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- Kedleston Hall Derbyshire, UK 2012 - ‘Playful Incident’ Competition – Shortlist
with Beatrice Galilee
“In the summer of 2212, there were a number of uncanny sightings around the UK. Sometime during the first week of July that year there was an incident at Kedleston Hall..” The remains of these future events are scattered across the landscaped grounds of Kedleston – three interlinked physical manifestations of the incident. A core part of the project is the creation of multiple layers of narratives. The incidents and narratives are meant to set up future mirrors for Kedleston Hall to be reflected and seen anew. -
Invited by Trust New Art – National Trust & Arts Council England
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| On- - Gwangju Biennale Gwangju, South Korea 2011 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
The 'On- -
Invited by Beatrice Galilee, Curator Communities Section
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- Loughborough, UK 2010- - Invited competition 1st Prize
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Winning competition entry for a new arts centre at Loughborough University campus.
The design ties together a disparate collection of functions as part of one unifying
gesture. The LU Arts Centre & Radar Hub will generate a lively and animated home
for the arts on Loughborough campus. The Hub is intended to be Radar at a meta- -
Under construction
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| Testify! | - German Centre for Architecture in Berlin Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ Berlin, Germany 2012 -
For the second stop of the travelling exhibition Testify! at the German Centre for Architecture in Berlin (DAZ) the layout was based on a maze that lures the visitors in, completely immersing them with content. At the centre of the space there is a void functioning both as a discursive forum and as a relief away from the exhibition itself. -
Commission
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| Performa 09 Hub | - Performa Biennial New York City, USA 2009 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Local architect: N. Lindsey
Design and construction of the Biennial's central meeting and screening place, lecture hall, bookshop and lounge, located on the ground floor of the new Cooper Union Building in Downtown Manhattan. A long and tall wall, which follows the section of a lowered ceiling and produces two kinds of spatial conditions: an open field in which directly visible programmes will take place, as well as a series of pockets, dug into the wall. The Hub was built for a total of less than 15'000 USD and completed in less than a week. -
Performa Biennial's 1st Architectural Commission
Funded by the Graham Foundation
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| Wright's Road Gallery & Residence | - London, UK 2011- -
A former East London pub is being turned into a centre for contemporary art, with the gallery owners's residence on the top floor. The project explores the notion of the 'pub(lic house)' as a space of conversation, exchange and discourse as well as the potential of a domestic space attached to it. The culmination of the two elements turn the overall scheme into a highly flexible spatial model, which can facilitate and house multiple and diverse formats. -
Planning permission granted
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| Wohnpilot | - Graz, Austria 2007- -
Competition 2nd Prize
A high- -
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| Archive Kabinett | - Berlin, Germany 2009- -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Archive Kabinett is the new HQ and gallery of Archive magazine, a bi- -
Commission
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| Stripe | - Outdoor Gallery for the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art Gdánsk, Poland 2011 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Through an artistic approach akin to relational art tactics, the proposal for the Outdoor Gallery of the City of Gdánsk Competition presents a long Stripe that, both at the scale of a multitudinal and decentralised artwork as well as at the larger urban scale, enables various uses, reactions and events to unfold: The users are simultaneously actors and spectators on a theatrical stage of sorts. The Stripe is conceptually akin to Cedric Price's Fun Palace albeit instead of being vertically organised, it is stretched horizontally as an integral and productive part of the surrounding urban context. -
Invited Competition
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| Penthouse P | - Cologne, Germany 2009 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Redesign and refurbishment of a duplex penthouse in the city centre of Cologne. The
existing listed building was almost entirely destroyed. The design is based on the
marriage between the two top floors as well as two units on either floor into a series
of interconnected and sometimes double- -
Commission
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| Temporary Kunsthalle | - Berlin, Germany 2011 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
For this invited competition for a new temporary Kunsthalle in Berlin, nOffice, together
with a Bavarian prefab- -
Invited competition
Featured in Baunetzwoche #217
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| Testify! | - Netherlands Architecture Institute NAI Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2011- -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
A Commission by curator Lukas Feireiss to design the exhibition 'Testify!' at the
NAI in Rotterdam. As a travelling exhibition, it is conceived as a coherent kit- -
Commission
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| Badhus | - Hudiksvall, Sweden 2008 -
