Helena Nikonole | POWER VECTORS – Ideology embeddings of LLMs

Opening: Thuesday, January 22, 2026, 8 pm

The exhibition runs until March 01.

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to the opening of the solo exhibition of Helena Nikonole with new works based on her current artistic research on LLMs. The presentation is closely connected to Helena’s ongoing research fellowship in the programme Weltoffenes Berlin, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Join us also on 25 January at 3 pm for an art science conversation with the artist and the scientist Levin Brinkmann from the Research Center for Humans and Machines from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Helena Nikonole is a new media artist, independent curator, researcher, and educator based between Berlin and Istanbul. Her fields of interest include AI, hacktivism, hybrid art, and biosemiotics. She is the co-founder of 868labs – a Berlin-based collective developing tactical tools for decentralized, off-grid communication. One part of her practice is dedicated to utopian scenarios of a post-human future and art as innovation, while another focuses on the dystopian present and a critical approach to technology. As a researcher, she is currently working on a PhD on LLMs and political ideologies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Currently, Helena Nikonole is participating in CHM’s Artist & AI Residency, an initiative bridging contemporary art and scientific exploration.

Further Information https://artlaboratory-berlin.org/exhibitions/power-vectors/