Biography nick mauss

Nick Mauss is an artist based in New York.
Nick Mauss (German/American, born 1980, New York, NY) is known for an expanded use of drawing that traces unexpected arcs into a multidisciplinary practice.
Nick Mauss develops a multidisciplinary practice at the interstices in between established histories of the arts.

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Nick Mauss: Transmissions

Mar 16–May 14, 2018

For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, artist Nick Mauss (b. 1980) presents Transmissions, a multidisciplinary work exploring the relationship between modernist ballet and the avant-garde visual arts in New York from the 1930s through ’50s. Over the past decade, Mauss has pursued a hybrid mode of working that merges the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. At the Whitney he brings together his own works, alongside historical photographs, sculptures, paintings, drawings, film and video from the Whitney’s holdings and those of other public and private collections—all presented within a layered exhibition design by Mauss that allows for the works to be seen in a new light.

Central to the exhibition is a daily performance by four dancers made in collaboration with Mauss as an interpretative reaction to the artworks and archival materials on display. For Transmissions, Mauss cast dancers whose training includes ballet, though most have continued to practice in more contemporary forms. Their movements inco

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Nick Mauss

Nick Mauss (New York, 1980) lives and works in New York. The American/German artist Nick Mauss has formed his work through a finely tuned sensory register, with drawing at the centre of a praxis which otherwise eludes all simple categorizations. Expanding the medium of drawing through multiple registers at the same time, Mauss’ approach to drawing fuses peripatetically to other possible formats, including sculpture, publications, the format of the exhibition, and writing.

He has had several solo exhibition such as Nick Mauss at Campoli Presti in Paris (2021); Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc at Kunsthalle Basel, in Basel (2020); Transmissions at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2018, 2020); Illuminated window at Triennale di Milano and Torre Velasca in Milan (2017); Intricate Others at Museo Serralves in Porto (2017); Nick Maussat Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen(2013); at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims (2011).

His work has been displayed in several group exhibitions such as Boros Collection #4 at the Boros Colle

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Invited to forge a dialogue with the unique context of the Art Deco building of the Serralves Villa in Porto, American artist Nick Mauss created works that reflect an encounter with the social and private choreographies of the formerly grand and domestic spaces of the Villa. The catalogue includes an essay by the American author and poet, Lucy Ives and an interview with Nick Mauss, conducted by João Ribas, the exhibition's curator.

Positioning itself in the “interstices between mediums of drawing, printing, sculpture, ceramic, textiles, costume and theatre design,” the work of Nick Mauss is defined by the artist's interest in the ideas of fragmentation and dramaturgy. A common denominator of the various facets of his oeuvre is drawing as an underlying process, which allows the artist to “work with formats that can't be categorized.” Mauss builds his work using objects and forms, and also with bodies and lines.
Developed over the artist's more than year-long engagement with the Villa Serralves, a stunning art deco building built in the 1930s with the intervention of leadin