To balance the requirements of the brief and the conditions of the site within its larger context, a gesture 'weak' enough to be added to and 'strong' enough to relate to its context was required. -
Competition
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| Villa Frösakull | - Halmstad, Sweden 2010 -
To counterbalance the fragmentary shape of the existing villa, the addition was conceived
as a free- -
Commission
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- Bonn, Germany 2008- -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Intricate, flexible, sustainable, bold, forward thinking and inexpensive: A single
family house on a very tight budget. The client wanted to explore the possibility
of a Zero Energy House, asking for a challenging design that would deal both with
the difficult site (neighbouring buildings, slope), and to test whether it would
be possible to do all this based on a sqm- -
Commission
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| Hub 2.0 MAC | - Performa @ Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Santiago, Chile 2010 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
As a mix between generic application and site specific response, the intervention
is part of a family of pop- -
Commissioned by Roselee Goldberg
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| Hej Gallery – Glashuset | - Boras, Sweden 2006 -
A proposal for a glass pavilion, situated in the central municipal park. It contains a gallery and a café. It forms a backdrop for outdoor performances. It also functions as display informing the inhabitants of current events. The pavilion is a form of hybrid between building and park without negating a strong sculptural gesture. -
Competition
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| Actors, Agents and Attendants | - SKOR Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2010 & 2011 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
A commission to conceive, design and build a conference setting for the Amsterdam- -
Commission
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I Think I Came in a Spaceship | - based in Berlin
Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlinische Galerie
Berlin, Germany 2011 -
Wood, Paint, Felt, Liquid, 800 x 500 cm
From June 8th to July 24th, based in Berlin will show the work of emerging artists who live and work in Berlin. The exhibition covers the full range of contemporary art practices from paintings and drawings to sculpture, photography, film and video, as well as installations and text based works. -
With David Adamo, Aids 3D, Julieta Aranda, Rocco Berger, Erik Bünger, Sunah Choi, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Kerstin Cmelka, Keren Cytter, Kajsa Dahlberg, Mariechen Danz, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Matthias Fritsch, Simon Fujiwara, Cyprien Gaillard, Tue Greenfort, Nina Könnemann, Kitty Kraus, Oliver Laric, Klara Lidén, Shahryar Nashat, Anne Neukamp, Ken Okiishi, Amy Patton, Dirk Peuker, Ralf Pflugfelder, Agnieszka Polska, Mandla Reuter, Yorgos Sapountzis, Lena Inken Schaefer, Ariel Schlesinger, Jeremy Shaw, Danh Vo.
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| Wysing Arts Centre Residencies Announced | - 2012 -
617 artists from across the world applied for one of the twelve places on offer for Wysing Arts Centre’s 2012 residencies The Cosmos, The Mirror and The Forest. Selection is still taking place for The Mirror and The Forest but artists for The Cosmos have been announced:
Salvatore Arancio Flora Parrott Nilsson Pflugfelder Stuart Whipps
In addition, and reinforcing the literary influences on the residencies, Escalator
artist-
The four artists will re-
At the end of the six weeks period a public presentation of initial outcomes from
the residencies will take place in Wysing’s gallery, from 12-
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| FLACC | - Workplace for Visual Arts Genk, Belgium 2012 -
As part of the extended program of Manifesta 9 in Genk we have been invited by FLACC
to ‘(re)present’ the institution with a major installation as well as rethink how
FLACC as a ‘Workplace for Visual Arts’ might – at a structural level – operate in
a more critical and self- -
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| House L | - Würzburg, Germany 2012 -
Nilsson Pflugfelder have just been commissioned to design a single- More soon. -
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| Performa 11 Hub | - Performa Biennial New York City, USA 2011 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Local architect: N. Lindsey
For the 2011 edition of Performa Biennial the temporary Hub is situated in an unused carriageway on Mott Street. It is simultaneously a suction tunnel funnelling visitors to the courtyard and further to the adjacent classrooms in the existing building as well as a space in its own right hosting performances, lectures, discussions, film screenings and a small bookshop. As such, the hub is conceived as a flexible space with movable furniture allowing for numerous spatial and programmatic configurations. The Performa 11 Hub is uniformly painted in an intense blue colour drawing people in from Mott Street. In the tunnel one has the sense of a blurry weightlessness. -
Commission
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| Pilgrim Centre | - Röldal, Norway 2012 -
Röldal’s new pilgrim centre is a body dialectically undulating between religious and secular experiences – a formal, spatial and atmospheric hybrid. The proposal is part of the present, but it is also deeply anchored with Röldal’s old stave church and its setting. The pilgrim centre takes its formal cues from the section of the existing church and the surrounding mountain formations, merging them into one simple yet intricate gesture. -
Competition
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| Shortlist 2012 | - Baunetzwoche #252 2011 -
Nilsson Pflugfelder / nOffice on the list of young practices of 2011/2012.
