Nikki Lindt
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| Nikki Lindt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 Delft, Netherlands |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Dutch and American |
| 🏫 Education | Gerrit Rietveld Academie; Yale University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Painting, sound art, environmental art |
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Nikki Lindt (born 1971) is a Dutch/American interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Working in painting, sound, and site-specific installation, she is known for projects incorporating recordings made beneath soil, water, ice, and trees..[1] Her work frequently involves collaborations with scientists and communities in the environments where the recordings are made. Her projects interpret and capture the subterranean language, the speech of the planet. [2] Her work has been presented in museums, galleries, research stations, and outdoor public settings in the United States and Europe. The work influences visitors and scientists alike.[3]
Early life and education
Lindt was born in Delft, the Netherlands. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University.[4] She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. [5]
Career
Painting and early environmental work
In 2001-2002, Lindt produced and developed The Noahs: A Climatic Tale, an interdisciplinary opera addressing sea-level change. The work was presented at Theater Pompoen in Amsterdam. Ecotopian Lexicon (PDF). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2019. p. 322. ISBN 978-1-5179-0589-7. Retrieved August 20th, 2026. Check date values in: |access-date= (help) Search this book on Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
From 2012 to 2018, she developed Solastalgia, a series of paintings concerned with memory, environmental loss, and changes to familiar landscapes.[6]
The Underground Sound Project
Lindt began developing The Underground Sound Project in 2018. The project uses her subterranean field recordings to examine acoustic activity within soil, trees, waterways, and other environments beneath or immediately surrounding the visible surface.[7] Urban Field Station A public version of the project opened in Prospect Park in Brooklyn in 2022 and is still currently accessible at www.theundergroundsoundproject.com.[8] [9]
Visitors experienced the work through a one-mile sound walk and an online collection of 26 recordings documenting natural processes and human activity within the park’s subterranean ecosystems.[10] The project was accompanied by public sound walks and educational programming. A related curriculum for New York City public schools was developed in collaboration with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.[11] Lindt subsequently led listening programs and sound walks for museums, universities, environmental organizations, and public audiences. [12] [13] [14]
Arctic fieldwork and Subterranean Voice
Lindt began conducting fieldwork in Alaska in 2018. Working at sites including Toolik Field Station and locations surrounding Fairbanks, she recorded sounds within permafrost, soil, moss, lakes, river ice, underground waterways, and tree interiors.[15]
These recordings became the basis for Subterranean Voice, a project combining subterranean sound, painting, installation, and interviews. Developed during a period of rapid environmental change in the Arctic, the project incorporates diverse perspectives from scientists, Indigenous elders, miners, artists, land managers, and residents of northern communities.[16] [17]
Lindt expanded the project through fieldwork in the area surrounding Abisko, Sweden. Subterranean Voice: Abisko incorporated recordings made in soil, trees, waterways, and an underground river, along with interviews addressing different relationships to the region’s landscape and natural resources. A site-specific version opened at Naturum Abisko in Abisko National Park in 2025 and was presented as a public sound walk.[18]
Work from Subterranean Voice was also included in Soil Art Tales, a traveling European exhibition curated by Stefano Cagol as part of the Soil Tribes project. Lindt’s contributions included paintings, sound works, a live-listening installation, and the participatory Sonic Rhythms Drawing Machine.[19]
Participatory installations
In Sonic Rhythms Drawing Machine, participants listen to recordings made beneath soil, permafrost, snow, riverbeds, and soils and respond by making marks on a continuous drawing surface. The accumulated marks form a collective visual interpretation of the recordings.[20]
Lindt’s Underground Live Listening Station uses microphones embedded in planted soil to amplify vibrations produced by the movement of grasses, stems, roots, and surrounding materials. Unlike her installations based on field recordings, the work presents sound generated live within the exhibition environment.[21]
Exhibitions and public projects
Lindt’s work has been presented at Prospect Park in Brooklyn[22] , Serralves Foundation Porto, Portugal[23] , Abisko National Park[24] , the Hudson River Museum[25], Robischon Gallery [26] and the White Mountains Museum[27]. Her work has also appeared in programs or exhibitions at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.[28]; the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome[29]; and the Nature of Cities Festival in Berlin[30].
