NILS -UDO
His artistic career began in 1973, when he created several installation-plantations in Upper Bavaria, such as Hommage à Gustav Mahler, Easter Meadow, Morning and My May Meadow, inaugurating his practice of intervention in nature. During the 1980s, he developed projects such as Water House (1980) and exhibitions at Kaneko Art, Tokyo (1985) and the University of Coimbra, Portugal (1988), consolidating his position in the field of Land Art. Throughout the 1990s, he carried out projects on an international scale. In 1991, he created his famous Central Park Project in New York, an intervention organised by the Public Art Fund that brought nature to the heart of one of the most iconic cities on the planet. He also created Red Rock Nest (California, 1998). In the 2000s, his activity multiplied: installations in Namibia, Japan, Canada, and exhibitions in European museums and galleries; for example, in 2003 in Connemara (Ireland) and in 2002 the Lanzarote Project. In 2010, he presented exhibitions such as Burgenland (Herten, Ruhr) and continued with galleries in Clermont-Ferrand and Paris. Then, in 2011-2012, projects such as Entrée (Copponex), Nature (Paris), Temple (Hauterives) and Sequoia Piece (Vancouver) reflected his international expansion. Finally, between 2013 and 2015, he exhibited in Clermont-Ferrand (Galerie Claire Gastaud, 2013) and Eguzon (Radeau d'automne, 2013), and created large installations and exhibitions such as Arbre Fromager (Dakar Biennale, 2014) and Nouvelles Peintures et Photographies (Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris, 2014).
Over the last decade, NILS-UDO has maintained his creative activity with recent projects and exhibitions in Europe, the United States, and Italy—such as La Couvée in Porquerolles (2018), interventions in Champagne vineyards for Maison Ruinart (2022), an exhibition at Galerie Claire Gastaud (2023), and more recently PARADISE GARDEN (VOLCANO) Omaha, Nebraska, USA (2024).