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| Space Station | - 0047 Oslo, Norway 2011 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
'Space Station' is a spatial and social framework that, continuously and accumulatively, negotiates the relationship between various modes of production, display and its spatial envelope. Consisting of a series of open residencies and public activities, 'Space Station' discusses and challenges models of presentation and mediation, whilst promoting the perception of architecture as an active device capable of probing and altering institutional settings and their political conditions. -
Artists in residence: Tone Hansen, Institute for Colour (Silje Hogstad, Steffen Håndlykken, Ingrid Lønningdal and Elizabeth Schei), Jesper Alvær, Can Altay, and nOffice
With musical performances by Altaar (Sten Ove Toft, Morten Øby) & Lasse Marhaug -
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| Backbench | - Manifesta 8 European Biennial of Contemporary Art Murcia, Spain 2010 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
'Backbench' is the centre piece of the 'Overscore' exhibition, situated in the central
atrium of the Old Post Office. Based on the layout of the British Parliament, with
its spatial and procedural protocols, ‘Backbench’ is conceived as an intense discursive
forum that both enables and structures the exchange of ideas. 'Backbench' acts as
a Hub that allows different artist groups and social processes to operate within
the exhibition as a form of 'propositional critical machine'. It is designed as a
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Commissioned by curators Bassam El Baroni & Jeremy Beaudry
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| Kunsthalle Bremen | - Bremen, Germany 2005 -
The existing museum is a dysfunctional body. Thus, the extension functions like a
prosthesis that supports the existing building. A symbiotic non- -
Competition
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| MoCHA Archive | - Manifesta 8 Biennial Murcia, Spain 2010 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
For Manifesta 8, in collaboration with Bassam El Baroni and Jeremy Beaudry, a display strategy and structure for the MoCHA Archive was developed. The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) began life as a small gallery in 1973. The archive has been used as a catalyst for speculating on the origins and future of many of the recognised parameters in contemporary art, from identity politics to institutional critique. The design provided a framework which enabled the MoCHA archive to be displayed and continuously reworked by the visitors throughout the duration of Manifesta 8. -
Commission
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| The Church of Performa | - Performa Biennial New York City, USA 2011 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
If the Performa 09 Hub was unashamedly public, on the edge of exhibitionism, the proposal for Performa 11 is characterised by a certain sense of mystery. Although it has a legible presence to the street, it presents a more layered experience that entails search, procession and intimacy. We have called it 'The Church of Performa'. -
Proposal
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| Kunstraum | - Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany 2011 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Within the context of a regional European research project spearheaded by the University of Lüneburg, nOffice was invited by curator Julia Moritz to – within a very limited budget – rethink and develop a scheme for the refurbishment of the Kunstraum Lüneburg. The Kunstraum of the Leuphana University has an interesting history and legacy when it comes to staging discourse, especially in the context of archival practice, as it was the original setting for the Interarchive project (Obrist, Wuggenig, Stoller, von Bismark and Feldmann). The scheme builds on this discursive legacy by means of a continuous floor that folds up to become a deep wall – a space and a stage that through minimal interventions enable future events to unfold. -
Commission
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| Hans Ulrich Obrist Archive & Library | - Tschlin, Faernigen & Berlin 2009- -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
Design of an archive and cultural centre in the remote Swiss villages of Tschlin and Faernigen with a satellite institution in Berlin.
The starting point for the HUO Archive is an ongoing inquiry by nOffice, which has
been working, since 2007, on and around questions of archives, libraries, cultural
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with Michelle Nicol & Rudolph Schürmann
Self-
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| Antigua Oficina De Correos Y Telégrafos | - Murcia, Spain 2010 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
A commission to design one of the main venues for Manifesta 8 Biennial in Murcia. After being closed for over 30 years, the former post office of Murcia was rethought and refurbished in order to open its doors once again, and this time for Manifesta 8. The iconic building situated in the city centre of Murcia housed part of the exhibition called 'Overscore' by curatorial collective ACAF. -
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| Archive of Spatial Aesthetics and Praxis – ASAP | - Berlin, Germany 2010- -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
ASAP is an archive chronicling various modes of spatial praxis that emerges after
2004 as part of a larger cultural, political and aesthetic discourse. Conceived as
an archive of knowledge, which builds over time, ASAP collects, gathers and stores
discourse of spatial aesthetics. Knowledge is distilled from information through
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Founded by Tina DiCarlo
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| Design: An Introduction | - Correspondents #4 University of Innsbruck 2010 -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
nOffice has been invited by Studio 1 (Stefano Di Martino) of the Architecture Department
at the Leopold- -
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| Public Library | - Stockholm, Sweden 2006 -
Asplund's library is an extreme solitaire that is autistically unable to communicate with other architectures, making a direct extension impossible. To properly address this condition, a solution of pure concept was required. -
Competition
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| La Fabrique Du Commun | - Kompost @ Le 104 CentQuatre - Paris, France 2010 -
Throughout the 104, minimal but atmospherically strong archipelago- -
Funded by Relais Culture Europe
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| Prefab Barn | - Bavaria, Germany 2011- -
a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)
A new villa type developed for the German prefab house manufacturer Isartaler Holzhaus, which merges barn and loft typologies. The type significantly expands the spatial potentials of prefab houses, whilst being highly efficient to construct. The first prototype is currently in the making. -
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Nilsson Pflugfelder was founded by Magnus Nilsson and Ralf Pflugfelder and is based in London and Berlin.
The practice is situated on the intersection of critical spatial design, architecture, art and discourse.
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Magnus Nilsson and Ralf Pflugfelder’s work has been exhibited widely, including at Performa 11 & 09 Biennials, Kunsthaus Graz, Gwangju Biennale, based in Berlin, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Kunstraum Lüneburg, 0047, The Gopher Hole, SKOR, Manifesta 8, Program e.V., MAC Chile, Le 104 Centquatre, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Arnolfini, Lyon Biennial.
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