NeanSite
W.I.M.Z.
aka NEAN
BIOGRAPHY
- Artist’s name:
- Wolfgang Ink Mark Ziegler aka Nean
- Artist’s website and email address:
- Born on
- 27/04/1959 in Paris
- Nationalities: British and French
- Lives and works in
- Oberwil, Baselland, Switzerland
- Summary
- After an international academic career in England, India, Qatar and finally Switzerland, Nean focuses on making art in different media, which include hand stitching, a skill he was taught by two milliners (mother and daughter) at the age of five. Studies in Archaeology and History of Art as well as German language and Literature, and the experience gained from embroidery workshops as well as collecting and dealing in Asian and European antiques have built up Nean’s resolutely manual and intellectual artistic practice.
- First solo exhibition 2.5
- an installation of cutout double-sided drawings + performances Gallery KUNSTpART, Basel, Switzerland from 07/09/2026 till 26/09/2026
- First group exhibition INTERLOCK
- a sculpture and video installation for CIRCLE 2026 Czong Institute for Contemporary Arts, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea from 09/09/2026 till 27/09/2026
- Learning and Studying
- Philosophy and Latin baccalauréat, Dijon, 1977
- Licences ès Lettres in History of Art and Archaeology, Besançon, 1980
- MA in History of Art, Sorbonne, Paris,1981
- Thesis: Dennis Oppenheim (the first monograph on the American landartist Dennis Oppenheim)
- Doctorate in History of Art, Sorbonne, Paris,1984
- Thesis: Robert Ryman et le problème des œuvres blanches (a comparative study about white monochromes in the works of Kazimir Malevitch, Piero Manzoni and Robert Ryman)
- P.G.C.E. in Modern Languages, Christ Church College, Canterbury, 1988
- B.A. Honours Degree in German Language and Literature, Cambridge National Extension College and University of London, 1994
- Member of the London branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild, from 1995 to 2003
- Research on Miao (Hmong) costumes from South West China with Deryn O’Connor, collector and former lecturer at UCA Farnham, Surrey, from 1997 to 2007
- Teaching in England, Asia and Europe
- From 01/09/1988 till 03/08/2007: German and French Teacher for the London Borough of Sutton, England, at first in a non-selective secondary school for boys in Carshalton, later in a state grammar school for girls in Cheam, Surrey
- From 01/09/2007 till 02/07/2010: Middle school Art Teacher, Al Jazeera Academy, Doha, Qatar
- From 03/08/2010 till 15/06/2013: Master in charge of German, TISB, The International School of Bangalore, Bangalore, State of Karnataka, India
- From 01/09/2014 till 16/06/2021: German Literature, German, and French Teacher, ISB, The International School of the Basel Region AG, Reinach, Switzerland.
- Working with multiple media since 2021
- Currently active as an independent visual artist, in Baselland, Switzerland
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