A series of talks with our favourite new media artists. Over the years we’ve met some inspiring, thought provoking and kind artists from all over the world. We’d love for you to meet them as well, so we’re inviting them for an Artist Talk in our studio, where we can all have a drink, talk about the current challenges and opportunities in new media art and discuss their work.

Are you curious about the previous editions of the WERC Artist talks? Check out the livestream of Dries Depoorter, Blast Theory & Pablo Valbuena on our YouTube channel.

The immaterial and intangible character of light, colour and motion forms the starting point of Nicky Assmann’s spatial installations, in which she endeavours to heighten our perception. With a background in film and art science, she combines artistic, scientific and cinematographic knowledge in experiments that use physical and chemical processes, such as turbulence and fluid dynamics. Topics that serve as a metaphor for the turbulent and fluid times in which we live. The changing climate and its turbulent consequences are a recurring theme in her work. She creates her own screens with materials that range from iridescent soap films, heat-stained and chemically-treated copper sheets, to metal grids, flexible led panels and kinetic transparent plates with moiré patterns. Her work takes shape in the form of kinetic light installations, video-installations and performances.

She has exhibited her work in solo and duo shows around the whole world, from China to Pittsburgh. More close to home, you might know her from her first permanent public artwork: the led video sculpture Wervel that is placed in the parking garage at Forum Groningen in 2019.

Check out more about Nicky Assmann at nickyassmann.net