Jonny Niesche and Mark Pritchard: Total Vibration
29 July–23 August 202629 Jul–23 Aug 2026
Stores Studio, Brisbane Powerhouse
Jonny Niesche’s works are known for their calm, clean, serene, minimalist aesthetic, and their industrial sheen. They often look like paintings, but are less painted than constructed. Their atmospheric effects lure and captivate viewers like moths, while conjuring up precedents and parallels from art history. Created specifically for Night Feast at the Powerhouse, Total Vibration is a major new site-specific installation, transforming the Stores Studio into a realm of reflection and reverberation, sound and vision. Two massive flexible mirrors—one horizontal, one vertical—face off across the space, rippling, trembling, and shimmering in response to an atmospheric soundtrack by Niesche’s longtime collaborator, British electronic musician Mark Pritchard. Jonny Niesche is based in Gadigal/Sydney, and is represented by 1301SW, Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal/Sydney.
Presented by Brisbane Powerhouse and Institute of Modern Art.
Jonny Niesche’s works combine minimalist-art strategies with the allure of pop culture. His works are in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Tandanya/Adelaide; Museum of Contemporary Art, Gadigal/Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne; and Museum of New and Old Art, Nipaluna/Hobart. He has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and Europe. In 2018 Verlag Für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, published a monograph on his work, Jonny Niesche: Cracked Actor: Works 2013–2015. In 2024 he was the official artist for the Munich Opera Festival. He is represented by 1301SW, Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal/Sydney. He lives in Gadigal/Sydney.
Mark Pritchard is an acclaimed British electronic musician whose work has spanned ambient, techno, drum and bass, and UK bass. He has operated under aliases, including Global Communication, Harmonic 313, and Africa Hitech. He collaborated with Thom Yorke on the album Tall Tales. He is based in Gadigal/Sydney.
Mark Pritchard is an acclaimed British electronic musician whose work has spanned ambient, techno, drum and bass, and UK bass. He has operated under aliases, including Global Communication, Harmonic 313, and Africa Hitech. He collaborated with Thom Yorke on the album Tall Tales. He is based in Gadigal/Sydney.
