The 25th international art exhibition NordArt will be open to the public from 1 June to 6 October 2024 on the grounds of the historic iron foundry in Schleswig-Holstein. NordArt, one of the largest annual contemporary art exhibitions in Europe, is celebrating its quarter-century anniversary with special projects, and by honouring the outstanding performances of the past – the NordArt award winners.
Every autumn, NordArt receives around 3000 applications from all over the world. After meticulous consideration, out of the thousands, the works of 200 artists are selected to tell a shared story of our time.
„Like an invisible seismograph, art records the tremors of society with honest precision,” says the Principal Curator of NordArt, Wolfgang Gramm. “It reflects the truth and the intuitive yearnings of humanity through the curious minds of artists. They gather from across the world to piece together a dream of the future from past experiences, visualising paradise against hopelessness. What is remarkable here is that, through paradox, dialogue and empathy, the artists from very diverse backgrounds form a shared vision that pervades every
piece of art.”
This notion has been discernable in the art of awardees of the NordArt Prize and Public Choice Award. There have been 57 award winners since 2010 whose works will be shown in and around the Carlshütte during 2024 and form the Focus of the Anniversary Edition of the exhibition.
The most recent NordArt awardee, Lubo Mikle from Slovakia, created a moving memorial from common shipping containers. Elements of reclamation, industrial art, destructive fury and transformation in a monumental scale combine in his work, prompting Hans-Julius Ahlmann (the host at Kunstwerk Carlshütte) to name the humble container “a symbol of an era“. Indeed, globalisation, based on the division of labour, is largely dependent on containers. Even the Covid pandemic was characterised by the sudden chaos of containers, as Lubo Mikle himself commented.
Among the NordArt awardees are eleven artists from China. The long-standing contacts have repeatedly brought acclaimed Chinese artists to the exhibition and, over the years, the presentation of the contemporary Chinese art scene has become a hallmark of NordArt. The very first NordArt Prize was awarded to ZENG Chenggang in 2010. His remarkable stainless steel lotus sculpture, symbolising never-ending rebirth, has fittingly found a home in NordArt’s permanent display – witnessing the rebirth of the exhibition every year!
NordArt 2024 will present the artwork from 26 Chinese artists.
Mongolian contemporary art was first introduced as the Country in Focus in 2015. Ever since, the bold mix of traditional Mongolian values and modernity has earned accolades and kept NordArt visitors captivated. The curator of the Mongolian Special Project in the Wagenremise, OYUNTUYA Oyunjargal, will bring a remarkable, distinctive collection of artworks from 20 Mongolian artists. The exhibition will celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Germany.
A fascinating project From Cradle to Grave by renowned German artist Willi Reiche will present kinetic interpretations of 12 aspects of human existence.
Another solo project, A Sense of Place, by British painter Paul Critchley, is a life-size panoramic installation depicting the contents of a home and its inhabitants.
The Carlshütte atmospheric exhibition halls offer a unique viewing experience that invites close contact with art and fosters dialogue between the works of art themselves. Visitors can be certain to make unforgettable discoveries at NordArt 2024, but how the special messages find their recipients, remains the secret of art.
List of all artists at NordArt 2024:
NORDART-PRIZE 2010–2023
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David Černý
Timur D'Vatz
Gheorghi Filin
Michal Gabriel
LIU Ruowang
LIU Yonggang
Peter Lundberg
Lubo Mikle
Ayurzana OCHIRBOLD
Jörg Plickat
SINN
Wolfgang Gramm
ZENG Chenggang
NORDART AUDIENCE PRIZE 2010–2023
David Černý
Lilya Corneli
Server Demirtaş
DEJO Denzer
Sabine Emmerich
Angelika Haak
Dan Hudson
Teija & Pekka Isorättyä
