Olaf Nicolai

 
For about twenty years, Olaf Nicolai (born 1962 in Halle, East Germany, lives and works in Berlin) has been producing conceptual artworks influenced by a philosophical background inherited from its formative years in East Germany, questioning the deadlocks of romanticism and Marxism. Alternating between photography, sculpture, publishing, design, installation and performance, Nicolai creates artistic situations whose purpose is to hijack the production patterns of the industrial world as well as its cultural, financial and social representations.
 
Olaf Nicolai - ( !? x : ..? X!
( !? x : ..? X!
2021
Florence Loewy
A poem written by the artist for the space of the book composed only of punctuation marks.
Olaf Nicolai - Il Diario del Vento / Wind Diary
Il Diario del Vento / Wind Diary
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nero
sold out
This artist's book documents the wind and weather conditions around the German Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennial, which were recorded over the period of Nicolai's exhibition by a weather station positioned on the roof (limited, numbered and signed edition).
Olaf Nicolai - Labyrinth - Four Times Through the labyrinth
Olaf Nicolai, Jan Wenzel
Labyrinth – Four Times Through the labyrinth
2014
English edition
Cneai
Transcript of four lectures given in Leipzig in 2010 regarding an installation Olaf Nicolai made in Paris back in 1998. This publication revolves around the theme of the labyrinth and its various manifestations and associations—from the Minotaur to geographical maps and Ikea's assembly instructions.
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