studio niki

2025
Arrhythmia
curation / concept

curated with Niki Danai Chania and the sound collective +++
at Centrum Berlin, 27 - 29 June 2025, part of 48 Hours Neukölln Festival

Arrhythmia is an exhibition and sound program that treats irregular rhythm as a lens on contemporary life. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s notion of arrhythmia, we approached the exhibition as a space to step inside the breakdown of bodily, social, and technological time.

Across seven installations and a program of DJ/live sets, the project sets to create a landscape of temporal friction and sonic dissonance. It examines how personal, social, and ecological realities are shaped by acceleration, environmental collapse, algorithmic perception, and the erosion of bodily time. Works address computational time‑keeping, censorship in digital cartography, monstrous semi‑fictional characters, post‑industrial prosthetics, spectral blue light, climbing as ritual, and the rhythms of heartbreak.

https://thirst.iabr.nl/

Zuzana Pabisova

Canvaswan

ULTRA

Zuzana Pabisova

Tony Tao Li

Tony Tao Li - Zuzana Pabisova

Niki Maria Lore

ULTRA

Niki Danai Chania

Orestis Telemachou & Shao-Chun Hsu

artists
Canvaswan
Orestis Telemachou & Shao-Chun Hsu
Tony Tao Li
ULTRA (Benze De Ream & Tonda Budszus)
Niki Danai Chania
Niki Maria Lore (Pielsticker)
Zuzana Pabisova

performances
Neda
Gabrielle Rose
Reinartz
ôolong
Mondame
slyn
c00stanza + Noemi Calzavara
Morfvoz

Friday 27 June
21:00 Elif Gülin Soğuksu (live set)

Saturday 28 June
16:00 Gabrielle Rose (dj set)
17:00 Reinartz (live set)
18:00 ôolong (dj set)
20:00 Mondame (live set)

Sunday 29 June
16:30 Ashlynn (dj set)
18:00 c00stanza & Noemi Calzavara (dance / live)
19:00 Morfvoz (live set)

media
kaltblut magazine
48h neukölln
gallerytalk
artrabbit

2026
unlived present
curation / concept

at wrangel66, 16 - 28 January 2026, part of Vorspiel / CTM / transmediale

Aleksandra Nazarova
Brad Nath
Niki Danai Chania

unlived present is an exhibition in process, beginning with a live sound performance (Aleksandra Nazarova) on the evening of the 16th of January, continuing with an artist talk on the 23rd (Turning Space w/ Catriona Collins), and a sound hunting workshop on the 24th of January (conducted by +++).

Contemporary reality is something felt, modulated, fragmented, unevenly shared, partially unreadable — bodies, machines, sounds, stories perform partial roles without resolving into a single narrative. The exhibition unfolds through gestures, misalignments, attempts, repetitions and puts the artists' works within a shared condition which becomes a field of uncertain relations: a structure for multiple presents to exist, a temporary visual and sonic system.

These are all the reasons you should never leave the house.
A growing pain, a crevice, a moment of silence so unbearable,
a belting yearning for the process to begin; anew.
Leave the house again, this time, better. The laughter subsides,
your steps now echo, indefinite. Somewhere between
the line that was crossed and the closed door,
you welcome the idea.

Fulminance is the mother of courage. Rhymes are confusing,
especially when they don’t rhyme. This time, this place,
this configuration, an unsettling shape of comfort.
Blessed are those who depart when it is due,
for what remains if the limbs do not follow.

Thus you remain; paging Simone Weil
from the fortress of hunger – presence.
Just like if mathematics consisted of addition, only.
Division would seem foreign, but I’m certain, hunger,
they would know. Regardless, it is imperative to continue
as though absence were not only absence but abscess,
and something, then, would surely grow.

Until then, you persist; generous with your love. You stay
in space hoping space will close, adequately. A reaching hand
grazes the beam, but they give it the connection.
The crowd applauds in an uneven cadence.

text by Henrich Ferdinand Jelinek

Aleksandra Nazarova, Salience Register, 2025. Brad Nath, Docking Station (S2_2M), 2025

Niki Danai Chania, Doves in the kitchen, 2025

Aleksandra Nazarova, Salience Register, 2025

Henrich Ferdinand Jelinek, 2026

Brad Nath, Docking Station (S2_2M), 2025. Aleksandra Nazarova, Salience Register, 2025. Brad Nath, Dog (midnight), 2026/2023

Brad Nath, Docking Station (S2_2M), 2025. Niki Danai Chania, Doves in the kitchen, 2025