Villu Jaanisoo
Michał Jackowski
JANG Yongsun
Talia Keinan
Jo Kley
Gilles T. Lacombe
LIU Ruowang
LV Sun
Norddeutsche Realisten
OH Soonmi
İrfan Önürmen
Veronika Psotková
SINN
Zdeněk Šmíd
Jovanka Stanojević
Wolfgang Stiller
Varol Topaç
WU Guoyong
XIANG Jing
XU Bing
Ekaterina Zacharova
ZHANG Dali
More ARTISTS FROM CHINA
CHEN Xi
HUANG Min
LIU Yajiang
MA Jun
MIAO Xiaochun
REN Rong
SHAN Fan
WANG Xiaobo
WANG Zhaoju
WU Yiwen
XIAO Jin
XU Songbo
YANG Song
YUE Minjun
ZHANG Zhaohui
ZHANG Zikang
ZHOU Song
SPECIAL PROJECT MONGOLIA
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA
Kuratorin: OYUNTUYA Oyunjargal
AMARSANAA Lkhagva
BATTOGTOKH Turbat
BARDAL Bold
BAYART-OD Byambarinchin
BILIGT Enkhtaivan
BOLORMAA Bazarsad
DAGVADORJ Sereeter
DULGUUN Batbold
DULGUUN Dagvadorj
ENKHJARGAL Tsagaandari
GERELKHUU Ganbold
MUNKHBAT Norovpeljee
NASANTSENGEL Bayanjargal
NOMIN Bold | Б.Номин
NYAM-OCHIR Oyunpurev
OCHIRBOLD Ayurzana
ONONGUA Enkhtur
ORKHONTUUL Banzragch
OTGONBAYAR Dashdorj
TUVSHINJARGAL Jambal
TSOLMONBAT Enkhbat
UNEN ENKH
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Paul Critchley
Willi Reiche
ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
Nir Adoni
Timur Ernst Akhmedov
Nando Álvarez
ANTOINETTE
Agate Apkalne
Amnon David Ar
Inga Aru
Mark Banks
Jenka Barakina
Jared Bartz
Zuhal Baysar
Alf Becker
Katerina Belkina
Robert Bluj
Jaakov Blumas
Richard Brixel
Agina Chinedu
Micol Cornali
Martin A. Cudjoe
Jan de Weryha
Dorsten Diekmann
Veronika Dierauer
Jan Dostál
Jaroslav Drazil
Isabelle du Toit
Manuel Andreas Dürr
Jorge Elizondo
Manuel Ferreiro Badia
Rainer Fest
Gaby Fey
Václav Fiala
Esben Fog
Václav Gatarik
Jan Gerber
Mónica González Tobon
Tomasz Górnicki
Klaus Gündchen
Jörg Haberland
Jens Ingvard Hansen
Daniel Harms
Ulrich Heemann
Michael Hischer
Heleliis Hõim
Marianne Hopf
Bernard Hosey
Bobur Ismoilov
Alexander Ivashkevich
Christoph Jakob
Sonja Jakuschewa
Johnson-Perkins
Mathias Kadolph
Lukáš Kándl
Ernest Kankam
Michael Kiefer
Young-Bae Kim
Guido Klumpe
Jan Koblasa
Richard Kočí
Katerína Kociánová
Miglė Kosinskaitė
J.P Köykkä
Gisela Krohn
Radovan Kunić
LADEGAINE
Haim Levac
Václav Litvan
Songnyeo Lyoo
Aleš Makarenko
Matteo Marchetti
Mikos Meininger
Ivan Milenkovic
Nenad Milovanović
Georgi Minchev
David Moješčík
Tom Müllers
Nina Murashkina
Sylwia Mużyło
Akiko Nagata
Emilio Negretti
Paulo Neves
Kenny Nguyen
Vu Nguyen Dinh
Peter Niemann
Meda Norbutaitė
Hamed Norouzi
Yekta Novin
Rolf Ohst
Diego Palacios
Inkyu Park
Jon Bøe Paulsen
Rodion Petroff
Lucie Píštělková
Liliya Pobornikova
Eduard Potapenkov
Bratislav Radovanović
Liudmyla Rashtanova
Horst-Hagen Rath
Thomas Reifferscheid
Bego Riba
Valencia Ruz
Pawel Sadaj
Zdenka Saletová
Winni Schaak
Jakob Julian Scheidt
Ana Schmidt
Dominik Schmitt
Hans Schohl
Rania Schoretsaniti
Tina Schwichtenberg
Kaushlendra Pratap Singh
Jiří Štaněk
Roswitha Steinkopf
Helga Stentzel
Takeshi Tanabe
Alexander Taratynov
Kemal Tufan
Ayla Turan
Jamol Usmanov
Guadalupe Valdés Raczynski
Eelke van Willegen
Xuxo Vázquez
Alejandro Vega Beuvrin
Anna Vonnemann
Søren West
Sven Windszus
Paweł Wocial
Maria Wolfram
Zhi Wu
Sergey Yablonsky
Erdil Yaşaroğlu
Percy Zorilla
The catalogue of NordArt 2024 will be released on the first day of the exhibition.
The Kunstwerk Carlshütte is a non-profit cultural initiative of the internationally active ACO Group and the towns of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg. It provides an exceptional venue for exhibitions, concerts, readings and cultural events. Since 1999, the centerpiece of this cultural enterprise has been NordArt, taking place annually during the summer months. In addition to the foundry halls with 22,000 square meters of exhibition space, the premises include an 80,000 square meter sculpture park and the ACO Wagenremise.
NordArt is led by Wolfgang Gramm (Principal Curator) and Inga Aru (Senior Curator).
The hosts and Principal Sponsors at the Kunstwerk Carlshütte are the entrepreneurial couple Hans-Julius and Johanna Ahlmann.
NordArt 2024: 1 June – 6 October
Opening hours: Tue – Sun (11 am – 7 pm), closed on Mondays
Address: Vorwerksallee, 24782 Büdelsdorf, Germany
Contact: +49 4331 354 695 • info@nordart.de
