Recognized for her innovative practice, Nikki Lindt is a pioneering artist working at the intersection of sound, painting, and environmental science. She uses sound and painting to make underground climate processes—especially soil and permafrost—perceptible to the public. Her installations, soundwalks, and paintings translate scientific field recordings into experiences that allow people to feel environmental change rather than perceiving it as data.
Her work has been featured in the Financial Times Magazine, CBS Sunday Morning and Sierra Magazine, and has been exhibited internationally at Serralves Museum, COP29, the United Nations and many others. Lindt is also part of upcoming projects like Soil Art Tales and a permanent installation at the Museum of the North.
Subterranea I, Beneath the Arctic Surface
Subterranea I, focused on subterranean acoustics recorded in the arctic, is Lindt’s first album in an ongoing series exploring the hidden sonic world beneath our feet. Recorded directly inside soils, sediments, ice, and permafrost, these tracks reveal the underground as a resonant, dynamic, changing and at times unexpectedly musical space.