Brad Nath, Docking Station (S2_2M), 2025

Brad Nath, Dog (midnight), 2026/2023. Aleksandra Nazarova, Salience Register, 2025. Niki Danai Chania, Doves in the kitchen, 2025

Turning Space Launch by Catriona Collins

Turning Space. Aleksandra Nazarova, Catriona Collins, Brad Nath

media
turning space launch
wrangel66
vorspiel / +++ workshop
instagram / +++ workshop

2026
unlived present
curation / concept

at wrangel66, 16 - 28 January 2026, part of Vorspiel / CTM / transmediale

artists
Aleksandra Nazarova
Brad Nath
Niki Danai Chania

unlived present is an exhibition in process, beginning with a live sound performance (Aleksandra Nazarova) on the evening of the 16th of January, continuing with an artist talk on the 23rd (Turning Space w/ Catriona Collins), and a sound hunting workshop on the 24th of January (conducted by +++).

Contemporary reality is something felt, modulated, fragmented, unevenly shared, partially unreadable — bodies, machines, sounds, stories perform partial roles without resolving into a single narrative. The exhibition unfolds through gestures, misalignments, attempts, repetitions and puts the artists' works within a shared condition which becomes a field of uncertain relations: a structure for multiple presents to exist, a temporary visual and sonic system.

These are all the reasons you should never leave the house.
A growing pain, a crevice, a moment of silence so unbearable,
a belting yearning for the process to begin; anew.
Leave the house again, this time, better. The laughter subsides,
your steps now echo, indefinite. Somewhere between
the line that was crossed and the closed door,
you welcome the idea.

Fulminance is the mother of courage. Rhymes are confusing,
especially when they don’t rhyme. This time, this place,
this configuration, an unsettling shape of comfort.
Blessed are those who depart when it is due,
for what remains if the limbs do not follow.

Thus you remain; paging Simone Weil
from the fortress of hunger – presence.
Just like if mathematics consisted of addition, only.
Division would seem foreign, but I’m certain, hunger,
they would know. Regardless, it is imperative to continue
as though absence were not only absence but abscess,
and something, then, would surely grow.

Until then, you persist; generous with your love. You stay
in space hoping space will close, adequately. A reaching hand
grazes the beam, but they give it the connection.
The crowd applauds in an uneven cadence.

text by Henrich Ferdinand Jelinek

Aleksandra Nazarova, Salience Register, 2025. Brad Nath, Docking Station (S2_2M), 2025

Niki Danai Chania, Doves in the kitchen, 2025

Aleksandra Nazarova, Salience Register, 2025

Henrich Ferdinand Jelinek, 2026

Brad Nath, Docking Station (S2_2M), 2025. Aleksandra Nazarova, Salience Register, 2025. Brad Nath, Dog (midnight), 2026/2023

Brad Nath, Docking Station (S2_2M), 2025. Niki Danai Chania, Doves in the kitchen, 2025

Brad Nath, Docking Station (S2_2M), 2025

Brad Nath, Dog (midnight), 2026/2023. Aleksandra Nazarova, Salience Register, 2025. Niki Danai Chania, Doves in the kitchen, 2025

Turning Space Launch by Catriona Collins

Turning Space. Aleksandra Nazarova, Catriona Collins, Brad Nath

media
turning space launch
wrangel66.
vorspiel / +++ workshop
instagram / +++ workshop

2024
Collapsing Sirens
research / writing

Collapsing Sirens

2024
Collapsing Sirens
research / writing

Collapsing Sirens

2024
Dark Siren
installation / sound

sound installation made in collaboration with sound artist Paolo Piaser
Dutch Design Week x GS24
Gijs Bakker Award Nominee

2024
Dark Siren
installation / sound

sound installation made in collaboration with sound artist Paolo Piaser
Dutch Design Week x GS24
Gijs Bakker Award Nominee

2025
died of a broken heart
installation / sound

Arrhythmia, Centrum Berlin, 2025
exhibition #1, Culterim, 2025

A sound-based encounter with heartbreak. Drawing on the operatic figure of Mimì from La Bohème; how are love and suffering culturally scripted, repeatedly performed, aestheticized, and increasingly measured; the unresolved state of emotional aftermath.

