Niklas Lichti
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Niklas Lichti
Owners of the good Life 1-11, 2024
Various textiles, Variable dimensions. Courtesy the artist & Layr, Vienna.
Installation view, The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, 2024
Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi
Niklas Lichti
Owners of the good Life, 2024
Ballpoint pen, touch-up pencil, fineliner and coloured pencil on paper, artist frame, 29,7 × 21 cm
Installation view, The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, 2024
Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi
Niklas Lichti
Installation view, The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, 2024
Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi
Niklas Lichti
Work, don‘t cry Bubbleboy, 2024
Ballpoint pen, ink, coloured pencil on paper, artist frame, 21 × 29,7 cm
Installation view, The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, 2024
Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi
Niklas Lichti
Installation view, The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, 2024
Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi
Niklas Lichti
Mother Nurture, 2024
Ballpoint pen and fineliner on paper, artist frame, 29,7 × 21 cm.
Installation view, The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, 2024
Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi
Niklas Lichti
Installation view, The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, 2024
Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi
Niklas Lichti
Granny Smith’s Day off, 2024
Ballpoint pen, fineliner and coloured pencil on paper, artist frame, 21 × 29,7 cm
Installation view, The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, 2024
Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi
Niklas Lichti
Daydrinker at Midnight, 2022
Pencil, Ballpoint Pen, Pigments and Olive Oil on Paper, Engraving on Glass, Artist Frame
21,4 × 30 cm (framed)
New Space Show, 2022, Layr Singerstraße, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
Meds & Miracles, 2022
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
White Night at the Seven Suns, 2022
Pencil, Ballpoint Pen and Pigments on Paper, Artist Frame
21,4 × 30 cm (framed)
Niklas Lichti
Theories of Minds and Meat Suits, 2022
Pencil on Paper, Artist Frame
21,4 × 30 cm (framed)
Niklas Lichti
The Georgia Guiding Stones, 2022
Pencil, Ballpoint Pen, Olive Oil, Silver Leaf on Paper, Artist Frame
21,4 × 30 cm (framed)
Niklas Lichti
Theatre of all Possibilities, 2022
Pencil, Ballpoint Pen, Pigments and Olive Oil on Paper, Artist Frame
30 × 21,4 cm (framed)
Niklas Lichti
Stolperfalle Mensch, 2022
Pencil, Ballpoint Pen and Pigments on Paper, Artist Frame
21,4 × 30 cm (framed)
Niklas Lichti
Moonlighting as Medium, 2022
Pencil and Ballpoint Pen on Paper, Artist Frame
21,4 × 30 cm (framed)
Niklas Lichti
Meds & Miracles, 2022
Audio Piece 14:40 min, Soundsystem, Cable coated with Shrinking Tube, Glue and Dog Hair
Voice (Mars): Clemens Posch
Sound Mixing: Florian Pfaffenberger
Dimension variable
Niklas Lichti
Concrete Quarterly, 2020
Installation View
Do Nothing, Feel Everything, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava
Niklas Lichti
Flat Baroque, 2020
Installation View
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
Concrete Quarterly, 2020
Installation View
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Michael Franz, (Review) Deadlock, in: Texte zur Kunst 118 “You might also like” (June 2020)
Niklas Lichti
Appropriate Sentiment, 2019
UV print on glass, books, syringe, stainless steel
55.5 × 42.8 cm
Niklas Lichti
Gore Capitalism, 2019
UV print on glass, books, speaker, stainless steel
51.7 × 41.4 cm
Niklas Lichti
International Gothic, 2019
UV print on glass, books, lenses, copper wire, stainless steel
55.5 × 42.8 cm
Niklas Lichti
Ingwer & Selters, 2019
UV print on glass, books, stainless steel
51.7 × 41.8 cm
Niklas Lichti
Untitled, 2018
Engraving on glass, burnished metal frame
54 × 39.5 cm
Niklas Lichti
Money, 2018
Print on glass, burnished metal frame
39.5 × 29.5 cm
Niklas Lichti
Danger, 2018
Print on glass, resin, burnished metal frame
54 × 39.5 cm
Niklas Lichti
Food, 2018
Print on glass, burnished metal frame
39.5 × 29.5 cm
Valentin Just / Niklas Lichti, 2018
Installation view
Layr, Rome
Niklas Lichti
Sanguine, 2017
Print on glass, metal frame
35.5 × 49 cm
Niklas Lichti
What happened, 2017
Print on glass, metal frame
35.5. × 49 cm
Niklas Lichti
Die Nacht der Philosophie, 2017
Print on glass, metal frame
35.5. × 49 cm
Niklas Lichti
People's People 4, 2017
Print on glass
35.5 × 49 cm
Niklas Lichti
Hogs, Hags, Hawks & Doves, 2017
Jacket, jump suit, engraved glass, glass, lamp, steel, coffee
100 × 170 × 40 cm
Niklas Lichti
Hogs, Hags, Hawks & Doves, 2017
Jacket, jump suit, engraved glass, glass, lamp, steel, coffee
100 × 170 × 40 cm
Niklas Lichti
Das Jahr des Affen, 2017
Flatscreen, engraving on glass
41.5 × 71.5 × 6.5 cm
Niklas Lichti
Das Jahr des Affen, 2017
Flatscreen, engraving on glass
41.5 × 71.5 × 6.5 cm
Niklas Lichti
Nonfiction, 2016
Installation view
Liszt, Berlin
Niklas Lichti
Nonfiction, 2016
Installation view
Liszt, Berlin
Niklas Lichti
Nonfiction 1, 2016
Direct-print on glass, metal brackets
25 × 16 cm
Niklas Lichti
Nonfiction 6, 2016
Direct-print on glass, metal brackets
25.1 × 31 × 8.4 cm
Niklas Lichti
Nonfiction 5, 2016
Direct-print on glass, metal brackets
25.1 × 32.2 × 6.7 cm
Niklas Lichti
BioLife, 2016
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
BioLife, 2016
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
BioLife, 2016
Steel, custom-made jumpsuit, lamp, jacket, plaster mask and tyvek on sandblasted glass
150 × 120 × 250 cm
Niklas Lichti
BioLife, 2016
Steel, custom-made jumpsuit, UV-direct print on glass and lamp
83 × 53 × 85 cm
Niklas Lichti
BioLife, 2016
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
BioLife, 2016
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
BioLife, 2016
Steel, custom-made jumpsuit, engraved glass and lamp
83 × 53 × 85 cm
Niklas Lichti
BioLife, 2016
Detail view
Niklas Lichti,
Der Spinnenkuss 2015
Inkjet print on backlit film, reading glasses, sandblasted glass, steel, recto
35 × 25 cm
Niklas Lichti
Der Spinnenkuss, 2015
Inkjet print on backlit film, reading glasses, sandblasted glass, steel, verso
35 × 25 cm
Niklas Lichti
Hart to Hart, 2015
Engraved glasses, coffee
Dimensions variable
Niklas Lichti
Hart to Hart, 2015
Engraved glasses, coffee
Dimensions variable
Niklas Lichti
Hart to Hart, 2015
Engraved glasses, coffee
Dimensions variable
Niklas Lichti
Hart to Hart, 2015
Engraved glasses, coffee
Dimensions variable
Niklas Lichti
O.T. (Emulate & Imitate), 2015
Installation view
Ve.sch, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
O.T. (Emulate&Imitate), 2015
Steel, jacket, glass, UV-injekt print on tyvek
Detail view
Niklas Lichti
O.T. (Emulate&Imitate), 2015
Steel, jumpsuit, glass, UV-injekt print on backlit film
Detail view
Niklas Lichti
O.T. (Emulate&Imitate), 2015
Steel, jacket, glass, UV-injekt print on backlit film, magnifying glass
Detail view
Niklas Lichti
Invitation for the exhibition Lust and Learning, 2014
Gif-file
Rollaversion Gallery, London
Niklas Lichti
Lust and Learning, 2014
Installation view
Rollaversion Gallery, London
Niklas Lichti
Lust and Learning, 2014
UV inkjet print on tyvek
120 × 170 cm
Niklas Lichti
O.T., 2013
Installation view
Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz
Niklas Lichti
O.T., 2013
Steel, Coat, lamp, Inkjet print on backlit film, glass
Detail view
Niklas Lichti
O.T., 2013
Steel, Coat, lamp, inkjet print on backlit film, glass
Detail view
Niklas Lichti
O.T., 2013
Installation view
Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz
Niklas Lichti
O.T., 2013
Steel, coat, lamp, inkjet print on backlit film, glass
Detail view
Niklas Lichti
