| The Kedleston Incident |

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Kedleston Hall

Derbyshire, UK

2012

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‘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.

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Invited by Trust New Art – National Trust & Arts Council England

 

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| On-Site |

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Gwangju Biennale

Gwangju, South Korea

2011

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a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)

 

The 'On-Site' Hub at the Gwangju Biennale is a bastard typology merging parliamentary, sacral and theatrical layouts into a productive, discursive and social stage. Through the merging of different typological forms and formats a certain density of use is generated that yields a sense of programmatic friction. Encounters within this spatial framework are never pure and straightforward, but to a certain extent also convoluted and potentially conflictual. The Hub is the centre of the Communities Section within the Gwangju Biennale.

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Invited by Beatrice Galilee, Curator Communities Section

 

www.gb.or.kr

 

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| LU Arts Centre & Radar Hub |

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Loughborough, UK

2010-2012

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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-scale, acting as a broker and enabling cross-fertilisation across the board.

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Under construction

 

http://arts.lboro.ac.uk/radar

 

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| Testify! |

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German Centre for Architecture in Berlin

Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ

Berlin, Germany

2012

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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.   

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Commission

 

www.daz.de

 

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| Performa 09 Hub |

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Performa Biennial

New York City, USA

2009

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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.

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Performa Biennial's 1st Architectural Commission

 

Funded by the Graham Foundation

 

http://11.performa-arts.org

 

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| Wright's Road Gallery & Residence |

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London, UK

2011-

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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.

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Planning permission granted

 

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| Wohnpilot |

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Graz, Austria

2007-2008

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Competition 2nd Prize

 

A high-density housing scheme of 200 flats within a rural setting. All dwellings are based on a self-similar typology, forming a Tetris-like assembly. This allows for endless configurations. The proposal has no inherent final form. Consequently, adjustments can easily be made throughout the design process to fit the client's needs without compromising the overall concept of the project.

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| Archive Kabinett |

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Berlin, Germany

2009-2011

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a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)

 

Archive Kabinett is the new HQ and gallery of Archive magazine, a bi-annual periodical and major resource for the visual arts and cultural knowledge production. This phased project produces a space that simultaneously works as gallery, lecture hall, library and launch venue. Archive Kabinett's purpose is to create a space where to experiment with formats and concepts related to the field of publishing, to stimulate a challenging collaboration between artists, writers and curators while exploring their roles.

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Commission

 

www.archivekabinett.org

www.archivejournal.org

 

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| Stripe |

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Outdoor Gallery for the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art

Gdánsk, Poland

2011

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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.

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Invited Competition

 

www.laznia.pl

 

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| Penthouse P |

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Cologne, Germany

2009

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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-height spaces, which create the impression of being in a 'house in a house'.

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Commission

 

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| Temporary Kunsthalle |

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Berlin, Germany

2011

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a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)

 

For this invited competition for a new temporary Kunsthalle in Berlin, nOffice, together with a Bavarian prefab-manufacturer, developed a full-package approach for a major public institutional building, which could be realised for under 400'000 Euro. The design is based on the notion of using traditional prefab-units. Instead of providing an ultimately inflexible white cube, the proposal offers a highly differentiated spatial framework as a backdrop for a wide range of curatorial strategies. The scheme included interior and exterior scenarios, as well as a programmable floating space on the water, connected to the Kunsthalle.

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Invited competition

 

Featured in Baunetzwoche #217

 

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| Testify! |

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Netherlands Architecture Institute NAI

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2011-2012

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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-of-parts, which can easily respond to numerous spatial typologies whilst retaining a strong identity.   

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Commission

 

www.nai.nl

www.studiolukasfeireiss.com

 

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| Badhus |

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Hudiksvall, Sweden

2008

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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.

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Competition

 

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| Villa Frösakull |

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Halmstad, Sweden

2010

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To counterbalance the fragmentary shape of the existing villa, the addition was conceived as a free-standing piece of furniture without direct dialogue with the existing house.

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Commission

 

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| House O – Zero Energy House |

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Bonn, Germany

2008-2009

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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-price of less than 1'250 Euro.

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Commission

 

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| Hub 2.0 MAC |

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Performa @ Museo de Arte Contemporáneo

Santiago, Chile

2010

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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-up hubs developed for Performa's temporary satellites around the world. A minimum of elements are fine-tuned for maximum performance. Easy to build, cheap to construct and easy to adapt – a bastard typology generating instant architecture.

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Commissioned by Roselee Goldberg

 

www.mac.uchile.cl

 

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| Hej Gallery – Glashuset |

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Boras, Sweden

2006

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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.

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Competition

 

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| Actors, Agents and Attendants |

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SKOR

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2010 & 2011

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a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)

 

A commission to conceive, design and build a conference setting for the Amsterdam-based organisation SKOR which develops exceptional art projects in relation to public spaces. The conference 'Actors, Agents and Attendants', held at Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, is the first in a series of symposia that will look at a variety of contexts in which traditional forms of public art commissioning might be in question, speculating on the cultural organisation of civility.

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Commission

 

www.skor.nl

 

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I Think I Came in a Spaceship |

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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

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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.

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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.

 

www.basedinberlin.com

 

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| Wysing Arts Centre Residencies Announced |  

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2012

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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-in-residence Patrick Coyle will document the year’s programme through creative writing.

