ongoing


THE THE KITCHEN, since 2014
Co-Curator of an Independently run Art Space

 
THE KITCHEN

THE MANUSCRIPTS, since 2005
Hardcopy journals of 800 +poems 


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TEA, since 2014
Performance Ceremony Series
http://dawnnilo.com/tea/

2019

WORK PRESENTATION DAWN NILO, 2019
Goetheanum Backoven, Curated by Miraim Wahl

THE KITCHEN

Things have gotten really busy and I haven't been able to keep up with updating the archive. I'll be redesigning it sometime soon. But in the meantime, my more recent works can be seen in my portfolio.

2018

THE DOOR, 2019
Installation, Photographs and Performance, Regionale 19, Norde Theatre, St. Louis FR, Curated by Adrian Jutard and Frederick Darcy


LIST ART FAIR BASEL, 2018
Series of prints, PANCH booth

KUNST DER BEGEGNUNG VII, 2018
Taiwan, Japan, Singapur, Thailand, Deutschland & Schweiz


A CIRCLE IS NOT JUST A CIRCLE, 2018
Exhibit within an exhibit (curated by Dawn Nilo), Society for the Common and Good Exhibit, GGG Haus Basel, curated by Alice Wilkes


GOD IS DEAD, Srinagar Biennale Basel, 2018
Curated by Janine Schmutz & Parvez Imem 

HOW TO HANG A CIRCLE, 2018
Performance, Society for the Common and Good Exhibit, GGG Haus Basel, curated by Alice Wilkes
 


A LINE THROUGH THE PERIPHERY, 2014
Super 8 film transfer video, Rag to Rich,  American College of Art Gallery, North Athens, 2018 curated by Poka-Yio, 


2017
 
 

THE KINGDOM OF FOOLS BLUE CUBE,
Swiss Performance Art Award 2017

 

THE BLUE CUBE
Interview Videos in play, 2017 


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WASSER, Neubad, Luzern CH
Musical/Movement Theater by Regula Bühler, Dramaturgy by Dawn Nilo
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KoF TV: THE CONCEPT
M54 Project Space, Basel, Nachtflimmern 2017 

FLAME, 2017
Turbine Hall Giswil Switzerland, Legs
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KoF TV,  2017: Online experimental film 
www.thekingdomoffools.com

BLUEPRINT: GEOMETRY POEM, 2017
Kunsthaus Baselland, Regionale 18
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THE DOOR, 2017
Installation View, Kunsthaus Baselland, Regionale 18
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A LINE THROUGH THE PERIPHERY, 
Video Installation View, Kunsthaus Baselland, Regionale 18
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2016

 
 
UMSTÜLPEN, 2016
Leopold Museum, Vienna Austria
(Documentation Video)

REMEMBER WHY, 2016
24 ten inch hand cut vinyl records
Poems and songs from the chapbook The Question
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SERENDIPITY residency,  2016
Der Tank, Basel Art Institute
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THE GREAT GAME
Kunsthalle Basel-Kaffé Mitte, 2016
(Documentation Video)

CYDONIA OBLANGA,  TEA #20-22
 The Kitchen Aufderhoehe, 2016
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A GEOMETRIC ARMATURE, 2016
Exhibition Floor Plan/Sculpture, School of Art And Design Basel, Serendipity
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HOW THE WORK WORKS installation
Kunsthalle Basel, Every Contact Leaves its Trace, 2016
 
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HOW THE WORK WORKS masters thesis
Basel Art Academy, 2016
 

THE SENSUAL KNOWING, 2016
Serendipity Performance and artist's talk, 2016
Basel Art Institute
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THE SURFACE OF ONE DIMENSION OF ROUND, 2016
Installation, School of Art and Design Basel, Serendipity 
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2015

 
 

THE KINGDOM OF FOOLS (NULL), 2017
Curator/artistic director, filter4, Basel, performance Exhibit, 2016

 
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THE KINGDOM OF FOOLS,
9 month masters seminarBasel Art Institute, 2017

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FURNACE, 2016
filter4, Basel, The Kingdom of Fools, 2016
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TOWER OF CONSCIOUSNESS, 2016
filter4, Basel, The Kingdom of Fools, 2016
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2014

 
 
POSTCARDS FROM FOREVER, 2014,  International Visual Festival of Patras Greece, Risk RE-CULTURE 3
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A LINE THROUGH THE PERIPHERY, 2014
Super 8 Video Transfer (excerpt)

THESE WORDS, 2014
Spoken Work Performance, Stadtgallerie Bern, Spoken words and Spukende Worte, 2014 
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DAS HAUS DES NARREN,2016
Installation, Artachment, Full Moon to New Moon
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PORTRAITS FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE,2016
Series of 4 installation (shown: Baby Jesus was an apple)
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APPLE KNIFE BANANA, 2014
ACT 2014 Performance Festival, Bern CH
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TO WRITE THE BOOK, 2014
Muze Oostende, Belgium and the  Neuenationalgalerie, Berlin as a part of
A Poem a Day, 
by Nico Dockx and Clara Meister
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THE QUESTION, 2014
 iBook, Published by Badland's Unlimited
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FULL MOON TO NEW MOON, 2014
Solo Exhibit, Attachment Basel, 2016
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THIS IS PRIVATE THIS IS RAW, 2016
24 hour poetry readying, Artachmnet, Full Moon to New Moon
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ABSOLUTELY CONVERGENT,  2014
Series of 5 geometric objects
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GAS. SPARKS. FIRE., 2014
Art Institute Basel Masters Pavillion
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I AM,  2014
performed at the ACT festival Bern, 2014
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BLAH BLAH BLAH, 2014
Poetry Reading, Schaulager, Paul Chan Exhibit


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LEMONADE STAND, 2016
performance, Attachment, Full Moon to New Moon
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APPLES FAUL, 2014
Installation and Performance, Studio Nilo, Sempacherstrasse 
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ALCHEMY LAB, 2014
Installation and photo series, Studio Nilo: Sempacherstrasse 
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FIVE, 2014
Kasko Basel, 20 Jahre and ACT performance festival  Zurich,  
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THE ART OF THE FOOL, 2014
Director, 45 min. theatre piece (excerpt), Goetheanum, Dornach Switzerland

earlier


 
 
FORMATIVE FORCES, 2012
Series of 7 drawings
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THE SIMPLE FOOL, 2007 to present
50+ performances and workshops worldwide
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LOVE IN FREEDOM
OR FREEDOM IN LOVE
Private wedding, installation
and performance 
Arlesheim, Switzerland
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UNIVERSAL SYMBOLS, 2008
Sculpture 24x25x25 cm
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POEMS FOR JOHANNES, 2010
Book of poems on transfer paper, 110 pages overlayed into a 1979 publication of Aristotle’s De Anima


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