Nora Schultz

Nora Schultz (Frankfort, DE, 1975) explores the relations between painting, sculpture, performance, and language. She tends to capture the moment where forms become signs and elements of language. She is interested in translation and in the shifts that occur when external realities and cultural patterns are readapted. She mainly works with industrial materials that she collects in the surroundings of her studio in Berlin (metal of all sorts, rugs, shafts, tubes, ropes). Process and shifting are the bases of her practice which concerns transformation within each context. She remodels found objects into abstract sculpted paintings characterized by precarious balance. Her sculptures often end up taking the shape of printing machines, questioning language and the authority of its grammatical forms in an active process of materialisation.

Nora Schultz had several solo exhibitions including the most recent two person exhibition Nora Schultz with Bernd Lohaus, curated by Olivier Foulon at Etablissement d'en Face, Brussels (2025); Ganz grosse Flüsse Laufen unter der Erde /major rivers running underground at Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremen (2024); Finished by Fish at dépendance, Brussels (2023); 3 Months Later at Klosterruine, Berlin (2022); Would you say this is the day? at Secession, Vienna (2019); Nora Schultz : River (performance) at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); a two-persons show at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2016-17); BMW Tate Live: Performance Room – Nora Schultz at Tate Modern, London (2014); Parrottree – Building for Bigger Than Real at Renaissance Society, Chicago (2014); Portikus Plant and Portikus Sounds at Portikus, Frankfurt (2012); COMMA 35 at Bloomberg Space, London (2011); Avere luogo at Fondazione Giuliani, Rome (2010); 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 at Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2009).

Her work has also been part of numerous group exhibitions including Skulpturprojekte Stockholm, curated by Marie Karlbreg at Beau Travail, Stockholm (2024); Evan Jose, Nora Schultz, Julian Tromp at Can Contemporary Art Library, Vienna (2023); Sound As Sculpture, curated by Thomas Feulmer at The Warehouse, Dallas (2022); Exhibition of the Jahresgaben at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2021); BEINGS at dépendance in Brussels (2020); Vitrine Show at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2018); Skulptur Projekte, Münster (2017); Art Price Böttcherstraße at Kunsthalle Bremen Der Kunstverein, Bremen (2016); Secret Surface. Where Meaning Emerge at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2016); Bricologie - Le Souris et le Perroquet at Villa Arson, Nice (2015); Chat Jet: Skulptur in Reflexion (Part 2) at Künstlerhaus, Graz (2014); Nature after Nature at Fridericianum in Kassel (2014); Version Control at Arnolfini, Bristol (2013); I knOw yoU at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013); Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language at MoMA, New York (2012); That’s The Way We Do It at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz(2011); Non-Solo Show, Non-Group Show at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2009); Collatéral at Confort Moderne, Poitiers (2009); On Interchange – Zwischenspiele einer Sammlung at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (2008).