Research
Selected aspects of the hidden are translated into experience.
Artistic research examines the conditions under which selected aspects of the hidden can become perceptible and experiential. Its central fields are perception and sensory channels, information and relation, image and material, light and darkness, waves, frequencies and resonance, as well as spatial and bodily experience.
Explore the Artistic PositionArtistic Position
Marlon Nikolai's artistic research understands the hidden as an open, multidimensional field of what has not yet become conscious, sensorially accessible, sufficiently differentiated, articulated or materially manifest. Art functions as both threshold and process of translation: selected aspects gain concrete experiential presence through pictorial, material, optical, spatial and bodily decisions.
The works do not offer a fixed decoding. Meaning emerges relationally between underlying structure, work, situation and viewers.
Not everything that is present is already experiential. Art begins at this threshold. — Marlon Nikolai
A practice moving from language to world, experience and reflection.
Artistic Position
The extended artist statement: the conceptual ground from which the work and its research develop.
Artistic Language
The materials, recurring motifs and pictorial structures through which the work takes form.
Cosmos, Matter & Relations
Light, colour, waves, sound, matter, scale and the relations through which physical phenomena become perceptible.
Enter the physical field ↗ 04 Inner relationFields of Experience
Perception, threshold, sensory channels, body, memory, resonance and consciousness as an active field of encounter.
Enter the experiential field ↗Texts & References
Essays, selected references and research documents accompanying the practice.