Astrid Nippoldt

Astrid Nippoldt is a German illustrator and video artist.

Biography

Astrid Nippoldt was born in 1973 in Giessen, Germany and grew up in Kleve. She has lived in Bremen and Berlin.

She has a daughter, born in 2008, and a son, born in 2014.

Career

She studied visual communications at Fachhochschule Münster from 1993 until 1998. From 1997 until 2003 she studied visual arts at Hochschule für Künste Bremen at the Atelier of Time-based Media with Jean-François Guiton and Yuji Takeoka. She has been awarded fellowships, including to the Villa Massimo in 2006 and has served as artist-in-residence in the US and France. Her teaching assignments have included Hochschule für Künste Bremen and University of Bremen. She has exhibited widely in Germany and abroad.

In 2012 she co-founded Studio Nippoldt with her brother Robert Nippoldt and his wife Christine Nippoldt.

Her works are exhibited in Städische Galerie Bremen, Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge MA, Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, FRAC Alsace in Sélestat, Collection Isabelle & Jean-Conrad Lemaître, London.

Works

Solo exhibits

2003: 9 und Kurve, Kunsthaus Essen 2003: Notre Dame, Foerderverin Aktuelle Kunst Muenster 2004: Bloop, Staedtische Galerie Bremen 2005: Concorde, Paraplufabriek Nijmegen 2006: Grutas, Fondazione Adriano Olivettie Roma 2007: Kunstpreis der Boettscherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen 2007: Getaway Inn, Galerie Olaf Stuebner Berlin

Group exhibits (selected)

2006: Unmodern Observations, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY

Publications

Helden: Mythische Kaempferfiguren im 20. Jahrhundert und in der Gegenwart. Hamburg: Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft, 2006. Stefan Berg. Astrid Nippoldt: Tryingtoland. Frankfurt a. M.: Revolver, 2006.