Nils Völker is a media artist based in Berlin whose creative path led from communication design to the use of physical computing. His artistic practice embraces electronics and programming, combined with a fascination for everyday objects and carefully selected fragile materials.
Nils Völker realizes large-scale sculptures and site-specific kinetic installations to investigate mechanical rhythm – such as wavelike animation – in prepared systems and to create a conflict between natural and unnatural phenomena. Its “Bits and Pieces” kinetic installation transforms the NOME Gallery (Berlin) into a space of poetic performance through the choreographic movements of ordinary objects.
The exhibition consists of a single sculpture made out of 108 motorized spheres that open and close in orchestrated rhythms. The floating, colorful everyday objects merge into a single entity, an almost living organism that modulates, attempting to find a poetic balance between space, electricity and relationships.
The movements generate a tension between the planned and the accidental, with each new variation opening up possibilities for interpretation. The sculptural presence draws attention away from the technical underpinnings of the finite object to a world of imaginative motional processes.
Images courtesy of Bresadola+Freese/drama-berlin.de
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