ABOUT The Artist

Nici Jost

Nici Jost (*1984 Banff, Canada) is a conceptual/multimedia artist/photographer based in Switzerland.
The essential element of Nici Jost’s work is the exploration of the sublime tensions between technology and nature, space and perception. Her artistic research is driven by investigations into social constructions and the way in which individuals navigate their surroundings. Jost challenges the passive “consumption” of art in a crowded environment and provokes questions about the broader, often disquieting, implications of our ever-accelerating technological evolution and the position of the individual within. Her artistic practice is unapologetically devoted to the colour pink, its distinctive characteristics, its history and the position the colour has in psychology, art, poetry, literature and politics. However, Jost does not only work with pink as a controversial and divisive element of social and cultural associations; pink is Jost’s sociopolitical lens, as it manages to polarize as no other colour in the spectrum.

(Text reference source: https://www.pinkproject.ch/about)

Nici Jost

Selected exhibition history

2022
«AiR» Kultur macht Schule Kanton Aargau.
Project with Pedro Wirz, Schule Oberlunkhofen

2021
«Auswahl 21» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
«WELCOME! 10 years of Swatch Art Peace Hotel» MAXXI Museum, Rome, IT
«液态 fluidity» Lingang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
«第六感 The Sixth Sense» Art cn gallery, Shanghai, CN
«KUNST IM SETZKASTEN» E-Werk Galerie, Freiburg, DE

2020
«WEIRD» Pavel Kovalenko Apartment, Basel
«KUNST IM SETZKASTEN» Forum Kunst, Rottweil, DE

2019
«Splendid Isolation - Not in our Name» Kunstraum Riehen
«I AND THE MACHINE, EXPERIMENTIEREN MIT DIGITALITÄT» E-Werk Galerie, Freiburg, DE
«Rauschen am Bildrand» Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau
«Here are Dragons 1/3: Because We're Worth It» Centre d'art de la Maison Populaire, Paris, France

2018
«Auswahl 18» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
«Guck mal Günther, Kunst» Tommasini, Lenzburg

2017
«PEINTURE EN PROMO - IAN ANÜLL» Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf

2016
«Auswahl 16» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
«UNTITLED» Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL, USA
«Every Contact Leaves a Trace» Kunsthalle, Basel
«quelle langue alors?» Villa Moyard, Morges
«Serendipity» Campus der Künste, Basel
«FORMATION OF PATTERNS» Kunstraum Florenz, Basel
«raum I space» Gallery balzer projects, Basel

2015
«Auswahl 15» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
«Regionale 16 - visual politics» Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal
«Schwarz-Weiss in Farbe» Kunsthaus Zofingen
«IRMA LA DOUCE – REVISITED» Penthouse Gallery, Zürich

2014
«History under your feet - 3000 years of shoes» Spielzeug Welten Museum, Basel
«VOLTA10» Contemporary Art Fair, Basel
«SHOEting Stars ‹Shoes in Art and Design›» Kunsthaus Wien Museum
Hundertwasserhaus, Vienna, A

2013
«wandeln» Museum Rosenegg, Kreuzlingen
«Auf Schritt und Tritt | At Every Turn» Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, DE
«VOLTA9» Contemporary Art Fair, Basel
«Landscape: A Story of Rehabilitation» Gallery balzer projects, Basel
«What a Wonderful World» balzer projects @ Gallery Erika Deak, Budapest, H
«HCP´s 2013 Print Auction» Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, USA
«Raumwelten» Museum Bärengasse, Zürich

2012
«ZELENÁ GREEN» Gallery Deset - Waldesovo muzeum, Prag, CZ
«Enigma della Modernità» Spazio, Chiasso
«Untitled» Chelsea Galerie, Laufen
«Rock-Paper-Scissors» Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

2011
«Auswahl 11» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
«PULSE» Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Florida, USA
«SH Contemporary» Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
«5X5 Castelló 11» Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Spain
«VIDEO VIDEMUS» Fishpiece Galerie, Zürich
«BLOW-UP» Villa Wenkenhof, Riehen

2010
«Regionale 11» FABRIK culture Hégenheim, FR
«Fashionable ART – Die Mode in der Kunst» Kunstraum Riehen
«Diplom 10» Messehalle 5, Basel

2007
«One Minute Festival» Aarau

2006
«Dialog Festival» Winterthur