Enjoy Survive

Berlin-based artist Olaf Nicolai focuses on the perfect combination of high art, pop and visual design. No matter if it’s Pantone-colours set to music or laboriously hand-crafted giant sneakers - his works gain an inherent personality and added value from Nicolai’s unusually emotional, associative approach. The resulting objects are always approachable, but never one-dimensional and require the viewer to define his own position by questioning common perception processes. This publication is based on the artist’s first exhibition at the Migros Museum for contemporary Art (Zurich), but this is not a documentational catalogue. Designed by Norm and accompanied by compositions of established electronic band To Rococo Rot, this artist book exemplifies Nicolai’s foremost production principle - the visual and musical reflection of quoted content.