Nils Alix-Tabeling
Nils Alix-Tabeling
Nils Alix-Tabeling’s works are based on historical research, speculative history, and the creation of alternative versions of myths relating to issues that have been suppressed by customs, politics, and religion—queer, transsexuality, feminism (from Heliogabalus, through Pierrot and Harlequin, to Rosa Luxemburg and Ulrike Meinhoff). The artist's practice is characterized by a contemporary approach to drawing from and mixing different historical eras, cultures, and styles, from pagan antiquity and the Middle Ages, through Mannerism, Baroque, and Rococo, to Art Deco. His hybridical objects—reminiscent of furniture or decorative household items—are often brought to life in performances resembling magical rituals. They are a mix of traditional techniques such as bronze casting, wood carving, metalwork with 3D printing and found objects. They combine elements hand-carved by the artist, costumes made by him, cast scented candles, with organic materials such as herbs and weeds, goat guts, shells, pearls, but also crystals and other elements from the area of alchemy, shamanism and witchcraft.
Nils Alix-Tabeling b. 1991 in Paris (FR), lives and works Paris (FR)
Education
Royal College of Art (MA), London, UK
École nationale supérieur des arts visuels LA CAMBRE (BA), Brussels, BE
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2025
Four songs for one catabase, CCCOD Tours, Tours, FR
Circonscrire le cœur, Le Garage - Centre d'Art, Amboise, FR
2024
NADA Villa Warsaw, Warsaw, PL
But Who Is Ulrike Mandrake?, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL
2023
But Who Is Ulrike Mandrake?, Curated by Rebekka Seubert, Dortmunder Kunstverein, DE
FLEUR DE PEAU, TERRE À VIF, Centre d'art contemporain du Parvis, Parvis, FR
2022
Split #2, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL (with Paweł Olszewski)
Contact High, ≈ 5, Cologne, DE
Maison Catabase, Public Gallery, London, UK
2021
Moteur Idéal, duo public sculpture and performance, La Maison Populaire de Montreuil, FR (with Justin Fitzpatrick)
Together at Last! … Pierrot and Harlequin, in a rural fantasy, Piktogram, Warsaw, PL
2019
Passiflore Incarnée, Printemps-Été Autumne-Hiver, performance, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Florilège, performance, Jupiter Wood, London, UK
100 Artistes Dans La Ville, Montpellier, FR
Le Bétyle d’Ail, performance, Kunstraum, London, UK
2018
Séraphîta, Gallery Polansky, Prague, CZ (with Motoko Ishibashi)
Le Bétyle d’Ail, Place du Jardin aux Fleurs, Brussels, BE
Absolute Eructance, Damien and the Love Guru, Brussels, BE (with Charlie Billingham)
2017
In Middens, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, AT (with Barbara Kapusta)
