BEYDES Summer Festival — Live Painting

Invited by BEYDES to create a live painting during its Summer Festival at the Postwerk in Berlin-Tegel, Marlon Nikolai developed Aether entirely on site over the course of the event.

Working within a dedicated live painting area, Nikolai began with an unpainted canvas and completed the 180 × 280 cm work in the presence of the festival audience. The process made the gradual emergence of the painting part of the event itself, exposing gesture, movement and material transformation as they unfolded.

The performance took place within BEYDES’ first-anniversary Summer Festival, which brought together the creative community of the Postwerk through talks, workshops, music, design and other participatory formats.

Aether was acquired by Christopher Weiß on the day of its creation and subsequently placed at BEYDES in Berlin, where the work remains installed.