West Palm Beach, Florida
Based in Berlin, Germany
nicholasbarryklein@gmail.com
Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes (begrudgingly) sound art with a lean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact. Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, etc). Concurrently, to the best of his ability, he has shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer, and focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two. Klein likes loud volume, cooking, offline community building, records, bars, synthesizers, and comedy.
Klein is currently located in Berlin. Klein has operated a monthly radio show on Montez Press Radio since its inception and is spending 2023-2024 developing a monthly invitational program at the Volksbühne Roter Salon. Klein has collaborated in various capacities and medial materializations with Wilted Woman, Audrey Chen, Das Ding, Hugo Esquinca, Jean-Louis Huhta, Erik Nystrand, Scant, Philip Maier, Makoto Oshiro and many more.
Klein has performed and shown works in contexts and festivals like The Amant Foundation (USA), SARA’S (USA), MOMA PS1 (USA), De La Cruz Collection (USA), Volksbühne (DE), Empty Gallery (HK), Berghain (DE), Tresor (DE), Seendosi (SK), Cafe Sismo (CDMX), Cafe Oto (UK), Folkteatern (SE), Burning Fleshtival (USA), Herrensauna (DE), and Summer Scum (USA).
https://soundcloud.com/nick-klein
www.psychicliberation.net
https://soundcloud.com/psychicliberation
EDUCATION
2021-2024
Universitat Der Kunst, Berlin, M.A., Sound Studies and Sonic Arts
2008-2010
New World School Of The Arts, Miami, Sculpture Studies
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Can’t Be A Candle, SARA’S, NADA X The Community, Paris
2024 Bone Setting, Skanu Mezs Festival, Riga
2023 Psychic Liberation Night, E-Flux Bar Laika, New York (with Wilted Woman, curated by Sanna Almajedi)
2023 Untitled Theatre Work, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin
2023 Hell is Other People, Grove, Berlin
2023 Bring the Flowers to the Theatre., SARA’S, New York
2023 Country Music Party, Universität der Kunst, Berlin
2022 Slippin’ Out, Screw Gallery, Leeds (performance)
2021 Plague Process 1, Den Haag (performance and installation)
2016 Alvariño Klein Design Production Systems Team, Good Work Gallery, New York (with Miguel Alvarino)
2011 Country Music Paintings, Studio, Miami
2010 O Mio Babbino Caro / Toomus MerehMereh Nor Good, Christopher Miro Gallery, Miami
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art Basel Rave, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (Performance)
2023 This is the time. And this is the record of the time PT3. Emerson Dorsch, Miami
2022 Waiting Room, Meinblau, Berlin (curated by Mauro Ventura & Jiin Jeong)
2016 Surface Tension, Otion Front, New York (with Sara Blazej, curated by Sigrid Lauren)
2012 KulturPark, The End, Berlin, Germany
2012 Salon De Notre Société, Primary Projects, Miami, Florida
2011 Split, General Practice , Miami , Florida
2011 Domesticity, Christopher Miro Gallery , Miami , Florida
2011 Fire,Sky,Water...Reproduction, De La Cruz Collection, Curated By Carlos Rigau, Miami
2011 MIA ART FAIR BOOTH, The End/Spring Break, Miami
2011 MIA ART FAIR BOOTH, Augurari, Miami
2010 Littlest Sister, Spinello Gallery , Miami
2010 A. I don’t know, B. I don’t care, The End , Curated By Lazaro Rodriguez, Miami
SELECT CURATORIAL, RESIDENCY WORK, UNIVERSITY ARTIST TALKS, AND OTHER
2024 Impolite, Workshop + Lecture, Sonic Amateurs Club, Basel
2023 Nick Klein Lecture + Performance , Direct Media, Kunstochschule Kassel at the invitation of Hugo Esquinca, Kassel
2023 Nick Klein Lecture, Cooper Union, at the invitation of Andrew Ross for his Advanced Sculpture Course, New York
2023 Nick Klein Lecture, Columbia University, at the invitation of Julia Santoli, New York
2023 PL Night Residency (ongoing as of 2025), Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin
2020 “Been At Home For Months”, mix, E Flux / Bar Laika , New York
2018 Psychic Liberation Show (ongoing as of 2025), Montez Press Radio, New York
2018 Pain Liberation (radio series until 2021), Rinse France, Paris
2017 Tropical Malaise at Miami Beach Symphony (Score 1 for trilogy of films by Domingo Castillo, with Little Annie Anxiety, Treasure Teeth), Miami
2014 PL (Primitive Languages, Psychic Liberation, Potentially Listenable, ongoing as of 2025), Label, New York/Den Haag/Berlin
2011 General Practice (with Carlos Rigau), Miami
COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE AND PRESS LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST