Mono.Kultur 1

In the rare realm of people who have mastered art and music as blended elements, Carsten Nicolai continues to drive creative processes into new directions. Originally trained as a landscape architect, Nicolai found his way via painting to a unique position on the borderline between art, science, and sound. By applying his own aesthetic vision to scientific and sonic experiments, he has achieved to combine fundamentally different areas into a body of work that remains unmistakeably his own.

A founder member of the acclaimed label raster-noton that also acts as an imprint for the release of his own material under the alias alva noto, Nicolai has performed and created installations in international exhibition spaces including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Documenta X in 1997, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the 2001 Venice Biennale.