Alva Noto, the visionary alias of German artist Carsten Nicolai, brings his groundbreaking audiovisual performance HYBR:ID UNI PARA to Ireland. This long-awaited show fuses elements from his acclaimed HYbr:ID series—known for its hybrid blend of glitchy, data-driven electronics, expansive textures, and rhythmic abstraction—with material from the beat-oriented UNI trilogy (including Unieqav) and emerging explorations in PARA. Expect an immersive live experience merging dystopian atmospheres, cinematic soundscapes, pulsing rhythms, and introspective melancholy, all synchronized with striking visuals in Nicolai’s signature minimalist yet powerful style.
Don’t miss one of electronic music’s most innovative minds delivering a bespoke performance tailored for this historic Irish show.
Carsten Nicolai (born 1965 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) lives and works in Berlin. Inspired by scientific reference systems, Nicolai engages with mathematical patterns such as grids and codes, error and random structures, as well as the phenomenon of self-organization. In doing so, he repeatedly transcends the boundaries between different artistic genres. Following his participation in documenta X (1997) and the 49th and 50th Venice Biennales (2001 and 2003), his works have entered significant private and public collections and have been presented in national and international exhibitions at renowned museums and galleries.
These include major solo exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (anti reflex, 2005), the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (syn chron, 2005), the Berlinische Galerie (tele, 2018), the Kunstsammlungen Nordrhein-Westfalen (parallax symmetry, 2019), and the Haus der Kunst Munich (transmitter / receiver – the machine and the gardener, 2022).
Under the pseudonym Alva Noto, Nicolai is one of the most prominent representatives of contemporary electronic music. His concerts have taken him to venues such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. Among his various musical projects are collaborations with Ryōji Ikeda, Mika Vainio, Iggy Pop, Blixa Bargeld, and Ryūichi Sakamoto. With the latter, Nicolai composed the music for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Oscar-winning film The Revenant, which was nominated for Best Original Score in the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Grammy Awards.