Sweetwater

D'Ette Nogle

*1974, United States

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, United States

Biography

D’Ette Nogle’s wide-ranging practice, often realized in large-scale installations and long-form videos, examines the social, political, and economic forces that shape the conditions of the present day.

Nogle (*1974, United States) lives and works in Los Angeles. She has presented two solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2025. Other recent solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Braunschweig, Derosia, and Hannah Hoffman. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Frans Hals Museum, Fluentum, Halle Für Kunst Lüneburg, Bonner Kunstverein, Hessel Museum, and the Hammer Museum. Nogle received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2000.

Selected Texts

Exhibitions

Artworks

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*1974, United States

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Dresses 3, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

Media © Sweetwater 2026
Left

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Poster: Ye’s Ando, 2025

Poster, clips

27 × 18 in

69 × 43 cm

Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs

Right

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Poster: Pound’s Tempio Malatestiano, 2025

Poster, clips

27 × 18 in

69 × 43 cm

Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs

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D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 4, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

Schrank B, 2026

Acrylic on canvas

19 ¾ × 22 ⅝ in

50 × 57.5 cm

"Schrank A" and "Schrank B" (both 2026) hang directly opposite from one another. The "Schrank" paintings follow earlier works, "Schranks #1- #3", exhibited previously in Berlin. "Schrank #1" is nearly a 1:1 replica of "Schrank" (1963), a beige­-colored painting by Sigmar Polke. The only painterly elements in his work are a black line in the middle and two small keyholes. At the Kunstverein Braunschweig, the "Schrank" works have a pink background. Nogle approximates Baker Miller pink, also known as “Drunk Tank­ pink”, a color used in police stations, prisons, and psychiatric institutions because it has been proven to reduce violent or aggressive behavior.

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D'Ette Nogle

DU WILLST KUNST / YOU WANT ART (Bedros after Brunswick), 2026

Gobo projector, gobo

Dimensions variable

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D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 6, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

DREAMS, 2026

Sound blankets, PVC frame

82 × 54 × 54 in

208 × 137 × 137 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

Schrank A, 2026

Acrylic on canvas

19 ¾ × 22 ⅝ in

50 × 57.5 cm

"Schrank A" and "Schrank B" (both 2026) hang directly opposite from one another. The "Schrank" paintings follow earlier works, "Schranks #1- #3", exhibited previously in Berlin. "Schrank #1" is nearly a 1:1 replica of "Schrank" (1963), a beige­-colored painting by Sigmar Polke. The only painterly elements in his work are a black line in the middle and two small keyholes. At the Kunstverein Braunschweig, the "Schrank" works have a pink background. Nogle approximates Baker Miller pink, also known as “Drunk Tank­ pink”, a color used in police stations, prisons, and psychiatric institutions because it has been proven to reduce violent or aggressive behavior.

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Mallet, 2020

Mallet

2 × 10 ⅜ × 3 ⅛ in

5 × 26.5 × 8 cm

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Banner (The Girl - Hair in Wind), 2020

Vinyl banner

50 × 91 ⅜ in

127 × 232.2 cm

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

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D'Ette Nogle

Crib to Casket (Peanuts, Pent- house, Playboy, Playgirl), 2026

Annual calendars, 1974 to present

Dimensions variable

This ongoing work consists of calendars from 1974 to the present, one for each year of the artist’s life so far. Every day of every year is stamped with a US flag.

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Articulated Mannequin as Chris Burden on Volkswagen, 1974, 2025

Polypropylene mannequin on stand

66 ⅛ × 63 × 48 ⅜ in

168 × 160 × 123 cm

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Schrank #3, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

19 ¾ × 22 ⅝ in

50 × 57.5 cm

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Schrank #1, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

19 ¾ × 22 ⅝ in

50 × 57.5 cm

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Volkswagen Greeters, 2026

Two Volkswagen Beetles, car covers, audio players, Bluetooth speakers, audio tracks

Dimensions variable

Two covered Volkswagen Beetles, like the ones that last rolled off a nearby production line in 1974, reluctantly wake up after a night of partying. Parked to the right and left of the staircase of Villa Salve Hospes, they greet us in German or English and offer a few words about what has already happened inside the villa and what is yet to come. Their mechanically recited text quotes publications by the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Theodor W. Adorno (loosely), President Ulysses S. Grant, Norman Rockwell, and the host of a podcast for insomniacs.

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Black Rack, 2025

Clothing for sale, marked BY-01 to BY-37

Various sizes

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US Refrigerator Crate, 2026

Various wood, 2 refrigerators, cake

Dimensions variable

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Health-Ade Kombucha, Dodgers Edition, 2026

Aluminum cans

Dimensions variable

Empty aluminum cans are stacked on a sideboard. The Health-Ade kombucha beverage company produced the souvenir cans in collaboration with the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. The regional specificity of Dodger fan fever and the wellness industry is exported from the artist’s home in Los Angeles to Braunschweig. "Say hello to more feel-good-gut days! Every can of Health-Ade Kombucha combines thirst-quenching, organic juice with the living probiotics of fermented tea for a deliciously bubbly, gut-healthy beverage. You’re sips away from a healthier gut and a happier you! Go Dodgers!"

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Dresses 7, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 9, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

Media © Sweetwater 2026
Left

D'Ette Nogle

Poster: Ye’s Ando, 2025

Poster, clips

27 × 18 in

69 × 43 cm

Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs

Right

D'Ette Nogle

Poster: Pound’s Tempio Malatestiano, 2025

Poster, clips

27 × 18 in

69 × 43 cm

Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs

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D'Ette Nogle

Kunstverein library, 2026

Various books

Dimensions variable

Books taken from the upper floor library of the Kunstverein are stacked on the floor. The makeshift library, which is usually inaccessible to the public, consists of a collection of catalogues that were either acquired for research, accumulated during travel, or gifted to the Kunstverein. Together, they offer a view of careers, trends, preferences, and changing ideas.

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Banner (The Girl - Ride), 2020

Vinyl banner

59 ¾ × 109 in

151.8 × 276.9 cm

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

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D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 5, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

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House cricket, 2026

Audio file, audio player, Bluetooth speaker, technical equipment from the Kunst­verein Braunschweig's basement

Dimensions variable

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Schlossmuseum Braunschweig, 2026

Found materials

Dimensions variable

Nogle asked the installation team at the Kunstverein Braunschweig to reconstruct the throne from the Schlossmuseum Braunschweig using materials accumulated in the back rooms of the Kunstverein. The Schlossmuseum Braunschweig (Palace Museum) is located in the partially reconstructed ducal palace, completed in 2007 and incorporating spolia of the original building. In the museum’s floor plan, the throne room is positioned as the highlight of a permanent exhibition of the 19th century living quarters under Duke Wilhelm. In 2004, the Braunschweig city council narrowly approved the demolition of the palace park to build a shopping mall, with the condition that the palace facade be reconstructed.

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VW Beetle Monterey Rd., 2025

Video loop on monitor, no sound

9 seconds, looped

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Dresses 8, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

250 Birds, 2026

Hand­-stenciled and painted wood cutouts, wooden stands, velcro

Dimensions variable

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85 crosses after Bruce Nogle, 2026

Scrap metal crosses

Dimensions variable

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Clip: A Complete Unknown, 2024, 2025

Video loop on monitor, no sound

2 minutes, 32 seconds, looped

A clip from the film "A Complete Unknown" (2024) loops with no sound. Timothée Chalamet performs young Bob Dylan playing to an enraptured audience at the Newport Folk Festival in the 1960s. The clip is an artifact of the film’s representation of the promise of a cultural turn. Without sound, the scene is stripped of the song’s content to emphasize the production of Chalamet as Dylan, 60 years later. Bob Dylan did not perform this song at the festival as portrayed in the film.

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Slime Room, 2026

Various materials

Dimensions variable

An activity station in the room next to the reception desk of the Kunstverein Braunschweig invites visitors to make slime. The artist’s inquiry into the institutional tendency to encourage hands-on viewer participation found its form in the word "Urschleim". 150 years ago, on March 4, 1876, a euphoric German bio­logist named Ernst Haeckel proposed the theory of the primordial soup, a gelatinous substance from which all life originated.

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Dresses 2, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

Banner (The Girl - Naked Under Leather/Harley), 2020

Vinyl banner

85 ¾ × 153 in

217.8 × 388.6 cm

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

D'Ette Nogle

D'Ette Nogle

Dresses 1, 1996

Framed silver gelatin print

13 ⅞ × 10 ⅝ in

35.2 × 27 cm

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D'Ette Nogle

Before Ye Video, 2025

Storefront video for Before Ye store, featuring photographs taken in front of 24844 Malibu Road in Malibu, CA on February 9, 2025 and images of California performance art from 1969 to 1979, digital video file, monitor, monitor stand

12 minutes and 41 seconds, looped

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

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Hoopsters, German Edition, 2026

Wastepaper basket, paper

12 ½ × 12 ½ × 13 in

32 × 32 × 33 cm

The Hoopster wastepaper basket, manufactured by the sports equipment company Spaulding, is a fixture in Nogle’s studio. Nogle's baskets contain mostly crumpled Post-its notes with discarded thoughts and ideas.

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materialschrank, 2020

Single-channel video

55 ¾ × 26 ⅝ × 17 ⅞ in

141.5 × 67.5 × 45.5 cm

104 minutes, 7 seconds

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

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D'Ette Nogle

Klub Brain, 2026

Black wooden slats, party lights, playlist, Bluetooth speaker

Dimensions variable

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D'Ette Nogle

Schrank #2, 2020

Acrylic on canvas

19 ¾ × 22 ⅝ in

50 × 57.5 cm

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Banner (The Girl - Teary), 2020

Vinyl banner

57 ½ × 105 in

145.9 × 266.7 cm

Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

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D'Ette Nogle

55 Baseball Bats, 2026

Wooden baseball bats

Dimensions variable

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FATHER DAUGHTER MAKER, 2026

HD video

62 minutes, 32 seconds

The film takes the form of a program in three parts: invocation, notes, and benediction. Nogle uses two depictions, "The Last Temptation of Christ" (Scorsese, 1988) and "The Passion of the Christ" (Gibson, 2004) as a visual ground for considering how narratives of Christianity are used as an ideological foundation upon which individuals and states act. Nogle's voice, a clone, a prophet, and a musician deliver a network of thematic strands and connections related to family, art, and institutions.

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Candy Bomber, 2020

Pot metal

33 ⅛ × 25 ¼ × 18 ¼ in

84 × 64 × 46.5 cm

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2000MFA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
1997BA, Communications, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2026Let it R.I.P., Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2025Before Ye, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany
2024Dime Store D’Ette, Derosia, New York, NY, United States
MATERIALOUTPOST: IN-COUNTRY, Hannah Hoffman at American Legion Post 206, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2020˙|˙, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany
2019D’Ette Nogle, 2019, Hannah Hoffman at Public Storage, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Bleeding Canvas, Bodega, New York, NY, United States
2016New Paintings, Reserve Ames, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2015Not a Police Black Site ;-), Egg, Chicago, IL, United States
Absolute, Relative, Cosmic (The Practice of Every-day Art), The Finley, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2014Michael Clifton & Michael Benevento and D'Ette Nogle Present: Regressing to Mean, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY, United States
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and D'Ette Nogle Present: Regressing to Mean (Off-Site Testing), Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2012Michael Clifton & Michael Benevento and D'Ette Nogle Present: Information from Two Sources, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY, United States
2011Reality/Relax, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2009Suspended Projection, Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States
2001How Deep Is Your Love?, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, United States
After Wholes & A Sum of Parts, Guggenheim Gallery Project Room, Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States
1998Dear Joan, Plastica, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025Canon, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany
2022Every lie has an audience, Marséll, Milan, Italy
The Art of Critique, Frans Hal Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
2021Time Without End, Fluentum, Berlin , Germany
When There is no Laughing Matter, Laughter Matters, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
2020An Artist Age Mess, Bodega, New York, NY, United States
2019Can You Feel It?, Last Tango, Zurich, Switzerland
Maskulinitäten., Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
A story forms, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2018Not Quite Verbatim, Hessel Museum, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States
Gallery Share hosted by Hannah Hoffman, Kristina Kite, and Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2017Hurts to Laugh, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2016A Change of Heart, curated by Chris Sharp, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2015EGG, Essex Street, New York, NY, United States
New Location, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2014Tragedy Plus Time, Public Fiction (off-site exhibition of the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A.), Los Angeles, CA, United States
And Yes, I Even Remember You., Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2013Shangrila 2013: Burrito Deluxe, curated by Steven Bankhead and Jesse Benson, Shangrila, Joshua Tree, CA, United States
2012IN/SITU at EXPO Chicago, curated by Michel Ned Holte, Chicago, IL, United States
Made In L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States
She’s Not There, organized by Andrew Berardini and Dave Muller, Three Day Weekend at Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2011GREG WILKEN TORBJORN VEJVI LYNTON TAL BOT CAULEEN SMITH SEACA (SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE) MARK ROEDER AN DREA ROBBINS AND MAX BECHER D’ETTE NOGLE DYLAN MARCUS BRIAN MANN TORY LOWITZ FRED LONIDIER AMY LAUGHLIN LISA LAPINSKI WILLIAM JONES DANIEL INGROFF KATIE HERZOG KEVIN HANLEY AARON GM ERIK FRYDENBORG RACHEL FOULLON TRAVIS FARMEN TOM ELLIS LUCY DODD MICHELE DI MENNA JESSE BENSON WILL BENEDICT MERWIN BELIN, Exhibition Design by Jesse Benson and Brian Mann, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA, United States
3348 Hours of Sunshine, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY, United States
Progression Minus Progress, Curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA, United States
2010Says I, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
D’ark Garden, collaborative project with Mark Roeder organized by Brooks Hudson Thomas, Specific Merchandise, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2009Delusionairium 4, organized by Jesse Benson, Circus Gallery, Bonelli Contemporary, and David Salow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2004Cool Intentions, curated by Alex Israel, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA, United States
2002A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show, curated by Jens Hoffman, The Project, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2001Sonsbeek 2001, curated by Jan Hoet, Arnhem, Netherlands
Present Sonsbeek 9, Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands
Snow, curated by Jacob Rhodes, Practice Space, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Forever Infinite, curated by Rebecca Carter, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2000Not Coming, Projections: Intermission Images VII, curated by Catherine Lord, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA, United States
1998Caption, organized by Jessica Bronson, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA, United States