Bio
Trautwein/Nonnenmacher have been working as an artist couple since 2001
Trautwein/Nonnenmacher are German born multidisciplinary artists
working in a variety of forms, including new media
and hypertext works, performative temporary
interferences, installations, land-art, sound art,
animations, videos, painting, drawing and photography.
Stylistically their work is process oriented and
rooted in abstract expressionism, minimalism,
conceptualism. Their works are manifestations of the
immediate, everyday and present experience.
For the past twenty
plus years they have been working on their
Gesamtkunstwerk the evolving NIESATT drawing and
multimedia hybridization project, a concept that
includes a variety of media, resulting in site
specific installations, which reflect on issues
of ephemeralness, disposability, depersonalization,
reproducibility, prefabrication,
repetition and the unpredictability of the next
thought; a project where meaning and statement
levels are overlying each other. The drawings used
for NIESATT are acid humorous, raw-thought
line-based social commentaries. They are ironic
cartoon-like reflections of the human folly and the
perpetual recurrence of the same.
Web-works are an integral part of their NIESATT
project; under the domain jtwine.com they have been
creating web based works since 1996 with a strong
focus on repetitious sound-screens and interactive
audio visual pieces. Jtwine.com functions like an
archive of fictional and real incidents where
personal experience merges with visual research and
documentary. Jtwine.com is combining high and low
tech, reflecting on the heterogeneous and
pluralistic character of our visual culture and the
web.
Trautwein's/Nonnenmacher's works have
been shown in solo and group exhibitions in museums, non profit art spaces,
festivals and galleries around the world such as the
Hong-Gah Museum , Taipei, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
Jönköpings läns Museum, Jönköpings, The Irish Museum of Modern art, Dublin,
File-international digital art Festival Sao Paulo,
Festival de Arte digital, Belo Horizonte,
European New Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Plato
Sanat, Istanbul, Turgut Pura Foundation, Izmir,
Turkey, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Arte -TV, Rhizome
Artbase, Netart.org, ONE_OFF moving image festival, Valencia
60 Seconds Film festival, Copenhagen, El pobre diablo, Quito,
Micromuseum Athens, Wand 5, Stuttgart, Zero Arts,
Stuttgart, Oberwelt, Stuttgart, Kunstverein Neckar Odenwald,
Kunstverein Heidenheim, Staedtische Gallery, Donaueschingen,
Javamuseum Cologne, The Wrong online
Biennial, furtherfield.org, Center on contemporary Arts, Seattle,
Bronx art-space, New York, Denis Bibro Fine Arts, New
York, Jan Baum gallery, Los Angeles, Goethe Institute, San Francisco,
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Berkely art
center, Berkeley, De Young Museum, San Francisco,
Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco, Galerie Marek Kralewski, Freiburg, among
others.
Trautwein holds a Meisterschueler/master's degree from the University of the Arts, Berlin,
Nonnenmacher holds a German and California RN degree.