Tillman Kaiser im Gespräch mit Bob Nickas

In his exhibition Im Dom in the Secession’s main gallery, Tillman Kaiser presents mostly new sculptures and large-format pictures. Kaiser’s pictures combine photography with painting and graphic art. Photographs recorded with a homemade camera obscura as well as cyanotypes and photograms made without the use of a camera are the material he subsequently reworks in a painterly process. Folding and geometric forms as well as the use of straightforward and “poor” materials are the defining characteristics of Kaiser’s sculptures, objects, and three-dimensional wall pieces.

Exhibitions (selection): 2018 Galerie Layr, Rom; 2017 Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; 21er Haus, Wien; 2016 Villa Borghese, Rom; 2015 Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York

Tillman Kaiser studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He lives and works in Vienna.

Bob Nickas is a writer and curator based in New York. He has organized over 80 exhibitions since 1984. Between 2003-06, he was Curatorial Advisor at MoMA/PS1, he served on the team for the 2003 Biennale de Lyon and contributed a section to Aperto at the 1993 Venice Biennale. He was founding editor of Index magazine.

His books include Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting, and four collections of writing and interviews: Theft Is Vision, Live Free or Die, The Dept. of Corrections, and Komplaint Dept. Most recently he has published essays in Vija Celmins (Matthew Marks) and Brand New: Art & Commodity in the 1980s (Hirschhorn Museum). His reviews were published in numerous international art magazines such as Spike, Artforum, Frieze, and Art in America.