in Prepper-Fanatsien by Mona Schieren in "Re-Bunkern" ed. by Kathrin von Malzahn and Mona Schieren in collaboration with Franciska Zolyorn, Argobooks, Berlin (G), 2019,

Phototropia, 2019, ed. by Maison de Heidelberg / Goetheinstitut (F), 2018

Monograph: Kerber Verlag

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Contact :

anne@anneplus.com

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