Nils Alix-Tabeling

In his multimedia performances and installations Nils Alix-Tabeling (*1991 in Paris) moves on the threshold between fiction and reality. His works quote from science fiction, fashion, historical objects and furniture, shamanism and drag – critically reflecting the history of institutional violence against female and queer bodies.

But Who is Ulrike Mandrake? reconsiders the legacy of 1970s terrorism. The title evokes the name of a fictional character and suggests a semantic connection between the journalist and RAF terrorist Ulrike Meinhof (1934-1976) and the poisonous medicinal and ritual plant mandrake, which visually resembles human figures. It also refers to the human longing to penetrate to a supposed root of evil through scientific understanding. With an extensive new group of works as well as a performance, the artist navigates between the times, worlds, ambivalences and wounds that this topic opens up.

Nils Alix-Tabeling (*1991 in Paris, lives and works in Montargis, FR) studied Fine Arts at the Academy La Cambre, Brussels (BA, 2014) and at the Royal College of Art, London (MA, 2016). His work has been included in international exhibitions, most recently including Fleur de peau, terre à vif, Le Parvis, Tarbes, FR (2023); Planet B: Climate Change & the New Sublime, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, IT (2022); Futur, Ancien, Fugitif, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR (2019); Le Bétyle d'Ail, Art Space, London, UK (2019). As an artist curator, he organised exhibitions at Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier, FR (2021); Galerie Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf (2019) and Galerie Nadine Feront, Brussels, BE (2017).

Curated by Rebekka Seubert

Part of PERSPEKTIVE Fund for Contemporary Art & Architecture of the Bureau des arts plastiques of the Institut français Germany, supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Institut français Paris and the Goethe-Institut.

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