 

The four artists will re-locate to Wysing for six weeks from 2 April. Throughout the six week period a series of public talks and events with invited participants will expand thinking around The Cosmos, the initial focus of which will be exploring the past, origins and knowledge.

 

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 12-27 May 2012.

 

The Cosmos is funded by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

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www.wysingartscentre.org

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| FLACC |

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Workplace for Visual Arts

Genk, Belgium

2012

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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-reflective way. Through an archival method of praxis we have merged the two separate projects into one entity in which the life of FLACC is put on display: cultural production, workplace, residency, archive, administration, institution. The physical afterlife of the piece however is the most crucial aspect as it will enable and guide the future life and work at and for FLACC.

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www.flacc.info

 

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| House L |

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Würzburg, Germany

2012

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Nilsson Pflugfelder have just been commissioned to design a single-family house for a young family on a dramatically sloping site in the beautiful city of Würzburg. Although a nearly monolithic appearance to the outside, the inside is organised around a rift that cuts through the entire building.

More soon.  

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Commission

 

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| Performa 11 Hub |

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Performa Biennial

New York City, USA

2011

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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.

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Commission

 

http://11.performa-arts.org/performa-presents/the-hub

 

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| Pilgrim Centre |

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Röldal, Norway

2012

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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.

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Competition

 

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| Shortlist 2012 |

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Baunetzwoche #252

2011

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Nilsson Pflugfelder / nOffice on the list of young practices of 2011/2012.

 

www.baunetz.de/baunetzwoche

 

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| Space Station |

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0047

Oslo, Norway

2011

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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.

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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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www.0047.org

 

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| Backbench |

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Manifesta 8

European Biennial of Contemporary Art

Murcia, Spain

2010

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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 coherent environment that embodies a multiplicity of voices - a democratic archipelago in which hidden structures expose subliminal yet intended narratives. The discursive sessions were filmed by artist and filmmaker Ergin Cavusoglu.

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Commissioned by curators Bassam El Baroni & Jeremy Beaudry

 

http://manifesta.org

 

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| Kunsthalle Bremen |

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Bremen, Germany

2005

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The existing museum is a dysfunctional body. Thus, the extension functions like a prosthesis that supports the existing building. A symbiotic non-dialectical relation between new and old is formed.

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Competition

 

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| MoCHA Archive |

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Manifesta 8 Biennial

Murcia, Spain

2010

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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.

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Commission

 

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| The Church of Performa |

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Performa Biennial

New York City, USA

2011

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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'.

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Proposal

 

http://11.performa-arts.org

 

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| Kunstraum |

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Leuphana University

Lüneburg, Germany

2011

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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.

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Commission

 

www.uni-lueneburg.de/interarchiv

 

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| Hans Ulrich Obrist Archive & Library |

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Tschlin, Faernigen & Berlin

2009-

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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 centres, and - more specifically - on how to make archives productive, how to integrate, cross-pollinate and bastardise a plethora of cultural programmes into a single spatial unity.

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with Michelle Nicol & Rudolph Schürmann

 

Self-initiated

 

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| Antigua Oficina De Correos Y Telégrafos |

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Murcia, Spain

2010

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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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Commission

 

www.manifesta8.com

 

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| Archive of Spatial Aesthetics and Praxis – ASAP |

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Berlin, Germany

2010-

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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 its organization via a digital knowledge-base, text and discourse, and objects. As a hub of activity the archive is produced and produces.

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Founded by Tina DiCarlo

 

www.a--s--a--p.com

 

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| Design: An Introduction |

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Correspondents #4

University of Innsbruck

2010

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a project by nOffice (Miessen Pflugfelder Nilsson)

 

nOffice has been invited by Studio 1 (Stefano Di Martino) of the Architecture Department at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität in Innsbruck to develop a small publication without a predetermined brief. The resulting book attempts to archive informal modes and references of nOffice's design production: archive, inventory, retrieval, obsessions, limits – the publication as design method.  

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http://correspondents.cc

 

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| Public Library |

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Stockholm, Sweden

2006

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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.

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Competition

 

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| La Fabrique Du Commun |

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Kompost @ Le 104 CentQuatre

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Paris, France

2010

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Throughout the 104, minimal but atmospherically strong archipelago-like interventions were dispersed, as a means to actively rethink the future of the European Union by enabling discursive production and productive conflict. The physical interventions were coupled with an immaterial script-like framework guiding the participatory interaction.

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Funded by Relais Culture Europe

 

www.104.fr

www.kompost.me

 

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| Prefab Barn |

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Bavaria, Germany

2011-2012

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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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Commission

 

www.isartaler-holzhaus.de

 

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mail@nilssonpflugfelder.com

 

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| About |

 

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.

 

Nilsson Pflugfelder have been specialising in projects where spatial constructs overlap, dissect and frictionally flatten several usually distinct programs into one coherent gesture.

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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.

 

 

 

| Writings | Quick Links

 

+ Manifesto

 

+ Practice Inventory

 

+ Staging Discourse I

 

+ Staging Discourse II

 

+ Berlin Dictionary

 

+ Text Messages from Berlin

 

+ Becoming Laing

 

+ Unstable Climate

 

+ Politische Räume

 

 

 

| Publications | Catalogues |

| Press |

 

update soon

 

 

 

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| Impressum |

 

 

 

 

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