nvk // Nick Von Kleist (b. 1991) is a queer artist, fluctuating between a poet, a producer, a performer, and the archive. nvk uses process and collaboration as a method and carrier bag for language, media, and drag to trace, root, and redistribute potentiality. nvk’s practice focuses on vegetality and virtuality, assuming the role(s) necessary for each collaboration; collecting traces as repertoire to be rehearsed, repeatedly. Nick is currently enrolled in the Transdisciplinary Studies Program at The New Centre.
nvk has recently shown work at Lateral Roma, Two plants are colliding (2021), a collaboration with Lyn Diniz (Mama Lynch) and A Walk in the Park (2019) at PS120 (Berlin). Currently acting as the Managing Director of IMMATERIAL, the recurring performance program founded by Michelangelo Miccolis as part of the Public Programs at Mexico City’s Material Art Fair, as well as the Production Manager of the Shedhalle’s (Zurich) virtual greenroom “the SHED”, and as a member of OFFSHORE, an itinerant performance company initiated by artist Cally Spooner taking shape as a course within IUAV’s (Venice) Masters program. Other recent and ongoing collaborations include: Ingo Niermann’s initiated project the Army of Love, Mette Edvardsen’s Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, and other performative collaborations with Dora García and Nikima Jagudajev. nvk has worked as a producer of performance at various institutions including MoMA, Lincoln Center, the Park Avenue Armory and the Rubin Museum of Art.