The installation consists of 7 tracks. By placing a finger on the sensor, the measured heart frequency of the listener determines which and how each composition is activated.

at Arrhythmia, Centrum Berlin, 2025. photo: Tony Li

with Culterim, 2025. photo: Isabel Rae

at Arrhythmia, Centrum Berlin, 2025. photo: Tony Li

photo: Tony Li

niki maria lore · died of a broken heart

2025
died of a broken heart
installation / sound

Arrhythmia, Centrum Berlin, 2025
exhibition #1, Culterim, 2025

A sound-based encounter with heartbreak. Drawing on the operatic figure of Mimì from La Bohème; how are love and suffering culturally scripted, repeatedly performed, aestheticized, and increasingly measured; the unresolved state of emotional aftermath.

The installation consists of 7 tracks. By placing a finger on the sensor, the measured heart frequency of the listener determines which and how each composition is activated.

at Arrhythmia, Centrum Berlin, 2025. photo: Tony Li

with Culterim, 2025. photo: Isabel Rae

at Arrhythmia, Centrum Berlin, 2025. photo: Tony Li

photo: Tony Li

niki maria lore · died of a broken heart

2025
be nice
installation / sound

Becoming Otherwise, okay.space, A Collective of Collectives Festival, Athens, Greece, 2025, curated by Esto Association

be nice is a sound installation and sculptural work. A suspended hoodie, meshed from the inside to suggest a body, emanating sound from within.

An ironic, deliberate provocation: what happens when the demand to be nice suppresses the messiness of rage, conflict, and the potential of hate? The installation traces a trajectory: rage / hate > conflict / break > repair / change, and mirrors the ability of hate to be destructive and constructive, personal and political. Where disdain equals indifference and superiority, sustaining domination, hate also carries other potential. (Şeyda Kurt, Hass. Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls, 2023)

Niki Maria Lore, be nice, 2025. photo: Danae Panagiotidi

niki maria lore · be nice

2025
be nice
installation / sound

Becoming Otherwise, okay.space, A Collective of Collectives Festival, Athens, Greece, 2025, curated by Esto Association

be nice is a sound installation and sculptural work. A suspended hoodie, meshed from the inside to suggest a body, emanating sound from within.

An ironic, deliberate provocation: what happens when the demand to be nice suppresses the messiness of rage, conflict, and the potential of hate? The installation traces a trajectory: rage / hate > conflict / break > repair / change, and mirrors the ability of hate to be destructive and constructive, personal and political. Where disdain equals indifference and superiority, sustaining domination, hate also carries other potential. (Şeyda Kurt, Hass. Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls, 2023)

Niki Maria Lore, be nice, 2025. photo: Danae Panagiotidi

niki maria lore · be nice

2025
Arrhythmia
curation / concept

curated with Niki Danai Chania and the sound collective +++
at Centrum Berlin, 27 - 29 June 2025, part of 48 Hours Neukölln Festival

Arrhythmia is an exhibition and sound program that treats irregular rhythm as a lens on contemporary life. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s notion of arrhythmia, we approached the exhibition as a space to step inside the breakdown of bodily, social, and technological time.

Across seven installations and a program of DJ/live sets, the project sets to create a landscape of temporal friction and sonic dissonance. It examines how personal, social, and ecological realities are shaped by acceleration, environmental collapse, algorithmic perception, and the erosion of bodily time. Works address computational time‑keeping, censorship in digital cartography, monstrous semi‑fictional characters, post‑industrial prosthetics, spectral blue light, climbing as ritual, and the rhythms of heartbreak.

Tony “Tao” Li, BLU, 2025. Zuzana Pabisova, Grip theory, 2025

Zuzana Pabisova, Grip theory, 2025

canvaswan, Into the Digital Cartographic Void, 2024

ULTRA, Computational Time-Keeping/Pacemaking, 2025

Zuzana Pabisova, Grip theory, 2025

Tony “Tao” Li, BLU, 2025

Morfvoz (live set)

Tony “Tao” Li, BLU, 2025. Zuzana Pabisova, Grip theory, 2025

Niki Maria Lore, Died of a Broken Heart, 2025

ULTRA, Computational Time-Keeping/Pacemaking, 2025

Niki Danai Chania, Arrhythmia, 2025

Orestis Telemachou & Shao-Chun Hsu, Scavenger’s Metronome, 2024

artists
Canvaswan
Orestis Telemachou & Shao-Chun Hsu
Tony Tao Li
ULTRA (Benze De Ream & Tonda Budszus)
Niki Danai Chania
Niki Maria Lore (Pielsticker)
Zuzana Pabisova

performances
Neda
Gabrielle Rose
Reinartz
ôolong
Mondame
slyn
c00stanza + Noemi Calzavara
Morfvoz

