NIKLAS WALLENBORG

Post-digital interdisciplinary artist & Creative Developer

About

I am a post-digital artist working at the intersection of concept, digital culture, and painting. My practice explores what art becomes when image, process, and ownership are in flux. I combine high-tech and low-tech methods to reflect on how internet logics and algorithmic systems shape culture and perception. Drawing on science fiction and speculative imagination, I create alternative realities that merge past, present, and future. Addressing political, technological, and emotional dimensions of contemporary life. Interdisciplinary and experimental, my work treats art not only as object but also as language, code, instruction, and narrative, while exploring the gap between human emotions and the virtual world.

Education

  • Artificiell intelligens - Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (2025)
  • Frontend Developer - Hyper Island (2023-2025)
  • MA in Fine Arts - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm (2003-2006)
  • BA in Fine Arts - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm (2001-2003)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • Jag drömmer om algoritmer som kan ändra allt detta - Konstfrämjandet Värmland, November 2024
  • Low-Life, High-Tech: A Good GIF Should Loop Forever - Galleri 4pi, Online, June 2022
  • Digital Love - Galleri Silk, Online, May 2022
  • Dead Pixel - Digitaliseum, Malmö, April 2022
  • SPACESHIP EMPTINESS (The Sky Used to Be More) - Studio 44, Stockholm, January 2020

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Climate Histories Conference, Uppsala, August 2025
  • Gallery 1:10 - Mood Board - Arvika Ljus, November 2024
  • Decor(dot)com - Craft Days 2024 - Galleri Silk, May 2024
  • 10 - Cornelia Sojdelius Gallery, February 2024
  • Net Art Died but is Doing Well - The Wrong Biennale, Online, November 2023
  • Jubilee Exhibition - Studio 44, Stockholm, September 2023
  • The Life and Death of the WWW - Galleri 54, Gothenburg, February 2023
  • Open Call - Galleri Backlund, Gothenburg, February 2022
  • Stories about the Climate - Konstfrämjandet Värmland, Karlstad, December 2021
  • Mixed Messages - Healthy Competition, Stockholm, December 2021
  • Without-Within - Galleri CC, Malmö, December 2021
  • The Life and Death of the WWW (The Prequel) - Barnängsgatan, Stockholm, May 2020
  • Autumn Salon - Galleri Silk, Online, October 2020
  • Tracing the Tracks - Rum46, Aarhus, Denmark, July 2020
  • Where the World is Called Forest - Köttinspektionen, Uppsala, August 2019
  • The Ultimate Limits of Infinity and the Space Beyond Part,Gotlands Konstmuseum , Visby, Oct 2017
  • Inside Voyager in Outer Space, Hangmen Projects, Sep 2017

Workshops / Talks

  • Synthetic Visions: When AI Controls Creativity - Mälardalen University, March 2025
  • Synthetic Visions: When AI Controls Creativity - Karlstad University, November 2024
  • Creative Coding - Hyper Island, May 2024

Selected Publications

  • Reptilhjärnan no. 9 - Recreate the First Meal Eaten in Space (2023)
  • Cute Cats and Capitalism - Going Under Underground (2023)
  • The Communist Manifesto - The Bootleg Edition - Going Under Underground (2022)
  • Jerry and A L - Going Under Underground (2022)
  • Disassembled Dictionary: “Science Fiction” - Praun o Guermouche (2021)
  • KONSTNÄREN #1 2021: The Future Beyond the Pandemic (2021)
  • Occult Studies Volume 2: Revolution - Snake Hair Press, USA (2021)
  • Occult Studies - Apocalypse - Snake Hair Press, USA (2020)