Lage Prijs Olaf Nicolai – Magnus Haglund

In his artistic oeuvre, Olaf Nicolai questions the processes of perception in order to elicit a different kind of reception. “Questions of form, moods, attitudes and style are not just vain play with surfaces. They are questions of organizational forms of activities”, he writes in his essay Show Case.nnIn his works, Nicolai displays attitudes and styles, combining and collecting them. He integrates both classical artistic techniques and collecting, the securing of evidence and archiving as the activities of…