Ingo Niermann

The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.

Against globalization's noxious exploitation of maritime resources, Ingo Nierman provides new practical, technological, and metaphysical scenarios to renew the relationship between men and the sea.

An autofiction by Erik Niedling, interpolated by manifestos and proposals by Ingo Niermann and expanded by Austrian-American poet Ann Cotten and German novelist Jakob Nolte.

Set during the 2011 Occupy movement, the tell of a love revolution started by an army of activists willing to bring justice and equality for all on an intimate level.

Having furnished solutions for Germany and Dubai, Ingo Niermann takes a new look at what nationhood can mean and accomplish today, finding inspiration, of all places, in North Korea.

The sequel to The Future of Art – A Manual (2011), in which Niedling joined Niermann on his search for a new, epic artwork.

In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.

Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.

Ingo Niermann devises in this book ten provokingly simple ideas which would see Germany work it out after all, including a new grammar, a new political party, assigning allotment gardens to unemployed people and retirees, and the Great Pyramid, the tallest building of the world which would serve as a democratic tomb for millions of people.

A dance-theater project initiated by the German artist Antje Majewski in collaboration with the author Ingo Niermann, in a record-size album, featuring the electronic music commissioned for the piece.

This publication documents new works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Isa Genzken, Sarah Lucas, Aleksandra Mir, Mathilde Rosier, Eva Rothschild or Gary Webb, invited to develop projects on the theme of nuclear war.