Jürgen Trautwein is a German born interdisciplinary artist working in a variety of forms, including new media and hypertext web-works, performative temporary interferences, installations, land-art, sound art, animation and classical forms such as painting, drawing, watercolor, collage and photography. Stylistically his work is process oriented and rooted in abstract expressionism, minimalism, conceptualism. His works are manifestations of the immediate, everyday and present experience.

For the past twenty plus years Trautwein has been working on his Gesamtkunstwerk the evolving NIESATT drawing and multimedia hybridization project, a concept that includes a variety of media, resulting in site specific room installations, which reflect on issues of ephemeralness, disposability, depersonalization, disinformation, reproducibility, prefabrication, repetition and the unpredictability of the next thought; a project where meaning and statement levels are overlying each other. The drawings used for NIESATT are acid humorous, raw-thought line-based social commentaries. They are ironic cartoon-like reflections of the perpetually reoccurring human folly.

Trautwein's web-works are an integral part of his NIESATT project; under the domain jtwine.com he has been creating web based works since 1996 with a strong focus on repetitious sound-screens and interactive audio visual pieces. Jtwine.com functions like an archive of fictional and real incidents where personal experience merges with visual research and documentary. Jtwine.com is combining high and low tech, reflecting on the heterogeneous and pluralistic character of our visual culture and the web.

Trautwein's work has been shown widely in museums, non profit art spaces, festivals and galleries around the world such as the Screengrab New Media Award exhibition, Australia, File international digital art Festival Sao Paulo, Festival de Arte digital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, European New Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Plato Sanat Istanbul, Turgut Pura Foundation, Izmir, Turkey, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Arte -TV, Rhizome Artbase, Netart.org, El pobre diablo, Quito, Micromuseum Athens, Wand5, Stuttgart, Zero Arts, Stuttgart, Javamuseum Cologne, The Wrong online digital art festival, furtherfield.org London, Bronx art space, New York, Denis Bibro Fine Arts, New York, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Berkely art center, Berkeley, Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco and Galerie Marek Kralewski, Freiburg, Germany among many others.

Trautwein studied painting, drawing and printmaking at the Roedel art college in Mannheim, Germany and painting at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He holds a M.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Berlin.

His work is represented by

Gallery 60SIX in San Francisco, USA

Galerie Marek Kralewski in Freiburg, Germany

1958 - Born in Bruchsal, Germany
Lives and works in San Francisco, USA and in Bruchsal, Germany.

Education

1978-80 - Siemens Business School, Munich

1980-83 - Roedel Art College, Mannheim

1984-91 - University of the Arts, Berlin

1991 - Meisterschüler/Masters @ University of the Arts, Berlin

1997 - Founding of the experimental net art site - jtwine.com

One person exhibitions (selection)

2019 - Gnadenlose_Idylle/ cutthroat_Idyll, Kunstverein Neckar/Odenwald, Mosbach, Germany

        - The sound of the rain needs no translation, gallery 60six, San Francisco (catalog)

2018 - Train Ride To Luxor, Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco (catalog)

        - gif_me_a_break, Galerie Marek Kralewski, Freiburg, Germany (catalog)

2017 - Long Hot Summer Of Love, Chrom VI, Karlsruhe, Germany

2016 - Old Family Linen, Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco (catalog)
        - TWEETOPIA, Galerie Marek Kralewski, Freiburg, Germany (catalog)
        - OVER_TOP-The Parade of the Zeros, Kelterberg Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

2014 - Skins, Gallery 60six, San Francisco (catalog)

        - NIESATT 0.14, Zero Arts, Stuttgart

2013 - Topography, Gallery 60six, San Francisco (catalog)

        - Silence has no existence, The Grotto, San Francisco

2011 - Sitting quietly doing nothing, Indian Valley Outhouse shows, Indian Valley, Ca

2009 - Combines, Bel Mondo, Heidelberg, Germany

2007 - Rien plus, Basement incorporated, San Francisco

2005 - The sleep of reason, Margit Haupt Gallery, Karlsruhe

2003 - NIESATT @ The Rat Pack Lounge, Berlin

2001 - Narragonia, Jan Baum Gallery Los Angeles     

        - Living by numbers, Place Pigalle Gallery, San Francisco

        - The post biological plenitude of ultimate emptiness, The...Gallery, Hollywood

2000 - The good times, Kulturkreis Sulzfeld-Baden, Germany

1999 - Investing in the Future Siemens AG, Bruchsal

1998 - Fresco y Natural, El Pobre Diablo, Quito, Ecuador

Group exhibitions (selection)

2022 - #biennale.NO, online
        - ONE_OFF moving image festival, Valencia, Spain and online
        - 60 Seconds Film festival, Copenhagen, Denmark       
        - Seoul Metro international subway film festival, Seoul, Korea
        - Spirit of Gobi Art and Music festival, Ömnögovi, Mongolia
        - 10 Years Kunstverein Ladenburg, Ladenburg Germany
        - The Garden Eden, 10 years Galerie Marek Kralewski, Freiburg, Germany
2021 - Bias in Technology, Goethe on demand - Goethe Institute, online
        - The Wrong biennial #5, als part of the one-off pavilion, online
        - TACTUS - 17th Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, online
        - ONE_OFF moving image festival #4, in collaboration with 60 sec festival, Copenhagen

