Flora + Martin Szurcsik-Nimmervoll work in the fields of fine and applied arts, design, exhibition production and various forms of analog and digital communication in social and political contexts.
As an artists group, Mars + Blum use different media and materials, from photography and programming languages to classic and contemporary crafts ans artisanry. Projects are created both in the context of current exhibitions and as → artistic solutions and practical applications in cooperation with partners from civil society and public administration. Projects are developed with the greatest possible degree of wit, functionality and, last but not least, aesthetics and mindfulness.
Flora + Martin Szurcsik-Nimmervoll teach and have taught, among others, at the New Design University in St. Pölten, the former Vienna Art School, the Drawing Factory Vienna and at the Poolbar Generator of the Poolbar Festival in Hohenems. Mars + Blum also runs Designschool.at, a continuing education program for artists in Vienna.
Exhibitions
2023
Träume von Räumen (Dreams of Spaces),
September 13th – October 1st, 2023, Wiener Straße 8, St. Pölten
With: Daniela Brasil (AT/BRA), Christian Boltanski (F), Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler (AT), Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam (CAN/JPN), Mars + Blum (AT), Andrea Maurer (AT), mischer'traxler ( AT), Ulrike Müller (USA), Rivane Neuenschwander (BRA), Laure Prouvost (BEL), Jakub Szczęsny (POL)
Wir müssen reden (We have to talk),
June 2 – July 9, 2023, Galerie Grenzart, Hollabrunn
Parasites,
March 9 – April 8, 2023 KUNST:WERK, St. Pölten
Silence, Emptiness, White,
April 21st – May 20th, 2023 KUNST:WERK, St. Pölten
2022
non-lieu / lieu de sens, places of identity and non-Identity in media art and performance,
July 9th - August 6th, 2022, former correctional facility Kirchberg am Wagram
With: Carolin Melia Brendel, Kaylie Dempsey, Baptiste El Baz, Ronja Fabian, Ellen Haas, Katharina Holzweber, Leonie Kohu, Evi Leuchtgelb, Carla Lorenz & Helene Proiss, Johann Lurf, Sasha Pirker, Lia Quirina, Halina Rahdjian, space workers, Thomas Renoldner , Natalie Schießwald, Angelus Schnab, Lotte Schreiber, Flora and Martin Szurcsik-Nimmervoll, Viola Voltrich & Natalie Stefanowskis, Andy Wallenta, Ludwig Wüst
A place is home to someone,
September 15th – October 15th, 2022, Löwinnenhof*, St.Pölten
With: Wilma Calisir, Ronja Fabian, Hermann Fischl, Karol Kensy, Ernest Kienzl, Leonie Kohut, Herbert Kraus, Christin Künig, Evi Leuchtgelb, Linda Partaj, Janos Szurcsik
Programmkiosk Platzen!,
June 1st – June 29th, 2022 Löwinnenhof*, St.Pölten
Inside and outside,
June 2nd – July 2nd, 2022 KUNST:WERK, St. Pölten
76th annual exhibition,
October 14th – November 19th, 2022, City Museum, St. Pölten
2021
Cinema Corona,
May 1st to June 4th, 2021, Studio Mars + Blum, St. Pölten
With: Claudia Zawadil, Evi Leuchtgelb, Ilkin Beste Cirak, Marion Brogyanyi, Martina Luef, Angela Proyer, Felix Holzmair, Frej Volander, Halina Rahdjian + Paul Klusacek, Cosma Grosser + Markus Maicher, Flora + Martin Szurcsik-Nimmervoll, Natalie Schießwald, Stefanie Weberhofer, Carolin Melia Brendel, Lia Quirina, Nigel Gavus
Körper (Body),
March 11 to April 10, 2021, KUNST:WERK, St. Pölten
May you live in interesting times,
June 18th – July 11th, 2021, Galerie Grenzart, Hollabrunn
75th annual exhibition of the St. Pölten Artists' Association, October 15th - November 20th, 2021, St. Pölten City Museum
2020
Corona,
October 17th - December 19th, 2020, KUNST:WERK, St. Pölten
End & Beginning, July 10 – August 16, 2020, Galerie Grenzart, Hollabrunn
2019
74th annual exhibition of the St. Pölten Artists' Association,
October 16 - November 21, 2019, St. Pölten City Museum
Neues Handwerk – Neues Wirtschaften (New Crafts - New Economy), special exhibition,
January 26th - March 16th, 2019, Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch
Neues Handwerk – Neues Wirtschaften (New Crafts - New Economy),
September 28th – October 7th, 2018, Vienna Design Week, Vienna
2018
NICHT MEHR IMMER NOCH – Works by Martin Nimmervoll and Katharina Stiglitz,
June 9 – June 24, 2018, Art P, Perchtoldsdorf
2017
Kitchen Hacking,
September 29 – October 8, 2017, Vienna Design Week
Sternstunden der Menschheit (Decisive Moments in History) – 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF STEFAN ZWEIG’S DEATH, Symposium on the 75th anniversary of Stefan Zweig's death.
August 24th – August 27th, 2017, Schüttkasten Harmansdorf/Galerie GrenzART, Harmansdorf/Hollabrunn
OPENING TIME – Former prison/reformatory becomes an open cultural space, May 6th – May 28th, 2017, Galerie Moment, Kirchberg am Wagram
Part of the Lower Austrian Weinviertel Viertel Festival.
