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Downloads & References
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.
Selected references
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology of Perception
Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Anil Seth
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Publication
Erfahrung des Verborgenen — Public Edition 2026