Nina Rhode

(aka Ninja Pleasure)


Born in Düsseldorf, 1971
Lives and works in Berlin

1994- 2001 ‚Freie Kunst’ at UDK Berlin
2001 DAAD Grant for research on rainbows in New Zealand

Projects

since 1995 member of the Berlin based artists group Honey-Suckle-Company (HSC)
since 2000 collaboration with the musician Gonzales (stage shows, musical objects, drawings, photos, videos)
2003-2004 Neue Dokumente, publisher & project space in Berlin (foundation with Simone Gilges)
- collaboration on the magazine of sensitivities „freier“, ed. by Simone Gilges
- organisation of exhibitions, lectures, concerts in the appendant Hurdy-Gurdy Raum
- publishing of Gonzales Fanzine
2006 lectures & workshop on photography, University for Art & Architecture Yazd, Iran (invited by X-Change, culture-science, Vienna)
since 2008 owner of SMARAGD Bar in Berlin Wedding.

Exhibitions (selected)

2011"4D", Fernsehturm (tower center, 1st floor, Panoramastr. 1), Berlin (Solo, exhibition serial curated by Juliane Solmsdorf)"KW69 #7" (by Kalin Lindena), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (with Hanna Brandes, Michaela Eichwald, Agathe Fleury, Hella Gerlach, Nina Rhode) "Friendly Fire", DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts), Dundee, UK (Solo)"Yes Or Yes, Yes Or Yes (Whoa Plato), One Night Exhibition by Lisa Holzer & Chiara Minchio (with David Jourdan), Croy Nielsen Berlin"Selbstkritik ist eine unerlässliche und ständig wirksame Waffe", Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin "You Don't Love Me Anymore", Westfälischer Kunstverein (old Mauritz School), Münster

2010"The Smell Of Pepper", ALP/ Peter Bergman, Stockholm, SE (G, curated by Jakob Krajcik)Solo Presentation at LISTE Art Fair, Basel"Expo Valerie", Xinle Lu, Shanghai (group show set up by Valerie Stahl von Stromberg) 2009"Piggy Banks", SAMSA, Kollwitzstr. 10, Berlin"Nina Rhode a.k.a. Ninja Pleasure & Surprise", Evas Arche und der Feminist, Gavin Brown's enterprise upstairs, NY"Die Kanzel", Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin"Christoph Lohmann / Nina Rhode", SAMSA, Kollwitzstr. 10, Berlin"Wir verbessern Ihre Arbeit", group show organized by Instituto Divorciado, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin"Modern Modern", Chelsea Art Museum - Miotte Foundation, New York (curated by Pati Hertling“On the Spot #5: freier FALL”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (G, with ‘freier, Magazin für Befindlichkeit’)2008"Die Maße des Werts (the measures of value)", Hadlichstr. 44"Willkommen to reality", Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin"Fantomas", Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin (S)2007"O debuxo por diante", Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostella2004"Freier", Galerie Art: Concept, Paris (with ‚freier’ magazine)2001"We Berlin", Galerie 5020, Salzburg2000 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella followed by the exhibition "Proxecto de Arte e Peregrinacion", Santiago de Compostella1997"Rock the city down", Hybrid Work Space, Documenta X, Kassel (performance with Galerie Berlin Tokyo)Maisalon in Köpenick, Galerie Vostell, Berlin1996Schauplatz HDK, Nothelfer, Vostell, Raab & Giefller, Berlin