2008 – 2014
KUNSTarmut,
August 23, 2014, Performance at the EatArtGallery, Mikulov, Czech Republic
Jung sein, ein riskanter Zustand (Being young is risky business),
September 6th – September 27th, 2014 Art P, Perchtoldsdorf
Kopfgeburt (Headbirth) (performance), concept Luise Wolf,
May 19, 2014, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
KUNSTarmut: public performance at MQ Vienna,
May 23, 2013, Museumsquartier, Vienna
TEMPO-RAER,
August 23 – August 29, 2013, Trust111/das Attic, Vienna
Salmagundi,
August 16 – August 22, 2013, Trust111/das Attic, Vienna
Repurpose. Opening exhibition of mo.ë,
May 24th – May 30th, 2010, mo.ë, Vienna
Pigalle. Curated by Baptiste El Baz and Konrad Kager,
May 30 – June 5, 2008, Atelier Grundsteinsieben, Vienna
Curatorial activities
2023
straight edges | hard lines,
June 15 to July 15, 2023, artwork, St. Pölten
2022
A place is home to someone,
September 15th – October 15th, 2022, Löwinnenhof*, St.Pölten
With: Wilma Calisir, Ronja Fabian, Hermann Fischl, Karol Kensy, Ernest Kienzl, Leonie Kohut, Herbert Kraus, Christin Künig, Evi Leuchtgelb, Linda Partaj, Janos Szurcsik
non-lieu / lieu de sens, places of identity and non-Identity in media art and performance,
July 9th - August 6th, 2022, former correctional facility Kirchberg am Wagram
With: Carolin Melia Brendel, Kaylie Dempsey, Baptiste El Baz, Ronja Fabian, Ellen Haas, Katharina Holzweber, Leonie Kohu, Evi Leuchtgelb, Carla Lorenz & Helene Proiss, Johann Lurf, Sasha Pirker, Lia Quirina, Halina Rahdjian, space workers, Thomas Renoldner , Natalie Schießwald, Angelus Schnab, Lotte Schreiber, Flora and Martin Szurcsik-Nimmervoll, Viola Voltrich & Natalie Stefanowskis, Andy Wallenta, Ludwig Wüst
2020
Gender sensitive! Design for spaces, products and debates,
September 25th – October 4th, 2020, Vienna Design Week 2020, Vienna
Gender sensitive! Design for spaces, products and debates,
February 27th - March 28th, 2020, NDU OffSpace, St. Pölten
2019
New Design University at the Vienna Design Week,
September 27, 2019 - October 6, 2019 and at the off-space of the New Design University, June 20, 2019 - June 30, 2019, Wienerstrasse 8, St.Pölten
until 2014
Film program at Schikaneder: Short films by graduate students of the Vienna Art School,
May 23, 2014, Schikaneder Cinema, Vienna
New works by students of the Wiener Kunst Schule. Screening at the 3rd Student Festival for Media Art & Performance at the Free Art Academy Baden-Württemberg, March 7th – March 9th 2014, FKBW, Stuttgart
Exit 13: Everything New – Diploma Exhibition of the Vienna Art School,
May 24th – May 28th, 2013, Vienna Art School
Teaching
Laboratory for interior design, 2022, Poolbar Generator, Hohenems
Designschool.at, CEOs, since 2021, St. Pölten/Vienna
Material and creativity, since 2021, WIFI Lower Austria, New Design Center, St. Pölten
Study program Design Crafts & Material Culture and Interior Design & Visual Communication, guest critic and projects, since 2020, New Design University, St. Pölten
Designschool.at, lecturer, since 2019, St. Pölten/Vienna
Study assistance, book design (academic program), 2019 – 2020, New Design University, St. Pölten
Film as art form, speaker/lecturer, 2018 - 2019, Zeichenfabrik, Vienna
Diploma seminar & co-op Interdisciplinary, interdisciplinary seminar on artistic practice, speaker/lecturer 2013, Vienna Art School, Vienna
Awards
Adolf Peschek Prize 2022 for Löwinnenhof*, 2022
Honorary award recieved from the jury of the Adolf Peschek Prize 2021, 2021
Creative Business Awards 20, 2020
Weiter Tätigkeit
Surplus* research project – villages and roural towns. Management & coordination: Univ.-Doz. Mag. art. Dr. Dipl. Des. (FH) Ing. Thomas Gronegger, 2021
Lies (Gravel), photo book about the gravel pits and cultural landscape between St. Pölten and Krems an der Donau, 20 color photographs & 5 haikus, 36 pages, 2021
Key visual/poster: Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Director: Nikolaus Habjan. A game for actors and puppets, season 2016/2017, Volkstheater, Vienna
Board/management: LAMES – La Musique et Sun, 2011 – 2013, St. Pölten
Founding member: mo.ë Vienna, 2010 – 2011, Vienna
Innovation Prize.10, IG Kultur, press and public relations, 2010, IG Kultur, Vienna
Basis Wien – art, information and archive, archivist/editor, 2005 – 2008, Vienna
CV
Mars + Blum studied at various schools and universities. They studied design, crafts & material culture at the New design University and subsequently got their master's degree in interior design and visual communication also at the NDU in St. Pölten. Futher more they attended the digital film and animations program at the SAE - Creative Media Institute Vienna and the Class for Analog Film at the School for Independent Film Friedl Kubelka. In addition, they studied photography and image science at the Department of Image Science at Danube University Krems. Flora and Martin Szurcsik-Nimmervoll both attended, but almost ten years apart, the former Wiener Kunst Schule, which goes back to Gerda Matejka-Felden.They got their degrees from the classes of ceramics and product design and painting and timebased art forms respectively.