Nick Mauss (German/American, born 1980, New York, NY) is known for an expanded use of drawing that traces unexpected arcs into a multidisciplinary practice. Working in multiple mediums and scales — including reverse-painted mirrored glass, paper, ceramic, fabric, performance, and writing — Mauss practices a form of drawing that simultaneously folds together and expands the intimate space of the page with its spatial and performative implications. His work points to connections and ruptures between contemporary artistic practice and other forms and genealogies — in the performing arts as well as the decorative arts — which he often critically confronts with museum collections or archives in the form of experimental exhibitions that activate counter-histories in which both artist and viewer are re-positioned.
Nick Mauss' most recent exhibitions includes Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc. at Kunsthalle Basel (2020). His work was recently included in the encyclopedic survey of ceramics, Les Flammes: L’Âge de la céramique, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2021), and is currently on view within Christian Bérard: Eccentrique Bébé at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Christian Bérard, Excentrique Bébé, Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National De Monaco
2020 Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc., Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2019 The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
A Vision for Painting, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2018 Transmissions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2017 Intricate Others, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Medusa, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2016 Designing Dreams, A Celebration of Leon Bakst, Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Monaco
Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Drawing. The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
2014 Florine Stettheimer, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Portraits d’Interieurs, Nouveau Musee National Monaco, France
By, With, To, and From, Fiorucci Art Trust, London
2013 Nick Mauss, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2011 Perforations, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Compass in Hand, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
The Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2009 Compass in Hand, MoMA, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Musee National de Monaco, Monaco
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth