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Publications and selected sources accompanying Marlon Nikolai’s artistic research.

Public research edition

Erfahrung des Verborgenen

Marlon Nikolai’s 2025 bachelor’s thesis, prepared for public release as a curated 2026 edition. The publication connects the written inquiry with the artist’s practical investigations into perception, materiality and the hidden.

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Selected references

Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung
Walter Benjamin Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
Jean-Hubert Martin (Hrsg.) Man Ray – Photograph
Arturo Schwarz Man Ray
Reinhold Mißelbeck Photographie des 20. Jahrhunderts

Publication

Erfahrung des Verborgenen — Public Edition 2026 PDF 7 MB