b. 1986, in Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, GER.
Affiliate artist with Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Nolle's artistic practice is multidisciplinary and operates at the interface of research, observation and documentation as well as photography and installation. Her works are created in cooperation with various communities and are temporarily expanded to include other media and methods such as video and social practice. They take place both thematically and formally in public and private spaces. They open up "other" places such as sidewalks and living rooms as a stage, whereby the definition and scope of the public and private spheres are brought into a field of tension. Nolle pursues a conceptual approach that reconnects realities that are drifting apart and questions their relationship to one another. She creates strong counter-images that emphasize power relations and hierarchies through their contrasting arrangement and at the same time irritate. She sees herself as a "border crosser" who moves in contradictory worlds in order to give abstract social transformation processes a perceptible presence and address social grievances.
Nolle received her MSc from SOAS University London, UK, and a degree in Photography from Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
"Who owns the city? On housing shortages and social utopia", Kommunale Galerie Adlershof, Berlin, GER
2022
Living Room, SF & Berlin, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA
I'm here! / Living Room, Innsbruck University, AUT
2021
Living Room, San Francisco & Berlin, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, GER
2019
Billboard campaign, Living Room, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
BLICKFANG 2024, Art Prize, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, GER
GetxoPhoto Bilbao, ESP
Our House - artistic positions about housing, Museum Giersch Goethe University Frankfurt, GER
Home Again. Stadthaus Ulm, GER
2023
Perfectly Imperfect. Makel, Mankos und Defekte, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur CH (on view till May 2024)
Mother Art Prize, London, Zabludowicz Collection London, UK
Wege nach Utopia, Weimar, Bauhaus Museum Weimar, GER
2022
Transgressive. Non-Conformist Approaches To Art And The City, Kühlhaus Berlin, GER
Living Room / Vonovia Award, Sprengel Museum Hanover, GER
Home Again / Living Room, Willy Brandt House Berlin, GER
2021
Women in Covid, IN WAVES, Billboard Show, Berlin, GER
AFF Gallery, Keep your eyes peeled, Living Room, Berlin, GER
So Wie Wir Sind 3.0, Weserburg Museum, Bremen, GER (2021 - 2022)
A place for justice, Living Room, San Diego State University, CA, USA
2020
Living Room, Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2020. Galerie am Saalbau, Berlin, GER
Shelter Nr. 365, 2019, “Ineligible”, Santo Tirso International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture. Sano Torso, PT
Circulation(s) Festival, Living Room, Centquatre/Gare de l’est, Paris, FR
Living Room, Baker’s Dozen (B12), Torrance Art Museum, LA, USA
2019
PARIS PHOTO, Galerie Joseph, “Living Room, San Francisco”, Paris, FR
Living Room, San Francisco, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech, MA
UNSEEN Amsterdam Art Fair, Catharine Clark Gallery, booth 31. NL
Reclaim Award. Billboard presentation of Living Room, SF. Cologne, GER
“Don’t touch my circles”? Living Room. Catharine Clark Gallery. San Francisco, USA
Festival des Voies Off, FOTOHAUS I PARISBERLIN, Arles, FR
Finalist, Emerging Photography Award, Miami Photo Fest, Miami, USA
Landskrona Foto 2019, Living Room. Outdoor exhibition. Landskrona, SE
2018
Living Room, San Francisco 2017/2018, Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, Shelf, Berlin, GER
SELECTED AWARDS / GRANTS / NOMINATIONS
Finalist — Art Prize BLICKFANG 2024, GER
Finalist — Mother Art Prize 2023, London, UK
Research Grant Visual Arts, Senate Department for Culture / Europe Berlin 2021
Special Grant Visual Arts, Senate Department for Culture / Europe Berlin 2020
Shortlist FOAM Talent Award 2021
Nominated Fellowship DF13, Wüstenrot Stiftung/Museum Folkwang Essen 2020
Photography Working grant — Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, GER 2019
Finalist — Hellerau Portrait Award 2020
Finalist — Neuköllner Kunstpreis, Berlin, GER 2020
Shortlist, Felix-Schoeller Award 2019, Free Choice Category, GER
Winner — LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2019, USA / GER
DFA Portfolio Walk — June Deutsche Fotografie 2019, Hamburg, GER
Winner – Reclaim Award 2019, Cologne, GER
Finalist Voies-Off Award, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, FR
Shortlist, Athen Photo Festival, Benaki Musuem Athen, GR
Nominated for c/o Berlin Talents Award 2019, GER
Nominated DZ Bank Art Collection Project Grant, GER
German Photobook Prize 2018/2019
COLLECTIONS
Private collections (USA / DE / CHE), Stanford Photo Book Collection / CA, USA, Haus am Kleistpark Berlin / GER, Stadtmuseum Berlin / GER
SELF - PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGUES
Exhibition Catalogue, Year Zwölf, European Month of Photography, Berlin 2018
Living Room, San Francisco 2017/2018, Jana Sophia Nolle, Kerber Verlag 2020
“WohnWissen”, Publication of body of work “Living Room”, Bundesverband für Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung e.V. / JOVIS Verlag 2024
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Zeit Magazin (GER), Publication of project Living Room, Nr.20, May 2019; British Journal of Photography Online (BJP, UK), May 2019; DNMag, May 2019, DK, The Guardian Online, September 2019; Financial Dageblat, September 2019, NL, Humble Arts Foundation (USA), October 2019, USA; Art, Das Kunstmagazin Magazin, 01/2020, Interview: Living Room, San Francisco 2017/2018, WIRED Magazine, issue 15/01/2020; PHOTONEWS, Issue: 04/2020.
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS & LECTURES
Weimar Controversies, “Shelter, Poverty and Housing: How Can We Live Humanely?” — Jana Sophia Nolle & Gerhard Trabert in conversation with Dr. Helmut Heit, Bauhaus Museum Weimar, September 2023
A place for justice. A Conversation with Kim Abeles, Jana Sophia Nolle, and David Taylor, San Diego State University, CA, USA, April 2021
Guest Lecture, Jana Sophia Nolle, Home and Identity, Class of Prof. Linn Schroeder, The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), April 2020
Artist Talk, Jana Sophia Nolle, Homelessness in the Living Room, Creative (un)makings: disruptions in art/archaeology, International Conference, Museu Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea, Santo Tirso, PT, March 2020
Artist Talk & Guest Lecture, "Living Room" & , The Role of Artists addressing social, political issues“, Jana Sophia Nolle, Sonoma States University, California, USA, Department of Art History, August 2019
Panel discussion: "Closing the Circle" — The role of art and artists in building awareness around homelessness. Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 8 2019
Artist Talk — with Shimon Attie & Jana Sophia Nolle. Photo Alliance, San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco USA, March 2019
Lecture 'creative practice and ethnography's on homelessness' with Dr. Annie Danis, Apartment of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, CA, March 2019