O.T., 2013
Installation view
Diana Lambert, Vienna
Niklas Lichti
O.T., 2013
Steel, coat, lamp, inkjet print on backlit film, glass
Detail view
Niklas Lichti
O.T., 2013
Installation view
Diana Lambert, Vienna
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Michael Franz, (Review) Deadlock, in: Texte zur Kunst 118 “You might also like” (June 2020)
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Maximilian Geymüller, (Review) Neither Peace nor Calm. Niklas Lichti ‘Concrete Quarterly’ at Emanuel Layr Vienna, in: Spike 63 (Spring 2020)
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Melanie Ohnemus, (Review) Niklas Lichti at Emanuel Layr Vienna, in: Frieze 23 (Spring 2016)
Niklas Lichti
*1980 Marburg, Germany
lives and works in Vienna, Austria
Education and Teaching
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studied in Leipzig and Vienna
Selected Exhibitions
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2024
Unknown Familiars, The Vienna Insurance Group Collections, Leopold Museum, Vienna (AT)
The Glass Mountain, Kunstverein St. Gilgen, St. Gilgen (AT)
Ins Dunkle schwimmen, Abysses of the Creative Imperative, Universitätsgalerie Angewandte, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (AT) -
2022
New Space Show, Layr, Vienna (AT)
Meds & Miracles, Layr, Vienna (AT)
Do Nothing, Feel Everything, Kunsthalle Bratislava (SK) -
2021
Do Nothing, Feel Everything, Kunsthalle Wien (AT)
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2020
Now. Collected #9/#10, tresor, Kunstforum Vienna (AT)
Concrete Quarterly, Galerie Emanuel Layr Vienna (AT) (Solo) -
2019
Flat Baroque, Pee Zee II, London (UK) (Solo)
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2018
Valentin Just, Niklas Lichti, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Rome (IT)
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2017
Die Kutsche im Schlamm, memphismemphis, Linz (AT)
Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017, with The Critical Ass, Kunsthalle Wien (AT)
Present Future, curated by Cloé Perrone, with Galerie Emanuel Layr, Artissima, Turin (IT)
Die Welt retten, Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna (AT)
Year of the Monkey, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Rome (IT) -
2016
Niklas Lichti, Nonfiction, Liszt, Berlin (AT) (Solo)
Niklas Lichti, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT) (Solo) -
2015
58 Weasels in a Trenchcoat (Die Güte), wellwellwell, Wien (AT)
Emulate & Imitate (S), mit Tonio Kröner, Ve.sch, Wien (AT)
Annexes - books, editions & vitrines and a new presentation of ‚Berlin Local‘, curated by_Vienna, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Wien (AT)
The Critical Ass - Das Rheinische Prinzip (S), mit Anke Dyes und Robert Müller, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin (D)
Ausstellung Kardinal-König-Kunstpreis 2015, Salzburg (AT) -
2014
Vienna Complex, mit Anke Dyes (http://www.thecriticalass.at/), Austrian Cultural Forum New York (US)
Lust & learning (S), Rollaversion Gallery, London (GB) -
2013
Die Schlange Hoffnung, Kunstbunker Hintereingang, Nürnberg (DE)
Niklas Lichti (S), Diana Lambert, Wien (AT)
Dreiseitiger Fußball, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz (AT) -
2011
Niklas Lichti. Mockumentary der Selbsterschöpfung: The Critical Ass (S), L‘Ocean Licker Wien (AT)
Raum der Gegenwart, mit Anke Dyes, Kunstverein Leipzig (DE)
Dingum, Projektraum im Eternithaus, Berlin (DE) -
2010
Doppeldodi (S), mit Lone Haugaard Madsen, Lumiar Cité, Lissabon (PT)
The Most Incredible Thing, Demoraum K, Wien (AT) -
2009
Lone Haugaard Madsen Benjamin Hirte Niklas Lichti Till Megerle Michael Phelps - Dominik Halmer Martin Erik Andersen Karl Karner & Linda Samaraweerová, Carlos De Abreu, Ve.Sch, Wien (AT)
Projects
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2012 ff.
TCA - The Critical Ass (Satiremagazin), zusammen mit Anke Dyes (www.thecriticalass.at)