Boris Nieslony

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Nieslony's first action in public space began in October 1966: he lived on Georgsplatz in Hanover for nine months, a chalk circle serving as a symbol of the political and temporal situation for him and the group that had formed there. The inner area began on 2 October 1966 and the outer area was a popular reaction to this political action, which ended around 1968.

From 1970 to 1974, Nieslony studied painting in Berlin - with Herrman Bachmann and Raimund Girke at the Berlin University of the Arts - then moved to Hamburg to the Hochschule für bildende Künste to Gerhard Graubner and the professors Ulrich Rückriem, Georg Jappe and Bazon Brock who taught there.

Together with artists from other classes, the Künstlerhaus Hamburg was founded in 1977 in Weidenallee at Sternschanzenpark. Nieslony worked in Paris thanks to a DAAD scholarship, where he studied the public rehearsals of Robert Wilson's and Philip Glass's opera Einstein on the Beach, among others, and kept in touch with musicians and dancers of Minimal Art. Boris Nieslony worked as a performer and organiser of performances in the "Small Exhibition Space" of the Künstlerhaus Hamburg from 1979. At the same time, he built up performance networks. In 1981, together with the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, he organised the project Das Konzil, which involved a total of 70 artists for 30 days.

In 1983 Nieslony moved to Cologne. 1985 saw the founding of the performance group Black Market International, which originally comprised seven artists. In 1986, the Art Service Association (ASA) was formed for performers and theorists.

Nieslony developed further networks between artists and organisations. In 1993, the 100-day project "Quantum Pool Cologne" made its mark in the media. This project, launched by Van Gogh TV on the occasion of documenta 9, consolidated the expanding cooperation within the Cologne artistic community, that in North Rhine-Westphalia and in the worldwide nodes. In 1995, the first Performance Art Conference was held in Cologne and at the same time the Performance Archive was transferred from collecting activities to knowledge generation. With the founding of the E.P.I. Centre, further settlements were made in the taut network between artists, organisations, projects in performance art)

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1995

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