Nicholas Grafia

Nicholas Grafia (DE, *1990, Angeles City, Philippines) holds an MFA from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (DE). He has previously studied at the Kunstakademie Münster (DE), the School of Arts and Cultures in Newcastle (UK) as well as British, American and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Münster (DE). His paintings, videos and performances, frequently made in collaboration with Polish artist Mikołaj Sobczak, negotiate processes of memory formation, as well as the in- and exclusion of subjects from history writing.

His works were recently exhibited in the 60th Venice biennial’s collateral program (Venice, IT), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, AT), Hua International (Berlin/Beijing, DE/CH), KW (Berlin, DE), HKW (Berlin, De), Steirischer Herbst (Graz, AT), MUDAM (Luxembourg, LU), Silverlens (Manila/New York, PH/US), Capitain Petzel (Berlin, DE), Shoot the Lobster (New York, US), Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus, DK), Andersen’s Contemporary (Copenhagen, DK), Museum Ludwig (Cologne, DE), K21 Museum Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, DE), fffriedrich (Frankfurt am Main, DE), Tramway (Glasgow, UK), Kunstraum (London, UK), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, DE), Kunstverein (Dortmund, DE), PS120 Berlin (Berlin, DE), Exo Exo at David Giroire (Paris, FR), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, PL) and BOZAR (Brussels, BE)

Nicholas Grafia’s performance for the opening of Mind Eater 2025 has been guest curated by artist and curator of PODIUM Oslo, Hedda Grevle Ottesen.

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