‘On Archives’ / 21.11. - 06.12.2024 / Bärengasse 16 / 8001 Zurich
Nico
Krijno
With a background in theatre and experimental video, Nico Krijno (b. 1981, South Africa) works at the blurry intersection of photography, collage, painting, sculpture and performance.
Probing the thresholds of each, his work materialises through a stream of unique and colourful abstractions that not only act as autonomous pieces of art but when seen as a collection, Krijno’s obsession and constant intrigue into the perception of photographs becomes decidedly evident.
Often working with discarded materials found in his immediate surroundings, he interprets and re-imagines them to find alternative structures for how meaning and matter are both constructed and perceived. Photographing these ephemeral structures, as he describes himself, are a private and physical performance, with the camera being the audience. Importantly, the act of photographing these theatrical scenes is only one part of Krijno’s work. Through an array of digital tools, he then re-imagines the materials, colours and forms countless times until our understanding of each photograph is constantly being challenged, always failing to remain still.
2020
New Visions, The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Høvikodden (NO)
2020
Photo 2020, Melbourne (AU)
2019
Leave Your Body Behind, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York (solo)
2019
The Photography Show by AIPAD, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York
2019
Contemporary Visions 2019, BEERS GALLERY, London
2017
2017 The Fluid Right Edge, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam and Beetles and Huxley, London
2017
Unseen, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam
2017
The Photography Show by AIPAD, Beetles and Huxley, New York
2017
Throwing Shapes, Smith Gallery, Cape Town
2017
Foam Talent, London
2017
Hush Hush, Smith Gallery, Cape Town
2017
1:54, Contemporary African Art Fair, Aperture Platform Africa booth, New York
2016
New Flesh, Rubber Factory, New York
2016
Photo London, New Works, Huxley-Parlour, London
2016
Rituals and Performance, Lagos Photo, Lagos
2015
New Gestures: Fabricated to be Photographed, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town (solo)
2015
Solo Booth, Rotterdam Art Fair, The Ravestijn Gallery (solo)
2015
Under Construction, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)
2015
Romantik, Produzentengalerie, Cologne, Germany
2014
Construction-Residency Show, 133 ARTS, Johannesburg (solo)
2014
Uncertain Terms, Whatiftheworld, Cape Town
2013
Fulcrum Study, Blank Gallery Woodstock, Cape Town (solo)
2013
Wish you were here, MOPLA, Los Angeles
2013
A Painters Eye, Sublime & Devine, MOPLA, Los Angeles
2013
LOW SUBJECT, The Popular Workshop, San Francisco
2013
Bazaar ii, Fairweather House, Woodstock, Cape Town
2013
BLOG RE-BLOG, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2013
New Research, Month of Photography Los Angeles Fashionality, Camera16 Gallery, Milan
2013
Syn/Aesthesia, The Animal Hospital, Summerhall Edinburgh EXHIBITION N°1,
2013
Data Gallery, Montreal
2013
WHEN FORM BECOMES ATTITUDE, Blank Projects, Cape Town
2012
Across the Great Divide, White Gloss Gallery, Los Angeles
2012
Eyes Closed, Eyes Open, Studio 41, Glasgow
2011
On How To Fill Those Gaps, Museum Gallery, Cape Town (solo)
2011
Chain Mail, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles