Niko Princen (b. 1979, Amsterdam) addresses the technical and networked forms of the social world. His aesthetic interests tend broadly to the human scale of interaction, exchange, and (mis)communication under computation. Princen works in a variety of media, including photography, digital rendering, drawings, prints, video, performance, and installed aggregates. His recent work puts vernacular photography and the technicalities which have come to represent or figure a person in oblique dialogue with the modern history of portraiture and photography. Princen was educated at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and has exhibited in commercial, institutional, and distributed contexts throughout Europe, the United States, and online.
Please get in contact via e-mail. For updates follow me on Twitter or Instagram. NFTs are available on objkt and for a game of chess you can find me on chess.com.
SOLO
2022
Portraits, U124, Berlin
2015
Embedness, The Composing Rooms, online
A Responsive Candle Light Event, Flat, Amsterdam
2012
IN THE EVENT OF FIRE, Headquarters, Zürich
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
Jahresgaben BKV curated by Fatima Hellberg and Gregor Quack, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
/home curated by Sakrowski, panke.gallery, Berlin
2020
stickt.t.me curated by Zentrum für Netzkunst, panke.gallery, Berlin
2020 DO NOT LINK curated by Dirk Paesmans and Bob Bicknell-Knight, www.upstream.gallery
2019
der zyklus: formenverwandler curated by Sam Hart and Harm van den Dorpel, Full Node, Berlin
2017
Evolutionary Urge 24H (digital / virtiual) curated by Ursula Ströbele and Andreas Greiner, Navel, Los Angeles
Exstrange curated by Gaia Tedone, online
2015
Aurora, Dallas, Texas, USA
On YouTube, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
Offline Art: Are you still there?, part of 'Hamster - Hipster - Handy.'
at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
11th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens
Home Work, Open Forum, Berlin
2014
CURRENTS, CURTAINS, CODE, Triennale d'art du Valais, Fully, Switzerland
Art Hack Day: Afterglow, Transmediale, Berlin
2013
Driving Fast Nowhere curated by Martin Kohout, Polansky Gallery, Prague
Come All Ye Faithful, Florian Christopher, Zürich
Edge Effect, online
Art Hack Day Berlin 'Going Dark', LEAP, Berlin
local.#non.access concept by Florian Kuhlmann, km temporaer, Berlin
NOTES ON FORM, 032c WORKSHOP, Berlin
Another Fluxconcert in Amsterdam (Googleism) curated by Constant Dullaart and Koen Nutters, NASA, Amsterdam
DVD Dead Drop 'BEST OF' compiled by Ole Fach & Kim Asendorf, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
2011111111111s, project by Mirak Jamal and Nine Yamamoto-Masson, TWS, Tokyo
2012
Screenshot: Berlin curated by Anna Mikkola and Mike Ruiz, Import Projects, Berlin
reflecting on networks curated by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff, km temporaer, Berlin
2011111111111s, project by Mirak Jamal and Nine Yamamoto-Masson, LEAP, Berlin
Hier beginnt die Welt curated by Raffael Dörig, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
Not by default - Post Internet Art aus Berlin, [DAM], Berlin
DVD Dead Drop 'HOT' compiled by Aram Bartholl, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Nail Care project by Yves Scherer, curated by Claudia Rech, Times Bar, Berlin
A Material World curated by Carson Chan, PSM Gallery, Berlin
2011
Prosume This, BEKO, Berlin
Non-Stop Infinity, Future Gallery, Berlin & Peer 2 Space, München
SPEED SHOW: Your Browser is my Kingdom by Today and Tomorrow, or@nien net, Berlin
Metrospective 1.0, PROGRAM, Berlin
2010
STATE
DIY Augemented Reality exhibition, Moma, New York
2006
Project Definition, Club 11, Amsterdam
TEXT & INTERVIEW
Digitale Kunst/Projekt des Monats - Vlinder by Raffael Dörig, Kunstbulletin (DE). 8-7-2015
La Valais à l'heurre triennale by Samuel Schellenberg, Le Courier (FR). 21-06-2014
I Can't make it, Art Papers. March/April 2014
Post Tumblr Aesthetic by Valentina Fois, 1883 Magazin. 2014
Interview at Internet Yami-Ichi Berlin by Golem.de. 2014
Charting The Infinite Waters Of The Internet, One Family Photo At A Time by Nadja Sayej, The Creators Project. 24-2-2014
Bringing physicality to the internet of things by Susanna Davies-Crook, sleek magazine. 8-8-2013
Ist dein Gesicht vor ihm sicher? Vergängliche Netzkunst by Martin Dunkelmann, Arte Creative (EN + DE). 7-8-2013
Pagine zittite by Roberto Marone, Doppiozero (IT). 6-2-2011