In 2026, work by Lindt was presented by the Serralves Foundation in Porto, Portugal, as part of the traveling exhibition Soil Art Tales [31].
Media coverage
Lindt and her work have been featured by NPR[32], CBS Sunday Morning[33], Sierra[34], Financial Times[35], Volkskrant[36], Alta Journal[37], and Forbes”[38]. Coverage has focused particularly on her art works with particular emphasis on her exploration of subterranean environmental recordings and her collaborations with scientists studying changing ecosystems.
Awards and residencies
Lindt has received grants and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Puffin Foundation, and the Dutch Artist Grant (Fonds BKVB)[39]
Her residencies and research affiliations have included Toolik Field Station in Alaska[40], Abisko Scientific Research Station in Sweden[41], the New York City Urban Field Station[42], and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire[43]..[44]
Selected works
- Solastalgia (2012–2018), painting series
- The Underground Sound Project (2018–present), field-recording and public sound project
- Subterranean Voice (2023–present), sound, painting, interviews, and site-specific installation
- Sonic Rhythms Drawing Machine (2024–present), participatory sound and drawing installation
- Underground Live Listening Station, live sound installation
- Subterranea I: Beneath the Arctic Surface (2025), sound album
External links
- nlindt.com
- www.theundergroundsoundproject.com
References
- ↑ "Sound artist Nikki Lindt on recording an underground universe".
- ↑ "Nikki Lindt wants you to listen to the sound of the planet melting".
- ↑ "This Brooklyn Artist Records Thawing Permafrost".
- ↑ "NIKKI LINDT—IF THE TREES SPEAK TO US, HOW WILL WE REPLY?".
- ↑ "This Brooklyn Artist Records Thawing Permafrost".
- ↑ "Under the Blue".
- ↑ "NIKKI LINDT—IF THE TREES SPEAK TO US, HOW WILL WE REPLY?".
- ↑ [www.theundergroundsoundproject.com "The Underground Sound Project"] Check
|url=value (help). - ↑ "Incubator - NYC 2024".
- ↑ "Nikki Lindt's Underground Sounds".
- ↑ "Listening to Underground Sound in New York" (PDF).
- ↑ "Incubator - NYC 2024".
- ↑ "Percurso Sonoro - Nikki Lindt".
- ↑ "Recording the Unseen World Beneath Us".
- ↑ "The Art of Listening: An Interview with Nikki Lindt".
- ↑ "Soil Tales Art Exhibition".
- ↑ "In a Time of Change".
- ↑ "Naturum Abisko".
- ↑ "Soil Art Tales".
- ↑ "Soil Art Tales".
- ↑ "Soil Tales Art Exhibition".
- ↑ [www.theundergroundsoundproject.com "The Underground Sound Project"] Check
|url=value (help). - ↑ "Soil Art Tales".
- ↑ "Naturum Abisko".
- ↑ "Rivers Flow". Text " Artists Connect" ignored (help)
- ↑ "45 + ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION SERIES: PART I".
- ↑ "Field Station: Art-Science in the White Mountains Online Exhibition".
- ↑ "dineenhullgallery".
- ↑ "Finite Art: "Suolo e acqua, risorse al limite". Celebrazione dell'arte del suolo e dell'acqua presso la sede della FAO".
- ↑ "The Nature of Cities Festival 2024".
- ↑ "Soil Art Tales".
- ↑ "'The Underground Sound Project' puts an ear to the ground — and underneath".
- ↑ "Sound Artist Nikki Lindt on Recording an Underground Universe".
- ↑ "This Brooklyn Artist Records Thawing Permafrost".
- ↑ "Nikki Lindt wants you to listen to the sound of the planet melting".
- ↑ "Opera".
- ↑ "Where Art Meets Research at the Top of the World".
- ↑ "A Day Out in Brooklyn: Art + Nature".
- ↑ "Recap: "Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens: A Multi-Media Exhibit Featuring Artists from Stand4"".
- ↑ "Reverbations in Permafrost Thaw".
- ↑ "Naturum Abisko".
- ↑ "NYC Parks & the Urban Field Station".
- ↑ "Nikki Lindt: Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study".
- ↑
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