2021 - International video poetry festival, Videobardo 25 years, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2020 - Apeiron 2020, Web Biennial, Istanbul contemporary art museum, online exhibition
        - ARTificial intelligence, Jönköpings läns Museum, Sweden 05.30-08.23
        - ARTificial intelligence, Festival Miden, online screening in collaboration with Athens School of Fine Arts (GR)
        - Undocumented events and object permanence, noemata net, online exhibition   

        - ONE_OFF moving image festival #3, Valencia(ES), Gol, (NO)

        - 60sec Festival, Right or Wrong Browsing, Copenhagen, Denmark
        - The W.O.W project, Net Art features, online
        - Synthetic Zero Event: The Virtual is (Always) Already Real, BronxArtSpace, NYC   

2019 - The WRONG, digital art biennial @ the following 5 pavilions, Very Large Works - Burrow, The - WOWA - ProtheticVol.2

          Homeostasis Lab, On- and Off-line
        - File 2019, Festival for Digital Language, SESI Gallery of  Art, Sao Paulo (catalog)

        - Art Karlsruhe, Art Fair participation with Galerie Marek Kralewski, Freiburg, Germany, exhibition catalog

        - One-Off Moving Image Festival #2,Valencia (ES) and Gol (Norway) and online

        - Screengrab 6, New Media Arts Award, Townsville, Australia (catalog)

        - Synthetic Zero, Bronx Art space, New York, NY, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi

        - The Walking Encyclopedia, Stoke-on Trent, UK

2013 - Homeostasis Lab, the Wrong, New online Biennial

        - Espacio Enter Festival, Tenerife, Canari Islands

        - Secret and Evident, Forum of Conceptual Art, Artzond Festival, Saint Petersburg

        - USB_shuffle show, Institut fuer Alles Moegliche, Berlin (catalog)

        - 0P3NR3P0, Glitchworx/ internet superheros, MOCA, Chicago

2012 - Convergence Divergence, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA

        - Occupy Content, Web Biennial 2012, Aethens, Berlin, Istanbul

        - Espacio Enter Festival, Tenerife, Canari Islands

        - File 2012, SESI at FIESEP, Ruth Cardoso Cultural Center, Sao Paulo (catalog)

        - Revolution Now and Forever, VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (catalog)

        - European Media Art Festival, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (catalog)

        - Turgut Pura Art prize, Ismir Art Museum, Izmir, Turkey

        - Re: Referendum, curated by N./ B. Kadin, New media Gallery, Split, Croatia (catalog)

        - 25th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany (catalog)

        - Conflux, Pearl Conard Gallery, Mansfield, Ohio

        - Leap-second festival, Internet, curated by Bjørn Magnhildøen

2011 - Soleil en Hiver, Hans Benda Gallery, Verviers, Belgium

        - File 2011, SESI Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalog)

        - Synthetic Zero, Bronx Art Space, NY, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi

        - Sketchbook project, the Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY

        - Regeneration.011, politics and poetry in net-art, curated by Marcus Graf, Plato Sanat, Istanbul (catalog)

2010 - WB 10, WebBiennial, museum for contemporary art, Istanbul, curated by Genco Gulan

        - Festival of digital culture, Espacio Enter, Teneriffa, Canari Islands

        - No Food No Drink No Sticky Lollies, curated by Franziska Leuthäußer, Stattbad, Berlin

        - FAD - Festival Arte Digital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (catalog)

        - Sonik 1, Climate Gallery , Long Island City, NY

        - Java museum (net art features), Cologne, curated by by Agricola de Cologne

2009 - DIWO at the dark mountain, HTTP Gallery/ furtherfield gallery London        

        - A book about death, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York (catalog)

2008 - A striking twelve, Live worms Gallery, San Francisco

        - White Noise, interactive noise screen @ Rhizome Art base, New York

        - SSI3 - Sight Sound Interaction, MICA, Rosenberg gallery, Baltimore, curated by Jason Sloan

2007 - Breakthrough - jpg magazine, San Francisco Arts Commission, SF

        - Artists Space, (night of thousand drawings), New York

2006 - Artzond festival @ the Manhattan Club, Saint Petersburg

        - Nova Art fair with San Francisco based Bucheon Gallery, Chicago

2005 - Ephemeral Cities, Deptford X festival, London

        - Bayennale, Bay area international arts festival, San Francisco

2004 - Art and free expression, California Lawyers for the Arts, San Francisco

        - War peace and civil liberties, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley

        - Field of vision, The Lab Gallery New York

        - Coded Cultures (NIESATT parallel worlds), Vienna

        - NIESATT on the net, Feature and review @ furtherfield.org, London

        - RRF 2004 (violence channel) newmediafest, Java museum

2003 - Post postcard 7, The Lab, San Francisco                           

        - Perspectives '03, Java museum, Cologne            

        - Denise Bibro Fine Art (summer show), New York  

        - The Irish Museum of Modern Art (net art open), Dublin

        - New media festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand (catalog)

        - 30 years Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles

        - Power and jtwine, Furtherfield.org, London

2002 - Art on the net 2002 "9.11", Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo

        - 12-12: Time based web cast, school of design, Cardiff

        - The Irish Museum of Modern Art (net art open), Dublin

        - Parallel Connections, Korean cultural center Los Angeles

2001 - Net_Working @ Watershed Media Center, Bristol

        - Micromuseum - Medi@terra , Athens, Lavrion (catalog)

        - 25 years Jan Baum gallery, Jan Baum Gallery (Los Angeles

        - Net Art Guide, Fraunhofer E- Business Innovationszentrum, Stuttgart (catalog)

1999 - Dusk, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle

1998 - Fresco y Natural, El Pobre Diablo, Quito Ecuador

Bibliography

2023 - Into The Unknown, Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco, catalog
2022 - Der Kunstverein Heidenheim zeigt Werke des Künstlerehepaars Jürgen Trautwein und
          Silvia Nonnenmacher, Heidenheimer Zeitung, 06.08.2022
        - R_U_Sirius, Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco

2018 - Offline_Browser, 6th International video art exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, curated by Hsu Chia-Wei
           & Hsu Fong-Ray, exhibition catalog

        - Badische Zeitung, exhibition review by Hans-Dieter Fronz, June 15th

        - gif_me_a_break, Galerie Marek Kralewski, Freiburg, Germany, exhibition catalog

        - Train Ride To Luxor, Gallery 60six, San Francisco, exhibition catalog

2017 - File 2017, Festival for Digital Language, SESI at FIESEP, Sao Paulo, catalog

        - OVER_TOP - the new normal -, slected drawings and installation shots, catalog

2016 - Old Family Linen, exhibition catalog @gallery 60six catalog

        - Maintenant 10, a journal on contemporary DADA writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, NY

        - Badische Zeitung, exhibition review, Antje Lechleiter, July 9th

        - Tweetopia @Galerie Marek Kralewski, Freiburg, exhibition catalog

2015 - Maintenant 9, a journal on contemporary DADA writing and Art, Three Rooms Press, NY

        - Interview @home with furtherfield/ NetArtizens Exhibition and Symposium, online

        - Sister 7, exhibition catalog, Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco

2014 - Review by Kenneth BakerSF Chronicle, Nov.2, 2014, Date book E 3,

        - Skins, exhibition catalog, Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco

        - Review by Kenneth Baker, SFGate, Oct.31

        - Screengrab 6, New Media Arts Award, Queensland Australia, catalog

        - Wall Street International Magazine, Skins, Arts, Oct.6th

        - ArtBusiness Oct.4th2013 - El Pais, Canarias: una hora menos y diez años adelante, Blogs Tech. Nov. 25th

2013 - Wall Street International Magazine, Agenda, US, Arts, June 13th

        - Review by Kenneth Baker at SF Gate, May 20 th

        - SF Chronicle, Datebook pg 2, Maps of no future, May 18th, review Kenneth Baker

        - ArtBusiness.com, Alan Bamberger, May 4 th

        - Topography, exhibition catalog, Gallery 60SIX, San Francisco

2012 - Stuttgarter film winter, catalog, page 76

        - Revolution now and forever, VN Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, catalog

        - Re:Referendum New media gallery, Split, Croatia, catalog

2011 - Nictoglobe magazine “Homeless in San Francisco”, Amsterdam

        - File festival 2011 Sao Paulo, catalog

        - Interviewed by Togay Tanyolac, Istanbul

        - Regeneration 011, Plato Sanat, Istanbul, catalog    

        - 30 years Kunstverein Leimen", Kunstverein Leimen,  catalog

        - Sketchbook project, the Brooklyn art library, Brooklyn    

2008 - White Noise, Rhizome Artbase, NY

2005 - BNN, Weisheit und Ware, Feuilleton, May 11th, review by  Michael Hübel

        - BNN- Badische Neuste Nachrichten Bretten, April 5th, review by Claudia Schuler

2004 - NIESATT, Furtherfield.org, London, review

2003 - Power and jtwine furtherfield.org interview and review by Lewis LaCook

2002 - Art in America, summer edition

        - Stuttgarter Zeitung, Ins Netz gegangen, Eilige Maennchen, January 14th

2001 - LA Times Datebook, Narragonia, July 8th,  

        - Micro museum ,Media terra  exhibition catalog, Athens

        - Net Art guide catalog, page 52, Fraunhofer business center, Stuttgart

2000 - Sinsheimer Nachrichten, Müllberg und der blaue Planet, review

1999 - Seattle Times “Dusk”, Nov. 4th

1998 - Hoy/ El Centro, Mas de quarenta dibujos, review, Quito