IMAGINARY LIMIT
Within Without
ANIMA
Eefje de Visser
Iris van Herpen
Resonance Room
Between Mind and Matter
SKYLINE II
AETHER
ESPER
SKYLINE
POLARIS
APERTURE
BJÖRK
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Popul
AURA
Liquid Logic
about

Nick Verstand is a contemporary artist researching human perception through spatial audiovisual compositions. His autonomous installations and live performances investigate the frontier between the material and the immaterial, and are created through collaborative design processes aimed at breaking down social boundaries. The resulting intuitive experiences, co-creations of artist and audience, generate a hypnotizing environment for the subconscious mind.

Nick has exhibited and performed at Venice Biennale, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Barbican Centre, The Shed (NYC), Rewire Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, National Opera & Ballet (NL), CTM Festival, STRP Festival, Design Society (CHN), Paris Couture Week, Kunsthal, SXSW, Dekmantel Festival, Art Central Hong Kong, MTV VMAs (NYC), Design Museum Gent, Le Guess Who, Iceland Airwaves, Dutch Design Week and collaborated with artists such as Doja Cat, Iris van Herpen, Björk, Caterina Barbieri, Lykke Li, Marie Davidson, Eefje de Visser, Charlotte Adigéry, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Fatima Yamaha and Suzanne Ciani. Dezeen selected his project AURA as one of the top 10 art installations of 2017, alongside Olafur Eliasson, Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor. The lineage of his work can be found in shows of Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Dua Lipa, Madonna, Lorde, Alicia Keys, Gesaffelstein and many others.

selected exhibitions & live performances

Venice Biennale

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Rewire Festival

Dekmantel Festival

Barbican

SXSW

Le Guess Who

The Shed (NYC)

Paris Couture Week

Kunsthal

Barbican Centre

Art Central Hong Kong

Dutch Design Week

MTV VMAs (NYC)

Design Museum Gent

Lowlands Festival

Design Society (Shenzhen, CHN)

Iceland Airwaves

MIRA Festival

STRP Festival

Nuit Blanche (Paris, FR)

EYE Film Museum (NL)

De School (NL)

Concertgebouw (NL)

FORMS (Toronto, CAN)

Van Gogh Museum (NL)

Amsterdam Dance Event (NL)

Trouw (NL)

 

selected awards

Dutch Design Award - finalist

Elisabeth van Thüringenprijs - winner

Lumen Prize - category 3D/Sculpture - finalist

HKU Award Entrepreneurship - winner

 

strategy and website design

Agency Agency

 

selected collaborations

Iris van Herpen

Doja Cat

Caterina Barieri

Björk

Marie Davidson

Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Popul

Kara-Lis Coverdale

Lykke Li

KMRU

Eefje de Visser

Suzanne Ciani

Fatima Yamaha

 

selected publications

Dezeen

Victoria & Albert Museum

FRAME Magazine

Resident Advisor

Volkskrant

Elephant

Design Society

Mister Motley

BBC Radio

NRC

3voor12

The Chicago Tribune

Creators Project

Engadget

National Post

IMAGINARY LIMIT (2018) is an audiovisual installation symbolising the internal limitations we impose upon ourselves, by influencing our perception of light and sound. Using optical illusions created by materialised laser light synchronous to spatially positioned sound, the viewers perception is influenced and subsequently altered in a 3-dimensional environment. By constructing these imaginary boundaries of light, the audiovisual composition constantly reshapes the perceived surroundings. The work is created site-specific for MIRA Festival Barcelona, using the room architecture as a canvas.

medium
8 RGB lasers, hazer, 8.2 speaker system, NAP framework, 4DSOUND software

in collaboration with
Salvador Breed
4DSOUND

commissioned by
MIRA

year
2018

dimensions
34 x 25 x 5 meters

exhibition
MIRA Festival (Barcelona, ES, 2018)

registration
Alba Ruperez