Friday 27 June
21:00 Elif Gülin Soğuksu (live set)

Saturday 28 June
16:00 Gabrielle Rose (dj set)
17:00 Reinartz (live set)
18:00 ôolong (dj set)
20:00 Mondame (live set)

Sunday 29 June
16:30 Ashlynn (dj set)
18:00 c00stanza & Noemi Calzavara (dance / live)
19:00 Morfvoz (live set)

media
kaltblut magazine
48h neukölln
gallerytalk
artrabbit

2025
Arrhythmia
curation / concept

curated with Niki Danai Chania and the sound collective +++
at Centrum Berlin, 27 - 29 June 2025, part of 48 Hours Neukölln Festival

Arrhythmia is an exhibition and sound program that treats irregular rhythm as a lens on contemporary life. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s notion of arrhythmia, we approached the exhibition as a space to step inside the breakdown of bodily, social, and technological time.

Across seven installations and a program of DJ/live sets, the project sets to create a landscape of temporal friction and sonic dissonance. It examines how personal, social, and ecological realities are shaped by acceleration, environmental collapse, algorithmic perception, and the erosion of bodily time. Works address computational time‑keeping, censorship in digital cartography, monstrous semi‑fictional characters, post‑industrial prosthetics, spectral blue light, climbing as ritual, and the rhythms of heartbreak.

Tony “Tao” Li, BLU, 2025. Zuzana Pabisova, Grip theory, 2025

Zuzana Pabisova, Grip theory, 2025

canvaswan, Into the Digital Cartographic Void, 2024

ULTRA, Computational Time-Keeping/Pacemaking, 2025

Zuzana Pabisova, Grip theory, 2025

Tony “Tao” Li, BLU, 2025

Morfvoz (live set)

Tony “Tao” Li, BLU, 2025. Zuzana Pabisova, Grip theory, 2025

Niki Maria Lore, Died of a Broken Heart, 2025

ULTRA, Computational Time-Keeping/Pacemaking, 2025

Niki Danai Chania, Arrhythmia, 2025

Orestis Telemachou & Shao-Chun Hsu, Scavenger’s Metronome, 2024

artists
Canvaswan
Orestis Telemachou & Shao-Chun Hsu
Tony Tao Li
ULTRA (Benze De Ream & Tonda Budszus)
Niki Danai Chania
Niki Maria Lore (Pielsticker)
Zuzana Pabisova

performances
Neda
Gabrielle Rose
Reinartz
ôolong
Mondame
slyn
c00stanza + Noemi Calzavara
Morfvoz

Friday 27 June
21:00 Elif Gülin Soğuksu (live set)

Saturday 28 June
16:00 Gabrielle Rose (dj set)
17:00 Reinartz (live set)
18:00 ôolong (dj set)
20:00 Mondame (live set)

Sunday 29 June
16:30 Ashlynn (dj set)
18:00 c00stanza & Noemi Calzavara (dance / live)
19:00 Morfvoz (live set)

media
kaltblut magazine
48h neukölln
gallerytalk
artrabbit

2026
unlived present
curation / concept

2025
be nice
installation / sound
Arrhythmia
curation / concept
Died of a Broken Heart
installation / sound

2024
Dark Siren
installation / sound
Collapsing Sirens
research / writing

2023
thirst
installation / sound

2021
social.period
research / video

2026
unlived present
curation / concept

2025
be nice
installation / sound
Arrhythmia
curation / concept
Died of a Broken Heart
installation / sound

2024
Dark Siren
installation / sound
Collapsing Sirens
research / writing

2023
thirst
installation / sound

2021
social.period
research / video

nikilore@gmail.com
@nikimarialore

background in research-based design and visual anthropology

Berlin, Germany
Athens, Greece

2024 Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands
Critical Inquiry Lab, MA

2020 University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
Communication in Social and Economic Contexts, BA

orbiting contemporary culture,
conceptualising and editing research-led projects,
sound-based installations, exhibitions, and texts
that question how reality is constructed
and the stories that try to make it all make sense

nikilore@gmail.com
@nikimarialore

Berlin, Germany
Athens, Greece

background in research-based design and visual anthropology

2024 Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands
Critical Inquiry Lab, MA

2020 University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
Communication in Social and Economic Contexts, BA

orbiting contemporary culture,
conceptualising and editing research-led projects,
sound-based installations, exhibitions, and texts
that question how reality is constructed
and the stories that try to make it all make sense