OSNABRÜCK.- Simone C Niquille is an artist and designer. Simone C Niquille’s artworks explore how various digital technologies influence our perception of reality. For example, artificial intelligence [abbreviated to AI], i.e. self-learning computer programmes. Through their artworks, Simone C Niquille asks: How does AI actually create images? Which images is AI trained on? And which ones is it not? How does this change our conception of ourselves? Or of how we perceive spaces?

In the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Simone C Niquille explores what happens when computers begin to shape our idea of home. As part of this, Simone C Niquille has undertaken an artistic research project focusing on the IKEA Bertil chair. Niquille brings this research together in an installation. [An installation is a work of art in a space.] In 2006, an image of Bertil was printed in the IKEA catalogue. For the first time ever, a computer-generated image was used instead of a photograph. 2006 marked a turning point. Today, we are surrounded by computer-generated images everywhere – often without realising it.

The exhibition “The Wonderful World of Chair” shows that a home is a living space. We associate feelings and memories with it. This is difficult to translate into data and standards. It also shows that spaces and their design are never neutral. They can reinforce and perpetuate prejudices and power dynamics.

Simone C Niquille (CH/NL) is an artist, designer and researcher who lives and works in Amsterdam. Niquille studied graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design and design at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. Studio technoflesh serves as Niquille’s research platform. Recent exhibitions include the solo presentation ‘duckrabbit.tv’ at Aksioma, Ljubljana (2026), as well as participation in the group exhibitions ‘The Lure of the Image’ at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2025) and ‘Poetics of Encryption’ at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2024). Since 2025, Niquille has been a doctoral researcher in the ARTILACS graduate programme at HFBK Hamburg, in the Digital Graphics class. Niquille also teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven and the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.