bio
Niklas Zimmer
is a German-South African artist and musician working in photography,
sound and performance. He was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1975, went
to prep school in Maseru, Lesotho, and matriculated in Bad Honnef,
Germany. He lives and works in Cape Town. He holds an Honours degree
in Fine Art from University of Cape Town and a BA in education from
University of Cologne. After three years of being Head of Department,
teaching Visual Arts at the German International School in Cape Town,
he is now part-time lecturing in theory and discourse of art, critical
studies, as well as giving workshops in video, sound and photography
at tertiary institutions in Cape Town and Stellenbosch. He also works
as an independent photographer and drummer, and is employed by the
Centre for Popular Memory (UCT) as digitisation manager and audio specialist.
He is engaged in research for his masters dissertation on Jazz Photography
in Cape Town. As Is, his musical ensemble with Manfred Zylla, Garth
Erasmus and Brendon Bussy performs free-form music in various cultural
venues and contexts in Cape Town (Dada South?, Breytenbach Sentrum,
Edge of Wrong, Alliance Francaise, Erdmann contemporary, Serialworks,
Gradex’10). |
Niklas does documentary photography work on commission.
Please contact him via eMail
for a full CV.